jan_m_savage

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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
This should be said more often, and in many other contexts as well. Most educational resources are what- and how-based, only the best ones are primarily why-based, what Wirth once wrote in the preface to some Pascal book (I paraphrase) &#x2
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Thanks. I myself guard against reading Claudism/AIisms since these will, over the long run, affect my own style. GIGO. But it's not practical or always possible to avoid reading AI-writing, so to counter that, I've been binge
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
great post. I also like the author's writing style-- he/she really knows how to write well.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
This is great. I wonder if anyone would write a 'how to program + CS' book using Julia. Python has a dozen. Julia only has one ( Think Julia but this book is just a presentation of syntax and doesn't teach how to program.).
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Julia would have seen more adoption with: --> proper learning resources for beginners, but also for intermediate and advanced users. As of now resources are relatively sparse, compared to what you would find in the Python world. --> a
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
I'm not sure I understand the point made by the author.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
"“It's not clear what exactly the end goals are, as the information appears to be publicly accessible anyway.”" Eh, just another day in the La-la land of a clueless AI bot hallucinating? Or maybe not!
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
The move to native makes sense. Also, human developers and AI make different types of mistakes, and take different approaches to debugging. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done that, it's just that a more human-involved ap
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
My comment may have been too terse. I didn't mean I didn't enjoy or else I wouldn't have played. I did, but it became stale after so many games and regularly defeating 2000+ opponents in bullet chess. The time and energy need
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Eh.. it did not originate in chess, this Zugzwang. It's a fairly well-known mathematical entity, goes by the name of Optionality. If you need to fly tonight, and the airliner knows it, they can charge you very high prices: you have no
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
I live my life such that the boundary between fun, work and thinking is usually fuzzy and blurred. So, while I did play chess for fun, after a while it became boring--but I also impute this to my ADHD, perhaps for others it might not stale.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Where I live even 8-yo's have nasty patterns. But it's generally less so, I agree.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Yeah I have ADHD and can't bother play slow, long games. I only play bullet (60 sec) and would often defeat 2200-level players before I decided to give up. That means, most of those I will play (socially) in the future won't beat
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
McFarter? LOL. That made me laugh. Yes, I agree.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
poker is different game-- more in tune with applied game theory but also, as you said, self-regulation and psychological introspection.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
I am too simple, could you pls share why that's funny...
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
I do like physical competitiveness as well-- I did box in my teens, and basketball for decades. It depends on the video games, too.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
I got to a 1900 bullet rating in two years, playing an average of 10 to 30 games a day--while not learning any theory! (I wanted to discover theories on my own). And that's when I realized nah, it's not worth it. That's a gre
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
It will take the thinking persons a while to realize that like the utility curve for wealth, the utility curve for modernity also has decreasing marginal returns: A basic bit of modernity is very useful, but as we become more modern, it bec
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Actually, most people are still children, in adult bodies. Just observe aggressively and you will notice a lot of childhood patterns at work in adult life around you.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
I am a fairly good player but after playing 22000 games, I came to the conclusion that ideas and strategies from chess are context-dependent and don't much transfer to real life. I'd rather spend all that time reading up on game t
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
NMS gameplay is just too lonely and when i used to play it, it would reinforce my sense of extreme loneliness (I was single, and a foreigner in the Far East). Minecraft is another game that made me feel utterly depressed due to the lonelin
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
I'll save you the time and effort. No. Stories are always based on realities experienced by the authors, either personally, or viscerally. AI has no experience of this kind. The experiences then are assembled or re-assembled into an ar
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
This. It also just occurred to me, inspired by your comment, that getting to know a mind is more than just satisfying your curiosity; personal experience confirms for me that as soon as I interacted with a brilliant mind, some of that shone
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
yea alternatives pop up because there's a problem with the main. Also, i dont know why some midwit downvoted my original comment.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
"But I suspect that the reason students are not reading novels is not only that they find novels difficult and boring. It is also that they don’t realize that novels are supposed to feel this way, at least at first." Eh... some no
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
This is just how anti-fragility works. Getting your hands 'dirty' is what's known as introducing turbulence and chaos in order to achieve true stability/robustness. Conversely, trying to keep your hands too clean might c
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Regardless of the fact that the 'record download' levels is probably due to some other factor, the world is already becoming conscious that the so-called AI is not all it's cracked up to be.
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
Practical advice: - put a lot of 'teaching' into the book. Don't write so the learner memorizes; instead, motivate each discussion so that the learner understands, and gains what Wirth calls _coverage_. - ensure there are n
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by jan_m_savage 1mo ago
You lack manners. That's even worse.

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