jes5199

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   by jes5199 2y ago

   it’s been quite a few years since I’ve worked in Rails, but I miss it sometimes. None of the other platforms ever completely replicated the functionality of a standard Rails environment circa 2009, so we reinvent the wheel every time. Basi
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   by jes5199 2y ago

   synthfuels will catch up eventually, the economics keep getting better and there’s really no alternative
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   by jes5199 2y ago

   because you can make descriptions of useful human cognition without specifying the implementation. When you’re reading python code, do you ask, “wait, which hard register is this local variable stored in??”
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   by jes5199 2y ago

   I think you may have hit upon a novel combination of ideas here. There is something called "social simulation theory" regarding the purpose of dreams, but I don't think it has a neuroanatomical description included.
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   I spent some time yesterday struggling with o3-mini-high trying to do a trigonometry problem, we went round and round and could not solve it. o1 solved it in one shot.
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   by jes5199 2y ago

   I'm looking forward to a Cursor-like experience but using voice - so we can discuss code changes verbally, as if we were pair programming. honestly I'm not sure why we don't have that yet.
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   by jes5199 2y ago

   C types are almost entirely unlike modern type-checking
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   by jes5199 2y ago

   pure prestige play, I think
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   by jes5199 2y ago

   I had a similar intuition for a long time, but I’ve watched the threshold of “certain complexity” move, and I’m no longer convinced that I know when it’s going to stop
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    > You can't do the distill/magnify cycle like you do with alphago are you sure? people are saying that there’s an analogous cycle where you use o1-style reasoning to produce better inputs to the next training round
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    we just have to get solar deployed sufficiently so that we no longer think of energy use as a waste of something precious
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    there are cheap, new analog TV modulators/broadcasters available on ebay now
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    like line numbers in an old BASIC program
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    a lot of open space - desert - and plenty of solar energy. and favorable politics.
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    while we’re all promoting our moon phase apps, I made one for Apple Watch: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moon-sign-simplicity-for-watch...
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    I expected to see mention of the volvelle - a medieval device made of paper that could approximate the phase of the moon by moving a circular hole around a carefully designed track. There’s a long explanation of it at https://ast
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    so like ten to twenty years, via moore’s law?
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    man I don’t. I can drive for 12+ hours. I can be on the internet for like 6
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    well the magic of transformer architecture is that if the rules exist and are computationally tractable, the system will find them in the data, and we don’t have to have a clue. so. how much data do we need?
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    I would love to see some numbers. How many orders of magnitude more complicated do we think embodiment is, compared to conversation? How much data do we need compared to what we’ve already collected?
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    the problem is that software does not directly produce value, it is a way to place a bet on what will be valuable
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    I wrote Haskell for a couple years and I _never_ figured out the indentation rules. The haskell people seemed confused that it was even possible to find it confusing and then there’s “do” notation. I has three people tell me “it’s just a si
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    I think at some point you have to conclude that people want to be confused. That part of the pleasure is trying to internalize a bunch of disjointed nonsense until eventually something clicks
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    plenty of react code looks nice but is still unreadable
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    computers evolved out of tabulating machines and tabulating machines were designed to make pen&paper accounting easier. These are our roots and we should appreciate them
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    if you’re just doing first-party sales, the single-entry model you described is probably fine! but every startup these days wants to become a marketplace where you are facilitating multiple third-party lemonade vendors and taking a cut for
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    okay so now you’ve got double-entry bookkeeping except all of your credits/debits have two dollar values instead of one. let’s call it “quadrupal-entry”
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    I’ve built my career on cleaning up should-have-used-a-ledger messes. it’s hard but there’s always another company that needs it, and I get bored staying in one place. recently I discovered that in a medical billing context the system is wa
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    I found this paragraph > Prerequisites: TigerBeetle makes use of certain fairly new technologies, such as io_uring or advanced CPU instructions for cryptography. As such, it requires a fairly modern kernel (≥ 5.6) and CPU. While at the m
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    by jes5199 2y ago

    no. single entry is when you track BucketA’s balance without regard to other buckets at all