jibal

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by jibal 5d ago
The GP writes "me and many others think ...". I find that many of the complaints about the way LLMs write come from people who are illiterate and haven't been exposed to much literate writing before.
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by jibal 6d ago
> Types are properties of values, not variables. In statically typed languages, variables and expressions have a compile-time type and values have a run-time type. > Mutability is a property of variable, not of a value. In which lang
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by jibal 6d ago
The letter from Ken Thompson is spot on: "your first 2 extensions (5 and 6 bytes) were clearly envisioned. the standard (up to 4 bytes) was created to cover the size of unicode. i thought any more description would be a waste of paper.
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by jibal 6d ago
That obviously doesn't mean that we're not different--we obviously are, and it's not intellectually honest to deny it. There are SO many examples of things that have some common trait but are obviously different--skyscrapers
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by jibal 6d ago
"People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species – and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture.
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by jibal 6d ago
> They exhibit behaviours that seem to defy alternative explanations No, they really don't. The article says > indicated an inherent, strong maternal attachment to the calf Yeah, that's not grieving.
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by jibal 6d ago
> indicated an inherent, strong maternal attachment to the calf Yeah, that's not grieving.
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by jibal 7d ago
Yup: https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~rootd/catdoc/guide/TheGuide_226.ht...
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by jibal 7d ago
Lying is always a bad choice. The paper in Nature says "Hence, we postulate the brain is a composite organ emanating from two lineage-restricted progenitors; these dual progenitors may be evolutionarily conserved across 550 million y
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by jibal 7d ago
The title is factually incorrect and is not what the research actually found: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7 Title: "Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain&
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by jibal 7d ago
"too hot" and "way too overzealous" is ad hominem, and talking about comment section policing is remarkably hypocritical -- you're actually telling someone not to make certain sorts of comments, which pointing out t
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by jibal 7d ago
You omitted 300, 1200, and 2400, youngster. And the joys of xmodem, ymodem, and zmodem.
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by jibal 7d ago
Not available to people without tattoos.
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by jibal 7d ago
It's not just "muddy", it's thoroughly inconsistent and impenetrable (which probably has a lot to do with why there is so little engagement here). You say "TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open s
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by jibal 7d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions
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by jibal 7d ago
You argue that open software is science, which is not at all the same as claiming that science is software. ("is" in this context is not equivalence -- "a poodle is a dog" != "a dog is a poodle".)
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by jibal 8d ago
> I'm just taking it as an example But this is grossly intellectually dishonest. You know very well how this will be read and responded to here ... and you keep saying that you're just talking about vibe-coding oh but you have
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by jibal 8d ago
Agents are not simple language models. You can't find actual reasoning in a brain either. (Note that you can't tell the difference between a conscious brain and a comatose brain by examining them.) This is the same as Leibniz&#x
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by jibal 8d ago
No one with a shred of intellectual integrity uses a "There is a finite number" strawman. As a matter of basic logic, there will never be a time when it will be known that there are no bugs.
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by jibal 9d ago
https://originmap.sunnyguha.com/#hebrew
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by jibal 9d ago
Click "All Eras" to see everything at once.
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by jibal 9d ago
Click "All Eras"
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by jibal 9d ago
Oops, typo ... that should have been "WITH --trim you can't use dynamic types ..."
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by jibal 10d ago
That's a polite way to put it. :-)
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by jibal 10d ago
"Elo is relative to the ChessBench field." They are of course "wrong" if you don't read the faint fine print and sensibly interpret them as FIDE or similar ratings.
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by jibal 10d ago
First, you're moving the goalposts. Second, it's not actually true that any existing frontier AI can write a chess bot program that can beat a 1600 player ... not unless the program is derived from Stockfish or some other leading
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by jibal 10d ago
Please do not post misinformation. They are not playing anywhere near GM level. "Elo is relative to the ChessBench field."
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by jibal 11d ago
email gets you username via find-friends, not the reverse. The emails were obtained independently of chess.com
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by jibal 11d ago
Using juliac without --trim=safe took over 1 minute to compile a hello world program, and took the same for a second compilation with no source change. Without --trim you can't use dynamic types, which rules out even println without ex
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by jibal 16d ago
IOW is just marketing. My point stands.

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