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by js8 2y ago
Car (for personal transport) is also a bad idea, yet there is plenty of them.
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by js8 2y ago
Today, we would instead make an app that would matchmake important people, who desire to be effortlessly washed, with less-than-important people, who are willing to wash others for less than a minimum wage. It's sharing (and caring) ec
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by js8 2y ago
That's very similar to what the article is advocating.
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by js8 2y ago
It's technically not 1-bit, but 2-bit. Anyway, I wonder if there is some HW support in modern CPUs/GPUs for linear algebra (like matrix multiplication) over Z_2^n ? I think it would be useful for SAT solving.
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by js8 2y ago
The nominal vs structural distinction (in both programming and math) goes beyond types. Should names in programs matter? Consider two functions, say copySurname and copyStreetName. They do same exact thing, but in different context. No sane
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by js8 2y ago
So aside from automation (which also has tradeoffs), when you shift left, what gets shifted right?
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by js8 2y ago
While I largely agree, I was thinking about selfishness and selflessness in a different way. In game theory, games have global optima and Nash equilibria, and they don't always coincide. Selfless people seek global maximum, selfish peo
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by js8 2y ago
It cuts both ways. That's why I wrote "can entice". Nobody knows what the exact calculus is, that's why breaking status quo is so dangerous.
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by js8 2y ago
Because war is economically expensive, they subscribe to certain philosophy and would prefer continue trading with Taiwan rather than turning it to rubble. That being said, even if they would. Under that assumption, I find the idea to furth
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by js8 2y ago
That's a really dangerous move that can entice China to invade Taiwan. Let's hope it doesn't happen.
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by js8 2y ago
I am not sure whether it was satire. I personally don't like corp speak - it feels like people talking like that are not humans. I am not sure I would welcome our AI overlords speaking like this, either. But I find the idea that people
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by js8 2y ago
I think people are already doing that. I frequently hear people watermarking their speeches with phrases like "are we aligned on this?", or "let's circle back" and similar.
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by js8 2y ago
I appreciate your comment but I think you're overcomplicating it for yourself. (And btw I doubt I know more about this than you.) You say: "It isn’t clear to me why the encoding of the natural numbers would come up. I would have t
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by js8 2y ago
> Maybe if we were hunter/gatherers we could measure it by amount of animals killed. So that's how animal husbandry came about!
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by js8 2y ago
Hm. Take for example formalization in Calculus of Constructions (Coq, Lean). What you propose is essentially beta-equivalence of the underlying lambda calculus terms. However, this is not without problems (undecidability aside). Different C
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by js8 2y ago
Ahh, the language diffusion model! You start with a word salad and end up with a Shakespeare's play.
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by js8 2y ago
We shouldn't, that's the point! At least not in mathematics, programming is a different story. It's perfectly fine to have type of all integers alongside type of all squares and types that only contain number 1 or number 1729
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by js8 2y ago
> It is not wrong to treat algorithms as valid proofs. I think that's what PP meant, i.e. if you want to differentiate between sorting algorithms in terms of efficiency, you somehow should encode this demand into the types (specific
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by js8 2y ago
I think "propositions-as-types" is exactly why we should consider proofs to be the same if they prove the same type. As others have already said, if you want to distinguish between different proofs, it's better to encode thos
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by js8 2y ago
I think you don't even need to go to fountain pens. As a long time user of ballpoint pens, I recently started using gel pens and I wouldn't go back.
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by js8 2y ago
The same thing that happens if the author of the OSS you use doesn't know English.
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by js8 2y ago
Google Books is a tragedy of the commons problem, created by copyright, which is supposedly a solution to the tragedy of the commons problem.
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by js8 2y ago
Well, my solution would be this: Instead of giving kids grades with a ceiling, each subject would have (unlimited number of) levels of proficiency, and to attain a level, kids would have to pass a test (demonstrate certain skill). The choic
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by js8 2y ago
After I wrote my comment, I realized I was actually somewhat wrong (I have been in this debate, on the anti-TDD side, for quite some time now, but it was kind of hard to figure out why for me, but I think I finally got it). Testability is m
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by js8 2y ago
> There should also be more discussion about what it takes to make code testable to begin with. IME, testable pretty much just means referentially transparent.
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by js8 2y ago
While I largely agree, I think this is inaccurate: > Whoever owns the lowest levels of the architecture, dictates everything I think in IT, the people who can create most complexity for others, while keeping things relatively simpler for
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by js8 2y ago
Are you sure you're not talking about birds?
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by js8 2y ago
Nothing to do with C++, but: I kinda like the idea of 6-bit byte retro-microcomputer (resp. 24-bit, that would be a word). Because microcomputers typically deal with small number of objects (and prefer arrays to pointers), it would save mem
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by js8 2y ago
I read the summary from the review and I am not convinced that neoliberal US and EU have a less extractive governance structure than China has, as the authors seem to claim. It's been a decade since the book was published and China is
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by js8 2y ago
Then it's not really all that well made, frankly, because one of the most popular YT physicists is immune to said virus. But - I have always dismissed cryptocurrencies thinking "people can't be that stupid". If I had not

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