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by jshaqaw 1y ago
My first neural net code (very very bad) was on a 286/287 back in the early 90s. 286 is kind of a forgotten chip since 386 32 bit changed the game but give a kid (ie teenage me) a 286, a 40mb hard drive, and Turbo Pascal and I felt lik
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by jshaqaw 1y ago
I love the spirit of this so believe me I’m not here to denigrate it. Just sharing anecdote of building one of those “retro style” Linux/pi kits with my kids some years ago. I thought having a bare metal style machine would get them en
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by jshaqaw 1y ago
Retro lisp machines are cool. Kudos to the team. Love it. That said… we need the “lisp machine” of the future more than we need a recreation.
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by jshaqaw 1y ago
Agreed. People point to the edge cases where orthodoxy and conformity crushed the brilliant innovator but for every one of those there are 1000 cranks or embittered dead end researchers claiming that only a conspiracy prevented their genius
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
I crisis in quality and also a crisis in innovation. How many years has it been since a software innovation which matters to end users? It’s been new emojis for a decade.
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
You would think these tech oligarchs might be concerned with some other problem facing th world. This is the only one they seem to care about and much of it just seems like fragile ego.
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
There was a subset of us “old” 90s nerds who failed to take certain elements among us who would be: 1. Enriched an empowered by having the right skillset at the right place and time to achieve fortunes (and by direct purchase) political pow
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
Lots of finance people from an earlier era ended up there from the movie Wall Street which is hilarious since it was not intended as something glorifying the sector
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
Nothing gave me an intuition for assembly like TIS-100
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
After trying the Vision Pro at an Apple Store I’m more convinced than ever that immersive VR entertainment is the future. I have no doubt we will need high end graphics arms races for a while more.
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
The choices thing is interesting. I go both ways on this. Some of the story choices lead to places you don't want and didn't foresee. Part of me wants the story to go where I want it to go and thus I will wiki the conversational c
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3. I remember being very proud of winning BG1 without looking up hints. Now I find myself on the wiki. Why? I’m almost 50. I’ve got kids, businesses, life, etc… I can’t play a game for hours on end of immersi
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
Some tech bros gonna stop reading at the “more likely to be alpha” part and start snaking on kitty litter.
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
I want this mostly so I can invoke an output function as GTF(Lisp)-Out "gtfl-out &rest expressions => no values"
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
There are sadly no easy fixes here. Approaching 50 with a life of ADHD here. I’ve managed to build a great life but always against that burden. Thankful that when I was younger I didn’t have the universe of constant connectivity at my finge
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by jshaqaw 2y ago
The heck do I do with an M4 in an iPad? Scroll hacker news really really fast? Apple needs to reinvest in software innovation on the iPad. I don't think my use case for it has evolved in 5 years.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
I can't say this has topic has come up in any recent New Atlantean Royal Council meetings but we would welcome you to make a presentation on the matter.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
My grandfather somehow assisted Hemingway in setting up New Atlantis and the documents declaring him and my grandmother Sir and Lady hang proudly in my living room. As far as I know my family is the sole remaining royal line of New Atlantis
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
It’s 2024. We should be able to pitch some PE firm to help us buy the global banana supply as an option on future antimatter value.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
People confuse code at the exploratory phase with final production code. Linked lists are a massively flexible data structure which can be great when you are still feeling your way around a problem domain. Once you have a good sense for the
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
Does YouTube count? Yes I think TikTok is largely a hellscape for my daughters around this age. But one of them learns all sorts of crafting projects via YouTube and the other has taught herself an incredible amount on how to draw. Would be
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
My favorite phenomenon of which you speak are the guys who haven’t thought about math since 11th grade or physics ever aside from seeing some Joe Rogan clips with Eric Weinstein but will pound their keyboards with fury that “STRING THEORY I
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
As a mid-90s Westinghouse winner weird nerd who never ended up in academia because of a desire to be left alone to do my research thing this hits hard: "Biology Professor Jason Sheltzer has an interesting thread today that points in th
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
Yes I agree the precedent was set there. I didn't like that either but this feels like a different scale of things at a more fraught time.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
Wonderful world when the worlds richest man starts using the legal system to spend his “enemies” into oblivion.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
Sadly I never even saw the CM-2 I used. Just got in via telnet.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
Depends on location. UWS is high ground. Its just rainy and wet but that's it.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
It couldn’t keep pace with a Cray for any tasks that weren’t optimized for its architecture. If your problem fit the SIMD model like the genetic algorithms I was implementing at the time it was just amazing.
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
I agree on the “vibe” there. In the mid-90s when I was in high school I got access to a cm-2 to figure out how to transform sparse matrices using genetic algorithms on that massively parallel architecture. Good times!
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by jshaqaw 3y ago
Do you have starlisp running?

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