kannanvijayan

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by kannanvijayan 7mo ago
I mentioned Canada in my comments, but only out of vanity as I'm a Canadian. Really when most people talk about "the west" what they have in their mind's eye is US and Europe. The other countries are largely considered
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by kannanvijayan 7mo ago
That seems like a simplistic take, given that slavery in pratice still exists and we just decide not to call it slavery due to technical loopholes. The countries most closely associated with the global economic oil supply for example, are
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by kannanvijayan 7mo ago
If you're considering it for real and the carpet issue a real concern, the solution I've seen is one of those large plastic/rubber/foam playmats.
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by kannanvijayan 7mo ago
That's why we started with cloth. We just didn't have the tenacity to pull through and gave in within a year. I agree that the modern diaper is so good that it effectively disconnects the feeling of evacuation from the consequenc
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by kannanvijayan 7mo ago
I think it's wrong to characterize this in terms of belief. This is the behavioural outcome of the influential pressure of a systemic structure. Infinite exponential growth is something we ALL "believe" in when we put a doll
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by kannanvijayan 7mo ago
We used cloth diapers for our son for about 8 months, and then it just got to be too much of a hectic nightmare washing the poop cloths between work and other issues. So we did disposables for about two years. We were having a hard time g
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by kannanvijayan 7mo ago
I'm sure there are cognitive declines as you age, but even discounting those there's some fundamental change happening to the opportunity space. I'm in my mid 40s, I've had a really fulfilling career working on interesti
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by kannanvijayan 8mo ago
I've encountered this failure mode, and the opposite of it: thinking too much. A behaviour I've come to see as some sort of pseudo-neuroticism. Lazy thinking makes LLMs do surface analysis and then produce things that are wrong.
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by kannanvijayan 8mo ago
Knowledge is being aware of the analogy of tomatoes not being treated like fruits even though they technically are. Wisdom is understanding that if there was legislation on the matter, and people who ate, produced, or sold non-tomato fruits
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by kannanvijayan 9mo ago
There's a bit of time yes, but for an engine that relies on this format (e.g. spidermonkey), the assumptions associated with the value boxing format would have leaked into the codebase all over the place. It's the kind of thing t
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by kannanvijayan 9mo ago
I suspect it's just circumstantial - two different design approaches. Both of the approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. IMHO the bigger issue with NaN-boxing is that on 64-bit systems it relies on the address space only
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by kannanvijayan 9mo ago
I think this is an attempt to try to enrich the locality model in transformers. One of the weird things you do in transformers is add a position vector which captures the distance between the token being attended to the some other token. Th
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by kannanvijayan 9mo ago
Writing a GC in rust without just dropping the whole business into unsafe is really annoying. Jason Orendorff has an implementation of a GC in rust called "cell-gc" that seemed like only one I've seen so far that seemed to &q
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by kannanvijayan 9mo ago
I think you can capture that constraint as "anything that requires finely deterministic high performance is out of reach of JIT-compiled outputs". Obviously JITting means you'll have a compiler executing sometimes along with
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by kannanvijayan 9mo ago
It's not that surprising to people who are old enough to have lived through the "reality" of "interpreted languages will never be faster than about 2x compiled languages". The idea that an absurdly dynamic language
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by kannanvijayan 9mo ago
I'd have to take a contrary view on that. It'll take some time for the technologies to be developed, but ultimately managed JIT compilation has the potential to exceed native compiled speeds. It'll be a fun journey getting
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by kannanvijayan 10mo ago
The American working class doesn't like to acknowledge its own existence or assert its self-worth. There's no real self identity for that class in America. In fact, a huge number of the people that are in that class would resent
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by kannanvijayan 10mo ago
I'm sure you don't. But culturally, the things you are permitted to have influence over are the non-corporate welfare and bailouts. The culture is that you get to speak against both, but only act against one.
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by kannanvijayan 10mo ago
A considerable part of this is the fact that in a society where utilizing these programs is stigmatized to the degree that the USA does, people who see themselves as honest tend to avoid utilizing them. And even those who are less than hone
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
I really don't understand what any of this has to do with "trust", especially of the project or code. If anything people who want to gain undeserved trust would be incentivized to appear to follow a higher standard of norms
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
I think there's still a category theoretic expression of this, but it's not necessarily easy to capture in language type systems. The notion of `f` producing a lazy sequence of values, `g` consuming them, and possibly that constru
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
You'd want to have the alteration reference existing guides to the current implementation. I haven't jumped in headfirst to the "AI revolution", but I have been systematically evaluating the tooling against various use c
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
Although we are disagreeing, I hope that this is not in an antagonistic sense - I do find this conversation interesting because it's not often the opportunity arises to discuss this topic. As someone who was raised American, went to Am
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
In a society where having a job is, for that vast majority not in the non-gilded classes, the only mechanism by which a person can secure their core needs.. losing a job is indeed a pitiable situation for most. If we've built a society
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
> That’s just propaganda. If we didn’t have due process, Donald Trump would be in jail. Well your country does still offer its protections for the wealthy and powerful. It's just regular people have less of it than we do in freer c
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
But right now America is factually less free than either Europe or my own country. You simply do not have due process anymore. Most of the protections of your constitution have been interpreted away to nothingness. I just don't see h
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
The American ideological fixture of Capitalism certainly did arise then. I'm not talking about the general descriptive academic theory that labels certain loose economic and social models as capitalism. I'm talking about the cap
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
> All of this is junk. Karl Polanyi famously puts the birth of capitalism very late compared to other important thinkers, in 1834, by defining it as characterised by markets of fictitious commodities, i.e. stuff like labour, land, money.
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by kannanvijayan 11mo ago
Unfortunately the practical effect of whatever policy that comes out of this theorycrafting has left your media landscape an absurd and abject failure. Where the idea of objective truth being open to the highest bidder and allowed to chang

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