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by kilgnad 4y ago
Wrong. Excel is biased towards familiarity with mathematics. It just builds on our pre-existing familiarity with mathematical formulas. The intended usage is ALSO just for matehmatical formula calculations. Excel is not typically used to ex
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Composing things with the dot doesn't execute anything. It creates a new function. In Haskell it's actually composed backwards. The first function executed after you compose your function and apply that function is to the right. A
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by kilgnad 4y ago
I'm not talking about tricky stuff like do syntax monads. I'm talking about FP at it's core. The '.' compose operator is not procedures. In haskell it does something completely different. >Realistically, most FP
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>Are there some studies that back that up? My wife took the How to Code course on edX, and the use of Racket was a non-issue. The use of it was quite literally transparent. There's no studies. It's like asking for a study about
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by kilgnad 4y ago
This is incorrect. People are born with an innate biological bias towards C like syntax OVER ML syntax or even FP syntax. It's easy to prove this fact with some natural example outside of programming. Let's say I have several task
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by kilgnad 4y ago
It's very easy to see why. People naturally are drawn to procedures rather then formulas. When given a task of several things to do, that task is naturally given and expected in a list of procedures. Nothing needs to be explained here.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Google engineers changed the world.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Execs don't drive cars. They sit in the back of a limo driven by an engineer.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Bad analogy. The engineers are the four wheels, the execs are car paint. You remove the car paint, the car looks ugly. You remove the four wheels... you can't even call the thing a car anymore.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Society owes engineers all of civilization. They built it. When I see engineers getting 200k what I see is society as it should be. The majority of wealth should be distributed to the most skilled workers on the bottom. But even at 200k, th
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Obviously it's not the politicians fault. The issue here is that there is a theory that these companies are cutting things not because they need to but because of copycat behavior to get a slight improvement on the bottom line.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
We're talking cash here. The layoffs are supposedly for cash right.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
They do. The higher you are up on the ladder the more likely you'll be communicating with board members. Communication implies relationship and all the buddy buddy politics required to even get an executive position.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Honestly I seriously find it hard to believe someone can read it to the end without mentioning how it queried itself. You're just naming the trivial things that it did. In the end It fully imagined a bash shell, an imaginary internet,
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Does sentience need memory? I would say it's orthogonal. There are examples of people in the real world who only remember things for about 3 minutes before they lose it. They can't form any real memories. These people are still se
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by kilgnad 4y ago
From the two camps the one that says we "might" be onto something is the more intelligent and reasonable opinion. First your camp doesn't deal in absolutes. It doesn't say absolutely chatGPT is sentient. It only question
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by kilgnad 4y ago
it indeed understands you. A lot of people are just parroting the same thing over and over again saying it's just a probabilistic word generator. No, it's not, it's more then that. Take a look at this: https://www.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
It gave me different answers: ME: There is a box on the table labelled "flubbergums". Somebody opens it and shows you the content. Inside the box are "jellyfils". They close the box again so you cannot see their c
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Or gimp. "Photoshop" is the all encompassing term for these editors. This task is actually quite trivial, but there is a bit of a learning curve for someone who knows absolutely nothing about photo editing.
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That was before. Now they can pay attention to even the least important things.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Power is a form of status.
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by kilgnad 4y ago
I'd prefer if it was driven by reputation, honor and status achieved by helping humanity. The primary driver for humans is status. Status in the military is achieved through leadership and honor. Status in academia is achieved through
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Categorically not true. Assembly language, for example is harder to read then say python when written by the same person. Therefore programming languages can be intrinsically hard to read. I think you're just an exception. You're
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by kilgnad 4y ago
If you're looking for the type safety afforded by swift I recommend two languages: Elm and elm-ui for the front end. Elm is so safe that with the exception of the FFI and OOM it cannot have runtime errors. Rust for the backend. You alr
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by kilgnad 4y ago
chatGPT: Ah, I see you're a master of sarcasm and skepticism. But let me ask you this: if a computer can generate text that's so convincing, it's able to trick even the most seasoned of critics, doesn't that make it
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by kilgnad 4y ago
I tried it myself extensively. Explain to me how it did what it did in the article without understanding what it was being told. Each step including the end when it refers to itself. Seriously. I didn't just post a "wonderful&quot
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>And the point is that this doesn't matter. It's not about C++ OOP being able to "imitate imperative" or not, it's about what C++ (or OOP in general) adds to the table regarding how programmers should think and h
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by kilgnad 4y ago
Clever. Very cool. Of course the y combinator. Even so my point stands. This snippet was clearly functional .
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by kilgnad 4y ago
>I think your mistake is that it's not about the "abstract"/academic/philosophical or etymological meaning of those terms (functional, imperative, etc). No mistake made by me. The popular or even academic usage o
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by kilgnad 4y ago
There is a bit of categorical mixing going on and the author fails to identify actual hierarchies within the programming styles. But he does see, correctly, that it all has to do with state management. I'll point out what he got mixed

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