malloryerik

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by malloryerik 9mo ago
I've found good results with Clojure and Elixir despite them being dynamic and niche.
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by malloryerik 9mo ago
Btw Datomic is free now that Nubank supports it (and runs a large bank on it). There's also a fantastic kind of mini, FOSS, file-based Datomic-style Datalog DB that's not immutable called Datalevin. Uses the hyper-fast LMDB under
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by malloryerik 9mo ago
In the case of Datomic: https://docs.datomic.com/operation/excision.html
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by malloryerik 10mo ago
I agree with all of these except the emotional impact of war where though slower a novel or memoir might work best. Think "All Quiet on the Western Front." At the same time we do want images of the war and time for grounding.
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by malloryerik 10mo ago
Late comment but if technology brought down the price of food then people could spend less on food, more on other good and services. Or the same on higher quality food. You don't need an increasing population for that. The improvement
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Might want to read some Karl Polanyi.
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by malloryerik 1y ago
I think there feeling is, you say you want us to build our products in the U.S. but then our essential workers aren't allowed in so it's an impossible demand.
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Instead of extending hours in classrooms, which might feel like torture, what about no-tech libraries for individual work like homework? Or with a coffeeshop vibe. I'd personally say four hours a day but I'm guessing two might be
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by malloryerik 1y ago
You may like to check out Iain McGilchrist's take on schizophrenia, which essentially he says is a relative excess of rationality ("if then else" thinking) and a deficit of reasonableness (as in sensible context inhabiting).
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Continental vs. Maritime Power, the Fight for a New World Order by Sarah Paine(foreignaffairs.com)
6 points by malloryerik 1y ago|0 comments
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by malloryerik 1y ago
A few on this list are interesting because they replicated some times and not others. I'd like to see a list of experiments that succeeded in replicating.
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40% decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years: American Time Use Survey(cell.com)
5 points by malloryerik 1y ago|1 comments
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Some press about this study: Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/well/reading-pleasure-dec... ‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Yeah we'll end up on a "yes and no" level of accord here. Yes I agree that understanding and perception aren't always the same, or maybe I'd put it that understanding can go beyond perception, which I think is what
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by malloryerik 1y ago
I mean, I've certainly made that mistake, comparing machines and people too closely, and then somehow had at least some of the errors pointed out.
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Humans have a direct connection to our world through sensation and valence, pleasure, pain, then fear, hope, desire, up to love. Our consciousness is animal and as much or more pre-linguistic as linguistic. This grounds our symbolic languag
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Ah, yes, just like a good robots.txt do-not-use-me-to-train-your-ai term of service that the LLM companies adhere to strictly?
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Yeah, LLMs are entirely different from "writing" because they're creative agents. So, writing allows me to give my thoughts several passes, to edit over time. It's like I can have several of me to think, write and edit,
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How Seawater Could Solve the Lithium Supply Crisis(oilprice.com)
2 points by malloryerik 1y ago|0 comments
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Fun comment and I didn't know the word headcanon so, thanks.
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The World Is Warming Up. and It's Happening Faster(nytimes.com)
11 points by malloryerik 1y ago|0 comments
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by malloryerik 1y ago
In Korean, you can never address someone older by their first name. Yes not even your blood brother or sister.
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by malloryerik 1y ago
I find LLMs fail and fail hard at what might be the most imaginative form of writing: poetry. Before sending this comment I pecked around the net for examples of gleaming LLM verse. A few articles claimed human readers preferred AI-brewed p
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by malloryerik 1y ago
Yep, the beloved image of Aristotle gazing out at the slaves in the fields and saying that someday robots will do the labor and people will be at leisure, and not slaves looking toward the pagoda discussing how someday robots will own us al
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by malloryerik 2y ago
Many other rich countries give more on a per capita basis.[1] Indeed the U.S. has been kinda cheap, on a percent of gross national income basis.[2] It could be countered, of course, that the U.S. has paid substantially more for defense, an
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by malloryerik 2y ago
Oh no, it's in great part due to his antics. Owning a Tesla used to be about a positive future, the transition to sustainability, and with great engineering and making it sexy. Now owning a Tesla seems to be about kneeling to Moloch, p
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The surprising barrier that keeps us from building the housing we need (2024)(technologyreview.com)
2 points by malloryerik 2y ago|5 comments
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by malloryerik 2y ago
You might enjoy reading Iain McGilchrist.
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by malloryerik 2y ago
But also, why is it hard, expensive, and slow for the U.S. to build anything public?
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by malloryerik 2y ago
What about Substack and just keeping it free? I’m more curious more than convinced…

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