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by mg 3y ago
Douglas Hofstadter is one of my childhood heroes. I have devoured all of his books and always felt that his curiosity about artificial intelligence was similar to mine. Now we made this huge jump in AI capabilities, and I am really surprise
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by mg 3y ago
Only positive integers from 0 to 100? If we would allow all real numbers, I would surely include pi and -1 in the top 100. Since you already have 10 in there at position 4, I would say there is nothing so special about 100 that it deserves
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by mg 3y ago
The CPI is not a good way to evaluate the value of the dollar. Especially not when discussing if rate hikes impact the stock market. And again: Look at decades, not at years. Assets are way more expensive these days than they were in 2008.
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by mg 3y ago
I don't think much can be seen from looking at a single year. The triggers for drastic money supply increases are events like the housing crisis in 2008 and covid in 2020. Events of this size come unexpected once in a decade or so. Add
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by mg 3y ago
You addressed my first point Either from a growing economy: Good for the stock market. By saying the economy might not grow. Fair enough. But you did not address my second point Or from freshly printed money: Also good for th
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by mg 3y ago
Yes. And I am questioning whether those models make sense. Maybe they are from before 2008 when printing money was considered a "slight background noise" and not a doubling every few years like we see now? https://fred.
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by mg 3y ago
I am sceptical that this is really bad for the stock market. Those 5% must come from somewhere. Either from a growing economy: Good for the stock market. Or from freshly printed money: Also good for the stock market. The "risk free&quo
608.
by mg 3y ago
Good to see that there are some studies under way now. How do you mean "preventative in nature"? Are you aware of any studies which a/b tested Vitamin D on active respiratory tract infections which showed that the Vitamin D h
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by mg 3y ago
I'm surprised there is no randomized controlled trial of the effect of Vitamin D on Long Covid. When I browse through Pubmed and read studies (a/b-tests) of Vitamin D intake and respiratory tract infections (including Covid), many
610.
by mg 3y ago
They charge for "the ability to tweet, retweet, like posts and reply to posts." It will be very interesting to see how this turns out. Obviously, there is no value in the ability to publish your thoughts. You can do that for free
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by mg 3y ago
If someone builds a company and becomes crazy rich - is that a good thing or a bad thing for society? One interesting paradox I always think about when it comes to this debate is that every dollar owned by a rich person is worth nothing to
612.
by mg 3y ago
What is Google's biggest moat these days?
613.
by mg 3y ago
Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology. I think we are at a turning point in this regard.
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by mg 3y ago
I'm surprised there is still so much friction about white collar jobs like programming. One could think that by now, it should be easy for developers to "jump into" a codebase and suggest changes (aka pull requests). Turning
615.
by mg 3y ago
I don't think Uber and AirBnB are good comparisons. Both are B2C and have network effects.
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by mg 3y ago
Why do you think so? Technological progress seems rather accelerated than diminishing to me. Computers are a great example: They have been getting more capable exponentially over the last decades. In terms of performance (memory, speed, ban
617.
by mg 3y ago
Copilot was not around when I wrote the Tweet. But when Copilot came out, I was indeed ignorant! I remember when a friend showed it to me for the first time. I was like "Yeah, it outputs almost correct boilerplate code for you. But tha
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by mg 3y ago
I don't think the "hype" is built on test scores. It is built on the observation how fast AI is getting better. If the speed of improvement stays anywhere near the level it was the last two years, then over the next two decad
619.
by mg 3y ago
One surprising fact about Linux pipes I stumbled across 4 years ago is that using a pipe can create indeterministic behavior: https://www.gibney.org/the_output_of_linux_pipes_can_be_inde...
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by mg 3y ago
The nice aspect of "this ~> that" is that the meaning is simply "put this into that". And that it results in the shortest code. An alternative would be: b ~> c ~> d ~> e(%,4) Slightly longer, but may
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by mg 3y ago
a = f(e(d(c(b))), 4), 5) That has 4 opening parenthesis and 5 closing parenthesis. b is passed to c b ~> c then the result is passed to d b ~> c ~> d then to e along with 4 as a second pa
622.
by mg 3y ago
This: a = f((e(d(c(b))), 4), 5) Seems not to make sense. Replacing c(b) with x we get: a = f((e(d(x)), 4), 5) Replacing d(x) with x we get: a = f((e(x), 4), 5) Replacing e(x) with x we get: a = f((x, 4), 5)
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by mg 3y ago
The difference is that they want to turn a = d(c(b,7)) into a = b |> c(%,7) |> d(%) and I would like to see it turn into a = b,7 ~> c ~> d
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by mg 3y ago
This would be my preferred syntax: status = greeting+"!" ~> capitalize ~> send This would need 2 changes to JS: 1: ~> being a pipe operator 2: Calling an async function from within an async function implies await
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by mg 3y ago
I added the following CSS to every element on the page An outline with 0.5px width I actually often do the same to look at how a website is structured. I use this bookmarklet which when clicked does it on the current page:
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by mg 3y ago
Do we have proof that humans are different in this regard? When you give ChatGPT a story in which you mention that some fictional character is the composer of some fictional song and then ask ChatGPT who is the composer of that song, it cor
627.
by mg 3y ago
This reminds me of a common theme in the art world. I wonder if there is a name for it. Maybe "Low effort art"? Examples off the top of my head: John Cage "composed" a song consisting of just silence. Marcel Duchamp exhi
628.
by mg 3y ago
Can you give an example? Searching for "news.ycombinator.com" works just fine for me. No unrelated content.
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by mg 3y ago
Could we breed trees which capture more CO2? We increased crop yields multifold already: https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields So maybe we can do the same to carbon yield? Are trees the plants which capture most CO2 per he
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by mg 3y ago
120 light years away. If there was life out there, similar to us - could we detect their radio and television signals over this distance?

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