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by noosphr 1y ago
A day ago I got down voted to hell for saying that the JavaScript ecosystem has rotted the minds of developers and any tools that emulate npm should be shunned as much as possible - they are not solutions, they are problems. I don't us
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by noosphr 1y ago
I use 30 year old software regularly. Newer doesn't mean working.
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by noosphr 1y ago
JavaScript has truly rotted the brains of software developers. You include the security patch of whatever your dependencies are into your local vetted pypi repository. You control what you consider liabilities and you don't get shocked
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by noosphr 1y ago
Word from 2004 works better than the office 365 version. I've used it in the last three years to automate document generation in an enterprise because the latest versions of word: 1). Randomly break during automatic updates you can&#x2
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by noosphr 1y ago
That is not how encoder only models work.
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by noosphr 1y ago
My first job out of uni was building a spreadsheet infra as code version control system after a Windows update made an eight year old spreadsheet go haywire and lose $10m in a afternoon. Spreadsheets are already a disaster.
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by noosphr 1y ago
Sicp is not computation first. Sicp is understanding first. Doing the calculations automatically is a happy side effect of finding the right abstractions for describing what's happening physically and those abstractions being expressed
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by noosphr 1y ago
https://github.com/perceptual-ai/sicm-scheme-exercises
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by noosphr 1y ago
I've often dreamed of a "Structure and interpretation" series of books. Scheme is pretty close to a universal computation substrate that provides enough ergonomics to be human understandable and writing anything out in it pro
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by noosphr 1y ago
I went through this course in the astronomy department of all places. This quote is very relevant for my career progression: >Within a month of his arrival, Randy solved some trivial computer problems for one of the other grad students.
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by noosphr 1y ago
This is not an issue in China as they overprovision demand by 50 percent. Their grid can run off baseload generation alone in their 2060 plan. Trying to explain that a grid build by electrical engineers, rather than financial engineers, has
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by noosphr 1y ago
China has been building out nuclear capacity at 5% a year for 25 years. Solar and wind capacity had shot through the roof in the last five years because they can't sell hardware to the west any more. The other big item is hydro power,
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by noosphr 1y ago
The low energy future that was envisioned is not happening. The AI arms race, which has become an actual arms race in the war in Ukraine, needs endless energy all times a day. China is already winning the AI cold war because it adds more ca
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by noosphr 1y ago
Search, after Bert, is very much a commodity. I get better results than Google on segments of common craw using a desktop computer and a research model. Given that Google has decades of scrapes, and more than four gpus to work with, they ca
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by noosphr 1y ago
And what did they do with it for the next five years?
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by noosphr 1y ago
Big tech is suffering from the incumbents disease. What worked well for extracting profits from stable cash cows doesn't work in fields that are moving rapidly. Google et al. were at one point pinnacle technologies too, but this was 20
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by noosphr 1y ago
The cloud was a good deal in 2006 when the smallest aws machine was about the size of a ok dev desktop and took over two years of renting to justify buying the physical machine outright. Today the smallest, and even large, aws machines are
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by noosphr 1y ago
Model is so overused in software and computer science that it has a dozen meanings that would come to mind before the meaning of maket does. By comparison maket is a word with an obvious and single meaning you can find in most dictionaries,
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by noosphr 1y ago
It is hard to find people that can support it in production. But for building makets of production systems to see where they are likely to fall over I've never found a better language. The fact that you have to build everything from sc
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by noosphr 1y ago
Claude, explain the fallacy fallacy to someone fond of pointing fallacies in arguments: #### *The Fallacy Fallacy: A Metacognitive Error in Logical Analysis* The fallacy fallacy, also known as the argument from fallacy or argumentum ad log
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by noosphr 1y ago
You are assuming my time is free and then comparing the difference between spending infinite time on something and minimal time.
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by noosphr 1y ago
I had a hilarious exchange on here where I used an LLM to explain to a poster at length why they fundamentally didn't understand what I said. It did a bang up job. The poster, and a lot of other people, got mad I used AI and they still
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by noosphr 1y ago
>We also don't know, in situations like this, whether all of or how much of the research is true. That's perfectly fine since we don't know how much of the original research is true either: https://en.wikipedia.
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That's my most downvoted and flagged post. Some people really don't like Ai even when it's useful.
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In my circles it is obviously 100%.
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by noosphr 1y ago
When one's job is potentially on the line one becomes a Luddite rather quickly.
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I've got a zfold and it's the best ebook reader I've ever had. Currently have 500 papers and 30 books on it. Being able to screen read anything is also a plus for light reading like war and peace.
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by noosphr 1y ago
You don't tinker, explore or innovate live in prod with the root account either. There are general purpose machines that you can make new parts on, and you open a pilot plant if you want to experiment with new manufacturing techniques.
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I'm saying they have much bigger problems than what python package manager they are using.
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The most unbelievable part of this story is that anyone using four versions of Debian has enough money to be customers to someone.

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