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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
To some extent. Many mathematical breakthroughs are not from mathematicians thinking in the office but mathematical minded people doing engineering work and bumped into big ideas. Mandelbrot was one of them, so was Alan Turing, Claude Shann
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
We already have a starting point: https://play.rust-lang.org https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-playground
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
I wonder when the title will be upgraded to “A minimal, secure Rust interpreter written in Python for use by AI”. Any human or AI want to take the challenge?
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
There is a third type: rabbit. This is a golden age of rabbit holes. A quick rabbit jumps through complicated holes and tunnels to escape from something or chase something. We can also call someone chasing a rabbit a fox. Like all the ones
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
These are computer scientists: https://youtu.be/wQbFkAkThGk
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
Aristotle is the founder of biology: https://youtu.be/kz7DfbOuvOM
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
If you read that Wirth 1995 paper (A Plea for Lean Software) referenced by the OP, following paragraphs answered your question: “ To some, complexity equals power A system’s ease of use always should be a primary goal, but that ease should
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
After leaving my previous day job, I have some downtime to get back to thinking and realizing how much I love reading and thinking. Contemplating the old RTFM, I started a new personal project called WTFM and spends time writing instead of
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
If you’re good at hand writing, there is no difference between it and a real paper notebook. There are also many notebook templates.
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
That is a great point. People in this group are programming at a different abstraction level, i.e., allocating computing resources, both human and machine resources. Now AI agents are cheap but they generate a lot of slop, and potential min
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
I have been diving deeply in the Rust community and ecosystem and really enjoyed reading the decade of real engineering poor into it, from RFCs to std, critical crates such as serde, and testing practices. What a refreshing world. Compared
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The writing experience on Kindle Scribe is pretty good as well. I only use it for quick marginal notes and underlines. Sometimes drawing diagrams. But I used it mostly for reading.
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I use a Kindle Scribe. The iPhone can share any .txt, .html, .epub, .PDF content from the web to Kindle App so I can sync on the Kindle Scribe and read offline later. I read all my Rustdoc and mdBook documentation this way. Even the ones I
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by ontouchstart 8mo ago
I am in the middle of reading a fascinating book about the early days of computing: Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson. It really opened my eyes to American engineering craft post WWW II. We seem to take everything for granted now and forge
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by ontouchstart 9mo ago
That is a wonderful write up. “This is a clear indication that while the AI can write the code, it cannot design software” To clarify what I mean by a product. If we want to design a browser system (engine + chrome) from scratch to optimize
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by ontouchstart 9mo ago
24 hours later, I finally found a little time and energy to write down some thoughts before they become information fat. https://ontouchstart.github.io/manuscript/information-fat.ht...
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by ontouchstart 9mo ago
How much effort would it take GenAI to write a browser/engine from scratch for GenAI to consume (and generate) all the web artifacts generated by human and GenAI? (This only needs to work in headless CI.) How much effort would it take
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by ontouchstart 9mo ago
There should be a volume about maintenance of our bodies and minds (without depending on technologies that consume a lot of energy and resources).
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Engineering is more or less about getting familiar with the proper tools and use them to solve specific problems: add new features, debugging, refactoring and optimizing. And the tools themselves are built by other engineers and they need n
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I did a toy experiment on a pretty low level crate (serde) in Rust ecosystem, to run a simple demonstration from their website pulling in 42M of dependencies. https://wtfm-rs.github.io/wtfm-serde/doc/wtfm_serde&#x2
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by ontouchstart 9mo ago
Since the JavaScript and Python worlds are heavily polluted by LLMs, I start to look into Rust and Cargo ecosystem. Surprisingly it picked up the pace as quickly as possible. Once Rust can be agentic coded, there will be millions of mines h
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So how do we find or make the right teams? The incentive and loss function are pointing to short term attention and long term amnesia. We are fighting the algorithms.
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Ironically, when machine learning is getting “deeper & deeper”, human learning is getting more and more impatient and shallow. I have been searching “Vibe coding” videos on YouTube that are not promoting something. And I found this one
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https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don... Bookmark here for me to read in 2036.
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We might want to repost it every decade.
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Think of it as the early years of UNIX & PC. Running inferences and tools locally and offline opens doors to new industries. We might not even need client/server paradigm locally. LLM is just a probabilistic library we can call.
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The reason I said that is that I already have a POC to use LLM to go to a gist and do something with the date in it. https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/03f4c7ee853061772b479d9...
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by ontouchstart 10mo ago
How do you prevent AI agent to scrape your data the same way you scrape HF? For example, I can “cache” your page as a shared link in this comment https://www.openpaperdigest.com/paper/paperdebugger-a-plugin... Or in a
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by ontouchstart 10mo ago
I think sooner ChatGPT will provide answers based on your Guides: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125283
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by ontouchstart 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125283

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