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by photonthug 1y ago
> why are we ignoring the loud hints from ML solutions that this is a limiting heuristic? This comes up a lot and always strikes me as rather anti-science, even anti-rationality in general. To speed run the typical progression of this a
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by photonthug 1y ago
Huh? I defended your proposal of asking strangers to read stuff against the detractors here, because even though it's a bit obnoxious, I think it's a more interesting conversational gambit than discussing sports or something.
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by photonthug 1y ago
Actually I think the public tends to generalize their complaints/injuries and act in the most spiteful ways that are available to them. For example, decades of bad experiences at the DMV translates into cries that we should defund the
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by photonthug 1y ago
> Without brand loyalty, hotels suffer. Executive decision makers won't though. It's clear that consolidation in many sectors has gotten to the point that consumer power is an absolute joke and "ignore them, abuse them, a
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by photonthug 1y ago
It's about what you define as "free standing" i.e. self supporting, which at least means no wire anchors, but arguably also means no pyramids because they are a sort of refined mound, no ziggurats, no cheating by excavating a
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by photonthug 1y ago
> You also can't translate .. into Hellenistic Greek or some modern indigenous languages because there isn't enough shared context; you'd need to give humans speaking those languages a glossary for any of the translation t
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by photonthug 1y ago
This is mostly just a really high-level overview and the exciting stuff is only teased in the conclusion: > (There is a nascent field of epistemic game theory, as well as some models of social media manipulation, but these fields are st
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by photonthug 1y ago
Comprehension is a spectrum that starts somewhere superficial and merely "adequate" but also stretches into deeper literacy/fluency. On one end of the spectrum it is about reading between the lines, but that doesn't m
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by photonthug 1y ago
Thanks, probably better than TFA. The under-employment numbers are always telling, anyone who talks about employment without mentioning this is running a scam. Sobering to see that only elementary ed and nursing are really doing ok, field
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by photonthug 1y ago
First layer: Literally yes, there's fog everywhere. It gets around. Second layer: Interesting contrast of something clean and natural meeting something industrial and dirty. Voices, who is speaking, where from, and with what perspec
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by photonthug 1y ago
I don't know. Talking with strangers is always kind of insane, or at least a pretty illogical leap of faith, because there's not much chance that the interaction is interesting or amusing. Now a stranger that walks up to me and
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by photonthug 1y ago
Python is probably too awesome and versatile to go out of fashion, but as a long time user.. the ecosystem is frustrating. Dependencies and packaging have been, and still are a nightmare after thousands of years. Problems are fixable su
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by photonthug 1y ago
Most platforms don't grow this feature because they can benefit from redirecting user energy into places that the platform is choosing. Or some vocal minority of the user base benefits from redirecting the platform to a place of their
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by photonthug 1y ago
> But I still like my git config, my editor and other tooling that I have to assist in my tasks. And it's not worth it to replicate it over to other people's setup. This isn't about stopping you from customizing your devel
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by photonthug 1y ago
Well, the prompts used in testing ( https://github.com/t3dotgg/SnitchBench/tree/main/prompts ) are pretty serious and basically about covering up public health disasters with lobbyists, so I'm not su
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by photonthug 1y ago
All development is text files, that is missing the point. The development environment is a system, and a pretty complicated one too. It matters where the files are, what's in them, and how they interact. Things change together ins
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by photonthug 1y ago
> Is this level of fear typical or reasonable? Anyone with more than one toolbox knows that fear isn't required. Containers are about more than security, including stuff like organization and portability. > If so, why doesn’t An
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by photonthug 1y ago
Yes please, more containers-first thinking for all things AI. The fact that this has been largely absent from most discussions and demos regarding agents and vibe-coding seems like a big red flag to me. I mean if we're going to YOLO
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by photonthug 1y ago
Not OP, but this resonates, so I'll speak for myself. One common thread in a lot of PKD is that he takes tons of very esoteric philosophical, religious, and scientific ideas extremely seriously. This includes everything from Buddhist
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by photonthug 1y ago
> simply proof that the code works right Combining LLMs + formal methods/model checkers is a good idea, but it's far from simple because rolling the dice on some subsymbolic stochastic transpiler from your target programming la
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by photonthug 1y ago
> This happens with any sufficiently big/old codebase. We can never remember everything, even if we wrote it ourselves The important thing about a codebase wasn't ever really size or age, but whether it was a planned architectu
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by photonthug 1y ago
> A talking head rambling on for 60 minutes. And probably a few minutes of commercials too. I get the impression this is an emerging generational thing, but unless it's a recorded university course or a very interesting and reput
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by photonthug 1y ago
Trees are great, but ultimately a pretty ridiculous idea if the goal is to create shade, even if you're not worried about water consumption. Avoiding concrete walls or overhangs is smart because you don't want the thermal mass.
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by photonthug 1y ago
Wait until you hear about the mighty Colorado. The Hoover dam wasn't just built to imprison Decepticons you know
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by photonthug 1y ago
Yes, because living in the desert is absurd and obviously unnatural. Setting aside of course 3,000 years of civilization in Egypt. While we're at it, let's also unpack all these skyscrapers in New York and Tokyo and make sure no
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by photonthug 1y ago
It seems like you might be confusing "research programs" with things like "branding" and surface-level terminology. And probably missing the fact that society-of-mind is about architecture more than implementation, so i
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by photonthug 1y ago
This is a typical critique that sort of assumes you have to be right about everything to be right about anything. Maybe a useful point of comparison is aether theories in physics. Wrong, sure, but useless? People might argue whether it w
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by photonthug 1y ago
IIT has always interested me, and after reading some of the detractors[1] I get that it has problems, but I still don't get the general lack of attention/interest or even awareness about it. It seems like a step in the right dire
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by photonthug 1y ago
Interesting article about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannons The oldest bell foundries do seem to happen at around the same time as the emergence of what we'd call a cannon, but before that the
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by photonthug 1y ago
Yep. Tfa mentions elixir being below the suggestions to rewrite a web app in rust and golang (??). The conclusion here should be that the LLM cannot be trusted that much, but we know that’s not going to happen, so anyone who wants to re

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