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by skew-aberration 16d ago
A system programming language needs to match hardware where mutability is associated with memory addresses, something functional languages can afford to abstract away.
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by skew-aberration 16d ago
Yep. Particularly obvious with comment ranking too.
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
Also a layman but I have a different read of it. 1) Dirac actually developed big parts of Lie Theory and its application in relativistic particle physics, without using the mathematical formalisms at all (until later on). His work was subsu
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
It's good game theory. You're much more likely to be able to bully a Northern Baptist Conservative Council of 1879 members into joining your cult than anybody else.
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
There are languages with first class continuations, is if every function is async and every call is await. In that context, everything can be stack allocated and every reference to stack memory stays valid always. The cost is that stack is
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
Eh. I wanted to be provocative because I've heard a lot of educated but economically naive people assume 'highly leveraged hotel-casino project' is dumb a priori, even though it's (an example of a) a sensible and common
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
You could predefine your event handlers within your context, then call 'enter framework' and pass your event handlers as arguments. this is continuation passing style
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
You could write everything if you refactor to continuation passing style
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
Did I say that? Since they failed, they were obviously bad business. But they were a rational thing to attempt to do - taking on a massive loan to speculate on land and using a (potentially) high cashflow, quick to setup, easy to market b
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
When I speak to people outside of tech the opinions are more negative, in my experience. I've even had people ask my friends/family to ask me about AI - there is huge concern out there. > Many of them read HN and are offended I
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
Same is also true of DJT's various casino gambits. Pilloried in the media but rather sound (though high risk) from a land speculation perspective.
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by skew-aberration 18d ago
Rent is the realization of value appreciation - value is just the NPV of future rents
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by skew-aberration 20d ago
It is a shame to think that people might be aware of Dirac only through reference to Feynman, whose greatest works extended Dirac's own original breakthroughs. He has been rightly likened instead to Einstein for the brilliance and crea
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by skew-aberration 21d ago
To be effective requires power. Therefore, the most altruistic strategy is to acquire all the power. This argument has seemingly convinced a lot of people, or perhaps they just wanted power anyway and now have an excuse too.
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by skew-aberration 21d ago
Never been my experience of maths, which is one of the most accessible disciplines to have ever existed. I also have a degree, but mostly taught myself the important undergrad-level concepts as a kid. I just went to the library and borrowed
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by skew-aberration 21d ago
Captures it perfectly. I notice it more in newer sessions too where it doesn't have a clear understanding yet and is making a lot more assumptions. I wonder if this could be an emergent RLHF strategy - by drawing attention to (seemingl
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by skew-aberration 22d ago
RSI scenario is not scientist-limited though. So, you'd better get cracking if you want to catch up before it's impossible. Will first need to raise some serious capital too...
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by skew-aberration 23d ago
Drinking culture changed more dramatically in English-speaking countries in late 1800s/early 1900s (temperance movement) than elsewhere.
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by skew-aberration 24d ago
I'm not convinced this is an alignment or technology problem. If my boss vibe coded an app for the customer and then assigned me to get it working, it would be impossible to maintain. If he gave me enough AI tokens to vibe code the MVP
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by skew-aberration 25d ago
Sure, but to clarify the article is describing formalization (writing a correct program), not verification (compiling said program). The author is not making the same comparison. Verification is also open ended (not sure about lean specific
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by skew-aberration 25d ago
Downvotes? Just drag South America or Australia onto Africa and tell me it changed more than a few percent in size. Barely perceptible. North America is not 21.3 but 24.7e^6 m^3 according to google, so the ratio is 4:3. Asia to Africa is 3:
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by skew-aberration 26d ago
Continents are in truesizeof btw. Asia is much bigger than Africa, North America is only a little smaller. When you account for the Sahara Desert of course, there is more usable land in North America.
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by skew-aberration 26d ago
I don't get why people say this / focus on Africa in this conversation. I've never thought Africa was small and was taught about the Berlin Conference, etc in school. All the large continents are near the equator and hence th
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by skew-aberration 26d ago
Viruses probably too hard but I think small scale bioterrorism is much easier and doesn't require fancy enzymes. I think this is actually the best argument for regulation of current models. It's even happened pre-AI https:/&
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by skew-aberration 27d ago
The second field can probably be created by changing the first field while the piece is still cooling down.
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by skew-aberration 27d ago
Textile manufacturing was dominated by Western countries until the 60s/70s btw. Berkshire Hathaway was a textile mill when Warren Buffet bought it. Besides, if people are living in the same conditions today as the presumably Dickensian
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by skew-aberration 27d ago
Starvation due to conflict due to changes in economic relationships, not due directly to unemployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines Almost every mass famine in the mid to late 20th century was caused b
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by skew-aberration 27d ago
Past changes to economic relationships haven't replaced labor either, yet they have led to conflict and starvation. You are setting an incredibly high bar here, essentially a strawman. If people feel disenfranchised due to their dimini
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by skew-aberration 27d ago
> I’m not interested in wild theories about AI driven labor market disruptions leading to widespread starvation Changes in political and economic power balance leading to unrest, conflict, death and deprivation is not a wild theory. It i
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by skew-aberration 27d ago
Many also claimed altruistic motivations for continuing their work, sharing technology with the Soviets

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