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by skew-aberration 1mo ago
'classical economics doesn't know how technology affects the wage' - ridiculous, classical economists were addressing exactly how technology was changing society and economic relationships. they didn't have accurate&#x2F
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by skew-aberration 1mo ago
Land value tax / citizens dividend here is different to the UBIs sometimes proposed in contemporary US politics. The idea is that you tax and redistribute the profits on the scarce inputs to the economy, rather than the redistributing
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by skew-aberration 1mo ago
This is a topic I'm interested in, but the presentation and exposition on the website leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, it does make you sound like a crank. Almost all of the theory and predictions presented seems to be those of regular
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by skew-aberration 1mo ago
What happens if the outcomes were obtained instantaneously, and without effort on your part? Would it be more enjoyable for you? Besides, I don't think you can be driven by thousands of outcomes, by definition, as you can't be in
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by skew-aberration 1mo ago
I've heard this argument many times, there's a grain of truth and I strongly agree RE 'arhythmic and atonal trash', but it strikes me as disingenuous. Classical music was somewhat elitist even at the time, coexisting wit
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I definitely agree. And the common performance optimization metaprogramming (like 'do it this way for this type of input') works so much better with multiple dispatch, tag structs. Way ahead of C++ expression templates and much mo
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
It was once called 'natural monopoly'
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
It kinda feels like Julia competes for the people who write the libraries for R and Matlab. Writing fast and elegant ODE solvers, etc in Julia seems to be easier than the others and they've attracted a lot of academics for that reason.
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
What you describe is very normal in telecom and has been for a long time. 4G, 5G, etc are all totally dependent on every device syncing to the one higher up in the chain. These days typically a digital control loop is used to tune a high fr
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
'All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them' If knowing was the valuable part, then nobody would need a PhD. You could know more by just reading textbooks. Research mathematicians res
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Delimited continuations? Though I'm not totally clear what you're asking for. Semantics or syntax?
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I don't think that's necessarily unlikely, but people making this argument rarely seem to understand just how radical a change is required to make that a possibility. e.g most small business rent their premises, and buy goods and
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Maybe there will be unhackable hardware one day, but it's likely impossible with modern CPUs due to the alarming number of side-channels hidden in the silicon. They might even have intentional guest escape vulnerabilities...
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Yet people vote time and again for regulation which makes the performance numbers more objective and transparent for cars, white goods, electronics, etc. They pay for reviewers who give them the information and comparisons the marketers won
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
The assumption that optical or analog will be more efficient for a given accuracy though is not grounded. Any non-linear optical phenomenon requires multiple photons interacting in matter, or interacting sequentially with the same matter, a
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
60lb premixed concrete bags are $5 in the US, and getting it delivered would be cheaper at this scale - the slab could cost under $500. The other costs sound normal -> materials + markup + labor. The more realistic money saving would h
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Note that this is still a significant undercount, as European countries import a large fraction of their carbon footprint as embodied carbon in manufactured goods. For Netherlands, it seems like the proportion is quite high, with approx 4-5
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I'm not sure that more efficient compute can win out, since it also has to beat out the competition on capital investment. There's an upper bound of 'just get 3 sets of GPUs and run them on solar in three different timezones&
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
How does that account for corporate owned farmland though?
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Working on an embedded device that requires building firmware images, etc, I've taken to using docker containers with a COW overlay. I have a vibe-coded tool which checks out the latest and does a clean compile, creating a base directo
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
This strikes me as very interesting problem. On the other hand, given it survives the drawing process and is relatively isotropic, I'm surprised that it can't be crimped/compressed together (and then the copper casing tigged
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
It's interesting how stable the numbers are. The GPT-3 to 4 leap made a dent but it was followed by the pre-training plateau. I would have expected the huge leap with agentic AI since late 2025/early 2026 to be reflected in these
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Marx (who I haven't read much of either, not for lack of trying) viewed capitalism as so exploitative and so powerful that on the one hand it totally displaced feudalism, but on the other hand it could not exist long before people woul
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
I doubt it makes much of a difference, and you can always manually manage what data lives in the GPU when if you 100% have to overcommit. Games have a much larger and more diverse set of objects in the VRAM, and their usage is less predicta
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Great writeup, gpuvis looks particularly interesting and glad the kernel is providing tracepoints for performance events. > Not only does the display hardware like scanned-out images to be in VRAM, it also completely skips past the GPU’s
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
FWIW when I first studied automatic theorem proving as a (high school) student in 2013, this was already widely discussed. They were trying to add neural networks inside the solvers, rather than current paradigm of a neural networks using t
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
As the article points out, the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo in particular did predict the growth of monopoly (land) rents and there are political schools of thought which make this observation central (Georgism in par
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Nevertheless, the proof is valid and easy to certify
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Premises: Garbage in implies garbage out (first principle of computer science) The input is possibly, but not necessarily garbage (definition of slop) By the standard methods of modal logic, it follows that it is possible that the output is
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by skew-aberration 2mo ago
Can't the LLM just generate e.g diffs? Or some other intermediate language. Then the watermark is lost when the translation step is applied.

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