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by sriku 1y ago
Some of thr language features like operators can be overloaded using method tables, much like python's double underscore methods. I do think that the inability to do this in JS is what held it back from becoming a data processing power
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by sriku 1y ago
Whether or not anything "breakthrough" comes out of his work, I'm very sympathetic to the kinds of explorations he does ... especially since new things go through a messy phase before clarity arises.
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by sriku 1y ago
"I consider TypeScript to be the gold standard when it comes to type systems on top of dynamic languages." Doubly weird, considering that TypeScript work was inspired by typed/racket, and TypeScript doesn't have a sound
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by sriku 1y ago
In that form yes, but the active "drink water" which is kind of what we'd code like "drink(water)" is "wasser trinken". ... but yeah human languages aren't straightjacketed easily.
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by sriku 1y ago
"story of your life" isn't quite about sapir-whorf but more about the lagrangian view of the world (as opposed to the Hamiltonian). That is difficult to convey in a movie and so the sapir-whorf part got emphasized there. Also
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by sriku 1y ago
This is almost FP vs OOP religious war in disguise. Similar to vim-vs-emacs ... where op comes first in vim but selection comes first in emacs. If you design something to "read like English", you'll likely get verb-first stru
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by sriku 1y ago
Ok so I asked "how many bs in bluberry" and it "thought" the following - ----- First, the question is: "How many bs in bluberry?" That seems like a typo. I think it's meant to be "blueberry,&quo
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by sriku 1y ago
A while ago, I implemented a signin approach that looks similar to this "send a link/code" mode but (I believe) can't be exploited this way - https://sriku.org/blog/2017/04/29/forget-p
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by sriku 1y ago
The bun and other authors would probably do well to not repurpose already understood terminology. "Macros" are already understood to be code that produces other code. "Comptime" is a nice alternative, but bun's &quo
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by sriku 1y ago
In "Interesting bugs / Bug 1", I walked through the code again. Inside of the Rust function (*c).bar has a valid address, like 0x60302764, but out the function, the value received from the calling C code was 0x2764. ..
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by sriku 1y ago
This is cool and I have my own take on it after being nerd sniped by XKCD - https://sriku.org/posts/nerdsniped/ - I link to this article at the end but that post specifically solves the xkcd puzzle.
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by sriku 1y ago
Would a stream where each entry is a list of kv-pairs work just as well? The parser is then expected to apply the kv pairs to the single json object as it is receiving them. The key would describe a json path in the tree - like 'a.b[3]
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by sriku 1y ago
I just spent a day resurrecting an old iOS music app of mine that got kicked out of the app store because I didn't make time to keep up with changes and devices, and some music students kept asking "when is it going to get back on
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by sriku 2y ago
Posted on 31st March which would've been 1st April somewhere else in the world?
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by sriku 2y ago
Agree (though that's perhaps not a charitable interpretation of TBL). Prematurely articulated principles can do a lot of damage. Btw I found the blog post to be one of the lowest quality one in terms of information content posted on HN
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by sriku 2y ago
Redis itself, yes. However there are Redis compatible tools that go beyond single core - KeyDB, DragonFly and ARDB overcome some limitations.
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by sriku 2y ago
https://materialize.com/ provides another approach, based on "timely dataflow" ( https://timelydataflow.github.io/timely-dataflow/ ) - originated at MS.
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by sriku 2y ago
The crux of the video game analogy seems to be that when you go close to an object, the resolution starts blurring and the illusion gets broken, and there is a similar thing that happens with LLMs (as of today) as well. This is, so far, rea
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by sriku 2y ago
Part of the challenge I understood to be learning priors from the training set that can then be applied to an extended private test set. This approach doesn't seem to do any such "learning" on the go. So, supposing it accompl
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by sriku 2y ago
Hofstadter wrote a whole book on it - "Le ton beau de Marot"
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by sriku 2y ago
At Google/Meta's scale, there is / ought to be less room for such "genuine mistakes" as they have the resources and clout to preempt them.
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by sriku 2y ago
An analogy I made to friend - language models capture the constraints in the arrangement of tokens in streams of communication. LLMs that model the constraints placed by human intelligence on token streams can no more be said to have attain
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by sriku 2y ago
A simpler question that seems to stump GPT4, llama3 (8b and 70b) so far - https://twitter.com/srikumarks/status/1784214593146868071
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by sriku 3y ago
I recall reading somewhere that it was created by someone who lived offline and had to take a boat to get connectivity, so that's why the thing has this "sync to local device" structure. Can anyone corroborate?
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by sriku 3y ago
The viz shows visible light, but you'll be basking in gamma and more energetic photons as they've all shifted up. It does note that infra red shifts into visible light. I wa swondering whether the perspective change is accurate as
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by sriku 3y ago
I saw the "Yxa" note, but couldn't it be for "Yew" which is a tough wood used to make axe handles? It also fits the curved handle picture in this article - https://www.woodworkingtrade.com/best-wood-
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by sriku 3y ago
"While human vision is not as susceptible to adversarial perturbations as is machine vision (machines no longer identify the original image class, but people still see it clearly), our work shows that these perturbations can neverthele
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Internet Freedom Foundation's take on the proposed broadcasting bill in India(internetfreedom.in)
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by sriku 3y ago
This is a trait of many great people. I guess they realise at some level that inspiring another generation helps carry the work forward than being dismissive and focusing on one's own work. This is also why I admire Andrew Ng.
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by sriku 3y ago
My first "big" program was a school project submission done in TP. It had an editor for drawing pixels in a (text) grid .. one line at a time. You could draw polygons, name them and the next time you drew something similar to the

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