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by ssivark 6y ago
That’s fascinating. How is it that we seem to have lost that capability to do things in software over so few decades?
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by ssivark 6y ago
Regularization might give better solutions, but it’s no more optimizing the stated objective, and often runs counter. In some cases, regularization is explicit and by choice, but it’s also often implicit and not under control.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Btw, don’t let my cheeky comment detract from a perceptive & reflective article. Please do read. And here’s another article by the author in a related vein: https://zandercutt.com/2020/05/22/we-are-all-the
814.
by ssivark 6y ago
Here’s the challenge: could you ever specify an objective function concretely enough to sustain an assault by aggressive optimization? https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha... In all
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Author’s Note: I’ve recently partnered with Project DigInThere, an online project to help people get more out of the articles they read. Project DigInThere enables authors (in this case, me) to create 3-4 question “quests” that reader
816.
by ssivark 6y ago
While I like and use (and even recommend) Archlinux, Debian’s track record is absolutely venerable. It’s a huge accomplishment to carry so many people and an ecosystem along with you over decades, doing all the unsexy tasks (the number of p
817.
by ssivark 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that precious perspective. Good luck with/for your kids :-)
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by ssivark 6y ago
Bingo! It’s boil-the-ocean level crazy to attempt to recreate the environment for a particular file, when the sensible approach would be to just have the file format and it’s reader/viewer software be open so it can be recompiled or po
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by ssivark 6y ago
Right, but that is using a semi-classical calculation, whereas we know that ultimately any process (evolution of a closed system like the universe) compatible with quantum mechanics needs to be unitary/reversible. That mismatch is what
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by ssivark 6y ago
Discussions of GTD aside, the article seems to be advocating for individual productivity to be externally managed (through “management intervention”), > It seems likely that any successful effort to reform professional life must start b
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by ssivark 6y ago
Chose your list of favorites, or subscribe to someone whose curation you trust. No worse than trusting Google/Twitter/Facebook/etc. In other words, this is precisely how a market functions.
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think a practical means to achieving this would be to self-organize and create the hardware+software design and a proof concept for this. That makes it much easier for those concerned to stress-test it, and then point to benefits, since t
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by ssivark 6y ago
One could easily envision an electronic system backed with paper printouts. The electronic system provides immediacy and avoids human counting errors, while any large scale manipulation of the electronic system can be verified by counting t
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by ssivark 6y ago
It’s not that bad... in fact, quite the opposite :-) Whenever we peel back a layer to discover new physics, the old models are never lost, since the new models must necessarily reduce to those in more familiar situations! Another factor is
825.
by ssivark 6y ago
I’ve used that in the past to reach out to developers, and had fruitful discussions. (And they didn’t seem to mind; it’s great to find fellows interested in the same niche/obscure topic!) I was under the impression that it was a very d
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by ssivark 6y ago
Crazy to imagine this, but restricting developers to 16GB machines might be the most effective way to fight against (cough... electron driven) software bloat :-)
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Do you honestly think that there was anyone at Boeing that thought, "well, this aircraft is definitely unsafe and is going to kill a bunch of people, which will likely destroy this company and greatly damage the entire industry I
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by ssivark 6y ago
> there are legitimate reasons for blocking screenshots Couldn't someone anyways display the content on one screen and take a photograph with another device. For text content, the degradation of image quality doesn't even matte
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by ssivark 6y ago
FYI, “chink” in the armor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chink_in_one%27s_armor
830.
by ssivark 6y ago
I thought the point of the submission was a joke highlighting that Gitlab is open source.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Sure, but that’s such a tiny corner among generic problems. To generalize from there seems unwarranted.
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by ssivark 6y ago
While that’s the poster dream, I wonder whether it actually works in practice, rather than being a liability, as a sibling comment points out. IME, imposing domain knowledge (usually directly into the model, or sometimes also in the trainin
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by ssivark 6y ago
Any mention of JJ Thomson always brings to mind this profound and fascinating quote: “If you pay a man a salary for doing research, he and you will want to have something to point to at the end of the year to show that the money has not be
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by ssivark 6y ago
Interesting, apart from the problem that like any Google feature/product it will likely be abandoned, and then shut down in a few years screwing over anyone that actually depended on it :smh:
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by ssivark 6y ago
On the other hand, imperative code sometimes makes it very difficult to compare what is happening with what you want to happen (problem specification).
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by ssivark 6y ago
Thanks, I skimmed those references and didn’t find anything convincing, but I’ll give it a more careful read later. I think a rigorous (doesn’t necessarily mean quantitative or in terms of utility) argument for longevity research would be
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think that the consideration of arguments against extending human longevity is very flippant, and deserves some serious pushback. As Max Planck pointed out, ”A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think “notmuch” is actually a great solution to handle email (or a corpus of articles such as RSS) with a combination of search/filters and tags. The interface is also ripe to easily plug in ML based filters or other social curation
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by ssivark 6y ago
If you get around to setting up a blog or a github repo with these examples, I’m sure a lot of us would find it interesting :-)
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by ssivark 6y ago
How does this compare with having a Github/Sourcehut like "website" hosted via IPFS? It appears that Git's versioning model might be nicely compatible with IPFS.

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