twelfthnight

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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Yeah, agreed. Was thinking something similar but your comment is better measured and nuanced. Like, "social media is the problem" suggests the way to help young people is get them off their phone. In some ways, yeah, I do think t
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I'm being admittedly a little polemical, personally I'm freaked out by the future. But that aside, I'm curious to hear more about your argument. Are you saying worry about the future can't be causing this issue because s
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I don't mean to be glib, but you are in denial. Nuclear war is more likely now than since the early cold war, China is ready to invade Taiwan, climate change is poised to weaken or complete disrupt the Gulf Stream, America is months aw
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Seems more plausible to me that young people are just realizing they will be inheriting the consequences of decades of selfish leadership and they are reasonably worried about the future. The narrative that social media is the cause and not
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I think the biggest problems come from single points of failure. This wouldn't be as problematic if _everyone_ didn't use the same libraries. I guess you could argue that's similar to trust. In any case, I agree technologist
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Haven't heard this argument before. But from the Wikipedia article it seems base 3 has the best asymptomatic radix economy, but isn't much better than base 2 and base 2 is seemingly easier to program and optimize. Since this is a
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Huh, I guess I missed the part about providing the general result in the technical part (still don't see it, but that makes sense), ultimately that does seem like a good idea. At least I've heard we understand better from example
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Maybe evolutionary algorithms instead? Hasn't proven super useful historically, but maybe at the scale of enormous LLMs it will be?
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
If I have a salad and I water down just the dressing the whole salad is still worse, no? Unless you are saying the introduction isn't important, in which case why would you need to change it at all to make the paper more engaging?
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
So, marketing is inevitable and necessary, but I have a hypothesis that the current Internet is making it worse. For example, creators (I'm lumping in researchers with songwriters, actors, etc) used to focus on passing the hurdle of g
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> This may require “watering down” the results being described — stating corollaries or special cases instead of the full theorems in their maximal generality. Sometimes you may even need to leave out technical conditions required for th
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> everything is always subliminally affecting you Right, but certain methods are more effective than others. This paper is arguing and encouraging exactly how to manipulate more effectively. > It might as well do it in a helpful way B
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> Ideally the tricks I’m suggesting here will be almost invisible, affecting readers in a subliminal way Why would I want a math paper to be subliminally manipulating me? I feel like everyone has been watching too much YouTube/tikto
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Google Cloud Platform's growth is slowing [1]. It's finally profitable, but I don't think distant third place is what Google was looking for after 10 years of pouring billions of losses into it. At the time of this news, Goog
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
What choice can you point to that has increased Google's market cap? Google's search quality is deteriorating, Waymo is yet to make a profit, GCP is struggling, "Attention is all you need" was too early on to credit Sund
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Imagine having the talent and money of Google and accomplishing essentially nothing in ten years, but collecting 200 million a year.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I hear "revolutionary" claimed about languages like Rust, Haskell and Zig, but rarely about Go. What about Golang is revolutionary to you?
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Really sad to see such an influential computer scientist lose interest in advancing computing for the perceived slight against his legacy. Ironically I think Stroupstrup is actually doing more harm than good to his reputation by "evolv
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Article sets itself up a rebuttal against another post. The other post argues you shouldn't read books because they are too long and mostly filler. This article then suggests the classics themselves are a demonstration that disproves t
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
That honestly does seem like a recipe for good code. And sure, there's tons of open source out there of dubious quality. @resource0x in a sibling comment made the point that it's possible to write great code even if the program is
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Yeah, I imagine that was the decision calculus. "Instead of spending some more effort to save millions of unnecessary downloads of python's runtime using a different language, let's just bundle Python!" I wouldn't b
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
There probably is a sense in which the API's are constantly changing, so maybe an interpreted language might make sense? I imagine there has to be a better way to do with with Go or Rust though (even lua?) for a smaller binary.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I mean, was Angular ever "beautiful"?
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I get that sense too. Probably does work awesome if you're inside. But man it's a mess when they externalize stuff. Just one example: their cloud platform CLI includes an entire python installation and takes 1.7G on disk, just to
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> To be very frank, I would have to say the quality of codebases externally significantly lag behind those I’ve been used to at Google Haven't worked at Google, anyone else share this sentiment? I always feel like working with Googl
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Genuine question, is your experience that it is often more your lack of understanding than the code actually being a mess? I ask because while I've been guilty of judging too soon myself, it's much more common the code is just bad
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
> they think the old code is a mess. . . . they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is ... It’s harder to read code than to write it. I suppose I think the reason people think code is a mess is because i
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Ha, okay mp3 128 is 480p then. Fwiw, I happened to watch an old DVD I had recently (480p), it was so much worse than I remembered. 1080p to 4k is very much not as big a quality jump.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder if back when the Internet was "good", how many people were using it and much stuff was on it? Has the proportion of good stuff changed all the much, or is it just not in the same places it used to be, and aging
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Just want to point out the obvious: if the Internet was _all_ fake, then this post would also be fake and trying to get something from you. The reality is the Internet isn't all fake, but lots is so you have to use your brain to not ge

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