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by wyager 2y ago
Soft "sciences" don't have enough predictive power to, on expectation, improve this situation to any meaningful degree
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by wyager 2y ago
Lysenkoism persisted in the Soviet Union because people who pointed out the inconsistencies too straightforwardly would find themselves in hot water. Anyone who wanted to discuss the issue had to approach it somewhat obliquely. Most people
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Computer industries have correlated psychometric selection effects with a bunch of subcultures. Many of these select for e.g. what is colloquially referred to as "autism", although that term refers to several probably-unrelated th
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by wyager 2y ago
Thinking this is about science per se betrays a very naïve understanding of the political dynamics involved. It's quite easy to come up with examples where the official progressive position is nonscientific; Lysenkoism, for example,
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> I don't know the cause of this. I think it's pretty clear when you analyze it from the perspective of Selectorate Theory (c.f. Bueno De Mesquita's Logic of Political Survival ). Basically, there's a natural tendenc
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For a lot of the iCE40 chips, it's extremely difficult to reliably get fMax > 50MHz even with extremely aggressive pipelining. I assume 80MHz is only possible on the highest-speed parts in the iCE40 family I switched a design from i
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by wyager 2y ago
So on the one hand you had Twitter, where the impression you would have had in the first few days of November is that Trump was probably going to win the election. On the other hand you had most other platforms like Reddit, with relatively
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by wyager 2y ago
It seems like his objection is that "parsing formal grammars" isn't the point of LLMs, which is fair. He was wrong about RGs vs CFGs, but I would bet that the majority of programmers are not familiar with the distinction, and
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> Anthropic has moved so much slower than its competitors In what sense? Claude is way better than any other LLM available, in the sense of providing useful/correct/intelligent output.
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> How about you, what’s your plan? I can tell you that it doesn't involve condescendingly lecturing blue collar workers about my culture being superior to theirs
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> What leads one to have feelings about a language anyway? Not a single person reading this thread believes that you are a coolly detached rational observer Responding to an argument by not only pretending not to have an opinion, but pre
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by wyager 2y ago
> Java's latest addition of green threads is 100% lifted from Go. Why do you say it was lifted from Go and not from one of the places Go lifted it from, like the two I mentioned? > Rust and Zig's built-in language tooling Ma
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> since Go was released it seems every other language has tried to copy it What are you referring to here? I would consider myself quite well-apprised of recent developments in PL theory (and practice) and I am struggling to come up with
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I mean, if you have a coherent explanation for why you made that comparison, it should be pretty easy to communicate... Your response as it stands is not doing much to fight the "Go enthusiasts are Blub Paradox victims" perception
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> Really I think it's more useful to view it as a better C But Go is nothing at all like C, and it's completely unsuitable for most of the situations where C is used. I'm having trouble even imagining what you're gett
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by wyager 2y ago
Having written probably several hundred kloc of both Haskell and OCaml, I strongly prefer Haskell. A very simple core concept wrapped in an extremely powerful shell. Haskell is a lot better for parsing tasks because (among other considerati
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by wyager 2y ago
Golang was created specifically so that Google could mitigate the downsides from lower their hiring standards. It doesn't have any higher design aspirations. "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researc
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What exactly is your plan to achieve this "needed" change?
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How long do you think it will take you to update your priors on this?
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by wyager 2y ago
This is such a hilarious objection. Do people use gold or equities or real estate to buy coffee? Well then I guess they must all be some kind of bubble
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If you have this attitude, you aren't cut out to work in the trades
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by wyager 2y ago
The lower your performance requirements, the more you can loosen up what kind of programmers you hire. A dev who can only use <insert high level GC'd language known for being easy to use/easy to hire for> is relatively quite
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by wyager 2y ago
Haskell, any ML, Rust, etc. TS is on par with any crufty ad-hoc type system like that of Java or C++. The TS type system is neither especially powerful nor especially robust
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by wyager 2y ago
I don't find "performance parity with Mathematica" to be very compelling. Mathematica is a CAS system, not something I would use to write fast code.
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> the most robust type-system in the world (Typescript) The rare combo of Blub Paradox + Poe's Law
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I would take that to mean "strict evaluation" and "simple type system"
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Yeah, but I don't expect this to be substantively harder than learning most regional accents (could be wrong), and afaik it's also not critical for legibility.
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I've been (very) casually learning Japanese for a couple years, and almost every time I think I find something "weird" that Japanese does, I almost immediately think of a very similar example in English. The alphabet is a pre
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To use an overextended computer metaphor: serializing data structures to a wire format forces lazy evaluation, turning up any errors that were previously hidden by laziness.
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As this article discusses, it's not really viable that existing codebases will be able to benefit from safe C++ research without massive rewrites anyway

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