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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm not sure if Spinoza did or did not have access to Hindu/Buddhist thought but at least Schopenhauer was influenced by the Upanishads. I also think it is reasonable to see connections in some themes in the Upanishads to the tran
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by zoogeny 3y ago
As an aside to this, I am reminded of paraconsistent logic systems [1] and three valued logic [2]. One quote I like from the three valued logic system, referencing Charles Sanders Peirce, states: > Peirce soundly rejected the idea all pr
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I know this is one man's anecdote - but TikTok somehow lost that early magic. I remember it in 2018 and it was much wilder than it is now. It would regularly give me some pretty far-out content and the algorithm would mix it together i
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have heard the story about gin carts and the analysis about how gin was used to quell social disquiet at the beginning of the industrial revolution and the urbanization of the English public. Even if that is historically accurate, it seem
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Kant et al are a cul de sac in this tradition. Perhaps, yet how would you know if you refuse to engage with it? I'm not sure how to respond when someone insists on remaining ignorant of alternative viewpoints and then suggests tha
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't do. I'm pointing out a few facts including that your viewpoint is well over 200 years old, that specifically Kant addressed it and influenced the entire discussion around it, t
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by zoogeny 3y ago
You say: "We can't conceive of things that are not experienced, by definition" I mean, you probably don't even realize that this view is influenced by Kant. You are giving a very poor retread of 200+ year old German idea
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think people have thresholds for things like status. As an analogy, there is a widespread belief that income after a certain threshold doesn't contribute to overall happiness. Very often you will hear people say "X doesn'
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is a fantastic story. I hated all of the named characters just because of their names. I heard their east coast upper middle-class accents, I pictured their suburban homes and pools, their casual day-drinking. In fact, I hated the writ
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There is a Twitch streamer Tsoding who posted a video of himself implementing K-means clustering in C recently [1]. He also does a follow up 3d visualization of the algorithm in progress using raylib [2]. 1. https://www.youtube.c
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think it is one of those things where even if it is "fast enough" in most cases, why not just use one of the readily available faster options anyway? It's not like setting up FastCGI is onerous. Apache/Nginx front-ends
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Yes, exactly - imagine a modern version written in Rust, with vi key-bindings, etc. Please someone be inspired by this idea and build this. TUIs are making a comeback and the spreadsheet is still one of the most useful and effective tools i
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've been thinking about a terminal spreadsheet editor for about a year now. I haven't deeply investigated this tool while I write this comment but I'd love for something like this for Terminal that supported `=A1+B2` kind of
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There was a study funded by NASA on the topic which made the rounds back in the day. Here is the Scientific American take: [1], here is PBS Space Time YouTube: [2] The topic pops up now and again, most recently called the The Silurian Hypot
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> This seems to me like unequivocally a good thing for open-source devs. I'm not certain the second order (or later) effects will necessarily be unequivocally good. Software supply chains are more like a double pendulum in that chan
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Wittgenstein seemed most interested in the question of how to categorize logical propositions into two categories: those that were sensible and those that were nonsense. I don't know how he explicitly described that process of categori
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> I haven't read Steven Pinkers critiques (could you link them please) so I can't say much about that. What does he mean by goal seeking? He has spoken about it multiple times on a few different podcasts. Here is a recent discu
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There is a proverb: "If the Mountain won’t go to Mohammed, then Mohammed must come to the Mountain" Most people don't have personal websites because getting an audience of users to a personal website is like asking a mountain
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> He saw that languages are inseparable from the context in which they are used That is one of the things that stood out to me in Searle's summary of his later work because I consider how the transformer architecture works and the w
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I was thinking last night about LLMs with respect to Wittgenstein after watching this interesting discussion of his philosophy by John Searle [1]. I think Wittgenstein's ideas are pertinent to the discussion of the relation of language
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I found the comparison here between Machiavelli and Nietzsche interesting, and in some respects there is a blurring here between the ideas of the two men. What I think is interesting is that Nietzsche was also responding to Dostoevsky. I th
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> there is an impedance mismatch between what you want to do to/with the system today, and what the system actual is today This is a better conceptualization compared to the idea that tech-debt is the result of shortcuts or rushed c
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Early in my career I worked with an engineer more senior than me who was responsible for performance optimization. He once told me "the fastest thing you can do is nothing at all" which was his way of saying it is better to find u
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Consider you have to do joins in the RLS for policy enforcement and you also have to do the same joins in your query for the business logic. One question is whether or not the query optimizer can recognize that the joins you do in the RLS a
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Is it cynicism or realism? It depends on what you are referring to when you say "it". Your insinuation that Lewis was misleading people by claiming to support avoiding chasing after some inner-ring so that he and others like
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think this is an example of how the greatest enemy to virtue is cynicism. It is hard to deny the old adage: in the land of the blind the one eyed is king. That suggests an unscrupulous ploy, to blind your adversaries so that you might be
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think that is fine with corporate accounts. But I would not do that for government organized campaigns. I know this is a controversial opinion on HN and it borders on paranoia. But I consider a few ideas. First, to a determined government
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've encountered specific situations on reddit where there was a clear government organized campaign influencing public opinion using bought accounts. This was in 2017 before GPT like AI generated content was a thing. It included comme
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Consider an alternative view, that coincidence is an immutable feature of reality that can be searched. In that case, you aren't necessarily engineering coincidence. Rather you are searching with the intent to align your own actions
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm sure it works fine, its just another thing to add to your stack (in some sense). Just a few days ago I saw a comment where a business owner was bragging about how his entire business was run on SQL stored procedures. He had made th

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