zoogeny

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by zoogeny 3y ago
More proof that there are no new ideas under the sun! It is interesting to me that they chose the CMB as well. Although, looking at the Wikipedia synopsis it seems to speculate: "This discovery suggested the possibility of life before
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've been thinking recently (in part inspired by Penrose and other recursive universe theories): what if we can effect the trajectory of this current universe such that the next universe that is created has definable properties. As a h
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've been investigating this and I wonder if the combination of Elixir and Nx/Axon might be a good fit for architectures like NVIDIA Grace Hopper where there is a mix of CPU and GPU.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is a good point that the final sentence could be taken negatively. I wasn't trying to determine why any individual might choose such a path. I was thinking about the population of programmers and considering that the stereotypical t
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Don't try to maintain 'superiority' by withholding information. This is a lesson I learned and it now bothers me to no end if it ever happens to me. When decisions are made behind closed doors and then commands rain down
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is interesting to think that your definition of a "a dormitory for scientists with free room and board, as long as they do scientific research." is kinda-sorta what I think of when I consider the Institute for Advanced Study. I
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I thought Open Source Erlang is Apache 2.0 based on the first paragraph on the Erlang faq page [1]: "You can use Open Source Erlang to build commercial products without having to pay royalties or licence fees to Ericsson. Open Source E
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think you are right and wrong. I've watched 3 or 4 videos of Joe Armstrong on YouTube this week (he seemed to show up a lot at Strange Loop). He talks a lot about concurrency for its own sake. However, you are right that he also
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I cant't comment directly on whether or not he was or wasn't actually trying to start a cult, but I am interested in cults in general (and any kind of esoteric/occult stuff) so I devoured a lot of content related to this. I m
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have no trouble understanding the concepts , its the nomenclature that is different. It is the same with Haskell or other niche languages - once you are familiar with the terminology then you start to feel comfortable. However, I just co
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I believe José deserves a lot of credit. For example, the Elixir Conference looks well-produced. No doubt there is a large team behind that, but it is obvious his influence guides that process. I'm particularly thinking of the LiveNati
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Can you suggest one or two recommendations? Maybe one that surprised you and one that lived up to the hype?
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Who else has an opportunity to spend 12+ hours a day learning something for years? With no other obligations or responsibilities? Totally tangential, but this prison article reminded me of a short story by Cory Doctorow about a monaste
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Liveview is incredibly straightforward. I don't agree. One of the keynotes from the 2023 ElixirConf was Chris McCord (one of the principle developers of LiveView) describing how it is almost 1.0 [1]. One thing that made me laugh
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have been watching Elixir YouTube videos pretty much every day for the last few weeks. I guess there was an Elixir conference recently and after I watched a couple, YouTube has been sending me a consistent stream of Elixir content. I real
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have been watching a Twitch streamer Tsoding for a while now. Recently he ported a very simple chat client (like a hello, world! chat app) from Go to Rust [1]. Some impressions I have: * I was surprised how naturally and easily porting th
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I can see a specific argument you are making as something along the lines of, just because some people are ok with their content being used by large corporations to train their for-profit LLMs doesn't mean it should be ok for those com
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by zoogeny 3y ago
To add to this, indemnification of this type is pretty standard in sensitive fields. One example I recall was closed captioning providers. If they caption some content incorrectly in a way that exposes their customers to legal action they g
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Sure, everything matters. But some things matter more than others. If my internet fails for an afternoon that seems to matter less than if my wedding is a catastrophe. If my video game crashes that seems to matter less than a plane crash. W
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is fair to misunderstand what I was saying since all things are ambiguous. Without context I could see this being interpreted as permission for people to be lazy, incautious or even negligent. But I urge you to consider the other side of
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by zoogeny 3y ago
You can definitely take the comment in the worst way possible if you desire. This was in the early 2000s in the games industry. I'm not sure if you are familiar with that culture, but it was a time when the engineers were working 12+ h
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This reminds me of a colleague I had that would often say "we aren't making air-traffic control systems here". The implication being that no lives were on the line if we made a mistake. This was when I was making games but it
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by zoogeny 3y ago
On the aspect of empathy, I really liked the cofounders of the company. They were the best kind of people. When I say that others wanted control, it actually wasn't the cofounders, they were honestly committed to getting the entire com
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The intro of that video hit hard and hurt. I have literally been in that position where I built the analytics page, which marketing asked for, and I can see the analytics for the analytics and no one has even checked the page. And so I chim
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by zoogeny 3y ago
When I got my first real programming job at a games company in the early 2000s, the Technical Director of the project once gave me some advice: if the number of things you are working with is on the order of 10,000 then don't bother op
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> we will still have to pick winners and losers Why would we do that? Surely there is an AI model that can do it for us.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
A common trope in movies is parents living vicariously through their children. Like the parents that pressure their kids to go to medical school even though the kid wants to be an artist. Or the parent who forces their kid in sports and end
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The sources are urls to the cited page (e.g. stackoverflow.com, pkg.go.dev). In the side-bar next to the answer is a more standard search-result style link list with pulled quotes from the pages (like a Google search). I didn't click e
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I did not have custom instructions for either assistant. You can see the full conversation logs which I posted as a reply to another comment.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I don't think "correct" is the right word since these were open ended systems design type questions. There are many ways to accomplish the same task. I also spent about 20 minutes on this which is why I mentioned this is a fi

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