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by zwkrt 4y ago
There was a breakdown recently that I can't find that showed that FTX's corporate structure was at least an order of magnitude more complex than Lehman Bro's at the time of it's collapse. EDIT: here's the diagrams (
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by zwkrt 4y ago
20 questions was a solved problem long before “AI”. It’s just a kind of binary search. These little pocket devices would blow my mind as a kid https://duckduckgo.com/?q=20+questions+electronic&iax=images...
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Sure. So consciousness is maybe very loosely the ability for an entity to model and interact with its surroundings. On the low end we have a rock. It is the product of its surroundings and therefore you could say it has some kind of model,
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by zwkrt 4y ago
As in what were my priors and what is the threshold I have for credence in such an idea? I don’t think it’s like that. It’s a story. A fiction. It happens to be a recursive fiction, in the sense that it makes statements about what kind of t
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Not GP, but I have a similar experience. The Tao Te Ching presents a kind of supreme entity which is the unity underpinning all things. It questions dichotomy and difference and scarcity and control, as these things are only possible in a w
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Any technology (physical, social, philosophical) we create has the ability to wreak havoc on equilibrium (natural, societal, or otherwise). We are fundamentally unequipped to restore equilibrium because that process takes the unwilling part
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by zwkrt 4y ago
There was a headline that made it to the top of HN just last week criticizing the fact that the NYT takes an overly critical viewpoint on tech. Most commenters seemed to agree. I’m not overly surprised, your take is the correct one: “how co
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by zwkrt 4y ago
That link is a very high quality write up. I’m having a hard time understanding how your “haystack compilation” would work. I get the desire to be able to efficiently run many regexes on the same large file, but how could you optimize the f
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by zwkrt 4y ago
In the author’s algorithm there is no two branches. The following diagram is an undo tree where we made change B, went back to A, then made C C ——— now / —— A \ B But time doesn’t branch, so our history shou
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Yes but the article is specially calling out that using an undo tree is something no one wants.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
They do organize the worlds data. They organize it to best ensure that advertisements displayed next to the data are the most likely to affect the user on the site. They organize it at the request of corporations and governments. They organ
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Well to be fair the article is more of a rant than it is an RFC.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Yes. Furthermore I am not really even sure what the motivation was in the first place. I have found generators to be most useful in my career in exactly one circumstance--when I want to abstract some complicated batching, filtering, or exit
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by zwkrt 4y ago
plastic are like cigarette butts. They get used one time for someone’s slight convenience and then litter the landscape for years.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Mosty dequeues are implemented under the hood with arrays. A linked list usually requires a heap allocation for each element. This is speaking in generalities though, since you could have an “alternatively implemented dequeue or a linked li
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I found that season two had the same problem that a lot of nexflix-style shows run into. The first season was a heavily crafted narrative of interconnected stories. I remember when I first watched it I described it as a puzzle box. It was a
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by zwkrt 4y ago
You bring up a good point. I really don't know anyone in my personal/work life who I think has great taste but poor ability to execute. This includes not only tech but music, interior design, cooking, conversation, anything. I def
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Some photography wisdom: * To take more interesting photographs, put yourself in more interesting places * The best zoom lens is a good pair of sneakers * The best camera is the one you have with you * It’s easy to delete extra pi
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Completely agree, although I don't think that people need to be better creative writers to be better at creating narrative arcs. For work, your narrative arc is normally solved if you are understanding (1) the relationship between you
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Well if you want to get rid of BGP then it probably doesn't make sense to talk about ASNs since BGP is a way to connect ASNs... That being said, it does seem very pie-in-the-sky to imagine the entire global internet using decentralized
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by zwkrt 4y ago
You’re not wrong, I just feel like the way the post was written it was a little bit disingenuous of the author not to at least include the series and discuss it. They make 355/113 seem mysterious, or that it might point to a new series
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by zwkrt 4y ago
“As of yet undiscovered” Well by the author, maybe. [1] I had to do some more digging on the sequence stated by the author of that post. The idea is to construct a continued fraction, always choosing the next largest denominator you can tha
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by zwkrt 4y ago
My first experience with the term “digital gardening” was in this adult swim commercial for “For Profit Online University”. In that context digital gardeners were basically people given jobs on Mechanical Turk. Ive used the term with my fri
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I don’t personally think that meetings would be the same without any smiles.
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couterpoint: users don't care if your page is SPA. They care about opening new tabs.
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Right. In a sense even when planning for the future we are living 'in the present' since we aren't actually taking a time machine to the future but instead looking at present circumstances and planning some future change that
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trees are graphs, so there is no problem!
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by zwkrt 4y ago
wait until you hear about the World Series.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I feel exactly the same way. I like the idea in theory, but in practice my code files have too many repeating common characters for a two-letter jump to be useful. The only thing that this extension offers that vim's `/` doesn&#x2
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The comments in the video are very “well actually”, but the host Eddie Izard is primarily an entertainer and comic. I’m not surprised he has a hard time, it was a farce from the beginning. As an aside, he toured Europe doing stand up comedy

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