WCSTombs

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by WCSTombs 4d ago
It's a clumsily made point, but I think the gist is that the letter asks AI to align to a certain ideal vision of the field of math, that the math community itself is not well aligned to. I don't think the article makes this point
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by WCSTombs 6d ago
(2025).
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by WCSTombs 6d ago
If it primarily targets infinite scrolling and autoplaying videos, those are straight-up dark patterns, and having less of them is good in my opinion. That said, I have no idea how likely any of this is to withstand the inevitable lawsuits.
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by WCSTombs 6d ago
(2025). This is by far the most perplexing part of this article for me: > People at Git has started to work on a proposal to make the Rust programming language mandatory. I don't like Rust and, above all, I don't like its comm
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by WCSTombs 9d ago
Okay, but I fail to see how this eventuality results in the end of ads. Owners of websites, at least the popular ones, won't stop running ads just because they don't strictly need to. We've seen this play out repeatedly with
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by WCSTombs 9d ago
Please don't filter your writing through AI or use it to revise your writing. Learn to write well in your own words. Leaning on AI will make you a worse writer, not a better one. Revision is an integral part of the writing process. I w
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by WCSTombs 9d ago
> I love building startups, and they love writing code. For me, building projects is a way to make money. For them, programming is art. At its very high points programming approaches art, but programming is primarily problem solving, w
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by WCSTombs 9d ago
I think you're describing the the Diátaxis framework [1], which would further split your (1) into fully guided tutorials and discursive explanations. [1]: https://diataxis.fr/
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by WCSTombs 10d ago
This came up before (same topic, different article): https://mostlyobvio.us/2026/02/responsive-code-formatting/ I'll also paraphrase what I said then: I like the idea in principle, but there's a fun
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by WCSTombs 10d ago
I agree that there can be a tendency to conflate the two things: how advanced the technology is, and how aesthetically pleasing what it produces is. It's also important to remember that we're not obligated to like something just b
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by WCSTombs 10d ago
A lot of the stuff you wrote about is not what most of us are talking about when we call it intellectual catfishing or say your intellectual fly is open. For example, I have few problems with people using LLMs in private for purely personal
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by WCSTombs 10d ago
I agree with the sentiment with a small caveat, since IMO good writers don't write the way that they talk. The very simple reason is that you can revise your writing but not your talking. But yeah, I completely agree that using an LLM
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by WCSTombs 11d ago
This is meant as a criticism of the interview rather than a defense of the AI company, but you have to weigh the "brutal candidness" of the interview against the tendency of the LLM to agree with the prompter. A lot of the questio
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by WCSTombs 12d ago
Knuth didn't write SICP, it's by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman.
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by WCSTombs 14d ago
The creator of Omarchy is a pretty controversial figure because of culture war stuff and also a prominent software industry entrepreneur, so it intersects those two other spheres to give it more prominence than it would have otherwise. Pers
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by WCSTombs 14d ago
Yeah, it's the speed-running homework and unchecked potential for misinformation that are really problematic. I agree that if it was only a more efficient and accessible repository of information, it wouldn't be nearly as bad, and
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by WCSTombs 14d ago
If you overly rely on the computer assistance during the learning stage, there are fundamental principles you won't get a firm grasp on, and then you'll be at a disadvantage if you need it later. As someone who did use calculus af
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by WCSTombs 14d ago
Here's another (non-paywalled) source for this news: https://abcnews.com/Technology/new-york-city-public-schools-... The ban goes through eighth grade, and in high school apparently there's a specific AI lite
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by WCSTombs 17d ago
I recall the Linux kernel uses "Assisted-by" lines or something like that, which sounds about right.
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by WCSTombs 17d ago
> In my view, adding an LLM as co-author gives you a way for you to shirk responsibility for mistakes – even if a little bit. You can say, oops sorry this happened because it did its thing and it was not careful. And that is exactly the
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by WCSTombs 20d ago
> Its final speed didn’t just break the sound barrier. It soared well over the 767 mph threshold at a staggering 776 mph. Was Popular Science always this bad? Anyway, this looks like quite a feat of engineering. Hats off!
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by WCSTombs 20d ago
I'm a little confused. Is this independent research, an expository piece on the state of the art, or something else entirely? The title sounds like an expository piece, but the document itself looks more like "something else"
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by WCSTombs 20d ago
While I have a distaste for most things AI-generated, the proposition that "AI-assisted [writing, art, ...] is its own medium" is probably something I can accept, in that I think it's just factually correct. However, that doe
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by WCSTombs 20d ago
> they are one of the many genAI companies who basically view people with a kind of contempt. It's absolutely this, and they're not even hiding it. It's everywhere in their public presence. - Their now-retired marketing
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by WCSTombs 20d ago
They're saying the opposite, no?
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by WCSTombs 21d ago
Good writing is rewriting. That said, in my experience the hardest part is writing the first draft, i.e., just getting something down at all. So do whatever you need to do to get your own thoughts on the page (except Claude, obviously), and
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by WCSTombs 23d ago
This analogy makes no sense to me. Being a good manager requires strong interpersonal skills. "Managing" your team of agents does not make you a leader.
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by WCSTombs 23d ago
Interesting essay! Yeah, I think there's some truth to the premise. As it becomes cheaper and cheaper to exploit predictable patterns, a person's value-add needs to include unpredictability. That's a necessary and not a suffi
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by WCSTombs 24d ago
In December 2002, I had studied programming for one semester. I was experienced enough to have read and mostly understood Dijkstra's original essay (and probably had), but not to fully grasp its import. That's all to say, there&#x
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by WCSTombs 25d ago
Keep at it!

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