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by codeulike 1y ago
I dont like Trump but I'm interested in the idea of what technology we want our politicians to use if we actually want them to be functional teams. This seems like a topic that might be good to talk about on HN.
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The whole world had to shift online with about 2 weeks notice, so I'll forgive them that. At the time I was kind of impressed to be honest that red tape didn't bring the govt machinery to a halt and that they were actually able to
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by codeulike 1y ago
Yes you are right and these people probably are crooks. But in principle I think politicans should be able to have private conversations. These used to happen in literal back rooms but these days everyone is geographically spread out and th
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by codeulike 1y ago
You are right, but I'd also say that high security brings a lot of friction that slows down decision making. Irrespective of Trump and his friends (whom I dont like) as a point of principle I think world leaders have to choose between
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by codeulike 1y ago
Not a fan of the Trump administration but I imagine the official pentagon communications systems must be extremely clunky and annoying, and about 20 years behind civilian tech. During the UK Covid-19 enquiry into gov decision making at that
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This 'single line of code' headline trend is dumb. Of course a single line of code can fuck everything up, code is complicated and thats how it works. Its not knitting.
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Well that may be. But I'm talking more about differences between 2003 and now. Regardless of cancel culture etc, there is a physical possibility of reply/response now, that did not exist in 2003. Perhaps the two things are related
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Perhaps it was more possible to share jokes in 2003 than it is now Its much more possible for people who are the target of jokes to reply now, compared to pre-social-media 2003
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On the South Bank in London, physical advertising (posters/billboards etc) is banned and it makes it a much nicer place to hang out
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by codeulike 1y ago
Daniel Dennet had a good few paragraphs about this in Consciousness Explained - the Turing Test is supposed to be challenging/adversarial. The example Dennett gave was telling the AI a joke and then asking it to reflect on and explain
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"nearly every problem these days is a synchronisation problem" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434239
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They are still going! Recent album 'Book' is brilliant. Heres a fan video made using Google Sheets for final track of Book - Less Than One https://youtu.be/PP5bnfkQevo If you know the song, you'll understand
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by codeulike 1y ago
Thats true, in recent years its been less of a disaster with lots of good csv libraries for various languages. In the 90s csv was a constant footgun, perhaps thats why they went crazy and came up with XML
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by codeulike 1y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot - nearly every problem these days is a synchronisation problem. You're regularly downloading something from an API? Thats a sync. You've got a distributed database? Sync problem. Cache Inva
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by codeulike 2y ago
This is a pretty good test, how long does it take an AI to write a proper pacman clone, and how much prompting. All of these quick efforts look dismal. So how long would it take? 2 days and a lot of back and forth, something like that? The
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by codeulike 2y ago
Its easy to get started, but modifying one made by someone else? You've got to really think like a programmer.
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by codeulike 2y ago
Someone builds an access database and it works for a bit but then they leave and no-one else knows how it works so they start exporting the data to excel instead. Access is all about restrictions (the form has these fields; the data is stru
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by codeulike 2y ago
The Emperors New Mind - Roger Penrose - published 1989 Shadows Of The Mind - Roger Penrose - published 1994 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Lucas_argument
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by codeulike 2y ago
Thats fascinating. Wolf Hall has a lot about Thomas Moore in it ... I should note Wolf Hall is essentially fiction but largely based on things that did happen - I guess you can view it as "lets imagine how the story of Henry VIII would
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by codeulike 2y ago
Yes I also feel some context would help.
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by codeulike 2y ago
Why can't HNers remember to read the article? There's actually some quite suprising stuff in that article, e.g. some cultures have earlier childhood memories than others, and there's some interesting suggestions as to why t
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by codeulike 2y ago
researchers have long puzzled over our inability to recall events before two or three years of age
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vegetative electron microscopy
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Its almost like a Model of Language, but very Large
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Wait, so the trick is they reach into the context and basically switch '</think>' with 'wait' and that makes it carry on thinking?
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by codeulike 2y ago
Oh yes definitely. But its fascinating because its looking back at the dawn of a completely new thing in the world, and how hard it was for people to see where it was going to go. Interestingly if you look back at Alan Turing's writing
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by codeulike 2y ago
There are similar statements from other people in the computing field around that time https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/predictive-text-dar... Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the naturalist) who was head of the
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by codeulike 2y ago
I clicked on this because of the crazy title but its actually a really inisghtful article, e.g. "Conversely, there are people with commitment issues; they want to experiment non-stop and thus have no faith in robustness." ... li
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True, perhaps if we call EUV Lithography the most complicated fabricator machine that actually makes something. Whereas LHC is a scientific experiment.
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Fair enough, I can see it was a team effort. But its still interesting that all that work has focused on one place without leaking and it now has global strategic importance. And being the last one standing must mean something - good at neg

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