darkstarsys

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by darkstarsys 5d ago
Yes. I find it really interesting to consider what the machines do and will think of as intrinsically interesting to them. Will they develop their own theories of beauty, mathematical and otherwise?
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by darkstarsys 24d ago
Brynjolfsson: an AI “job apocalypse” is unlikely. Also Brynjolfsson: It will likely impact entry-level jobs. There are huge implications for business and the economy, including some increases in living standards, but also, potentially, job
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by darkstarsys 28d ago
Yeah, came here to see if anyone still remembers lmgtfy. Back to the future, I guess!
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by darkstarsys 1mo ago
Sorry, this article's argument just doesn't hold water. Yes, we want Claude to write "the best text" and having its word choice even very slightly varied could arguably be construed as "not the best." But &quot
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by darkstarsys 1mo ago
If I'm any example, I'm on the other side. I got into computers in the '70s: plotter art, BASIC, then Z-80s, forth, PDP11s, Amigas and so to now with GPUs and supercomputers and visualization. I'm recently retired and ha
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by darkstarsys 1mo ago
If you think LLMs can't "jump," watch Terence Tao engage with ChatGPT to try to understand the intellectual leaps achieved by Claude Fable 5 in finding a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture https://chatgpt.co
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by darkstarsys 1mo ago
Yes, emphatically! I wouldn't be where I am today without tools like Emacs and Linux. This is why I created [pcons]( https://pcons.org ) because software build tools (like all dev tools) need to be open, transparent, hackable
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by darkstarsys 2mo ago
Exactly the opposite for me. I've gotten into a whirlwind of productivity, working through my lifetime backlog of "somebody out to do thing X" — now I'm doing ALL of them (all open source naturally), plus parametric 3d p
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by darkstarsys 2mo ago
The enshittification begins.
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by darkstarsys 2mo ago
Exactly the same thing happened when Google appeared on the scene. (Not that this makes it any better!)
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by darkstarsys 2mo ago
Indeed. Perhaps my article here will be of interest to some: https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/ai-math-as-humanities/
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by darkstarsys 2mo ago
See also my log-scale timeline of the universe — hand-curated rather than a giant import, and I hope also a bit nicer/simpler UI: https://deep-timeline.org
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by darkstarsys 3mo ago
Owners of capital, yes, but also owners of the means of production (which now means AI companies). See https://blog.oberbrunner.com/blog/ai-risks-taxonomy/#economi...
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by darkstarsys 4mo ago
I'm on my third Surface Pro (an 11 this time) and basically love it. Tablet form factor, lightweight, multitouch, with a real desktop OS (I mean not ipad's iOS). Decent battery life. True, it's not perfect: slow to wake, the
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by darkstarsys 4mo ago
What happens to humanity when AIs are better at being human than most humans? (More patient, more empathetic even if it's simulated empathy, more knowledgeable)
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by darkstarsys 4mo ago
I spend a lot of time doing this too -- cutting up band rehearsal tapes into songs and exporting all. As weird as Audacity's UI is, I haven't found anything better than it at this.
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by darkstarsys 4mo ago
Absolutely gorgeous as an art piece.
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by darkstarsys 4mo ago
I'm newly mostly-retired as a VFX software developer & CTO. I'm writing about AI, climate change and more in my blog, https://oberbrunner.com , running Long Now Boston ( https://longnowboston.org ) to prom
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by darkstarsys 4mo ago
I'm mostly retired from a lifetime as a graphics programmer and CTO, and now I'm working through my lifetime of fun backlog projects. https://pcons.org , https://deep-timeline.org , https://pelorus
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
As a heavy AI-assisted open source code creator (and someone with 40+ years of dev experience), this seems wrong-headed to me. I think it is an excellent policy, as they say, to "value contributors over their contributions," but t
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Show HN: Pcons: new software build tool in Python, inspired by SCons and CMake(github.com)
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
But what about copyright? Asking for a friend.
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
I hate CMake as much as anyone, but I actually did something about it: https://github.com/DarkStarSystems/pcons . As one of the original developers of SCons, I tried to get the best parts of SCons and CMake into a simpl
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
I find correction is rarely necessary with Opus 4.6. Definitely not so much that "it's not really the LLM writing it anymore." More like it's the author and I'm the editor (in this limited case -- of course architec
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
I can't agree here. https://pelorus-nav.com/ (one of my side projects) is 95-98% written by Claude Opus 4.6, all in very nice typescript which I carefully review and correct, and use good prompting and context hygiene
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
This post is excellent, and accurately describes my experience writing pcons (pcons.org) as a side project. I was one of the original developers of SCons and have wanted to rebuild it better for more than a decade. All the same roadblocks M
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
I agree with this article, and I think it goes further than astrophysics or even physics. As agentic LLMs are starting to prove long-standing open mathematical conjectures and even invent new ones, I fear we may reach a point in mathematica
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by darkstarsys 5mo ago
Yes, and this is an incredibly powerful idea. Running fluid flow simulations inside an optimization loop (monte carlo + gradient descent) revolutionized aircraft design, nuclear simulations and geophysics. When the tool being called update
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by darkstarsys 6mo ago
straight and elpaca etc. are just as vulnerable. Maybe more so.
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by darkstarsys 7mo ago
I've been fascinated by elevator algorithms since visiting NYC as a kid. The interesting stuff starts to happen when you account for popular floors, people going to work, coming home at the end of the day, dog-walking times, subway arr

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