nathan_compton

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by nathan_compton 22d ago
Why not all of them, you know?
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by nathan_compton 22d ago
I've got a PhD in Physics and I have to say that the quality of most "self published" physics is very low, which probably explains why people would not accept a self-declared PhD.
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by nathan_compton 24d ago
Honestly, the best thing about LLMs is that they can write the fucking Python code for me. Dismal language, 0/10. You know we live in a fallen world because R4RS existed when JS was invented. Can you imagine a world where the browser w
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by nathan_compton 25d ago
Presumably because even if galaxies are just big things, there are probably things in them that do philosophy, play pianos (roughly speaking) and shit post.
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by nathan_compton 26d ago
"It's not possible, everything can be explained by science sooner or later." I'm not sure there is a good philosophical reason to believe this. I think something like it is certainly true, but its not entirely clear what
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by nathan_compton 26d ago
This response seems disingenuous. It was never implied it was ok to have exploits in the compiled software, only that the blast radius is smaller if the compiled code is also sandboxed.
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by nathan_compton 26d ago
Give me an example.
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by nathan_compton 28d ago
I don't know. It happened in college when I got involved in an organized, highly athletic, sport. Never stopped. I guess six months wouldn't be a bad number to put on it. Exercise feels good to me. I think it felt good immediately
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by nathan_compton 29d ago
> It had nothing to do with motivation, but making exercise a part of my day like brushing my teeth. So it isn't about discipline either, it's about habits? I'm like you. Routine exercise for the last 25 years or so. I fee
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
Large orbitals like this approach the classical limit, I believe.
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
I cannot believe the markdown guy is this deranged.
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
I think you mean progressive pricing in disguise. The problem is that they are also a psychological attack. I believe that we should, generally, as a society, discourage communication in bad faith, and ads very, very easily fall into that c
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
I'm a data scientist, software engineer, etc. I use AI all the time. But when I create something for human consumption, I write it by hand. When someone gives me something written by AI I literally think "I could fire this person
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
I will literally never believe that Meta gives a shit about the future. Their reputation is so far in the toilet from my point of view that it is already in the sewer.
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
Here is some feedback: don't put slop in your readme. It's unreadable.
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
Facebook is a pox on civilization, so one possibility is just firing it into the sun.
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
Pretty sure this isn't what they are teaching at the best business schools.
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
I think the main difference is that radium was new and people have been using psychedelics forever.
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by nathan_compton 1mo ago
> just living in some rural area with limited participation in real life They might say the same thing about your lifestyle. The "reward structure of society" is highly abstract these days, arguably disconnected from "real
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
I think this is more of an example of what arguments you are exposed to. We typically only see the most superficial version of our opponents arguments and we see complex versions of our own. Its one of the simplest kinds of propaganda. &quo
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
I sympathetic to this perspective, as a parent, but also, there are just a lot of kids out there with bad parents. My personal philosophy is that parents have a duty to raise their children but that duty is on behalf of the society into w
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
I can't remember taking a worldwide vote on the subject.
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
Who is the "we" who decided to go with it?
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
Yeah, but it used to be like a good drug and now its like a bad drug.
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
I appreciate the attempt to hide the AI slop style of the documentation, but it still very difficult to read and understand.
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
Yeah. I am a professor and I see a lot of other professors saying they are pivoting to "Teaching AI". I tell them I am pivoting harder to teaching fundamentals because using AI is easy. Its the knowledge which is hard.
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
Not the west, just rich people in the west.
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
I'm an absolute atheist and philosophical nihilist and I have done psychedelics and I've never had a problem with them. Typically find the experiences positive. So we have at least one counter-example.
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
I find Lisp much easier to read than most other languages. It is highly explicit syntax with very little ambiguity, especially if you have a little discipline about macros.
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by nathan_compton 2mo ago
R6RS.

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