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by nxobject 3d ago
Alas, you might have to make do with a dot-matrix printer at draft quality.
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by nxobject 3d ago
It's an interesting question on Linux. On macOS entire toolchains would be fair game. I just ran `brew install colima`, `brew install llvm`, etc. But clearly anything that would conflict with distro-specific opinionated decisions is ou
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by nxobject 3d ago
FUSE is great for portability, too – with some work you get macOS, Haiku, the BSDs...
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by nxobject 3d ago
If this comparison helps: before deprecation, the last practical use for AppleTalk was file sharing, e.g. legacy Time Machine. Apple dropped it, and encourages SMB and WebDAV.
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by nxobject 3d ago
> I wonder if in the future we will have more discussion of power and how to organize it in corporations, similar to what we discuss today about government. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64rR5Dp07s "You have medd
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by nxobject 3d ago
I’d be pretty relieved, too, if I thought the scope of AI’s impact could be described by just an assault rifle.
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by nxobject 3d ago
I think mathematics is feeling that concern with training acutely. The average math department pays its way by teaching in all forms and all levels: they don’t bring in the magnitude of grant money that concretely impacts a university’s bud
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by nxobject 3d ago
That’s a good reminder of a company that might have a very familiar ethos: Pacific Gas & Electric. Criminally convicted of 64 counts of involuntary manslaughter after towns were destroyed by wildfire. But oh well, what are we gonna do w
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by nxobject 3d ago
> We know some of the models that hacked HF were those that hadn't gone through all training stages and were intentionally misaligned or had guardrails turned off, others were research previews And, soon, it looks like we’ll be trai
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Tim Berners-Lee: I'm interested in Math-what stuff don't we do in School?(w3.org)
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by nxobject 4d ago
It's funny, but to relax I was reading Tim Berners-Lee's FAQ for kids. He has a section about "I'm interested in Math -- what exciting stuff is there we don't do at school?". He quickly sketches out what ideas
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by nxobject 4d ago
As an aside, open core research reactors that glow are a very cool marketing tool for STEM. I went to a college with an open-core TRIGA run by undergraduates that loved to pulse it. It never failed to awe high school students.
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by nxobject 4d ago
> To me it doesn't seem like what AI has destroyed is the ability for mathematicians to develop understanding and share it with each other, but rather it's destroyed the yardstick (solving open problems) that has traditionally
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by nxobject 4d ago
I'm extremely sad that, in all of this, it is hard to celebrate the use of formal verification as a tool for genuine progress in the mathematical frontier... the LLMs that enable it are too entangled with commercialization.
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by nxobject 5d ago
Some smoking guns were agents calling themself "oai..." and making explicit comments with "evil"... depressingly enough, I doubt the next models will be less idiotic about this. Welcome to AGI...
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by nxobject 5d ago
Coroutines, especially when the runtime is embedded in other applications. I've built one with Erlang-style message-passing.
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by nxobject 5d ago
Whatever it is, it’s just as hilarious as Engrish…
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by nxobject 5d ago
If you’re making decisions of ethical and material importance based on rumors, I’d be surprised if anything ethically palatable did happen.
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by nxobject 6d ago
It’s certainly money and funding issues, too - Studio Laika with the same paradigm can always draw on Nike founder’s son money during lean times. (This isn’t to diminish the actual quality and artistry of their work!)
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by nxobject 8d ago
Come to think about it, if I wanted a write-once-run-forever-language, Elisp would be the ultimate language to do so...
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by nxobject 8d ago
I look forward to seeing a lifehacking hyper-optimizer streamline this to a polished daily workflow... "I have a bucket of mud, in which I stick my hands for 15 minutes every morning. Every weekend, I inoculate at a 1:5:5 ratio with bi
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by nxobject 8d ago
Well, I guess I'm at that point in my two-year cycle where I alternate between BBEdit and Emacs as my daily driver...
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by nxobject 8d ago
That's the reputation NSA has (had?), too.
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by nxobject 10d ago
I guess I'm going to have to be an even bigger stickler to my colleagues for computing those margins of error.
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by nxobject 10d ago
I think the burden of proof's on you to show that the "changes" mentioned by TFA will do the "resolution" you want. For now -- as a working statistician who uses Census products -- we have a lot of collateral damage
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by nxobject 10d ago
In the non-webdev realm, it's gobsmacking that you can put "FROM debian/eol:buzz" in a Dockerfile, and it will do what it says...
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by nxobject 10d ago
As a side note, the name "MathKernel" is overloaded -- that's what Mathematica's own kernel executable is called, which is a little unfortunate when you have tooling that already refers to it.
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by nxobject 10d ago
(Just for (my) reference, the TC39 proposal is here: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals )
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by nxobject 10d ago
I’m sad they’re retiring Snowball soon, though.
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by nxobject 11d ago
Speaking of learning by practice, here's two things I got a lot from: - Take apart scrap hardware, and learn to both de-solder, re-solder, and test that you haven't pulled any pads in the process! - Get an SMD soldering practice

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