prionassembly

6 ms·

1.
by prionassembly 4mo ago
This is a review of sorts I wrote about Accelerando. It discusses the sex stuff to an extent I haven't seen in this thread https://asemic-horizon.com/2025/09/01/sallies/
2.
by prionassembly 2y ago
Is anyone doing something like using LLMs to generate Prolog (or Cyc, or some appropriately complex, brittle knowledge representation GOFAI)?
3.
by prionassembly 2y ago
Every time I think "oh Jean-Yves Girard". Besides being perhaps the logician of note of the 20th century (against considerable "competition"), he's become an important philosopher in the 21st. I think he realizes he
4.
by prionassembly 2y ago
I mean, putting a bullet to someone's head can extirpate a brain tumor they hadn't been alerted to before, while leaving a grateful person owing you kudos. What if?
5.
by prionassembly 2y ago
There's some point in which good faith rules apply, probably even in court (although not decisively). Presumably Redis Labs works with the developer community and, critically, promotes the technology, which adds great value in terms of
6.
by prionassembly 2y ago
Counterexample: Gilles Deleuze's "Empiricism and Subjectivity".
7.
by prionassembly 3y ago
The interesting tidbit here is that congresspeople, both leaders and small fry types, were parroting a line that went "if we don't pass this censorship law, the Supreme Court is going ahead and dropping an even bigger hammer"
8.
by prionassembly 3y ago
I think people are annoyed about the idea of having to know R, Python and Julia. So we stick to our guns with Python even if Julia is possibly better. Heck, if I'm ever learning another language, it's Janet then Rust. Or Type&#x
9.
by prionassembly 3y ago
Do you have physical brightness buttons? Do you have any more gradual transition hacks? Our 2-yr old doesn't have access to phones at all -- except perhaps when he grabs one that's lying around; but then he expects it taken from h
10.
by prionassembly 3y ago
Wait. I have an API key. Is GPT-4 available already?
11.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Not as an engineer, but as some kind of high-ranking advisor, yes. Like the "Chief of Theory" in Don deLilo's Cosmopolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVRpA-_jzV4
12.
by prionassembly 4y ago
PG becoming a Lacanian.
13.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Gitmate (much stronger) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(drink)
14.
by prionassembly 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
15.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Are they comfortable in warmer weather though.
16.
by prionassembly 4y ago
This is exaggeratedly mean. I can sort of correlate this, well, expression, with a political view. State it more crisply.
17.
by prionassembly 4y ago
I think the generic question is how to handle regret.
18.
by prionassembly 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
19.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Eh. If you get ahold of a bucket of true geniuses, best thing you can do is not even give them goals and just feed them until Nobel prize/Manhattan Project level work surfaces. As you go down the scale, crisper and crisper goals are ne
20.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Man, I was expecting constraint linear programming.
21.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Debt is one of those "gradually, then suddenly" things.
22.
by prionassembly 4y ago
I wrote a Python script (it's so shoddy and easy to recreate I won't even share) that will (1) look for definitions as words/expressions between asterisks (2) look for dependencies (words that should be defined beforehand) an
23.
by prionassembly 4y ago
A toast to dang's health.
24.
by prionassembly 4y ago
openseas.com
25.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Someone else will be able to give a scientific explanation, but the sun is just different at heights. I used to have famiy both in La Paz and Quito and just 15 days in one of those places -- dressed for cold --made me as brown as two months
26.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Wolfram, Taleb,...
27.
by prionassembly 4y ago
How can I learn to build tensegrity sculptures? Is it something impossible to do without schooling or master-apprenticeship?
28.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Sound is inherently air in motion. - The humidity in air changes its density and therefore the transmission of wiggly energy. Temperature probably does too, and there's always Doppler effects from running across the house. - I tried
29.
by prionassembly 4y ago
We're thriving, just in a different work/life balance proposition. Of course, sterilizing entry-level engineers would lead to much higher overall productivity + zuckerbucks for shareholders. Maybe we need to have that conversati
30.
by prionassembly 4y ago
Deming statistics are a cargo cult. Try running some (Monte Carlo style) simulations; I did these many moons ago and they don't work at all.

More ›