salutis

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by salutis 14d ago
"I was interviewed for a job as a software developer last week and they asked me to draw a picture of a pelican riding a bicycle. Aced it, got the job as a senior software engineer." That is the best joke I have heard this year.
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by salutis 19d ago
Not sure about "nonsensical calculation", but our brains perform computation (read: they transform information). In fact, that is what the brains are for (see: biology 101). As for mathematics, I am with Galileo: it is the langu
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by salutis 24d ago
+1 I loved Seductive Poison and have it on my list to re-read.
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by salutis 29d ago
> I've never really understood the obsession with heavily processed "glop" like Huel and stuff [...] I've never really understood the obsession with one particular kind of food being "the true food". > Wh
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by salutis 2mo ago
I am going through the same struggle but with software development.
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ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief(veganfta.com)
37 points by salutis 2mo ago|67 comments
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by salutis 2mo ago
Check out Luanti. My son pulled off his own multiplayer game, by mixing some existing mods and writing a pinch of Lua. He is not into programming, and he did not even use LLM, do it was probably not all that hard. And the result was impr
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by salutis 2mo ago
This is incorrect. An undecidable problem is one for which no algorithm can compute the correct result for every given instance. Probabilistic classical computation is irrelevant here.
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by salutis 3mo ago
Thank you! That was a (bad) typo. You are right, of course.
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by salutis 3mo ago
That is not how averages work. By definition of mean, perhaps.
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by salutis 3mo ago
Please do not spread lies. "obsolete dinosaur who hasn't written a line of code in decades" The most recent code change in Emacs by RMS was on 2026-04-22 (0fb9d096e38), so ~3 months ago. He can write complex code (without AI
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I think they are lying to you [video](youtube.com)
90 points by salutis 3mo ago|59 comments
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by salutis 4mo ago
I left Apple Music over this. My albums would keep quietly disappearing. I spent hours on the phone with their support, and despite their promises, nothing ever changed. I left Apple Music, and then all of their cloud services as well. Toda
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by salutis 4mo ago
But there is no dichotomy, is there? Good code is code that solves the problem well. Today and sustainably into the future. What else would "good code" even mean in general context?
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Happy Towel Day HN(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by salutis 4mo ago|0 comments
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Addressing Some AI Fake News [video](youtube.com)
2 points by salutis 4mo ago|1 comments
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by salutis 4mo ago
The "other side" of the AI craze.
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Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2(nature.com)
1 points by salutis 6mo ago|0 comments
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Mathematics in the Library of Babel(daniellitt.com)
2 points by salutis 7mo ago|0 comments
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by salutis 8mo ago
This is incorrect reasoning. Science is advancing. It is like saying we should not listen to physicists because "Didn't those physicists gave us the original heliocentric system?"
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Festivus(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by salutis 9mo ago|1 comments
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by salutis 9mo ago
No, that is plain old recursion. Dynamic programming is recursive programming with a twist. The twist is that identical sub-problems are short-circuited with memoization.
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by salutis 9mo ago
> Coding isn’t creative, it isn’t sexy, [...] Nonsense. Coding is creative the same way mathematics is. > Beautiful architecture, perfect tests, elegant abstractions those things feel deeply rewarding to the person who wrote them [..
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by salutis 10mo ago
For me, Emacs on Mac OS is not all that stable. I see a freeze about twice a month, which is not "very rarely" in my book. It also leaks memory, albeit now (in the upcoming version) less so. (Disclaimer: I am a heavy user and c
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FSF40 Hackathon(fsf.org)
120 points by salutis 11mo ago|3 comments
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by salutis 11mo ago
Fennel (Lisp): (table.concat [:highlighted :primary (if discount :on-sale)] " ")
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by salutis 1y ago
Psychology is stuck in pre-Galilean era. Even if it studies "properties of thought", as you put it, it does so without formal basis, let alone understanding from first principles. As Chomsky said, about psychology and the like,
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Age verification doesn’t work(pornbiz.com)
134 points by salutis 1y ago|164 comments
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by salutis 1y ago
Also Fennel, both implicitly and explicitly with `tail!`. Source: https://fennel-lang.org/reference#tail
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by salutis 2y ago
Yes. An artificial neuron, as a mathematical function f, is defined by f(x) = g(wx + b) where x is the input, w is the weight, b is the bias, and g is some non-linear activation function. Is that "good old linear regression followed

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