williamcotton

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by williamcotton 21d ago
Here's an in-depth explanation with an interactive demo that I made many moons ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20130728183938/williamcotton.com...
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by williamcotton 26d ago
What an utterly unconvincing call to action. You’re not offering a rebuttal, just making another metaphysical claim about “intelligence.” You don’t even attempt to explain what practical distinction your use of the word is supposed to captu
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by williamcotton 26d ago
Most of these arguments are over some metaphysical definition of the word “intelligence”. As per later era Wittgenstein, I prefer to ignore these engagements and focus more on the meaning-as-use approach. What is the use of intelligence? Wh
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by williamcotton 29d ago
Pick up a copy of Crime and Punishment ASAP.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Vivian, the commercial baker, learned a different set of skills. She might have deskilled with regards to hand-rolling dough but she gained new skills related to industrial production. I've made a half-dozen or so DSLs with LLM tools o
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
I settled on starting with a CST using rowan, doing semantic analysis, having an agnostic editor services, exposing both an LSP interface with tower, and a WASM interface (for Monaco in the browser [non-LSP!!]) and having the runtime binary
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Ah, so does the LSP just call out to the Buf binary?
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
I looked at the dependencies and noticed that it wasn’t using an existing Protobuf parser which means they reimplemented the parser from scratch. Perhaps due to a lack of error recovery in the existing implementations? I don’t have the ener
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
At least later-era Wittgenstein would disagree with you.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
It is still in their interest to not report "false or misleading statements that you or others on your behalf make regarding your company." https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/exempt-offeri...
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Sure. So does this diminish the role of Rembrandt? Or is this some semantic black hole you’re drawing us into?
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
There have been plenty of workshops where artists hire assistant painters while maintaining authorship over the works themselves, from Rembrandt to Warhol to Hirst.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
I generally agree and expect this to be the case from a legal perspective. Legal questions of authorship are going to have to be established in terms of doctrines like SSO [0] and AFC [1]. Currently the incredibly sparse caselaw around this
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
It’s pretty boring at this point.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Seems like there is some caselaw that supports your theory based on US Supreme Court rulings in Kyllo v. United States (2001) (thermal imaging), United States v. Jones (2012) (GPS tracking) and Carpenter v. United States (2018) (tracking vi
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
I've been to one EA meetup and it wasn't my thing but this seems nothing like the discussions I had. It's where I found out about GiveDirectly. The biggest issue for me was the AGI/ASI doomerism. But then again, fast-for
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
This is markedly better than the USPTO website, FWIW.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
> but if it gets past the patent officer that debate happens via lawsuit Or an Inter Partes Review!
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Are you after learning or an accredited degree?
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
IP at the margin?
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
Safari is my default browser and it seems to be working just fine!
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
It’s a memorable quote from the movie Kindergarten Cop.
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
So a stringly typed JSON-based DSL without a linter or LSP?
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
> They even wrote a book about how they went about it (not that it speaks to the quality of the API) Wilkinson’s Grammar of Graphics inspired ggplot. The textbook doesn’t even mention ggplot. Shameless plug for my own GoG inspired DSL,
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
Do you mind sharing which ones?
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
Tangentially, > "Add up all US spending on candidates, PACs, lobbying, think tanks, and advocacy organizations – liberal and conservative combined – and we’re still $2 billion short of what we spend on almonds each year." http
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
What about measuring management productivity?
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
Article Title: Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/22/ed-tech-i...
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
So we're getting Rickrolled?

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