worldthruword

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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   > deep technical connection to the mental model of what is being built. /wayfinder: Nothing is too big to plan anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lL98Pj90o The /wayfinder Demo https://www.yout
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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   Is Mojo programming language useful in the age of AI?
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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   Analogy: Textual version of Material Design from Google. Standardization in important information rich environment is good. Standardization for art is not good. We should not mix these two distinct scenarios. Or maybe I am old.
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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   "Ask not what your Company can do for you —ask what you can do for your Company". - Anthropic CEO.
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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   I think Threads could have been done in Elixir.
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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   I have escaped the Matrix [bits and bytes world]; But entered the Gastrics (juice) [ie flesh and bones world]
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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   Greatness cannot be planned.
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   by worldthruword 1mo ago

   CrowdStrike Outage means we need better Windows.
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   by worldthruword 2mo ago

   I think Peter Schiff has been beating the drumbeats of collapse since 2008. But now on the other hand, we have a rising power China trying overthrow the current system which will accelerate the process. China wasn't in that position in
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    To see the steelman position explained properly, I would suggest to follow macro guy Luke Gromen both on twitter and on YouTube.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    I have two observations : We have so much compute power sitting idle, finally with the help of AI we can get what we need for solving personal problems. Most of the time, our problems require emphemeral solutions. e.g. building a complaint
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Your brain is also self-reflective. It can from the inside change its expectations. Reaching for the metaphor of evolved prediction machine implies you can't train in any other way, but you can. Let's say society collectively deci
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    I think Reality is so big, you can superimpose any Quality (Absurdism, Discordianism, Hedonism, Lovecraftian Horror, Bhakti Devotion, Theatre metaphors, Infinite Games metaphors, etc). The way I think is : all these qualities are of a subse
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Lazy evaluation would save on money. Branch prediction would save on wait times. In places electricity can shut down, lazy evaluation would be preferable to make it work longer on limited battery.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Branch prediction or Floor prediction. If we know the traffic pattern from past data, we can optimize for it.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Trisolarans had advanced technology which means they knew about probability. Probability immediately implies Lying and the two types of scientific error we have. ie false positives and false negatives
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Distress sounds like "Distributed Solipsism".
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    >> Chemists published freely until dyes started being worth money, and then the interesting work moved into company labs and stopped coming out. I think this also makes the case for Industrial Espionage
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    If innerX and outerX are opposite, hey that is significant. If innerX and outerX are same, I told you so, its obvious. Psychoanalysis in a nutshell.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Grass is greener on the other side. Hegemony on the other side of hemisphere is greener or benevolent.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Tulsi said US operates lot of biolabs outside US so as to avoid US regulations.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-ambass...
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Ukr is attacking Retailers (Wildberries) in Russia because Russia helps Iran attack Amazon (US retailer) Data centers in the Gulf.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    > even when the claims aren't based on anything and are possibly wrong. Are you saying Claude is engaging in Rhetorics because the RL data generated by humans were influenced more by it and persuasion rather than actual logic or rea
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    So it seems you are in favour of Right-sizing.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    You can ask AI to read it. I do the same with HN comments as well.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    This is just like any extreme engineering domain. I am okay with occasional delays in Flights, as long as it takes me from X to Y in 10hrs vs months.
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    > First, the people who work at Patreon are special, beautiful humans, through and through. The energy that our team has for Patreon’s mission is a force of nature. So many wonderful humans are going to lose their jobs today in an especi
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    I think MS devs don't even use their windows OS. How do I know this? Because every week my favourite applications list gets reset. Why would anyone do that?
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    by worldthruword 2mo ago

    Has anyone does analysis on Home vs Away wars ? Russia is in a Home war. Similarly US is in Away war. Also being a land power vs sea power. US is a sea power vs Iran being a land power.