i can kinda get how a glp-1 can be a miracle drug for weight: if we assume that simple molecular fixes to problems will eventually be found by evolution, then when we change our environment rapidly (e.g., with cheap…
these might not be 100% complete, but i think this does a reaaalllly good job at capturing the vast majority of mathematics. i'm sure you could come up with another breakdown, but these also have the benefit of tracking…
agreed! it's funny, i'm returning to some of the maths i studied in undergrad with a bit more "worldly" knowledge (if you can call comp sci academia knowledge "worldly"), and i'm seeing that so so much of the stuff that…
yeah, i've studied a lot of math and a lot of cs, and stats is tough. part of the problem is the terminology, and just giving a ton of complex machinery without telling you what it's actually doing. i've never learned…
i mean, the headline statistic can be misleading, but you gotta dig in and wrestle with the details. just like anything, we cannot boil down complex things to single numbers and expect any sort of meaningful signal. we…
> At the time, my professor closed the final lecture with dramatic words (I'm paraphrasing slightly): >>> And now you've learned that almost all interesting problems are undecidable and of the remaining ones, almost all…
is it?
I think I'd put it this way: if I could flip a switch tomorrow and the AI boom was done, I probably would. The negative effects just super duper outweigh the fact that coders are more efficient. But since it exists, I'm…
there are some things that clearly exist that are really hard to nail down with definitions; once we get into anything social, we are kinda playing with that territory. everything is so fuzzy that our normal way of…
yeah, the argument is ridiculous; like, formally, it is ridiculous. i also disagree with the sentiment and conclusions of the argument, but the actual form of the argument is garbage: "i introduce an axiom that says…
the first post was a swipe, i'll grant you. probably shouldn't have said it. it was a knee-jerk reaction to a structurally fallacious argument that leaves no room for discussion: "i reject your stance not based on…
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wait this is kinda brilliant tho
Thank. Too much word, me try read but no more tokens.
this is true, "black" has been used in racist ways, but it got rehabbed and reclaimed in the 60s and 70s. but more to the point, it is not currently used in a racist manner by the vast majority of the US, and certainly…
"yellowsky" sounds racist because calling asians "yellow" is racist. "whitesky" sounds racist because...well, i don't know if you're a big history buff but in the US white-people-only gatherings were always suuuuper…
agreed...i think it's fine to keep up with what the corporate world is doing, but these projects bring me real joy
This isn't really a metric. It's a description to help the reader understand the magnitude of effort that went into this project. SLoC is a bad metric for plenty of things, but I think it's fine for quickly conveying…
Followed closely by "The Breadboard Has Been Drinking"
chill, be nice
Meh, it's usable w/out github but you'll be reading raw markdown files (unless you get your own markdown renderer which isn't that big of a deal). But yeah, it's either an incomplete git-based wiki or a complete github…
I found In My Room to be an incredibly moving album. Djesse left me feeling far less after a first listen, but when I returned a few days later I started to notice things I had missed and now I really enjoy that album…
This is going on all of my homeworks (submitted electronically, of course)
i can kinda get how a glp-1 can be a miracle drug for weight: if we assume that simple molecular fixes to problems will eventually be found by evolution, then when we change our environment rapidly (e.g., with cheap…
these might not be 100% complete, but i think this does a reaaalllly good job at capturing the vast majority of mathematics. i'm sure you could come up with another breakdown, but these also have the benefit of tracking…
agreed! it's funny, i'm returning to some of the maths i studied in undergrad with a bit more "worldly" knowledge (if you can call comp sci academia knowledge "worldly"), and i'm seeing that so so much of the stuff that…
yeah, i've studied a lot of math and a lot of cs, and stats is tough. part of the problem is the terminology, and just giving a ton of complex machinery without telling you what it's actually doing. i've never learned…
i mean, the headline statistic can be misleading, but you gotta dig in and wrestle with the details. just like anything, we cannot boil down complex things to single numbers and expect any sort of meaningful signal. we…
> At the time, my professor closed the final lecture with dramatic words (I'm paraphrasing slightly): >>> And now you've learned that almost all interesting problems are undecidable and of the remaining ones, almost all…
is it?
I think I'd put it this way: if I could flip a switch tomorrow and the AI boom was done, I probably would. The negative effects just super duper outweigh the fact that coders are more efficient. But since it exists, I'm…
there are some things that clearly exist that are really hard to nail down with definitions; once we get into anything social, we are kinda playing with that territory. everything is so fuzzy that our normal way of…
yeah, the argument is ridiculous; like, formally, it is ridiculous. i also disagree with the sentiment and conclusions of the argument, but the actual form of the argument is garbage: "i introduce an axiom that says…
the first post was a swipe, i'll grant you. probably shouldn't have said it. it was a knee-jerk reaction to a structurally fallacious argument that leaves no room for discussion: "i reject your stance not based on…
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wait this is kinda brilliant tho
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Thank. Too much word, me try read but no more tokens.
this is true, "black" has been used in racist ways, but it got rehabbed and reclaimed in the 60s and 70s. but more to the point, it is not currently used in a racist manner by the vast majority of the US, and certainly…
"yellowsky" sounds racist because calling asians "yellow" is racist. "whitesky" sounds racist because...well, i don't know if you're a big history buff but in the US white-people-only gatherings were always suuuuper…
agreed...i think it's fine to keep up with what the corporate world is doing, but these projects bring me real joy
This isn't really a metric. It's a description to help the reader understand the magnitude of effort that went into this project. SLoC is a bad metric for plenty of things, but I think it's fine for quickly conveying…
Followed closely by "The Breadboard Has Been Drinking"
chill, be nice
Meh, it's usable w/out github but you'll be reading raw markdown files (unless you get your own markdown renderer which isn't that big of a deal). But yeah, it's either an incomplete git-based wiki or a complete github…
I found In My Room to be an incredibly moving album. Djesse left me feeling far less after a first listen, but when I returned a few days later I started to notice things I had missed and now I really enjoy that album…
This is going on all of my homeworks (submitted electronically, of course)