This is great. I wonder if anyone would write a 'how to program + CS' book using Julia. Python has a dozen. Julia only has one (Think Julia but this book is not like a 900+ page tutorial-style book covering CS1 and CS2…
Julia would have seen more adoption with: --> proper learning resources for beginners, but also for intermediate and advanced users. As of now resources are relatively sparse, compared to what you would find in the…
She has good ideas but her writing needs to be improved; I am not being critical for the fun of it-- it was difficult to read, but I am posting this here to see whether others had a similar difficulty? (or is it my ADHD…
This is neat. I am personally no fan of Tex/LaTex and prefer Typst, but you can't do this in Typst yet. I just wish Tex were a cleaner language.
"“It's not clear what exactly the end goals are, as the information appears to be publicly accessible anyway.”" Eh, just another day in the La-la land of a clueless AI bot hallucinating? Or maybe not!
The move to native makes sense. Also, human developers and AI make different types of mistakes, and take different approaches to debugging. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done that, it's just that a more…
My comment may have been too terse. I didn't mean I didn't enjoy or else I wouldn't have played. I did, but it became stale after so many games and regularly defeating 2000+ opponents in bullet chess. The time and…
Eh.. it did not originate in chess, this Zugzwang. It's a fairly well-known mathematical entity, goes by the name of Optionality. If you need to fly tonight, and the airliner knows it, they can charge you very high…
I live my life such that the boundary between fun, work and thinking is usually fuzzy and blurred. So, while I did play chess for fun, after a while it became boring--but I also impute this to my ADHD, perhaps for…
Where I live even 8-yo's have nasty patterns. But it's generally less so, I agree.
Yeah I have ADHD and can't bother play slow, long games. I only play bullet (60 sec) and would often defeat 2200-level players before I decided to give up. That means, most of those I will play (socially) in the future…
McFarter? LOL. That made me laugh. Yes, I agree.
poker is different game-- more in tune with applied game theory but also, as you said, self-regulation and psychological introspection.
I am too simple, could you pls share why that's funny...
I do like physical competitiveness as well-- I did box in my teens, and basketball for decades. It depends on the video games, too.
I got to a 1900 bullet rating in two years, playing an average of 10 to 30 games a day--while not learning any theory! (I wanted to discover theories on my own). And that's when I realized nah, it's not worth it. That's…
It will take the thinking persons a while to realize that like the utility curve for wealth, the utility curve for modernity also has decreasing marginal returns: A basic bit of modernity is very useful, but as we…
Actually, most people are still children, in adult bodies. Just observe aggressively and you will notice a lot of childhood patterns at work in adult life around you.
I am a fairly good player but after playing 22000 games, I came to the conclusion that ideas and strategies from chess are context-dependent and don't much transfer to real life. I'd rather spend all that time reading…
NMS gameplay is just too lonely and when i used to play it, it would reinforce my sense of extreme loneliness (I was single, and a foreigner in the Far East). Minecraft is another game that made me feel utterly…
I'll save you the time and effort. No. Stories are always based on realities experienced by the authors, either personally, or viscerally. AI has no experience of this kind. The experiences then are assembled or…
This. It also just occurred to me, inspired by your comment, that getting to know a mind is more than just satisfying your curiosity; personal experience confirms for me that as soon as I interacted with a brilliant…
yea alternatives pop up because there's a problem with the main. Also, i dont know why some midwit downvoted my original comment.
"But I suspect that the reason students are not reading novels is not only that they find novels difficult and boring. It is also that they don’t realize that novels are supposed to feel this way, at least at first."…
This is just how anti-fragility works. Getting your hands 'dirty' is what's known as introducing turbulence and chaos in order to achieve true stability/robustness. Conversely, trying to keep your hands too clean might…
This is great. I wonder if anyone would write a 'how to program + CS' book using Julia. Python has a dozen. Julia only has one (Think Julia but this book is not like a 900+ page tutorial-style book covering CS1 and CS2…
Julia would have seen more adoption with: --> proper learning resources for beginners, but also for intermediate and advanced users. As of now resources are relatively sparse, compared to what you would find in the…
She has good ideas but her writing needs to be improved; I am not being critical for the fun of it-- it was difficult to read, but I am posting this here to see whether others had a similar difficulty? (or is it my ADHD…
This is neat. I am personally no fan of Tex/LaTex and prefer Typst, but you can't do this in Typst yet. I just wish Tex were a cleaner language.
"“It's not clear what exactly the end goals are, as the information appears to be publicly accessible anyway.”" Eh, just another day in the La-la land of a clueless AI bot hallucinating? Or maybe not!
The move to native makes sense. Also, human developers and AI make different types of mistakes, and take different approaches to debugging. I'm not saying they shouldn't have done that, it's just that a more…
My comment may have been too terse. I didn't mean I didn't enjoy or else I wouldn't have played. I did, but it became stale after so many games and regularly defeating 2000+ opponents in bullet chess. The time and…
Eh.. it did not originate in chess, this Zugzwang. It's a fairly well-known mathematical entity, goes by the name of Optionality. If you need to fly tonight, and the airliner knows it, they can charge you very high…
I live my life such that the boundary between fun, work and thinking is usually fuzzy and blurred. So, while I did play chess for fun, after a while it became boring--but I also impute this to my ADHD, perhaps for…
Where I live even 8-yo's have nasty patterns. But it's generally less so, I agree.
Yeah I have ADHD and can't bother play slow, long games. I only play bullet (60 sec) and would often defeat 2200-level players before I decided to give up. That means, most of those I will play (socially) in the future…
McFarter? LOL. That made me laugh. Yes, I agree.
poker is different game-- more in tune with applied game theory but also, as you said, self-regulation and psychological introspection.
I am too simple, could you pls share why that's funny...
I do like physical competitiveness as well-- I did box in my teens, and basketball for decades. It depends on the video games, too.
I got to a 1900 bullet rating in two years, playing an average of 10 to 30 games a day--while not learning any theory! (I wanted to discover theories on my own). And that's when I realized nah, it's not worth it. That's…
It will take the thinking persons a while to realize that like the utility curve for wealth, the utility curve for modernity also has decreasing marginal returns: A basic bit of modernity is very useful, but as we…
Actually, most people are still children, in adult bodies. Just observe aggressively and you will notice a lot of childhood patterns at work in adult life around you.
I am a fairly good player but after playing 22000 games, I came to the conclusion that ideas and strategies from chess are context-dependent and don't much transfer to real life. I'd rather spend all that time reading…
NMS gameplay is just too lonely and when i used to play it, it would reinforce my sense of extreme loneliness (I was single, and a foreigner in the Far East). Minecraft is another game that made me feel utterly…
I'll save you the time and effort. No. Stories are always based on realities experienced by the authors, either personally, or viscerally. AI has no experience of this kind. The experiences then are assembled or…
This. It also just occurred to me, inspired by your comment, that getting to know a mind is more than just satisfying your curiosity; personal experience confirms for me that as soon as I interacted with a brilliant…
yea alternatives pop up because there's a problem with the main. Also, i dont know why some midwit downvoted my original comment.
"But I suspect that the reason students are not reading novels is not only that they find novels difficult and boring. It is also that they don’t realize that novels are supposed to feel this way, at least at first."…
This is just how anti-fragility works. Getting your hands 'dirty' is what's known as introducing turbulence and chaos in order to achieve true stability/robustness. Conversely, trying to keep your hands too clean might…