> people behind it hold values that are typically diametrically opposite of hacker ethos there are many open source Ks and K-likes these days which Kx are well aware of (source: i have written several K interpreters and…
> The false promise of efficiency [...] that is extremely unlikely to mean more time with each patient. Instead, it will mean more patients. nit: that is a real efficiency gain. seeing more patients sounds better on the…
just my perspective: i pay $20/month and i hit usage limits regularly. have never experienced performance degradation. in fact i have been very happy with performance lately. my experience has never matched that of…
Having done a quick search of "control AI dot com", it seems their intent is educate lawmakers & government in order to aid development of a strong regulatory framework around frontier AI development. Not sure how this…
what tasks are you thinking? i'm not a gpu expert q is good with bulk operations on compact arrays; these are cache-friendly and the interpreter can utilize cache-level parallelism. and with q it's convenient to go from…
they mean CPU instruction cache
q/kdb+ is used in finance (banking + funds) for heavy numerical computation every day. high-volume realtime data straight from markets, and petabyte/trillion-row historical DBs. it runs on CPU but computation easily…
backtrace has been supported for some time. the debug facilities are nice https://code.kx.com/q/basics/debug/#stack-frames
I have a physical copy of Practical Compiler Construction 2nd Ed. and like it a lot. I recommend Nils' books to anyone who may be interested.
fair enough. i'm not convinced. there are many humans who could study mathematics for a lifetime and not be able to comprehend the current best knowledge we possess. i'm one of them. maybe it takes 2 lifetimes. or many…
>smart enough to explain us any idea Are dogs, or pigs, or whales, part of the intelligence club? They are clearly intelligent beings with problem-solving skills. We won't be teaching them basic calculus any time soon.
> sure that all of modern software could easily be 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller niklaus wirth thought similarly... in 1995![0] i enjoy implementing array langs (k primarily) so small binaries come with the territory.…
really interesting write-up. thanks for sharing! do you think there are any lessons that can be applied to a "normal" interpreter/compiler written in standard C? i'm always interested in learning how to reduce the size…
not OP. but he did say "nearly everyone". long lists of side effects are common even for the most benign and common drugs. that's standard. for example i could say that the common side effects of tylenol[0] tell a…
> The question about if an AI is "alive" seems entirely irrelevent outside of a philosophy class it's entirely relevant. we should know if we are building conscious beings, especially at scale (which seems like a likely…
do you disagree the present moment is an important inflection point for AI research? what point in the last few decades do you think was more important?
check out oK[0] by John Earnest, who is the author of the content of this post. it has a well-written manual and is a great jumping off point. the source is written in ~1000 lines of js. so you can look at how each…
i love k. it's a much smaller and regular language than APL and some of its derivatives. you can look at John Earnest's oK. it's fantastically documented and a great learning resource. i would also recommend BQN. it has…
i don't think it's stupid. i also find k more readable. 2 reasons why: - k has much fewer primitives. it's easier to remember a smaller set of operations. - k is statically parsable. APL is not. we know the program…
for scientific output you can look to MIRI. that is eliezer's contribution. the other response has listed some papers. it's worth mentioning that he has said that he believes MIRI has failed to meaningfully make…
if you had a major concern that you felt many people a) weren't aware of, or b) were aware of but not treating seriously, and you had the resources to voice your concerns in a major publication like Time, would you not…
"he's gonna milk it to every drop" is such an odd take. eliezer has long been concerned about AI and the risks it poses to humanity. and for just as long people have called him crazy and made hand-waving arguments for…
i learned something. thanks for responding.
why does 1. source split among numerous files, and 2. partial bootstrapping affect embeddability? i'm asking in earnest. i thought to embed we (typically) just need a shared lib and to #include a header api.
> people behind it hold values that are typically diametrically opposite of hacker ethos there are many open source Ks and K-likes these days which Kx are well aware of (source: i have written several K interpreters and…
> The false promise of efficiency [...] that is extremely unlikely to mean more time with each patient. Instead, it will mean more patients. nit: that is a real efficiency gain. seeing more patients sounds better on the…
just my perspective: i pay $20/month and i hit usage limits regularly. have never experienced performance degradation. in fact i have been very happy with performance lately. my experience has never matched that of…
Having done a quick search of "control AI dot com", it seems their intent is educate lawmakers & government in order to aid development of a strong regulatory framework around frontier AI development. Not sure how this…
what tasks are you thinking? i'm not a gpu expert q is good with bulk operations on compact arrays; these are cache-friendly and the interpreter can utilize cache-level parallelism. and with q it's convenient to go from…
they mean CPU instruction cache
q/kdb+ is used in finance (banking + funds) for heavy numerical computation every day. high-volume realtime data straight from markets, and petabyte/trillion-row historical DBs. it runs on CPU but computation easily…
backtrace has been supported for some time. the debug facilities are nice https://code.kx.com/q/basics/debug/#stack-frames
I have a physical copy of Practical Compiler Construction 2nd Ed. and like it a lot. I recommend Nils' books to anyone who may be interested.
fair enough. i'm not convinced. there are many humans who could study mathematics for a lifetime and not be able to comprehend the current best knowledge we possess. i'm one of them. maybe it takes 2 lifetimes. or many…
>smart enough to explain us any idea Are dogs, or pigs, or whales, part of the intelligence club? They are clearly intelligent beings with problem-solving skills. We won't be teaching them basic calculus any time soon.
> sure that all of modern software could easily be 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller niklaus wirth thought similarly... in 1995![0] i enjoy implementing array langs (k primarily) so small binaries come with the territory.…
really interesting write-up. thanks for sharing! do you think there are any lessons that can be applied to a "normal" interpreter/compiler written in standard C? i'm always interested in learning how to reduce the size…
not OP. but he did say "nearly everyone". long lists of side effects are common even for the most benign and common drugs. that's standard. for example i could say that the common side effects of tylenol[0] tell a…
> The question about if an AI is "alive" seems entirely irrelevent outside of a philosophy class it's entirely relevant. we should know if we are building conscious beings, especially at scale (which seems like a likely…
do you disagree the present moment is an important inflection point for AI research? what point in the last few decades do you think was more important?
check out oK[0] by John Earnest, who is the author of the content of this post. it has a well-written manual and is a great jumping off point. the source is written in ~1000 lines of js. so you can look at how each…
i love k. it's a much smaller and regular language than APL and some of its derivatives. you can look at John Earnest's oK. it's fantastically documented and a great learning resource. i would also recommend BQN. it has…
i don't think it's stupid. i also find k more readable. 2 reasons why: - k has much fewer primitives. it's easier to remember a smaller set of operations. - k is statically parsable. APL is not. we know the program…
for scientific output you can look to MIRI. that is eliezer's contribution. the other response has listed some papers. it's worth mentioning that he has said that he believes MIRI has failed to meaningfully make…
if you had a major concern that you felt many people a) weren't aware of, or b) were aware of but not treating seriously, and you had the resources to voice your concerns in a major publication like Time, would you not…
"he's gonna milk it to every drop" is such an odd take. eliezer has long been concerned about AI and the risks it poses to humanity. and for just as long people have called him crazy and made hand-waving arguments for…
i learned something. thanks for responding.
why does 1. source split among numerous files, and 2. partial bootstrapping affect embeddability? i'm asking in earnest. i thought to embed we (typically) just need a shared lib and to #include a header api.