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Comment · 23 hours ago
C’mon it’s inspirational. Low level struggling Indian tech recognized by high level Indian CEO and lifted up.
Comment · 2 days ago
Who could have done that role but Stewart? Take the guy who played Riker or anyone else in that role and you would have lost the flavor. He will be missed.
Comment · 4 days ago
Wonder why they didn’t run Qwen 3.5 9b on 16th Macs. That’s a super impressive model for size. Is granite better?
Comment · 5 days ago
It uses sparseness. I noticed a simple thing way back that for a n-boolean variables, the average size of a satisfiable boolean expression must be 2^n bits - basically every binary number that satisfies it listed out. So if a boolean expression of 4 variables is satisfied by 1111, 1110, and 0000, the number denoting it is 1100000000000001, and for every such number there is a boolean expression of 4 variables and for every expression one number of 16 digits. So it’s a fool’s errand to make a universal solver when average inputs scale at 2^n, if a solution exists it has to leverage the small size of the problems we actually care about, sparsity. Based on the AI description that’s what they did, something with polynomials, but it’s too soon. Looking forward to finding out.
Comment · 8 days ago
Go has grown too, since 1.25 it knows it’s in a container, uses all cores on CPU for go routines without hiccup.
Comment · 9 days ago
I always wondered about breaking down the O( n log n) FFT convolution multiplier into truly discrete pieces to see if you can shrink it more, last I checked languages like Python that use big integers still weren’t using it, and when I implemented it it used complex floats. I don’t see why it couldn’t be THE multiplier, plus it works in constant time with optics.
Comment · 19 days ago
No it’s actually shit right now, and what he’s talking about is the solution, needed now.

Seriously if you code, do a Codex (or whatever) project in a language and framework you know nothing about just using AI, no coding. It wows at first but starts diverging more and more from your mental model, until small requests require complete redesign each time and it starts breaking. In other words it happily diverges from human representational understanding of the project, to the point you realize your own requests were contradictory with earlier ones you made, because without the mental model you build of a project by coding it, you don’t track on it, your commands become inconsistent. That’s happening in math, it’s going outside the space of what anyone understands, and so the enrichment of the mathematicians internal model is lost. This road ends in Matrix level total misalignment, humans have to be able to communicate what they will to it, and their will has to be shaped by what is, it’s a back and forth of shaping each others understanding. Without that abundance really is a wire jacked into your skull in a pod.

Comment · 1 month ago
Competing with Flock for worse name, just as “trafficam” would not enrage sheeple by comparing them to livestock, “AutoOffice” or whatever does not demean them as peons working for a machine.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is one of those “oh gosh” posts at first glance, then you actually think about it, and it’s 100% correct. Python, Node exist to save the precious commodity of developer time. Once that’s no longer precious, best value comes from purified custom Rust, no attack surface from huge libraries, optimized performance for the specific task on all possible hardware.
Comment · 1 month ago
It really doesn’t, unless they are screening for terrorism. For instance, a company that provides some free tech for low income Catholics, which ends up used in some crime, maybe bombed family planning clinic, can be charged for the terrorism they didn’t do. In fact, this can be leveraged by anti-Catholic terrorists to take out the Catholic tech service.
Comment · 1 month ago
It’s the best guy around who tells you when your fly is down, thanks.

I did writing courses as elective in college, the biggest lost truth is that there is no one correct writing style, (you build) being a writer at any capacity means cultivating your own writing voice, (yours) which is an expression of who you are. (voice)

Comment · 1 month ago
Pretty good, could use more on the tonic, how it’s defined for a diatonic set of 7 notes. The chosen I IV V primary chords are key for that, but a precious tidbit I learned is any of the notes can be set as tonic, but the I IV V chords are only for major and minor. Like for the notes in C major, it becomes A minor with I IV V chords starting off A, but to set the tonic to F, it becomes F Lydian mode with primary chords I, II, and VII. (Fmag, Gmaj, Emin) The rule for the primary chords of the modes is you find the note that differentiates it from the major or minor scale, and pick the chords that have it avoiding the diminished. Playing the notes of c major starting at f, it’s the sharp fourth b that is different, so the primary triads are f-a-c e-g-b and g-b-d.

Oh, and rhythm is just the same as consonance. Most are octave based, beats on wave peaks of overlaid octaves getting quieter. The 3 based on times like 6/8 are the same but for 5ths and 17ths. (The bottom number 8 is just a BPM hint from old days.) beyond those the intervals get unstable feeling, like 7/4 in Money by Pink Floyd has that cut off feeling, someone took a few from each measure, but maps to a minor 7th interval.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
People have no idea. They’re destroying old books. Just like the last time (1), and the time before that (2), and the time before that(3), which were:

1) Nazi Germany, following debt/inflationary collapse of Weimar Republic.

2) Bolshevik Revolution, following WWI induced debt collapse of Tsars.

3) French Revolution, following debt collapse of Monarchy.

Now where are we? 40 trillion in debt. The interest is $1.1 trillion the amount added to it yearly is $2.1 trillion. The entirety of a government spending would need to be wiped out just to keep it where it is.

If you had the books that got burned, you’d know the cycle, and the fact that electing democrats isn’t gonna change a damn thing.

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