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Comment · 18 days ago
They’re definitely numbers though -in many ways they’re nicer numbers than the Reals.

Complexes are overloaded as is - cellular, simplicial, chain etc.

Comment · 1 month ago
“Stop calling it slop you guys, I’ll have you know I am even sloppier”
Comment · 2 months ago
Well… yeah. But I didn’t blame the employees, I blamed the employer who must have seen the writing on the wall for a long time and yet let it come to this.
Comment · 3 months ago
Did the restrictions on JavaScript get resolved? IIRC, they made it so you had to use their “Ports” mechanism to interface with JavaScript, and you couldn’t write your own wrappers.

There was some drama when someone forked it so you could write your own JavaScript wrappers/FFI too?

Comment · 4 months ago
Oooft, in cubical.ml why is your identity equivalence `CVar "__id"`? Surely this should be some fibration/reduction?

In fact, these weird string terms pop up pretty often, but surely you’d want to be using de Brujin indices lest you accidentally string match two different things (can’t believe I’m saying that for an implementation of a dependently typed language).

I started to wonder how your types were glued, as I would have thought Sigma types glued along identity equivalences would give me some insight on the odd behaviour.

`reduce_comp` seemed like the place it should be. There I realised your `CTGlue` case is wrong: it seems like `partial_pairs` is in the head but dropped from the body, so they’re never glued by any equivalence.

Comment · 5 months ago
I don’t think that’s Orion specific, I have the exact same issue with Safari and Firefox
Comment · 5 months ago
Eh. I’ve been writing a small HoTT language over the past two years based on schemes, stacks, and sites and anything short of Agda or Lean falls short in terms of Real™ Category Theory.

So much has to be pragmatised, carefully considered and made concrete categories anyway that much of the category theory exists in the documentation rather in the actual code.

Comment · 5 months ago
> There is nothing that will inherently limit AI from doing all knowledge work

Resources is one. Energy, water, cost. There seems to be diminishing returns in intelligence at the moment, whilst power and memory usage continues to go up.

Comment · 6 months ago
Nothing a little digital lisdexamfetamine won’t solve
Comment · 6 months ago
I don’t feel their stance is “I’m not getting enough attention and it’s all Musk’s fault and I’m leaving”.

More “X is simply not worth our time anymore”. I can’t say with any certainty that X is on a death spiral (personally it does feel that way), but the kind of crowd who have remained in spite of Musk’s many public embarrassments (and the handling of Grok deep fakes and women) probably aren’t the kind who are passionate about the EFF

Comment · 7 months ago
A pharmacist is someone who is a chemical practitioner though?

“Man, these cryptographers didn’t know a thing about tailwind. Useless!”

Comment · 7 months ago
Ah, but only a truly great writer could have come up with:

> Start reading books or you're going to look stupid to the people around you

Wherein the prose wasn’t at all sloppy, the tautology was certainly intentional; the implied audience of “look stupid” could be to people entirely absent of the vicinity!

Comment · 8 months ago
I was more getting at the angle that when people say things like “Wow, I asked AI to code a terminal emulator and it got it mostly right!”, it’s not because the LLM is amazingly smart only by inference, it’s been trained on the appropriated code of individuals like the above.
Comment · 8 months ago
Mitchell Hashimoto doesn’t need LLM’s, LLM’s need Mitchell Hashimoto
Comment · 8 months ago
Sorry, I mean verify the semantics of what the LLM has generated is exactly what you were asking for.

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