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why take the least charitable possible reading D; i've always read and intended it as inviting informality. i also don't find it harder to read at all (most people don't know some find it harder to read: i didn't)

the u.s. and israel are actively using AI for weapons, auto-targeting, surveillance, research. why not mention them?

> except when you ask US/western models what happened at Tiananmen Square they'll give you an answer instead of being blocked by an authoritarian government.

do you think the average american could estimate the order of magnitude of the number of koreans we killed in the korean war? or the fact we continually bombed cuba, installed N military dictatorships across the world (and when), etc.? america isn't less guilty of censorship, we were just arguably smarter about it

i love that geeksforgeeks is the website everyone mentions wanting to block :D

for advanced undergrads, the university of michigan (i'm speaking from my own experience here) has a course progression of (1) programming languages for 1st year grad students, (2) compilers for undergraduates, (3) compiler optimization for 1st year grad students. the expectation is that you can write a fast implementation of a simple language (~scheme) on your own, and you have the knowledge to write a simple optimizing compiler for e.g. c89/99 if you were to take it on as a longer project. any compiler written in a semester probably doesn't have enough manpower to be optimized to a point of usefulness, and you'll learn some things only via implementation struggles, but you'll have the capability to try, search for literature to get unstuck, etc. which is cool!

it has the nicest calculator syntax (imho) among the tools i've tried (python/julia/array langs/matlab/etc...) with extensive docs for each function and a nice notebook interface, but i've never written a program in it that was longer than one expression.

awesome article! i appreciated the alternatives and misc. workarounds to OT/unicode typesetting toward the end, very helpful :D (go blue!)

this is good to know :) my use for janet hasn't involved much processing of external data but i'll keep bb in mind when the use case arises. thank you for the information!

"we" didn't pass them --- i don't think changing the severity of law enforcement alone can achieve what i wish for in society, but the existence of many laws (and severity of their punishment) i disagree with and thus do not want enforced

janet has replaced sh, python, awk, etc. for me, for system scripts over a certain length! it has a very fast startup time (on my system, 1.4ms via hyperfine vs. 1ms for dash) for scripts (not compiled executables), and its sh-dsl module allows typing shell commands very elegantly, like ($ cmda w x | cmdb y z). the ability to load an image to debug is a big help, too. i've started using it very recently but it's probably one of my favorite languages now, and the only other lisp i've used is mit scheme for sicp.

i've tried not to

god help us if we have to choose between the two );

i do photo restoration as part of my research (bizarre place to be for a math undergrad), so i do think AI is a lifesaver for very small adjustments that would be tedious or subpar otherwise. i just disagree that its creative output is of value (which isn't the case you made, anyway).

you would watch a movie generated with the sterility of an LLM?