mnemonicsloth

I love this: a DSL that makes clocks out of birds and math. Really, this is a glorious little project.

The thing I bounced off isn't the high-concept art, or the abstract math. It’s the combination of the two without enough bridge between them. You have to infer too much about how the poetic layer, the mathematical notation, and the actual machinery relate.

You can do mind-expansion by induction in a math journal. This is not that venue. And this project is too good to waste by letting people walk away confused.

I’d love a very plain “one clock, end to end” walkthrough: primitives, composition, graph, rendered result.

Verizon competes with T-Mobile and AT&T. Comcast competes with a different arm of AT&T, Google Fiber, various older satellite internet services and now Starlink.

Outside the US, broadband providers are still huge but differences in regulation mean there are five or six of them in most markets.

Overall, I think my point still stands: claiming that you can't build a giant company without Silicon Valley's growth formula is ridiculously narrow. The vast majority of big companies are built by other methods.

McDonald's. Disney. Walmart. Kroger. Comcast. Verizon.

And many more who sell crops, chemicals, power, machine parts, cars, concrete...

Many companies have billions of customers and no trace of lock-in or virality at all. You might want to shift your perspective a little and remember that there is a world outside of Silicon Valley.

No, it really isn't a good idea to base your theories of psychiatric medicine on a satirical half-hour cartoon show about swearing construction-paper children.

It is true that there are some corners of the internet where probably-healthy people meet to discuss what it's like to have disorders that they probably don't have, or in some cases disorders that might not even exist.

But you really ought to talk to some actual doctors and patients before you conclude that their problems aren't real, or can be overcome by pretending they don't exist.

The estimates I've seen suggest maybe just Mercury.

Which is good, because Mercury is mostly metal, whereas e.g. Mars is mostly rock and thus not useful for this kind of work

If you want to learn about symbolic AI, there are a lot of more recent sources than PAIP (you could try the first half of AI: A Modern Approach by Russel and Norvig), and this has been true for a while.

If you read PAIP today, the most likely reason is that you want a master class in Lisp programming and/or want to learn a lot of tricks for getting good performance out of complex programs (which used to be part of AI and is in many ways being outsourced to hardware today).

None of this is to say you shouldn't read PAIP. You absolutely should. It's awesome. But its role is different now.

So I'm a long-time Emacs user who tried Vim for a year a while back. What do you like about Neovim?

It isn't.

VS Code's goal is to get the low-effort 30% of devs who want something that will just work right out of the box, while providing enough functionality/customization to attract a significant fraction of the remaining 70%. And given that, it's pretty good.

But I'm skeptical it will ever be as good for someone who does want to make the investment in something like Emacs.

Examples please?

Michio Kaku is a smart guy, but I wouldn't call him a "Top Physicist"

> Economics isn’t science, it’s politics hiding behind math.

That's the kind of thing people say when math tells them what they want is not feasible. Surely the math must be wrong!

I am not going to say that this is wrong, because I haven't read the study. But it was produced by the Berkeley economics department, which could well be the most left-leaning in the country. Significant parts of it are outright Marxist. Which is fine. Diversity of viewpoints and all that. But when a bunch of leftist economists tell you they've proven something that leftists in general wish desperately were true, you should be skeptical.

At least wait for some corroborating evidence to come in before you start writing policy, because you'll hurt people if you get it wrong.