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BLubliulu commented on Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer community   techcrunch.com/2025/02/25... · Posted by u/sachinjain
_mitterpach · 10 months ago
If you're a computer science student who is thinking of using this, don't.

Don't use Copilot, Gemini, Cursor or any other code assisting tool for the several first years of your study or career. You will write code slower than others, sure, but what you'll learn and what you build will be a hundred times more useful for you than when you just copy and paste 'stuff' from AI.

Invest in fundamentals, learn best practices, be curious.

BLubliulu · 10 months ago
I think this is not a good idea or suggestion at all.

If i use google maps to find my way around, i'm faster by a lot. I also do remember things despite google maps doing the work for me.

Use Code assistent as much as possible but make sure to read and understand what you get and try to write it yourself even if you just write it from a second window.

In this age and pace, writing code will change relevant in the next few years anyway

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BLubliulu commented on State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness   cnn.com/2025/02/25/americ... · Posted by u/impish9208
bluGill · 10 months ago
So long as there is enough space to safely have a bonfire (no burning down the neighbor's house or starting a forest fire), and nobody gets so drunk they need medical care there is nothing wrong with a drunken bonfire. Or you can put away the alcohol and have a kid friendly bonfire - they are just as much fun.

Of course many drunken bonfires end up needing health care and/or firefighting. However they need not. How do you fix your friends?

BLubliulu · 10 months ago
As long as someone never ever needs to be inconvinented even in a situation were it could make sense to just not do anything which is not necessary for a day or two...

If we had a system, were you could register yourself and the society would be allowed to not help you, that would be great. But no we have a medical code (which funny enough is not enough to let woman die when they have a difficult/livethreatening pregnancy...)

BLubliulu commented on State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness   cnn.com/2025/02/25/americ... · Posted by u/impish9208
lenerdenator · 10 months ago
Consider this your reminder to swing by the home improvement store and buy that backup generator you've been thinking about getting for a while.

Gonna be a lot of discarded food in Chile over the next few days...

BLubliulu · 10 months ago
Get an EV instead. Use it for bi-directional charging, buy PV to reduce your dependency and energy bill and a heat pump to be independent of oil/gas companies.
BLubliulu commented on Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder   mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11405... · Posted by u/ColinWright
istjohn · 10 months ago
I wonder. I'm against wealth inequality, but for thousands of years, the human labor required to feed, clothe, and shelter a family wouldn't have allowed anyone to learn, preserve, and advance human knowledge without the labor of many being exploited one way or another by an elite few. That's not to justify anything or argue against egalitarianism today.
BLubliulu · 10 months ago
None of us is making cloth, working in fields or even baking.

We are so good, that we have an epidemic of people consuming too many calories.

There is no way for me right now to get social security and being allowed to be in university. But i would be able to get social security.

Officially universities throw you out after x years, but no one will bat an eye if you sit in a big lecture because there is plenty of space. But the documents/video recordings etc. is protected by some passwords for no particular reason.

Imagine were you could go to a campus for a few years and have enough for feeding yourself, paper, pen and books and basic oversight (not blocking the space for someone who would use it to learn while you only sit in your room gaming).

BLubliulu commented on Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder   mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11405... · Posted by u/ColinWright
7thaccount · 10 months ago
I get your point about not being able to do everything in a vacuum, but I think there's also just a very limited set of geniuses that are of the Einstein/Newton level that might only exist once a century if you're lucky. We have millions in academia now and how many more physicists than the 1800s? There has certainly been progress, but it seems diminished.

There's a lot of discussion on this online and some folks speaking past each other. Yeah, there has been the invention of the internet, faster computers, the blue LED, sequencing the human genome...etc, but that is argued to mainly be engineering innovations on already understood physics. Where is the next discovery on the level of general relativity? Are we just at diminishing returns now where all the low hanging fruit has been found? How many physicists wasted away researching string theory? Were we just putting resources in the wrong place?

I do strongly think that modern research has become so beauracratic that it gets in the way of actual progress. The endless paperwork, presentations, teaching...etc isn't very conducive to discovery. Your average professor is more like a project manager than what Newton did.

BLubliulu · 10 months ago
That doesn't change the general issue:

You need a certain amount of motivation, grid, etc. If these skills would be broadly available and the situation also, we would have a lot more Einsteins today.

There is plenty of things which do not require global projects building multibillion devices.

Mathematic thinking for ML for example.

DeepSeek paper for example.

BLubliulu commented on Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder   mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11405... · Posted by u/ColinWright
jayrot · 10 months ago
Stephen Jay Gould said: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

This quote really drives home the point that the overwhelmingly vast majority of scientific discovery and progress throughout history has come with humanity's entirely self-inflicted handicapping, like a V8 engine running on only 1 cylinder. Can't help but wonder what our knowledge here in 2025 would be like had we, as a species, tapped into our full potential by empowering women and people of color (to name just a few categories) earlier. You can almost see it in action with the people mentioned here as time went on.

Wonderful set of videos.

BLubliulu · 10 months ago
I heard last week "Give It Away" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and that lyric catched me:

"we have so much we need to share"

u/BLubliulu

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