Readit News logoReadit News
JohnHaugeland commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers   reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie
cc-d · a month ago
Fantastic.

LLM's have revolutionized the way people learn and utilize what they have learned. The future is 8 year old material science lads doing chemistry in their step-mother's RV

JohnHaugeland · a month ago
You might be surprised. The studies say it's a primarily negative impact, especially in math and college attendance.

https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/the-test-score...

JohnHaugeland commented on Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware   blog.google/technology/re... · Posted by u/AbhishekParmar
JohnHaugeland · 2 months ago
the big problem with quantum advantage is that quantum computing is inherently error-prone and stochastic, but then they compare to classical methods that are exact

let a classical computer use an error prone stochastic method and it still blows the doors off of qc

this is a false comparison

JohnHaugeland commented on SQL Anti-Patterns   datamethods.substack.com/... · Posted by u/zekrom
hobs · 2 months ago
https://pragprog.com/titles/bksqla/sql-antipatterns/ There's an actual book on them that had me nodding along the entire time.
JohnHaugeland · 2 months ago
that's a fantastic book; one of the best i've read, and i'm glad to see it get brought up

but also, the book anti-patterns is pretty clear here

JohnHaugeland commented on SQL Anti-Patterns   datamethods.substack.com/... · Posted by u/zekrom
readthenotes1 · 2 months ago
If a pattern is a common problem (e.g., becoming accustomed to a spectacular view) and generally-useful solution to that problem (blocking the view so that effort is required to obtain it), then an anti-pattern is what?

I think most people think an anti-pattern is an aberration in the "solution" section that creates more problems.

So here, the anti-pattern is that people use a term so casually (e.g., DevOps) that no one knows what it's referring to anymore.

(The problem: need a way to refer to concept(s) in a pithy way. The solution: make up or reuse an existing word/phrase to incorporate the concept(s) by reference so that it can can, unambiguously, be used as a replacement for the longer description. )

JohnHaugeland · 2 months ago
> If a pattern is a common problem

it isn't, is the thing.

if you read the book design patterns, they spell out what a pattern is.

if you read the book anti-patterns, he spells out what an anti-pattern is.

people have gotten the wrong idea by learning the phrases from casual usage.

JohnHaugeland commented on Root System Drawings   images.wur.nl/digital/col... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
JohnHaugeland · 2 months ago
i thought these were nervous systems until i started reading comments
JohnHaugeland commented on SQL Anti-Patterns   datamethods.substack.com/... · Posted by u/zekrom
JohnHaugeland · 2 months ago
these aren’t anti patterns. these are just things you shouldn’t do
JohnHaugeland commented on Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/Earw0rm
jszymborski · 3 months ago
As a person who studied cancer, I am probably not this article's audience.

That said, I feel the need to point out that chronic inflammation has long been known to be one of the roots of cancer. Chronic inflammation can be caused by a few things but common among them is the immune system.

The framing of the article, in my quick skim, felt like it was insinuating that researchers believed that cancer arises from mutations alone, and that everyone assumed carcinogens were all mutagens.

I haven't read the paper this article is describing. It seems very interesting. But the headline and the article makes it seem like some major turning point or ground shift which IMHO it is not.

JohnHaugeland · 3 months ago
that sentence starts “in the popular imagination”
JohnHaugeland commented on Markov chains are the original language models   elijahpotter.dev/articles... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott
t_mann · 3 months ago
You can model multiple-hop dependencies as a Markov chain by just blowing up the state space as a Cartesian product. Not that that would necessarily make sense in practice, but in theory Markov chains have enormous expressive power.
JohnHaugeland · 3 months ago
> but in theory Markov chains have enormous expressive power.

as long as you don't care about the quality of what they're expressing. there's a reason they never did anything better than the postmodernism generator.

putting paint in a cannon has enormous expressive power too, but if you aren't rothko, nobody's going to care

JohnHaugeland commented on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections   reddit.com/r/law/comments... · Posted by u/llm_nerd
_justinfunk · 4 months ago
Presuming this is just incompetence instead of malice, when the missing paragraphs are replaced, will "Constitution of the United States Website has replaced missing sections" hit the front page of HN?
JohnHaugeland · 4 months ago
> Presuming this is just incompetence instead of malice

why would you make this presumption?

JohnHaugeland commented on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections   reddit.com/r/law/comments... · Posted by u/llm_nerd
matt_s · 4 months ago
When do specific actions taken by the current US administration cross the legal line into treason or other legal lines where defense against domestic enemies is warranted?
JohnHaugeland · 4 months ago
november 5 2024

u/JohnHaugeland

KarmaCake day471February 13, 2012View Original