green_on_black (u/green_on_black)

green_on_black commented on The “Not Creative” Trap robert.bearblog.dev/the-n... · Posted by u/HermanMartinus

I can relate to the critic, but not the particular words. I've said to myself, "Why bother writing if I have nothing to say," and, "What's the point of open sourcing this when there's the chance Microsoft just copy/pastes it with no attribution", and other similar thoughts.

green_on_black · 3 years ago

Personally, "even if I have something to say, why bother writing? It's the internet, and people will either ignore, lambast, misconstrue, say ackshually, etc."

I find it much simpler to lurk.

green_on_black commented on Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse betterwithout.ai/only-you... · Posted by u/pidge

jhbadger · 3 years ago

"Most AI researchers think good outcomes are more likely. This seems just blind faith, though"

Or, you know, they might actually know something about the subject? On a similar note, most physicists don't think particle colliders will cause mini black holes which will swallow the Earth, but the fear gets repeated by non-physicists.

green_on_black · 3 years ago

minor nitpick, it's not that we don't believe it makes mini black holes, it's that we're fairly extremely sure those black holes wouldn't interact with anything in the minor "time" (if you can even call it that) which they exist.

green_on_black commented on Problem solving with dimensional analysis gregorygundersen.com/blog... · Posted by u/alexmolas

green_on_black · 3 years ago

Something something dimensional analysis is just a typechecker

green_on_black commented on So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill) github.com/zloirock/core-... · Posted by u/nailer

Dalewyn · 3 years ago

I wrote this sentiment earlier[1], but I'll repeat it here.

If a dev wants money for his work, he should license his work as appropriate and demand payments. If a dev releases his work free-as-in-libre and/or free-as-in-beer, they don't get to complain if the donations are "insufficient".

Or to put it another: Of course a company won't pay up if they don't have to.

This guy seems to be considering making his work into a commercial product, so at least he has the correct idea. Speaking objectively I hope it works out for him.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34759316

green_on_black · 3 years ago

Okay, and now half the devs simply decide to not deal with the issue of licensing and just business source everything. Congrats, that's definitely the better world to code in, right?

green_on_black commented on So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill) github.com/zloirock/core-... · Posted by u/nailer

phpnode · 3 years ago

It's definitely time for him to let this project go, working on it is a literally thankless task and the level of entitlement shown towards his work has been infuriating to watch. The outrage towards him daring to ask the community for help, something done in an act of desperation, is a real wake up call for open source maintainers - the community doesn't give a fuck about you, they want your code and they want it free.

The psychological burden of carrying such an important but relatively unknown project has trapped him in this state of desperation for years now. It's tunnel vision and sunk loss thinking, time to quit.

green_on_black · 3 years ago

The guy literally went to prison when he didn't have to. Holy shit.

green_on_black commented on 2000 Years of Matrix Multiplication mathshistory.st-andrews.a... · Posted by u/nothrowaways

ndriscoll · 3 years ago

It's unfortunate that more theory makes determinants really intuitive, but most people don't get there. The upshot is that there's a thing called the exterior algebra which is relatively simple to define and calculate with, and essentially encodes the notions of areas, volumes, 4-volumes, etc. over a space. Every linear map on a space uniquely specifies a map on the exterior algebra (in fact this is a functor, which makes calculations easier), and the determinant of a linear map is then just the corresponding exterior algebra map evaluated on the unit n-volume. The minors are the exterior algebra map evaluated on the unit volume for various subspaces.

The rules for the exterior algebra and the fact that this is a functor let you learn a couple simple rules to simplify expressions into a standard form, and then you just apply those rules mechanically and don't have to remember minus signs or what multiplies with what. It becomes a process that requires no thought.

It's sort of like how once you learn how to deal with complex exponentials, you can forget pretty much every rule from trigonometry, making it entirely pointless to memorize those rules.

green_on_black · 3 years ago

It's unfortunate that lower level "math" is so banally taught (i.e. calc and below), at least in the US.

green_on_black commented on How to Beat Stress and Anxiety prashants.in/blog/how-to-... · Posted by u/prashantsengar

denvaar · 3 years ago

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...

green_on_black · 3 years ago

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eye_movement_desensitization_and...

green_on_black commented on Rewrite it in Rust github.com/fish-shell/fis... · Posted by u/mustache_kimono

khimaros · 3 years ago

Rash is the name of the Bash-like grammar in Racket

green_on_black · 3 years ago

That's fucking hilarious.

green_on_black commented on Unconditional Love eden.bearblog.dev/uncondi... · Posted by u/memorable

easygenes · 3 years ago

Perhaps you are ascribing a more holistic view to the idea of what someone “does”. I think OP was referring more to a person’s roles or what they are known for.

Loving someone for, e.g., what they believe in, what they stand for, and how they treat people are examples of love that stems from a deeper understanding of a person’s values, habits, and personality than just loving them one-dimensionally for their wealth or a particular thing they’re well known for. I think that’s what they’re getting at.

green_on_black · 3 years ago

So, having more conditions is apparently less conditional?

green_on_black commented on What Is Our Universe Expanding Into? nautil.us/what-is-our-uni... · Posted by u/rbanffy

JumpCrisscross · 3 years ago

To what degree is the Big Bang a parsimonious explanation of our data versus a theory physicists fundamentally believe in?

green_on_black · 3 years ago

Physicists don't fundamentally believe in anything, except perhaps in that everything is merely a possible explanation of our data.