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iamcurious commented on Claude 4 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

parodysbird · 3 months ago

The thing with alchemy was not that their hypotheses were wrong (they eventually created chemistry), but that their method of secret esoteric mysticism over open inquiry was wrong.

Newton is the great example of this: he led a dual life, where in one he did science openly to a community to scrutinize, in the other he did secret alchemy in search of the philosopher's stone. History has empirically shown us which of his lives actually led to the discovery and accumulation of knowledge, and which did not.

iamcurious · 3 months ago

Newton was a smart guy and he devoted a lot of time to his occult research. I bet that a lot of that occult research inspired the physics. The fact that his occult research remains, occult from the public, well that is natural aint it?

iamcurious commented on Social Skill Training with Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2404.04204... · Posted by u/marviel

the_snooze · a year ago

A good test for what a community is is: "Who will vouch for you?" You can have a machine pretend to talk the talk and parrot it back to you for "training," but you're still an unknown outsider at the end of the day.

I don't think HN is a community in that sense. There's no "knowing" one another. There's no real accountability or shame of getting kicked out. We're all just text-generators.

iamcurious · a year ago

I have never felt closer yet farther away from y'all. Thank you, I need to cry, and revaluate my social habits.

iamcurious commented on Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism wired.com/story/yanis-var... · Posted by u/helloplanets

squeegmeister · a year ago

“To Varoufakis, every time you post on X, formerly Twitter, you’re essentially toiling Elon Musk’s estate like a medieval serf. Musk doesn't pay you. But your free labor pays him, in a sense, by increasing the value of his company.”

This sounds disanalogous to me. When you post on twitter, you can be rewarded with engagement and attention and even the possibility of growing your own brand and following. All at no monetary cost to you. Meanwhile, twitter has the costs of paying for servers and infrastructure and salaries of those required to support the site

iamcurious · a year ago

If you depend on that brand and following for your livelihood and they arbitrarily ban you, what rights do you have?

iamcurious commented on You won't find a technical co-founder breakneck.dev/blog/no-tec... · Posted by u/vyrotek

iamcurious · a year ago

I really liked the list, probably cause my resume kinda fits and as a true generalist, my resume rarely fits anything.

It is true that working for free is bonkers. Priority number 1 is always rent, at minimum cover that so that business is priority 1.

iamcurious commented on Nature Conformable to Herself (1992) sfipress.org/4-nature-con... · Posted by u/lawrenceyan

iamcurious · a year ago

> Eugene Wigner once wrote an article titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” I don’t know what he wrote in the article, but it is certainly a fact that, up to now, especially in the domain of fundamental physics, we have had striking success with our use of mathematics

It is odd that he mentions it only to say that he doesn’t know it.

I didn’t find the article main point particularly strong, but all the references and overall mentions were interesting.

iamcurious commented on Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide linuxiac.com/linux-crosse... · Posted by u/benkan

choeger · 2 years ago

If one considers how desperately Microsoft tries to squeeze additional revenue from Windows (forced cloud account, ads, browser war 2.0) one has to wonder at what point they'll simply shut down OS (i.e., kernel and plumbing-level user-space tools) development completely.

I mean yes, it has been a proud piece of Microsoft but the OG NT kernel team probably left by now and from a management perspective it doesn't offer any revenue to develop an OS kernel.

Otoh, how big is their OS engineering team? Drivers are usually developed elsewhere. So maybe 100 folks or so? With a relatively low quota of non-devs, I assume? So Microsoft would potentially save what, tens of millions of dollars per year? Maybe they just continue this as some kind of tradition department.

iamcurious · 2 years ago

They are taking steps in that direction with Windows subsystem for Linux

iamcurious commented on A mathematician who finds poetry in math and math in poetry quantamagazine.org/the-th... · Posted by u/ColinWright

joloooo · 2 years ago

Can you recommend any resources to learn more about this link?

iamcurious · 2 years ago

On the surface: The world would be premises and stories would be proofs.

Linear Logic for Non-Linear Storytelling by Anne-Gwenn Bosser and Marc Cavazza and Ronan Champagnat has an example.

Then generating proofs means generating valid stories. Linear logic is tough though, it is a logic that admits contradiction so straightaway most logicians are clueless in how to handle it.

Posted by u/iamcurious 2 years ago

What Is Backward Error?nhigham.com/2020/03/25/wh...

iamcurious commented on A mathematician who finds poetry in math and math in poetry quantamagazine.org/the-th... · Posted by u/ColinWright

iamcurious · 2 years ago

I liked the bit about the hobbit, even if it was a bit out of the blue.

those interested in the link between math and literature might be interested in the link between narratives and linear logic.

iamcurious commented on Writers can write anything. Programmers can't mahendraker.com/blog/writ... · Posted by u/rohanmahen

iamcurious · 2 years ago

I appreciate measuring productive when profit is the objective. Still, there exists code that does resonate and evoke emotional response. Quines, code golf, adding a paradigms to a lisp in a few lines of code, categorical haskell or the Doom wtf algorithm.

Beauty is something to strive for, it is just not the purpose of business programming. Unless you are Dijkstra.

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