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noncoml commented on New executive order puts all grants under political control   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/pbui
Zaheer · 18 days ago
Related paulg tweet: https://x.com/paulg/status/1951996478555357530

"The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA."

noncoml · 18 days ago
The replies to his tweet are a cesspool. Why do people still use Twitter?

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noncoml commented on The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust   viralinstruction.com/post... · Posted by u/jakobnissen
gdbsjjdn · a month ago
Agreed. As a comparison Golang was sold as "CSP like Erlang without the weird syntax" but people realized channels kind of suck and goroutines are not really a lot better than threads in other languages. The actual core of OTP was the supervisor tree but that's too complicated so Golang is basically just more concise Java.

I don't think this is a bad thing but it's a funny consequence that to become mainstream you have to (1) announce a cool new feature that isn't in other languages (2) eventually accept the feature is actually pretty niche and your average developer won't get it (3) sand off the weird features to make another "C but slightly better/different"

noncoml · a month ago
> but people realized channels kind of suck and goroutines are not really a lot better than threads in other languages. The actual core of OTP was the supervisor tree

Immutability is the actual core and power of Earlang

noncoml commented on Ask HN: What would convince you to take AI seriously?    · Posted by u/atleastoptimal
noncoml · a month ago
Convince me what? That it’s ready to replace thought work?

The moment it can do that is the moment we each singularity.

We are not there yet. Everyone will know when we hit that point.

For the now it’s a great tool for helping with thought work and that’s about it.

noncoml commented on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics   paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai... · Posted by u/throw0101c
cheschire · a month ago
You mean the part where you only need 5 people doing the job instead of 50?
noncoml · a month ago
That’s not “replacing” programmers. More like increasing their productivity
noncoml commented on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics   paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai... · Posted by u/throw0101c
olddustytrail · a month ago
> mathematicians by calculators

Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers (as an occupation). To the point that most people don't even know it used to be a job for people.

I say calculators but there is a blurry line between early electronic computers and calculators. Portable electronic calculators also replaced the slide rule, around the late 1970s, which had been the instrument of choice for engineers for around 350 years!

noncoml · a month ago
> Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers

Imho you are underestimating the work of programmers if you compare them to “Computers”

noncoml commented on My Self-Hosting Setup   codecaptured.com/blog/my-... · Posted by u/mirdaki
noncoml · a month ago
What’s the power consumption?
noncoml commented on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics   paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai... · Posted by u/throw0101c
jdietrich · a month ago
I'm afraid that this might sound flippant, but the answer to your question comes through another question - why were early 19th century industrialists obsessed with replacing textile workers? Replacing workers with machines is not a new phenomenon and we have gone through countless waves of social upheaval as a result of it. The debate we're currently having about AI has been rehearsed many, many times and there are few truly novel points being made.

If you want to understand our current moment, I would urge you to study that history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots

noncoml · a month ago
Programers are going to be replaced by AI in the same way accountants got replaced by VisiCalc and engineers by CAD and mathematicians by calculators and software like Mathematica

u/noncoml

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