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I think they are lying to you [video]

youtube.com
90 points·by salutis·الشهر الماضي·59 comments

Happy Towel Day HN

en.wikipedia.org
5 points·by salutis·قبل شهرين·0 comments

Addressing Some AI Fake News [video]

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2 points·by salutis·قبل شهرين·1 comments

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2

nature.com
1 points·by salutis·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

Mathematics in the Library of Babel

daniellitt.com
2 points·by salutis·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

Festivus

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by salutis·قبل 7 أشهر·1 comments

FSF40 Hackathon

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120 points·by salutis·قبل 8 أشهر·3 comments

Age verification doesn’t work

pornbiz.com
134 points·by salutis·قبل 10 أشهر·164 comments

comments

salutis
·أول أمس·discuss
This is incorrect. An undecidable problem is one for which no algorithm can compute the correct result for every given instance. Probabilistic classical computation is irrelevant here.
salutis
·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
Thank you! That was a (bad) typo. You are right, of course.
salutis
·قبل 17 يومًا·discuss
That is not how averages work. By definition of mean, perhaps.
salutis
·قبل 18 يومًا·discuss
Please do not spread lies.

"obsolete dinosaur who hasn't written a line of code in decades"

The most recent code change in Emacs by RMS was on 2026-04-22 (0fb9d096e38), so ~3 months ago. He can write complex code (without AI), such as the `cond*` macro (707 LOC, all macro code), authored and pushed to Emacs on 2024-08-02 (18491f48d97).
salutis
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I left Apple Music over this. My albums would keep quietly disappearing. I spent hours on the phone with their support, and despite their promises, nothing ever changed. I left Apple Music, and then all of their cloud services as well. Today, I'm 100% Apple-free, happily playing MP3s from Bandcamp in my Emacs. :)
salutis
·قبل شهرين·discuss
But there is no dichotomy, is there? Good code is code that solves the problem well. Today and sustainably into the future. What else would "good code" even mean in general context?
salutis
·قبل شهرين·discuss
The "other side" of the AI craze.
salutis
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
This is incorrect reasoning. Science is advancing. It is like saying we should not listen to physicists because "Didn't those physicists gave us the original heliocentric system?"
salutis
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
No, that is plain old recursion. Dynamic programming is recursive programming with a twist. The twist is that identical sub-problems are short-circuited with memoization.
salutis
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
> Coding isn’t creative, it isn’t sexy, [...]

Nonsense. Coding is creative the same way mathematics is.

> Beautiful architecture, perfect tests, elegant abstractions those things feel deeply rewarding to the person who wrote them [...]

Nonsense. Best practices exist to make the code perform well. As a result, every user cares about them, albeit indirectly.

> That’s brutal to hear if you’ve spent years telling yourself that your intellectual passion is inherently admirable or sexy. It’s not.

Nonsense. Intellectual passion is admirable and sexy for many. This is subjective.
salutis
·قبل 8 أشهر·discuss
For me, Emacs on Mac OS is not all that stable. I see a freeze about twice a month, which is not "very rarely" in my book. It also leaks memory, albeit now (in the upcoming version) less so. (Disclaimer: I am a heavy user and contributor.)
salutis
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
Fennel (Lisp):

    (table.concat [:highlighted :primary (if discount :on-sale)] " ")
salutis
·قبل 10 أشهر·discuss
Psychology is stuck in pre-Galilean era. Even if it studies "properties of thought", as you put it, it does so without formal basis, let alone understanding from first principles. As Chomsky said, about psychology and the like, "You want to move from behavioral science to authentic science." [1]

[1] Chomsky & Krauss (2015) An Origins Project Dialogue at https://youtu.be/Ml1G919Bts0
salutis
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Also Fennel, both implicitly and explicitly with `tail!`.

Source: https://fennel-lang.org/reference#tail
salutis
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Yes. An artificial neuron, as a mathematical function f, is defined by f(x) = g(wx + b) where x is the input, w is the weight, b is the bias, and g is some non-linear activation function. Is that "good old linear regression followed by an activation function to make it non linear"? Yes, it is exactly that.
salutis
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Also PDF Tools for Emacs, where PDF can match your theme.
salutis
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Abstraction is the opposite of specialization, not precision. Multiplication, for example, is an abstraction that can be defined in terms of repeated addition of the same term, which is less general, and so more special, than addition of two arbitrary terms, but it not less precise.