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New comment by jeromebaek in "Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math"

jeromebaek — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:59:18 +0000

Pi is computable. What is computable, can be represented in finite information (the algorithm used to compute the number). Almost all real numbers are not computable.

New comment by jeromebaek in "Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math"

jeromebaek — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:57:58 +0000

Now tie this with computability theory. Almost all real numbers are uncomputable. It's obvious that they don't "exist" in any sense if by "exist" we mean "computable". Now consider that entropy, is information, is the measure of randomness, or uncomputability, is time. What is uncomputable, coming into existence, is the passage of time.

New comment by jeromebaek in "Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday"

jeromebaek — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:52:54 +0000

So Airbnb has tried to unsuccessfully pivot to a payments infra company for several years now. Notable acquisitions for this effort include acqui-hiring ChangeTip, a bitcoin micropayments platform, and Tilt, a social payments platform. But Square and CashApp are way ahead of the curve. I suspect there's internal political problems.

New comment by jeromebaek in "New Grad vs. Senior Dev"

jeromebaek — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:47:12 +0000

Sure. But most senior devs are not Tim Patterson.

New comment by jeromebaek in "French researcher posts successful Covid-19 chloroquine drug trial"

jeromebaek — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:12:05 +0000

Explains why there's little outbreak in Africa.

New comment by jeromebaek in "The Philosophy of Computer Science (2017)"

jeromebaek — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:21:46 +0000

Philosophy of Computation at Berkeley: http://po.cab

Alibaba AI Detects Coronavirus with 96% Accuracy

jeromebaek — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 08:25:29 +0000

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/03/02/alibabas-new-ai-system-can-detect-coronavirus-in-seconds-with-96-accuracy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22472814

Points: 2

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New comment by jeromebaek in "2020 Leap Day Bugs"

jeromebaek — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 01:40:44 +0000

relevant: falsehoods programmers believe about time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208

New comment by jeromebaek in "RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps"

jeromebaek — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 21:05:14 +0000

As a LGBTQ person this article is so creepy

New comment by jeromebaek in "Ask HN: How do you learn complex, dense technical information?"

jeromebaek — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:34:08 +0000

Y'all are gonna call me a crackpot, but consider P, PSPACE and IP. PSPACE is (probably) much more powerful than P. Also PSPACE=IP (interactive proofs). Learn interactively. Treat your compiler as the prover, you as the verifier. Don't try to understand everything by simply reading the manual -- that's only utilizing P, not PSPACE.

New comment by jeromebaek in "No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia"

jeromebaek — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:37:19 +0000

this is hilarious. sorry for laughing

New comment by jeromebaek in "Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model"

jeromebaek — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:39:12 +0000

gosh, this is unsettling. my brain is literally getting stuck on an infinite loop trying to read this and coherently put them together

New comment by jeromebaek in "Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu"

jeromebaek — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:53:44 +0000

No. peak market share of Windows XP was 80%. market share of chrome is hovering around 65%. search engine share of google is like 90%.

New comment by jeromebaek in "Windows 10 Warning: Anger at Microsoft Rises with Serious New Failure"

jeromebaek — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:59:31 +0000

please stop spreading the myth that ChromeOS is somehow immune to malware. nothing stops a dev from uploading malware to the Chrome web store, and there are many such cases that happened. the only meaningful metric of how safe a piece of software is, is the size and investment in the team responsible for the security of the product. And MS is leading in this aspect.

New comment by jeromebaek in "Show HN: Codeflow – Understand a codebase quicker with PowerPoint-like tutorials"

jeromebaek — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 02:33:52 +0000

the best way to ramp up on a codebase is to simply follow the critical path and draw an execution diagram of the entire critical path. tools like these are gimmicks.

New comment by jeromebaek in "AI thinks like a corporation (2018)"

jeromebaek — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 19:28:16 +0000

ML is hierarchical. the upstream layers categorise more abstractly and downstream layers categorise more specifically.

New comment by jeromebaek in "TripAdvisor cuts hundreds of jobs after Google competition bites"

jeromebaek — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 04:06:39 +0000

this reeks of internal political problems. this isn't good for google nor for google's partners. the only reason they would autocannibalize is if there are too many engineers sitting around doing almost nothing so they start inventing problems to solve.

New comment by jeromebaek in "Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?"

jeromebaek — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:14:57 +0000

the economy of literature, marc shell. it gives you a semiotics of money, a way of understanding money qualitatively. it has been 100x more valuable than any economics textbook.

New comment by jeromebaek in "Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'"

jeromebaek — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:13:46 +0000

Think about it. Soft AI that assists the driver (automatic turning, cruise control, automatic brakes) is now mainstream. Why is it that full self-driving cars are categorically different? Because it requires full faith in the machine. When assistive technology goes wrong, the driver can correct it and -- get this -- the reason the driver can correct it fast enough is precisely because the driver doesn't fully trust the technology. the driver is on alert, always, because they know the technology is not meant to be trusted fully. now a full self-driving car asks the driver to trust it fully. so the "driver" can take a nap, read a book, whatever. if the driver needs to be on alert, it's by definition not a fully self-driving car. and i dont think we will get there, ever.

Robot Rights? Let's Talk About Human Welfare Instead

jeromebaek — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 09:18:38 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05046v1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083378

Points: 1

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