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The game of semantic promises (Or, why you are not using Siri)

valyagolev — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:47:49 +0000

Article URL: https://salamilang.substack.com/p/the-game-of-semantic-promises-or

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39983450

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Slalom: Designing a runtime for AI-generated code

valyagolev — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://slalomlang.substack.com/p/slalom-designing-a-runtime-for-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39325601

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by valyagolev in "An RNG that runs in your brain"

valyagolev — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:35:28 +0000

it'd be a fascinating feature - a random number on the face of the watch - especially on a mechanical one

New comment by valyagolev in "Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered"

valyagolev — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:32:30 +0000

perhaps because it gives the same answer, verbatim, for many different attempts to figure it out?

and because we know it well enough to be sure that it's not smart and devious enough (yet) to conspire like this? (nor has any clear reason to)

New comment by valyagolev in "Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens"

valyagolev — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:56:02 +0000

After discovering Muji Gel pens a decade ago I just buy them tens at a time (pens or refill sticks). They feel absolutely perfect and are very easy to obtain in Europe. It's a great feeling to find a product that works so well you can free your mind from the burden of search forever

New comment by valyagolev in "Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too"

valyagolev — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:05:36 +0000

we should code up a real online game to gather the stats here. maybe we'll find a real subliminal messaging model

New comment by valyagolev in "Balaji's Idea Maze"

valyagolev — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:06:54 +0000

so it hallucinates when explaining what these companies do in relation to an idea. basically it's an automatic downer machine that lies that there's a lot of companies making your idea

New comment by valyagolev in "Coastline paradox"

valyagolev — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:34:24 +0000

you also should, and inevitably will, cut corners smaller than your "step" when actually following the "coastline" in development. the more fixated one on the smallest details, the longer it will end up

New comment by valyagolev in "You can't do that because I hate you"

valyagolev — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 20:46:30 +0000

Weirdly I'm very used to this kind of stuff and take it very easily from programmers, but when a german bureaucrat does this same thing to me I'm also fuming.

New comment by valyagolev in "Where Are the Sanity Checks?"

valyagolev — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:11:14 +0000

there're no sanity checks because there are no sane "recovery" nor there are much risk. useless sanity checks mostly work towards making software annoying and unusable

New comment by valyagolev in "How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like"

valyagolev — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:48:54 +0000

Not engage on sensitive topics: yes, even with people you like

Not engage on any topic outside the strictly necessary for work: a passive-aggressive way to keep the animosity forever

New comment by valyagolev in "MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?"

valyagolev — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:27:36 +0000

they always insist that Leibnizian monad is not related to the FP monad at all, probably because it's a major point of pride of contemporary scientist to not be related to anything philosophical at all. sure.

still, i'm always wondering. why be so insistent. i mean, leibniz's monads are opaque substances that by itself have no causal relations with the world, but only affect each other/the world through "God". which sounds to me like an exact description of the IO monad

New comment by valyagolev in "McKinsey and its consulting industry peers face headwinds"

valyagolev — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:54:39 +0000

even simply expanding consultants' liability is bound to help them: they have more capital and more lawyers to fight, while any small shop would be destroyed by the first liability-related lawsuit

New comment by valyagolev in "McKinsey and its consulting industry peers face headwinds"

valyagolev — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:47:59 +0000

> with consulting there are no certifications, no licensing — it’s kind of a Wild West mentality

I imagine how bad it would become if you'd have to get an official certification to do consulting work

New comment by valyagolev in "Mistakes in the Design of CSS (2013)"

valyagolev — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:39:11 +0000

it is quite sensible that origin is top left in potentially scrollable situations

New comment by valyagolev in "Awesome Engineering Games"

valyagolev — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:42:59 +0000

Add Cosmoteer, where you build and fly a starship: playing it makes me think of John Boyd

New comment by valyagolev in "Researchers analysed novels to reveal six story types"

valyagolev — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:18:35 +0000

Borges: "There are only four stories: the siege of the city, the return home, the quest, and the sacrifice of a God"

New comment by valyagolev in "Videos of Godotcon 2023"

valyagolev — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:37:41 +0000

the man has a whole career out of pushing corporate-controlled languages into wider and more open use

New comment by valyagolev in "Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand"

valyagolev — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:40:48 +0000

tobacco patches do it for me

New comment by valyagolev in "Kolmogorov Neural Networks can represent discontinuous functions"

valyagolev — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:46:09 +0000

I wonder if there's a subsubsubfield of ML research that goes like "let's use halting-evaluator as an activation function for our purely theoretical neural network". or like, "NNs with oracle"...