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Avshalomon What makes Lisp difficult to read?

I mean ask OP, I don't know what's what in the Scheme rXrs or Common Lisp standard libraries.

Although my general stance remains, most lisp code bases I've seen are remarkably verbose which leads to a glazing over far more than the lack of distinct symbols or prefix notation

Avshalomon What makes Lisp difficult to read?

this actually gets at the real problem. Lisps are wordy as hell. like jesus

  (split-sequence:split-sequence #\Space line)

now imagine if that was

  (split-string " " line)

image if the whole function was

  (defun split (line)
    (remove [\(word) (= "" word)] [split-string " " line]))

or even

  (defun split (line)
    (remove "" [split-string " " line]))

*using [] in place of rainbow parens for clarity of sub arguments

Avshalomon Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll

The rent is too damn high.

Avshalomon Newborn girls and boys show different attention patterns within hours of birth

Method here is a little iffy I gotta say. They had people just watch video and judge which direction the baby was looking, then average the closest two.

also the total difference is like a second and a half out of 70.

also also a parent had to hold the child which introduces a mechanism of biasing.

Avshalomon ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

Yuuup. tracking consumers and finding spending correlations to exploit was the entire reason for the "Data Science" and "ML" pushes that got us here.

Avshalomon It's finally here: Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

They're optimizing the cable you can trip over/have to walk around/remember both at home and at, eventually, parking lots.

Avshalomon Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Microsoft owns a quarter of OpenAI and 20% of it's revenue

Avshalomon New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

Yeah, we hate that too man. It's just not the topic at hand.

Avshalomon Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

Paint.net is closed source

Avshalomon Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting

I'm on team Pluto here but no, the problem was that Mike Brown found like a dozen 'planets' and no one wanted to deal with that. It was closer to preventing someone from making a name for themselves.

Avshalomon Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons

Because it doesn't seem to be actually going to FOSS

Avshalomon Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs

Unless I have to interact with their software in which case I've lost the right to repair it.

Avshalomon Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs

You are literally paying them to be concerned about your code.

Avshalomon Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

In the etymological sense there's a difference. There is no practical difference to the people calling for it though.

'Roma are like wolves, we should shoot wolves' isn't exactly subtle.

Avshalomon Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

'OSS "became" too entangled with political activism'

Statements dreamed up by people who get gilliganed by a coconut every morning.

Avshalomon Fences, Not Sandboxes

>This tier, or the one just after it, will power hundreds to thousands of new AI employees at every company.

>And companies are in no way, shape, or form prepared for this transition.

so, uh, what's the business model here?

Avshalomon Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

There's no actual IQ test. Any data you've ever seen using "IQ" to predict academic outcomes is actually just using prior academic scores bent into the shape of a symmetric normal distribution.

Avshalomon Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

Jesus

Yes. agents.md does very little because prompts change the context and thus the initial path into/though but they don't/can't change the actual weights that control responses. Yes. of course it gets worse as the session goes on, assuming the prompt is even still in the context window, the further it gets away from it the less it affects next token selection.

This shit is only like 5 years old why can't anyone remember how it works

Avshalomon The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

I mean you kinda are just expected to ignore angry outbursts directed at you from anyone. That's not even about disability, it's just part of the social contract that you don't start throwing blows when people yell at you.

Avshalomon AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

So if it gives you bad advice it's your fault.

Avshalomon Premier league bans gambling sponsors

You're right, only about half of them are less than £5.93m with one of them being almost the same.

Avshalomon Premier league bans gambling sponsors

About half of those kit numbers are less per year than a single 30 second ad during the superbowl.

Avshalomon The Strongest El Niño Ever

If your biscuits are getting anywhere close to the smoke point of crisco, you are doing something very wrong.

Avshalomon If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

Software's absurd margins was like the whole pitch.

Avshalomon Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

Nostr isn't really p2p it's just that if you stick to text it's cheap to host a server

Avshalomon Who Is America's Homer?

Lotta obvious answers left off because this seems to be about poets specifically.

Avshalomon Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data

Of course one of the reasons social housing won't get built is the faircloth limit from 20 years ago.

Avshalomon Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

Communicating in a clear unambiguous way doesn't actually help with using llms.

Avshalomon Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

>>"Can LLMs provide access to timely constructive feedback in specific educational contexts?"

"Can they" is not the same as "do they" and "specific educational contexts" is not relevant to "all educators"

Is it possible to get constructive feedback? sure, maybe. Is it possible to get a specific teacher's feedback? Not really. Is it possible to guarantee it will be productive feedback? No, especially if the student has to/gets to interact with it.

Is it likely that the reason "all educators" aren't tripping over themselves to have their students submit some number of drafts to an llm is because that's not actually a good idea? sure, probably.

Avshalomon Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students

>>It doesn't mean they shut their own brains down, or that they are suggesting that students do so

It doesn't not mean that either.