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garrisonj··on Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs
The issue is I’ll have to vibecode all the laws and the laws could be wrong.
garrisonj··on Ask HN: What Makes AI a Bubble?
It’s important to keep in mind that railroads, airplanes, and the internet also caused bubbles.

Just because of an invention is useful and world changing doesn’t mean it won’t cause a bubble.

garrisonj··on If AI Can't Code It, It's Already Dead
If AI is going to deliver on its promises, it’s gotta do better than that. Learning a new framework or library is the easy part.
garrisonj··on Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app
These types of projects always look really cool, but I always doubt they will be maintained so I decide not to use them.
garrisonj··on Ask HN: Best way to remove CO2 in a bedroom?
I want to experience pre-industrial co2 levels
garrisonj··on Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends
This is far beyond what is expected from a 16 year old. Great Job!

I see some comments giving you suggestions that I don't agree with. I suggest you keep going.

garrisonj··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
Are people surprised that the app is written in code that can run on a different computer? Of course it can.

It would be much weirder to learn they built an entire tech stack specifically for the device and that it was technically impossible to port it.

garrisonj··on A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains
“long-term damage to adolescent rat brains”

I keep hearing warnings from intelligent people that you shouldn’t trust conclusions drawn from rat studies because they are preliminary and usually sensationalized.

garrisonj··on Ruby Heaps Inspired by Python
Defining a new class is probably the most Ruby way to do it. There are two implementations that define a new class: rb_heap[1] and algorithms[2]. However, algorithms[2] use a Fibonacci heap, which should technically have better time complexity but is slower in practice, and the library pulls in a lot of unnecessary stuff. rb_heap is good, although I think using a symbol to specify if it's a max/min heap is a little strange.

There is something satisfying about using an array like Python. It's very straightforward and doesn't require you to convert back and forth between a queue and a array.

That's an interesting idea to use Queue. I do need random access to implement the binary queue, so I'm not sure if Queue would work.

1. https://github.com/florian/rb_heap 2. https://github.com/kanwei/algorithms

garrisonj··on YouTube addiction, one month sober
If you are using Arc, I created a boost to block Youtube. You can add a custom message to yourself in the CSS settings.

https://arc.net/boost/208CA384-0BC8-4EEF-A944-BC551D4AD48D

garrisonj··on OpenAI's chaos does not add up
OpenAI designed safety breaks into their organization that exploded at the first sign of profits.
garrisonj··on Tell HN: Putting mirrors around my desk improved my posture
I legitimately might try this.
garrisonj··on GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt
Is it really so bad to release the prompt?
garrisonj··on Land Ownership Makes No Sense
I grew up in Oregon, where all the beaches are public. Later I discovered that some people in different places owned beaches, which blew my mind. How can you own a beach?

I then wondered why I felt that way about beaches, but not about other lands.

garrisonj··on Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered
Really? I can’t imagine people turning off the lazy evaluation. It’s a deep part of the language. You can force things to evaluate strictly, but that’s not disabling it.
garrisonj··on Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100k Nearby Galaxies (2015)
I always feel like these discussions are built upon extrapolating on assumptions based on speculation.

How could we, a species that hasn’t progressed that far, know what advanced civilizations look like?

garrisonj··on WikiScroll
Now I can train myself the way the AIs do it
garrisonj··on ‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: first US town to demand a rent decrease
I'm sure we could find things for all the people who live there to lower their expenses. But there is an asymptote to how much people can save.
garrisonj··on ‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: first US town to demand a rent decrease
You can’t anticipate a 25% increase in your largest expenses living on that salary. Pets are awesome, and people want to live life.
garrisonj··on 'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'
True. We’ll feel like they are sentient way before they are.
garrisonj··on The gap between how old you are and how old you think you are
There is an asymmetry here, because, for the most part, you can’t know what it feels like to be an age until you’ve been it. So it will be more common to feel your age or younger because that's what you've experienced.

If you feel worn out when you are 25, you just think that’s what being 25 feels like.

garrisonj··on My class required AI
Yeah, there are a lot of positives. It's not just about stopping kids from cheating. It's a better system, in my opinion.
garrisonj··on My class required AI
Switching to a system where students watch lectures at home and do homework in class was overdue anyway. I think that’s the real way to stop AI from writing everything.
garrisonj··on Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
I would switch music providers if they had a client that wasn't buggy. So there is a market for quality software. It's just challenging.
garrisonj··on St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum
I wanted to find the list without the fancy styling and found this: https://fs.blog/great-books/

Much easier to copy and paste.

garrisonj··on Software Disenchantment (2018)
I would switch music streaming services for a client that wasn’t buggy. I think there is an untapped market for a software company that provides high-quality software. Market competition might kick in if a company can pull it off. It's probably more complicated than it sounds, though, because software frameworks don't provide that level of quality.
garrisonj··on Show HN: Narratives Project – A news product for a more peaceful internet
Confronting conflicting opinions is uncomfortable. You will get many angry responses from people from all sides (if you are doing your job right). So y'all will have to find a way to deal with that emotionally.
garrisonj··on Show HN: Narratives Project – A news product for a more peaceful internet
I’m often not looking for the “correct” perspective, I’m just looking for what the other perspectives are.

If a lot of people think a certain way, that’s enough for me to want to learn about it.

garrisonj··on Show HN: Narratives Project – A news product for a more peaceful internet
I took a quick scan of your articles and I love what you are doing. They were very clear. I will definitely come back for more.

When reading the news, I’m often not searching for “facts”, but instead I’m trying to understand the “facts” from the perspective of people I disagree with.

garrisonj··on Ask HN: Are people only smart until they talk about things you know more about?
Listening to people talk about things I know a lot about teaches me to be quite about things I’m not an expert it.
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