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kalb_almas··on Unified Arabic
In my experience there is an implicit understanding that Arabic is at least as close to perfect as it gets. The basic reasoning is that the Quran is perfect and written in Arabic, therefore Arabic is perfect. Nobody says this explicitly so the logic doesn't have to be airtight, but native Arabic speakers in Arabic contexts do tend to behave as if this is the case.
kalb_almas··on Write Software in Latin (2025) [video]
Absurd. There's about a million times more English text in the world than Latin text (so far). In 1000 years, English will be much better understood than Latin and it's not even close. Write software in English.
kalb_almas··on Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
I would love this but I think the General Reasoning and Make No Mistakes modules would be massive.
kalb_almas··on The Religion of Speed
Google didn't win because it was last. It was last because it won!
kalb_almas··on Where is the AI jobs crisis?
>Now, to your point. Is the code all that clean? Nope... but who cares?

Typically, this is not the type of phrase that is said right before everything goes extremely well

kalb_almas··on Self-updating screenshots
I'm sometimes getting

NoMethodError at /self-updating-screenshots undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass

Ruby title-for: in handle, line 12 Web GET interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots

followed by a very detailed traceback when I try to access the page

kalb_almas··on GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card
This seems kind of irrelevant? Humans have General Intelligence while having a context window of, what, 5MB, to be generous. Model weights only need to contain the capacity for abstract reasoning and querying relevant information. That they currently hold real-world information at all is kind of an artifact of how models are trained.
kalb_almas··on C. Elegans: The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
Can't continuousness be simulated by lazy evaluation? Also you're assuming the simulator is bound by the same physical limitations that exist inside the simulation which seems unreasonable to me. Simulations are usually vastly simpler than the substrate they run on.
kalb_almas··on Numbering should start at zero (1982)
Funny. I like my numbering to start at one for the same reason.
kalb_almas··on "We're building a new static type checker for Python"
Is anyone going to tell them how bad that name is? Especially considering their other project is called ruff...
kalb_almas··on macOS Sequoia Preview
Dude thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. I use Rectangle to tile windows and I've been looking for a way to switch between windows based on their position on my screen rather than their type for probably about a year now.
kalb_almas··on Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
> Somebody would put up a website about their favorite pet topic and when the search engine unearthed it, that's what you got.

The difference is that reading someone's blog post forces you to take their trajectory through the material and it might not go over the exact points you're curious or confused about. With a forum like StackOverflow you often have to settle for problems that are merely close enough to your own that the solutions apply to it.

Models like ChatGPT allow you to ask for blog posts on any topic on demand and then ask for follow-up blog posts about whatever aspect of the previous blog post you want to elaborate.

kalb_almas··on Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional
Even with improved support for parallelism, what role will Python have in the future if Mojo makes good on even half of its promises?
kalb_almas··on Young people are flocking to astrology
MBTI
kalb_almas··on Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin
THC affects people very differently in my experience. It can really run the gamut from sedative to stimulant to psychedelic depending on the person. I don't think the sativa-indica dichotomy can fully explain this because the same variety of effects can be seen from a single bowl or bag of edibles.