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whattheheckheck··on Everything is logarithms
What made you want to understand it or did it happen upon you in college
whattheheckheck··on Everything is logarithms
Thanks for sharing, very interesting. I wonder how this maps to swe
whattheheckheck··on Human Judgment as a Specification
So write the thing that proves the black box of magic output satisfies the solution?
whattheheckheck··on How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math
Have you actually written proofs in Lean with your professional reputation on the line?
whattheheckheck··on Tech CEOs are breaking the law
Who coined the term legal arbitrage?
whattheheckheck··on From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap
What about the price to verify your newly borne vibe coded project. At least the person who published it has a chance to have used their project to valid/solve their own problem and then was nice enough to publish it back to be freely used vs costing $10 to prompt it into existence
whattheheckheck··on AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
Old guard status games be like
whattheheckheck··on Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri
So much for agi... so glad we have more bs to work with in this industry
whattheheckheck··on I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
What about in 10 years when they auto search and label users for political dissent and likelihood of impact
whattheheckheck··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Its been 10 years of historical abuse. You're a battered spouse in a bad relationship with the most audacious narcissist that has ever lived.
whattheheckheck··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
What's the actual antidote to this? 5calls.org?
whattheheckheck··on The computer science degree isn’t dead
He was bragging about having a ti calculator in the 80s was seen as cool in that "interview" he filmed with Steve bannon
whattheheckheck··on How a new DSL may survive in the era of LLMs
Is pandas a DSL for dataframes or a library?

Beware https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple...

whattheheckheck··on Trying to fix complicated problems
Danield Schmattenberger made a distinction between complicated problems and complex problems as the difference between a highly technical blueprint of a deterministic machine vs something more like a nonlinear dynamical system that feeds into or models itself.

Additionally there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

So get cracking tokenmaxxers

whattheheckheck··on How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math
How would you even be able to recognize the proof is valid? Or its own proof that it understands its own proof.... This ain't the future
whattheheckheck··on How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math
Except medicine is 1000x older than software engineering as a field
whattheheckheck··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Let's see their private journals, private conversations, messages to peers, all meetings and every side conversation, and then tell me its unintentional.

Thats incredibly infuriating to hear someone say.

Obviously no one is absolute control of everything but physics is essentially shows nothing other than information determinism. There has to have been a thought of intention in the minds of these people as they play in the largest arena publicly.

"No one is doing it intentionally because I think theyre dumber then I think other people think they are"

"They're taking advantage of people intentionally"

"People dont have political power to do anything about their victory laps"

whattheheckheck··on Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
What a fun system we have set up and continue to be trapped in
whattheheckheck··on RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
What is the gold that were all mining for?

Ah yes higher fidelity, external stimulus + human response tuples to feed the ad revenue machine

whattheheckheck··on Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
Yeah has anyone discovered sociocracy?

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/

whattheheckheck··on Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
What does he say
whattheheckheck··on Doing nothing at work
Business will take everything you give. Theyre bean counters will be always calculating when it costs more to hire and onboard a new dev than to let you take your time....
whattheheckheck··on Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Yes my bad I even checked it in the calculator but then typed in .01 again but added % again. I meant to do it to serve as an example of how bad humans are at thing.... right...

Yes 1%

whattheheckheck··on Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
Idk one of his yt video presentations was saying we're entering a "designer" age of the universe

https://youtu.be/ThFq87Rp21s?si=SrKj72_X8bjnB6ED

Around 35min mark

whattheheckheck··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
Bad for society
whattheheckheck··on Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Anecdotal.

13 million swe roles with .01% is 130,000 compromised devices.

Process problem

whattheheckheck··on Doing nothing at work
You can say no thats too much work load, we're understaffed or its too tight of a timeliness for the results.

But understand the ecosystem. People make promises that arent entirely dependent on them to be able to deliver

whattheheckheck··on Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
Yeah take the gpu rental cost, what it can run, how many tokens per second come out and see the true rate per token. Plus the margin on harness special sauce
whattheheckheck··on Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
The cheap models may ask subpar questions leading to subpar solutions
whattheheckheck··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Yeah ultimately who wouldnt want that? (Strawman btw) The other extreme is, what exactly do the power hungry cretins want? Godlike worship form all other humans.

Reality will be whatever happens (capital and corportism wins through the monopoly of violence and the oligarchic capture)

One example of legible demands: Americademands.com

There are many people with many unmet needs. Everyone has played a part and continues to do so every day with their choices.

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