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whattheheckheck··on FTL: A new operating system for clouds
Align your ascii diagrams. What else is misaligned and unreviewed?
whattheheckheck··on To grieve, or not to grieve?
You can ask it to provide a prolog or datalog program
whattheheckheck··on To grieve, or not to grieve?
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whattheheckheck··on Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers
the interface between specification and proof is not so clear, as one often has to look at the proof to understand the spec. And if we see something weird in the proof, that’s a good indication that something is off.

Yeah this is like if I say something is green how do you know that my green is your green? The proof of the mathematically modeled system is in no shape attached to the symbols that implement it unless its the same program or youre doing trace refinement. And then theres no way of proving that the program is correct in serving the business function unless you run it out. Quite computationally irreducible, the state machine of building state machines

whattheheckheck··on Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers
Yeah if were going for knuths literate programming this is not it. We dont need 1000 lines of more code to prove another 100 lines. It needs to be more digestible and if its not possible then let's break out the licensing board to prove the ones who do understand this from those who dont
whattheheckheck··on Anatomy of a Lean proof for software engineers
Oh yeah let me just take another 4 years of undergrad to get a math degree too.

I thought this AI or SI was supposed to make shit easier for everyone.

whattheheckheck··on What would a serious AI product look like?
And people genuinely think there is a god and an afterlife. Whoopdydoo
whattheheckheck··on The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
"Bet on it and start your own company"
whattheheckheck··on Everyone has ADHD because we made it up
What a sick attention economy to have to package arguments into a certain shape to acquire currency to pay to live
whattheheckheck··on Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math
Yes the famous math curriculum everyone loves and instills an intrinsic love of mathematics forever
whattheheckheck··on Evolving programming languages in the AI era
This keep getting repeated. So were just stuck with whatever we have at the point of training the magic plagiarism machine?

The future is cooked

whattheheckheck··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
Make all reports and assignments open source and public. Their credibility as students and professionals will be on the line. It will be obvious who puts in the effort and who doesn't
whattheheckheck··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
That cant be true, theres a paper trail of sign offs of the most likely people to understand the probabilities.

Please define proof of "really understands why a medication works"

It reminds me of fynemans why do magnets work. Yeah sure does anyone really understand anything? Its metaphors all the way down

whattheheckheck··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Because "the cause of the cause is the reason".

Probably human accountability.

Hypothetically, if a system built by humans then helps humans build the next system that is then initially kicked off with "design something that may influence the lives of other humans" and we all write down that AI is really good so inductively we thought itd be really good at the next thing it builds, and then a critical error is introduced and does "insert tragedy that you personally care about" then your rage would cause you to act politically and want to ask who signed off on it. If the engineering costs outweigh the fine then yeah thats what's probably going to happen but from a human accountability standpoint thats going to suck for the unlucky ones

whattheheckheck··on Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Throw in some tla+, eventb, p and modp for formal guarantees
whattheheckheck··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
I think we should ask chatgpt
whattheheckheck··on I don't want the details
How do you say that so they actually change?

They also have rational choice to not have to get their hands dirty. What incentive is there?

whattheheckheck··on Strands Harness
Pretty crazy amazon is advertising an open source repo. Not suggesting this is an ad but I've seen ads on reddit for it.

Ive heard from a 25 yoe consultant in a meetup group in person that aws agentcore was THE best way to handle enterprise agentic workflows with all of the proper knobs for governance etc since it comes with the iam integrations and arns etc.

whattheheckheck··on Transformers Explained Visually
When people say a book is good what does that mean? Good for infotainment? To get an intuitive understanding? To be able to open up Openthropic and compete against the frontier labs? What can you get in the book thats not available via a chatbot? Interesting question
whattheheckheck··on Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell
Its interpreters all the way down. Going up the stack is finding the right Domain Specific Language to describe the self modifying sociotechincal business process computer that is capitalism
whattheheckheck··on The End Of Upward Mobility – AI is coming for the meritocracy
And distribution and will to take bioenhancements is equal across all intelligences?
whattheheckheck··on College Is Coming Apart After Successive, Overlapping Crises
How do you make sure the nepotism families stay in control of the grander scheme
whattheheckheck··on If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
Give teachers and professors 1% of all future earnings of every student
whattheheckheck··on Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
The rates of paper publishing show that everyone must be using ai now or the rates wouldn't have gone up
whattheheckheck··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Shitty engagement that's not good long term human flourishing.
whattheheckheck··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
Start making companies with the business amd marketing depts to solve real problems woth conscious capitalism
whattheheckheck··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Panopticon. 1984. Brave New World. Fahrenheit 451. Robu's Baselisk. Was there an answer to any of this?
whattheheckheck··on Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?
Yes foundations of agnostic statistics and all of statistics
whattheheckheck··on LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
And you know he was right
whattheheckheck··on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
It was defined in Animal Intelligence by George John Ramones in 1882 as "intelligence is the capacity to do the right thing at the right time. It is the ability to respond to the opportunities and challenges presented by a context"
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