thanatropism's comments

On: Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers

[thanatropism]

AlphaGo passes Hubert Dreyfus's test -- it has a world -- in a way that LLMs don't.

On: Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests

[thanatropism]

"Trash Truck" and Pocoyo.

On: Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests

[thanatropism]

"1;

On: OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK

[thanatropism]

Ehh. Sometimes you don't want to have to have string builders to assemble REST calls.

On: Revealing causal links in complex systems: New algorithm shows hidden influences

[thanatropism]

You can always restrict the meaning of "causality".

E.g. Granger casusality means that A is typically detected before B and not the other way around (so not mere correlation). It's a moby useful concept.

On: Musicmap: The genealogy and history of popular music genres

[thanatropism]

This ain't it, chief.

> Jazz is music performed by an ensemble of players, each (very) specialized and proficient in their respective instrument.

So wait, a duet with Cecil Taylor and Eric Dolphy, the latter of which also plays the flute and many more wind instruments is...

On: Our Git Hash Bug

[thanatropism]

NestedText + Pydantic.

On: Adding 16 kb page size to Android

[thanatropism]

Tihs probably refers to comon mispelllings an typo's.

[HeatrayEnjoyer → thanatropism]

It's actually not. You can scramble every letter within words and it can mostly unscramble it. Keep the first letter and it recovers almost 100%.

On: My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)

[thanatropism]

Is any of those easily modifiable to return the arg-median (the index which has the median).

On: YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet

[thanatropism]

YouTube may have peaked as the outstanding source of impressively high quality content on a very wide range of topics about 3-5 weeks ago; possibly with Horses' guide on surviving in a desert island. It's still so, so good.

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I remember a film of Salvador Dali talking to a cheering crowd and saying in full dictator voice "... in the future... toilet bowls will be made of gold..." (roaring crowd). That's what's happened to the internet at large.