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How do you trust numbers to “quantify extremely smart people”?

Interviewers know to hire/no-hire within first 10 minutes of talking to candidates.

Similarly, the best LLMs nowadays are probed only with some prompts.

Just last time I see LLM midwit meme on quantifying best scores on all benchmarks vs idiots/geniuses who just prompt something for some while.

Do not try to put numbers on everything.

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I’m not sure we’re disagreeing…

I said it was impossible to quantify, not that it should be quantified.

In general I just don’t think it’s a reason to decide on a programming language.

I didn't say it was a reason to "decide" on a programming language. I started with a premise and then said "here's my take" but nowhere did I say "this is my take on why you should use K/J/APL for real work." It's just a list of bullet points about why J (in my case) is interesting.

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