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bmitc··on Bringing uv and ty together
That's how Rust's Cargo and Elixir's Mix both work.
bmitc··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
It's a clear indication that the models aren't as good as they say, market, and hype up. The model companies also don't want to actually be responsible for anything. By building real products that interact with the real world, they then become responsible for those products' failures. But if they just sell tokens and say the models are "for entertainment purposes", then they get away without having any responsibility.
bmitc··on Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as Pull Back from Physical Media Continues
The Sony Xperia is thinner and lighter than any iPhone and has the same IP rating.

Apple just outputs propaganda so that they can sell everyone overpriced earpods.

bmitc··on Sony Exits UHD Blu-ray Player Market as Pull Back from Physical Media Continues
> It’s apparently cool to lament headphone jacks, or field replaceable batteries, but the inconvenience of them means nobody would be using them anyway.

What is inconvenient about any of those things?

bmitc··on Anthropic recorded a staggering $80B net loss in the first half of 2026
Why would you buy the dip of an unprofitable enterprise?
bmitc··on Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery
It's always sad to me the atrocities that can be committed if you do them behind a corporation that makes people a lot of money.
bmitc··on Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery
Not with humans.
bmitc··on Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery
BP's revenue in the last 30 years is over $6.5 trillion. Other than the bad press and some lost coins, they don't really give a shit.
bmitc··on Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
Isn't that "doing math" in the same way that every other experienced professional "does <x>"?
bmitc··on China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024
Sources?

What does the stock market have to do with anything?

bmitc··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
> All 12 million lines do not need to be checked

That's extremely hard to believe. First, one question arises: what are the 12 million lines doing if they're not needed? Secondly, don't those 12 million lines build up the theory that is eventually proved? Mistakes could be there that makes the outer statement seem like something it isn't, could there not be?

bmitc··on Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'
Rich people in general have this belief, that they somehow got there by objective means and via their superior intellect. I just watched an interview the other day that someone posted where Sam Altman described using a notebook (yes literally pencil and paper) but was describing it as if he had discovered fire. These people are literally blinded by their money.
bmitc··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
A Lean program that compiles proves what it states. The question is whether the program states what we think it does. If I recall, this program is 12 million lines long. Mathlib is not perfect, and it's not hard at all to have a Lean statement that isn't what you think it is.

So my question is whether people have actually checked that the generated program, all 12 million lines of it, has the statements that are expected.

bmitc··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
I know what Lean is. That doesn't answer the question.
bmitc··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
What has shown the Lean proof to be correct?
bmitc··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
> The authors are claiming that the Lean proof is not the same proof as the NL one.

Is that exactly the same as saying the Lean proof isn't correct? I'm confused by what you're trying to distinguish.

bmitc··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
That's the point ...
bmitc··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
It's interesting how arrogant Europeans can be towards the U.S. when they themselves seeded the U.S.!
bmitc··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
Whales seemed to have figured that out.
bmitc··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
What do you mean by native target in this instance? Since you mentioned Rust, which is a systems language that compiles to native with no runtime, and Go, which has a garbage collector and runtime, as examples I'm a little confused.
bmitc··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Advocating purely for progress and not humanitarian value is how we'll all get enslaved.
bmitc··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
> The languages that Gleam is most like might be Standard ML, OCaml, Elm, and F#.

And guess which languages inspired several things in Rust.

bmitc··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
> I'd say if you know and like Rust, then Gleam should be easy to pick up

I think by sentiments like this, people mean if you know unions, records, and pattern matching then you'll more easily pick up another language that has unions, records, and pattern matching.

bmitc··on Polars 2.0
There are awkward things. For example, if you ingest a nanosecond resolution timestamp, there's no way to re-export that out of the Polars dataframe with nanosecond resolution.
bmitc··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
Ahh, interesting. Thanks for the info!

Von Neumann was himself pretty pro atomic bomb, though, and wanted to preemptively bomb the Soviet Union.

bmitc··on ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database
Small government to Republicans has _always_ meant "government our way or the highway". And how can they be the "fiscally responsible" party and yet be the cause of the national debt, borrowing from social security, and overspending and waste every Republican presidency?

And it's crazy. Remember when people claimed vaccines, which save people's lives, were being called an attack on the American people by the Democrats? But then Republican enabled no-names pulled of the street to go around shooting citizens and others, and that's apparently fine.

bmitc··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
LLMs do not understand anything.
bmitc··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
I wouldn't be surprised if he's at least partially an inspiration for the Dr. Felix Hoenikker character in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.
bmitc··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
It's highly unlikely, I think, that another Von Neumann was prevented. He was a singular genius.

However, the gatekeeping you mention definitely occurs to mere mortals who might have an interesting bend on existing ideas.

bmitc··on Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
I think UX designers are also well-positioned, especially those that are more technical and can use LLMs.

Basically anyone who understands systems will be fine and more and more important, even.

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