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chadcmulligan··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
From what I've read they had PM's and a team, a small Manhattan style project, I've never heard of a maths project being tackled this way, it would be interesting to duplicate with people.
chadcmulligan··on Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists
oh nice, xcancel is back (for a while anyway)
chadcmulligan··on Ideas aren't getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward
There's a book The Creative Act - A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, he's a music producer but the ideas are general, I enjoyed it. I have enough ideas to last me a lifetime, its a pretty inspirational book, there's always something and now we have these wonderful automata to help us discover things - it's the beginning of a golden age imho.
chadcmulligan··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
ie the code had bugs, and they didn't update the documentation. wouldn't be the first time.
chadcmulligan··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
I've had the same thought about the maths - they've spent millions on tokens, I can't recall anyone spending millions on mathematicians.
chadcmulligan··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
The managers you have must be startlingly different from my experience.

Owner: Can you make the box red?

claude: sure

Owner: no not that box, the green one

...

Apart from this, how would things work in our current capitalist society when everything costs very little, all the scarcity drivers disappear. Things will change no doubt but not in the way everyone's scared of, I'm sure. It's going to be an interesting ride. Personally I think smarts are going to be needed even more to figure out what these ai's are saying, I think everyone really underestimates how little these skills exist

chadcmulligan··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I don't know, I get more work done now in a few hours than I used to in a day, so maybe the working week should be shrunk, that would solve things. The solution seems pretty easy - but then I'm not in the US.
chadcmulligan··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
It's funny we're possibly entering a golden age of thought, the dreams of the ancients, but we're all worried about capitalism, I think the problem is pretty obvious.
chadcmulligan··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
I'm not sure why being relatively simple would mean C over Rust? Rust still has the safety advantages.
chadcmulligan··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
And quite a few reasons that something better than C should be used. Rust seems a good candidate.
chadcmulligan··on Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)
That was 20 years ago (1997–2006) (sorry), Eureka was a little more recent and very optimistic (2006 - 2012), the new star treks are recent but they have lost their optimism, I'm not really sure what they are.
chadcmulligan··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
> This has worked much better for us than asking a model to draw lines in a GUI. It also means the benchmark can spend less time testing computer use and more time testing electronics.

this is key I think - I use it for graphics tasks - it sucks at graphical environments - always use some text based representation, not really surprising I suppose. chatgpt even suggested I'll use the text representation, claude said how about I give you svg and you convert it, they seem to know.

chadcmulligan··on Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic
Interesting - If you're after cross platform Flutter/Dart seems a more cross platform solution (mobile, desktop and web), or Delphi/Lazarus without the web.
chadcmulligan··on It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
I never really bought into it, I still think ideas are hard, and execution may be a little easier, but still hard to. The lack of thousands of amazing new startups since AI sort of validates this.
chadcmulligan··on It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
what happened to ideas are cheap - execution is everything.

As Claude said to me when I said the same thing - it's not really its idea you had to ask the right questions. I find this true in some ways - asking the right question and finding out what the AI's have hidden inside them is like panning for gold imho.

chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
thats ok, I'm not really disturbed. I do wonder if there's evolving a restricted definition of 'normal' in some circles. I am older and it never used to be this way, it's the internet of course. People aren't that homogenised (imho).
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Thanks, I didn't really mean it was a negative, perhaps this is indicative of the problem - someone finds things odd, therefore here's a list of diagnoses. I should up my dosage of soma probably.
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Maybe, I do like trains, but apart from that...
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Disappointing - it seems I'm neither German or Autistic, but normal, and yet my experience suggests otherwise
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
Thanks for the links - from the OP post "Neurotypical syndrome is a neurobiological disorder characterized by preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity." I know this is a gag, but I see things like this and think oh maybe I'm autistic but no, I have the same complaints autistic people have, I just call it deathly dull, who knows.
chadcmulligan··on Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical
I sometimes wonder if there are other possible neurodivergence, I'm not neurotypical, but I'm also not autistic (at least according to the criteria I've seen), just a bit odd or quirky doesn't seem to be enough.
chadcmulligan··on Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has
You might like Melbourne, Federation square is beside Art galleries, trams, heritage train station, casino across the river, stadiums a short journey, though empty parking spots would be rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_Square

chadcmulligan··on The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
Alien is the same imho, hard to believe two of the most iconic sci fi's were created by the same guy and only 3 years apart.
chadcmulligan··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
where's it mentioned on that link? I can't seem to find hallucinations (don't worry found it).

Yes, sometimes its wrong, most times its right, cross checking is fairly easy, not using it because of the possibility its wrong seems a baby with the bath water thing.

I learnt a lot of functional programming from it, stuff I've always wanted to learn, but just didn't have the time and really the sources can be difficult, it really explained things well, and as someone else said in this thread, you can ask questions over and over until you understand, asking a person that (if you can get an expert) would drive them nuts. Maybe my experience isn't typical, its hard to tell, everyone reports something different.

chadcmulligan··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
These animations are great. I have learnt so many things from LLM's, cross checking things is easy enough, but the hallucinations are really not much of a thing any more (in my experience). When you deep dive on things it does seem to get very wordy sometimes (this is claude anyway). Its taught me flutter and dart without opening a book (with the occasional reference page), set me straight on monads finally, refined some linear algebra, various bits of history, and philosophy, I'm learning spinors at the moment. Is some of it wrong - maybe, but it's not like my brain is 100% accurate any way, and when I need accuracy I look up references. It is fantastic getting a broad overview of a subject you don't know or a precis of a current subject, and its so much faster.
chadcmulligan··on The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
> The state needs to use AI to make bureaucracy instantaneous

The stuff of many sci fi tropes - it seldom ends well.

A bit OT but there's a character in a couple of frank Herbert books - Jorj X Mckie saboteur extraordinary in the Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab). BuSab is a government agency responsible for conducting dirty tricks "in lieu of red tape" to help slow down and regulate the vast galaxy-spanning bureaucracy.

chadcmulligan··on Why do you suck at juggling now?
My side project so that I can get out of here
chadcmulligan··on Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy
Very cool, did you suggest Rust/Bevy? Claude is always recommending it to me as an exemplar, it does seem nice but moving to rust would be a project. I wonder how it gets these ideas stuck in its pseudo head.
chadcmulligan··on Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
an SEP - somebody else's problem
chadcmulligan··on Blogging can just be stating the obvious
There's an xkcd for everything, I wonder if there's an xkcd for that?
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