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drumnerd··on P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach
It reads like slop. It’s repetitive, abstract and adds essentially nothing beyond him babbling about himself.
drumnerd··on P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach
Slop.
drumnerd··on Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs
This is so obvious I am amazed it warrants a post.
drumnerd··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
It’s so simple to understand. There are tens of dictatorships around. Why this one? Shit is fucked more a lot more in Congo. Why is the US not interested? This is not about human rights. This is about oil.
drumnerd··on Statistical Process Control in Python
Many type errors
drumnerd··on Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
Every computer scientist with a grain of salt knows this…
drumnerd··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
The page is so obviously written with AI that it isn’t even worth reading. Try the model if you will but save yourselves the pain of reading ai slop
drumnerd··on GHC now runs in the browser
This comment looks as if written by an agent.
drumnerd··on Identity Types
In type checking, particularly in dependent types, it is not trivial to check that two types are the same. Different notions of equality are useful in this field. A type can contain a function value inside. How to prove that two functions are the same? Is not enough to prove that for all X f X and g X implies f is g.
drumnerd··on Type-machine
So a little bit of syntax is verbose, goes on to invent a whole new syntax for it
drumnerd··on I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
I would never ever let an LLM anywhere near C code. If you need help from LLM to write a NIF that performs basic C calls to the OS, you probably can’t check if it’s safe. I mean, it needs at least to pass valgrind.
drumnerd··on Show HN: The Aria Programming Language
Why the name conflict with aria the technology?
drumnerd··on Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September
Fuck trump, the Epstein buddy

Ave Brasil

drumnerd··on A list is a monad
A monad is not a container! It’s a way of composing functions if they have an effect. You tell how to inject a value in that effect (unit) and how to compose two functions that have that effect and that’s it: programmable semicolons.
drumnerd··on Type-constrained code generation with language models
This was obviously coming, and it should be tuned to Haskell and Agda
drumnerd··on Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics
Peer review is of utmost importance. Any researcher can make mistakes. I can read papers and apply them, but I need expert opinion to trust the papers. I am not skilled enough in any but my specialties.

I do see papers with outlandish claims and very weak support. This kind of excessively bold statement I see in many papers is a red flag for me.

drumnerd··on Advanced Python Features
Those are basic, you can decompile a function and change its bytecode, you can completely revamp the parser using codecs, etc
drumnerd··on Advanced Python Features
0 can be inferred as a float too, so doesn’t it make sense to type numbers?
drumnerd··on Advanced Python Features
Hey kiddo… did you ever try something nastier? I’ve got something that will blow your mind and you’ll keep coming back

You don’t know but you are addicted to types

Come to the light - Haskell!

drumnerd··on Catgrad: A categorical deep learning compiler
I think about cones all the time when doing machine learning. If I have an object O that can be mapped to A and B I can learn a function from A to B or B to A if I can generate Os. That’s my view of self supervised learning.
drumnerd··on Ask HN: I'm 38 and I have just left my last startup. What should I do next?
Oh I do that. But I mean… what kind of job I have a good chance at?
drumnerd··on Ask HN: I'm 38 and I have just left my last startup. What should I do next?
Poorly.

What kind of position can I aim at? What kind of companies are interested in failed founders with plenty experience otherwise?