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hyperthesis··on Apple Vision Pro review
Discontent over this implementation detail shows users are fully sold on the basic idea. Like, if the main complaint about the first Fords was the colour range.
hyperthesis··on Law for Computer Scientists (2020)
The law can turn out to be different from what everyone thought. A higher court can reverse it. Even in the highest court, stating the definitive law, justices often dissent.

So the idea that the law actually exists, and we just have to find it, doesn't seem correct. Given that judges were usually barristers before, it's more like: one barrister confidently argues that the law has always been X, the opposing barrister confidently argies it's always been Y, the former-barrister confidently argues that it has always been Z - and that one always wins.

hyperthesis··on Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
Sorry, too harsh, I should have said: "We can argue for animal intelligence but they can't argue for ours.
hyperthesis··on Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
You can argue for animal intelligence but they can't argue for yours.

Humans are also found to be more complex/intelligent/sophisticated than was thought, given AI goalpost moving.

hyperthesis··on Scientists discover near-Earth asteroid hours before it exploded over Berlin
Wouldn't the most dangerous trajectories be the hardest to observe?

Of those 1.2 million orbits, how many are dangerous?

hyperthesis··on Chinese researchers planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer
You just need a car radiator and engine.
hyperthesis··on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
The maximum complexity increases, but the average complexity? Bacteria outnumber us.

It's more that it diffuses evenly rather than having a specific direction.

hyperthesis··on TSMC 2nm Update: Two Fabs in Construction, One Awaiting Government Approval
Yep, and they used to be measured in microns. e.g. the Z80 used the 4 μm process node https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80 1000nm = 1μm

Next smallest is picometers, 1000pm = 1nm

hyperthesis··on NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter
oblig. https://xkcd.com/695/
hyperthesis··on Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time
To find a needle in a haystack, looking at each straw needs to be a really cheap operation. Even if it was right there the whole time.

"cheap and powerful enough that individual researchers can muck around with it at home" seems a pretty good measure of this, because of the explosion in width and pace of experimentation.

hyperthesis··on Relearning math as an adult
Thanks! I think I now recognize this from Spivak (Calculus), where much of the teaching is literally in the exercises. You are guided along, deriving/proving many things along the way, some incidental, some cumulative. (There's also important exposition in the exercises.)

A downside is you lose the thread if you skip exercises (e.g. do alternate ones) - the exercises are an integrated whole. But it's a lot to do all of them.

I hadn't gotten the impression that these helped show why exactly the axioms were choosen - though could well be there and I just didn't see it.

hyperthesis··on TSMC 2nm Update: Two Fabs in Construction, One Awaiting Government Approval
Since nm are Now Marketing, unrelated to physical dimension, how consequential is this node shrink? It must have passed some threshold to justify new factories - what was it?
hyperthesis··on The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
Isn't this the standard automation trajectory, of lower level work being done by machines, leaving humans to do the higher level work? Summarizing is a step before generalizing/inferring/what-if/creating. Even for knowledge-workers, wasn't the spreadsheet a similar automation?

Historically, automation creates more work than it replaces; but why should that continue? One reason is that automation is a commodity, so competition shifts to non-automated functions. Human demand continues.

Of course, this doesn't address the non-economic concerns of the Luddites, that the human investment in skills is lost, and the derived sense of human value and dignity. Unfortunately in the long-term: whatever your labour, AI is coming for you.

hyperthesis··on The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
I like the idea that iteration is faster, for people learning to manage AI vs people.
hyperthesis··on The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
AI improves faster than economies adapt. A singularity?

Present LLMs are glorified search. As they approach real-time training, Google will go away, finally disrupted. (Google's 20% time was meant to avoid this very thing, but you need a whole organization behind an idea to disrupt, however small: e.g. IBM's PC developed in startup-like separate business unit.)

hyperthesis··on Why did words that end in "tron" once sound so futuristic? (2017)
Emblems of "newness", like coolness, lose that quality pretty quickly. Even post-modern is old hat.

What currently connotes newness? Or is the present age so dystopian and pessimistic that we lack one?

hyperthesis··on Relearning math as an adult
Could you elaborate on this please: "the exercises guide you to "invent" the important parts of the theory."

BTW: I think time not doing exercises is just as important; it's when your mind tries to piece together the data. Coincidentally(?) time resting, after physically exercising, is when your muscles strengthen.

hyperthesis··on Mourning Google
Jobs-as-coach, guiding by valuing what you value but more so, by its contribution to a valued goal. https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

Elon does the same externally ("visionary") - and I expect internally.

hyperthesis··on Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
It's the mods who ban together locked as interesting
hyperthesis··on Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
FINALLY the stackexchange cookie-dialog works (goes away) in old FF (68.11.0)!
hyperthesis··on Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier
I like https://github.com/evanw/lightgl.js

learnt from https://jamie-wong.com/2016/08/05/webgl-fluid-simulation/#im...

  the elegant lightgl.js, which is an abstraction layer on top of WebGL that makes it much nicer to work with. Unlike THREE.js, it doesn’t make any assumptions about you wanting any concept of a camera or lighting or that you’re working in 3D at all.
hyperthesis··on At 93, he's as fit as a 40-year-old. His body offers lessons on aging
Frail and inactive. Correlation? Causality? Direction?

In a study, post-menopausal women weight-trained, giving 40% increase in bone density.

The inactivity of "retirement" kills. Use ^ lose.

hyperthesis··on At 93, he's as fit as a 40-year-old. His body offers lessons on aging
Frail and inactive. Correlation? Causality? Direction?

In a study, post-menopausal women weight-trained, giving 40% increase in bone density.

The inactivity of "retirement" kills. Use ^ lose.

hyperthesis··on Modeless Vim
pie you have pumpkin with
hyperthesis··on Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. - Gall's Law
hyperthesis··on Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
aka "living within your means", used to be laudable.
hyperthesis··on Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
https://old.reddit.com/r/PovertyFIRE/
hyperthesis··on A periodic table of visualization methods (2007)
The period table is less a visualization method than an accurate model.
hyperthesis··on How to Be More Agentic
It's easier to exercise daily, but I make better progress if I rest alternate days.

It's easier to keep working, but I do my best thinking during a nap.

hyperthesis··on JEP draft: String Templates (Final)
Ah, unescaped quotes too. So not "new"... but within single quotes, looking like an ordinary string literal: strange. What they're doing is confusing, and evil!
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