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M. Eric DeFazio
@edefazio
Christian garbage man
Virginia, USAJoined July 2010
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"Processing in-memory"
youtu.be/WxHribseelw?t=
bring the processing to the memory
(don't have to pollute the entire memory hierarchy (cache, etc.) to do simple operations)
coercive
empathy
Why is the Second Law of thermodynamics true (and is it always)? Now we can see it's a fascinating and surprising story of computational irreducibility, observer theory and more...
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"that'll feed two birds with one scone"
(added to witty repartee)
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a wise man once told me
"it's time to stop, where are your parents?"
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I didn’t even consider my language, I’ve used the phrases on the left too often.
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This is why we shouldn't get carried away by models of preferences and human psychology and values. All very nice, but let's not forget the physical reality of the situation.
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...worried he'd be taken out
(& also having a case of Hemophobia)
dad reached down & grabbed a handful of mud
& packed it into the nostril to stop the bleeding
(don't make em like they used to)
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originally dad didn't get many opportunities to play
(since he was an underclassmen & small)
freshman year on a muddy practice field
dad got popped good when running as a lead blocker
instantly nose started gushing blood...
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My Dad (Mike DeFazio #44)
Halfback & co-captain of Xavier College Football 1964
(before game with Miami of Ohio)
Dad was about 5'9 170lbs but got a full scholarship to play College Football at Xavier as running back
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Race to the Bottom describes the process of competitive devaluation... /1 oftwominds.com/blogjan23/race
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Java API draft for reading and writing classfiles (currently on review). No more ASM and bytebuddy?
htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.g
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I like Maven Daemon a lot. Used it for the last month with great success.
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in summary
we already experienced something similar to
AI replacing developers...outsourcing
initially it showed promise
& cost savings by "freeing up developers"
...but the communication/management overhead
turned out to be much larger than expected
& failed in long term
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then, the largest sin
is you have to maintain/adapt the software noone wrote.
and I don't think ChatGPT can modify software very well
because articulating the changes requires intimately understanding what the existing software does.
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anecdote:
it will take me more time trying to articulate (to an outsourced team of humans) what I want the software to do than it will to actually write the software
(much less testing, verification, etc.) i.e. the communication/collaboration becomes the limiting factor
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ChatGPT creates a Tokenizer
tagide.com/education/writ
to some, this is an example of the power of AI code generation
to me, AI generates code that is 85% there
& it takes much cajoling to get that to 90%,
& it'll only ever get to the finish line with simple problems
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stupid
but very organized
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owners were family (husband/wife/2 kids)
one kid said
"Fluffy just always wants to play"
(a huge burden for them, as the "cute phase" had expired)
Husband was pissed because 7month old puppy
"had mind of a 3month old"
wish people would realize
dog is not a toy
esp. not Akita
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yesterday got approached by a beautiful
80lb Akita puppy loose in my 'hood
got "Fluffy" on leash, dog was very calm
owners drove up &
dog went from calm to tense
Fluffy did NOT want to go with back to them
got loose again &
had to chase / corral him with food
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by abdicating all personal responsibility
everything is a systemic problem
and you have to live in a box
to be easily managed
Last call: Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques tratt.net/laurie/blog/20
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How it started / How it’s going
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Optimizing Binary Search - by - CppCon 2022
youtube.com/watch?v=1RIPMQ
#Binarysearch #Cppalgorithms #CPUs #cpp #cppcon
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not possible with this model
(commonplace IRL)
write your code for this game only,
not for some future game
You'll be writing new code later
because you'll be smarter
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the podcast people act so deranged on here because there is a whole identity and status built around being a journo and elite and a podcaster. But it turns out it's not just bad for society and not just bad for your own health but also objectively worse than being productive twitter.com/MattBruenig/st
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The "realm of validity" lives in a high-dimensional space of possible situations. As more experiments are being carried out we are building an image of the realm.
This to me is the most interesting bit about the experiments.
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History of Science and Technology Q&A (January 11, 2023)
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> When you finally realize cache effects >> O()
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this is an example of "model myopia trap"
people built models asking:
"who wins in a war between Russia & Ukraine?"
looked at past & present quantitative statistics
ignoring the broader ecosystem
(REAL war doesn't take place in a vacuum or RISK board)
twitter.com/edefazio/statu
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Looking back on 2022, it's impossible to overlook the consensus of experts that expected Russia's quantitative superiority in tanks, aircraft and personnel to be decisive in its invasion of Ukraine. /8
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One of the worst policy decisions affecting military readiness is finally over. forced by Congress to repeal military COVID vaccine mandate. Thank you to all of my colleagues who helped accomplish this by cosponsoring HR3860.
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firmly believe that if you cannot map
what you do (on a day to day basis)
to the company balance sheet
in a competitive market environment
you are toast
(TBH government or captured/monopoly market BS job employees gonna be safe, but what's the point if no live players?)
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strong disagree
in a long enough time horizon
the patronage/social structure changes
(people move up, switch departments, quit, retire, companies get acquired)
& in an economic downturn
(barrowing money is hard)
competition/market factors are back in play
BS jobs vulnerable
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Replying to @_nymx_ and @benlandautaylor
Bullshit jobs can't be removed with technological advances in automating them, since they were generated by political or social needs:
The personnel cost is a feature not a bug, it's what allows the patronage structure to work.
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Maybe part of the reason societies are chaotic now is because too few people have the goal of living a peaceful, quiet life. This used to be the goal of the majority. Now people want recognition, fame, hustle, drama. May have to learn the hard way why a quiet life is a treasure.
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How does the impressively human-like #ChatGPT get computational knowledge superpowers? Give it a Wolfram|Alpha neural implant!
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1/ My first #TwitterFiles report: how @scottgottliebmd - a top Pfizer board member - used the same Twitter lobbyist as the White House to suppress debate on Covid vaccines, INCLUDING FROM A FELLOW HEAD OF !
Thanks for opening these files.
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colleges prioritized making people feel perfectly safe over everything else and produced a generation afraid to fail, and thus afraid to take risk, and thus on pace to accomplish extremely little
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