> Cue the famous quote: “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
It's not necessarily about things being (ir)rational, but about 'psychology' and the multi-player system that is The Market™. Because it's all very well and good to buy and sell individual products (securities) on their merits, but one also has to take into account what other people's ideas on them is as well (as you are buying/selling from them).
This factor has been known about for almost a century:
> A Keynesian beauty contest is a beauty contest in which judges are rewarded for selecting the most popular faces among all judges, rather than those they may personally find the most attractive. This idea is often applied in financial markets, whereby investors could profit more by buying whichever stocks they think other investors will buy, rather than the stocks that have fundamentally the best value, because when other people buy a stock, they bid up the price, allowing an earlier investor to cash out with a profit, regardless of whether the price increases are supported by its fundamentals and theoretical arguments.
Save that as script.py and you can use "uv run script.py" to run it with the specified dependencies, magically installed into a temporary virtual environment without you having to think about them at all.
Claude 4 actually knows about this trick, which means you can ask it to write you a Python script "with inline script dependencies" and it will do the right thing, e.g. https://claude.ai/share/1217b467-d273-40d0-9699-f6a38113f045 - the prompt there was:
Write a Python script with inline script
dependencies that uses httpx and click to
download a large file and show a progress bar
Delta never seemed to be the best price as it was, looking back at all my flights over the last few years.
So I guess either this will make them cheaper for me and actually competitive with the other airlines, or it will just make them even more expensive and I will still not buy them as I have already been doing. So I guess the change could maybe be good for me?
Is blowing on it really good enough? People don't have that much breath, and you'd have to put your face right up to the heat.
You could use a blowpipe of some sort. But better, a bellows. Was there any evidence of either?
Although the South and Central Americans worked bronze, the North Americans did not. I doubt a leap directly from nothing to iron smithing could occur.
I tried something similar with a set of LED lights I bought from amazon, but the commands I sent the device appeared to brick it. The controller never booted again after sending it a simple TCP packet. I dont think it was smart enough to be protected, I have a feeling I managed to put it into bootloader mode or something.
I teach computer science / programming, and I don't know what a good AI policy is.
On the one hand, I use AI extensively for my own learning, and it's helping me a lot.
On the other hand, it gets work done quickly and poorly.
Students mistake mandatory assignments for something they have to overcome as effortlessly as possible. Once they're past this hurdle, they can mind their own business again. To them, AI is not a tutor, but a homework solver.
I can't ask them to not use computers.
I can't ask them to write in a language I made the compiler for that doesn't exist anywhere, since I teach at a (pre-university) level where that kind of skill transfer doesn't reliably occur.
So far we do project work and oral exams: Project work because it relies on cooperation and the assignment and evaluation is open-ended: There's no singular task description that can be plotted into an LLM. Oral exams because it becomes obvious how skilled they are, how deep their knowledge is.
But every year a small handful of dum-dums made it all the way to exam without having connected two dots, and I have to fail them and tell them that the three semesters they have wasted so far without any teachers calling their bullshit is a waste of life and won't lead them to a meaningful existence as a professional programmer.
Teaching Linux basics doesn't suffer the same because the exam-preparing exercise is typing things into a terminal, and LLMs still don't generally have API access to terminals.
Maybe providing the IDE online and observing copy-paste is a way forward. I just don't like the tendency that students can't run software on their own computers.
Damn this looks cool but it’s got a customer noncompete, “you will not (and will not enable others to) use the AI Features: (e) for the development of any service or other offering that competes with or replicates the Services.”
That’s real bad since they also write “ Memex may generate aggregate, deidentified data from your use of the Services and Subscriber Data ("Usage Data") and use it to operate, improve and support the Services”
AKA “we can learn from your codebase and you aren’t allowed to compete with us”
Basically, it’s a brain-rape machine for idiots who don’t read the fine print. Sad
I'm going to re-post something that I commented in another thread awhile ago:
I tend to think it will. Tools replaced our ancestor's ability to make things by hand. Transportation / elevators reduced the average fitness level to walk long distances or climb stairs. Pocket calculators made the general population less able to do complex math. Spelling/grammar checks have reduced knowing how to spell or form complete proper sentences. Keyboards and email are making handwriting a passing skill. Video is reducing our need / desire to read or absorb long form content.
The highest percentage of humans will take the easiest path provided. And while most of the above we just consider improvements to daily life, efficiencies, it has also fundamentally changed on average what we are capable of and what skills we learn (especially during formative years). If I dropped most of us here into a pre-technology wilderness we'd be dead in short order.
However, most of the above, it can be argued, are just tools that don't impact our actual thought processes; thinking remained our skill. Now the tools are starting to "think", or at least appear like they do on a level indistinguishable to the average person. If the box in my hand can tell me what 4367 x 2231 is and the capital of Guam, why then wouldn't I rely on it when it starts writing up full content for me? Because the average human adapts to the lowest required skill set I do worry that providing a device in our hands that "thinks" is going to reduce our learned ability to rationally process and check what it puts out, just like I've lost the ability to check if my calculator is lying to me. And not to get all dystopian here... but what if then, what that tool is telling me is true, is, for whatever reason, not.
(and yes, I ran this through a spell checker because I'm a part of the problem above... and it found words I thought I could still spell, and I'm 55)
A couple of counterexamples from a declining demographic is not much to flatly deny the article's entire case.
There are vast teams of marketers and data scientists hard at work making things like food and social media more appealing and addictive. Of course more people are, on average, going to get more addicted to them, even if a few fish have the willpower to swim against the tide or the money to buy the chemicals to do it instead.
Except python builders in nixpkgs are really brain damaged because of the writers ways they inject search path which for example breaks if you try to execute a separate python interpreter assuming same library environment...
No, I mean rf mcus that let you do all the way down to IQ sampling or pulse shaping. It's up to the developer to decide what level you let the hardware handle.
This is how those proprietary rf protocols work for mice and such.
That''s a very classic view, from an era when market-based systems vs. central planning were a big issue. They missed so much.
- Just because there are restoring forces doesn't mean stability is reached. This is basic control theory, but it escaped economists for a long time. There's always nonzero lag. Often there's a lot of lag. This can move things out of the stable region.
- There's an assumption here that a market economy is a competitive market economy. This breaks down when the number of major players in a market is small. Or somebody has a "moat". Read Thiel's "Zero to One".
- Hayek was writing in an era when manufacturing dominated, production cost exceeded marketing cost, and the size of companies was limited by inefficiencies in coordinating a really large organization. Those constraints favor a market economy. Today, services dominate, marketing often costs more than production (which means most of the cost is advertising), and computing has made it possible to scale companies to planetary scale without organizational collapse. Those factors favor sheer scale.
This book changed my life. I listened to the audiobook while I was doing some heavy yard work for a couple weeks in my backyard. There were times when I was 8-hours in and muscles I didn't know I had in my hands, back, and feet were aching and hurting unlike anything I've felt before. The streaks of clean skin formed by the sweat beading and trickling down my face had tried and slowly returned to the dusty grit from which it was carved. It was in these times I felt I was strong, I felt I was pushing my limits, I felt like I had conquered the earth.
Then the passages of the book flooded my mind's eye with images of their struggle, conquest, and perseverance. Their endurance.
Not many wiki site engines based on Markdown work directly from git as cleanly as this.
There's a few of them though, such as this old Ruby lang standby with a decade's worth of features that a decade ago was a way to host your same GitHub Pages site locally, supporting SSO:
I always struggled and had to check library functions to do what I actually wanted, as they frequently didn't. That's partially why many Lua uses build their own standard libraries, and as a result the Lua user community is very fragmented.
I recalibrated by using the thermocouple on my multimeter.
That's not my biggest problem though - my biggest problem has just been keeping tips tinned properly. I've succeeded once, but it constantly feels like a struggle.
I don't disagree with what you meant here, but this sentence threw my mind through a loop. It shows how "have to" is a real weak point in how we communicate and think.
Maybe we should rank our "have to"s on a scale from 1 to 5, where for example:
- "objects in motion have to (1) remain in motion unless acted upon by an external force"
- "humans have to (2) eat food to stay alive"
- "developed countries have to (3) maintain a scientifically literate populace"
- "university PR people have to (4) write like that to pay for food and shelter"
- "university PR people have to (5) write like that to afford a new sports car"
I think you meant something like the example for (4), but reasonable people might see it more like (5), and in both cases it's at odds with the more fundamental "have to" (3) for society.
It is easy to treat Galileo as fighting the obscurantist church of the 15th century, but as the article explains briefly:
> provocatively voiced the pope’s own arguments through an obtuse Aristotelian called Simplicio
... Galileo's ordeal with the inquisition was mostly due to him making fun of the pope (probably not a good idea). The truth is that until Kepler introduced elliptical orbits and variable orbital speeds, the Copernican heliocentric model still needed epicycles and was not much better than the ptolemaic model.
And the church didn't even care _that_ much. Copernicus himself was a priest and, while he himself was wary of publishing it and framed it as a way to do astronomical calculations without any kind of philosophical implication, in the end it circulated without much fuss.
This of course should not diminish his contributions to the scientific method and his other contribution to astronomical observations (mostly the satellites of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn, though his instrument wasn't good enough to recognize them as rings).
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Customer support representatives, with very few exceptions, are just going to tell you whatever they think will get you off the phone.
In I.T., this is generally accomplished by blaming whatever adjacent equipment/services they can plausibly pin the issue on.