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If I have to take the risk of simplifying,

1. We humans have managed to take huge amount of information and compress it using a loss function containing some bias we have about the information.

2. We now ask ourselves to decompress the same information with some additional cross-entropy. As a side effect of this process we sometimes spurt out information that may or may not have any meaning since the compression was lossy.

3. Now, we ask ourselves to present this some-what newly decompressed information with brevity in order to understand what we've learned from it.

Knowing that this process is happening on a larger scale, this resurfaces the argument if meaning can be reduced to computation only.

Although some might favor this argument but we are at the risk of anthropomorphizing this process.

The idea presented in the post itself is perspicuous (in Grant Sanderson own words) as he always does.

Re:Native Reflection in Rust on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:51PM (#34003889)
Can’t we rely more on Rust’s Pattern Matching and it’s strong type system?

Reflection seems more helpful when the programming language is little unsounded.

> Call to action: Programmer, wake up.

The article also mentions - "head of AI products at the St Petersburg office of JetBrains, a Czech developer of programming software, sees time savings of 10% to 20%. "

and the subheading says - "The software engineers of the future will, themselves, be software"

um, how seriously should we consider the fact that "skilled" software engineer/programmer solving really complex problems are at risk?

Can't say if making just another simple CRUD app is not at risk but the statements and their propositions made in the article are too generalize too plant a seed of insecurity in oneself.

Re:Micro 3.0 is a platform for cloud native development on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:58AM (#25046650)
Hi, Great work just one tip, adding syntax highlighting to the start page will help. I noticed you have that similar on landing page tho
Re:GitHub is degraded/down on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:46PM (#22938629)
Positive side for such downtime, turns out people gather to look at your landing/home page now just to see if the service is up. Can the cost of a downtime be effective to grab few customers for your new feature just published on your homepage?
Re:Stack Overflow Is Down on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:50PM (#20566671)
Re:Ask HN: How to decide what to focus on? on Saturday July 01, 2017 @03:05PM (#14678441)
Well starting of with your question to how to focus on one field or idea. I would say just by thinking this kind of product would give xyz$ a year of something is really a bad practice.

Starting or working on an inception or idea requires huge amounts of market research and ability to analyse the effort you can contribute to make your product or service an everblooming money making machine. Even if you think of hardware and software product with AI and robots and while you might have great idea but if you don't give your efforts back to the business you won't end up well. Your efforts will come to great value when you decide and make decisions into what drives your interest. Even a mediocre idea can be turned into multi million dollar business.

The whole point lies in whether you would contribute vigorously to make your idea into money making machine. This will mainly depend upon your situation and decision taking capabilities. Start thinking on your situation to decide which idea will favour you the most and whether your interest lies into that idea.

And even if everything goes wrong with your decision, start working on another idea. You never know where that idea will end up taking you with.

Re:Ask HN: What business service would you pay $100/mo for on Saturday July 01, 2017 @02:38PM (#14678318)
I would say cyber security is a need for every product or service that is in inception stage and their makers want to roll that service out. Making a cyber security product and serving them from their launch will make them pay you way more than 100$!! This will also help them significantly to get their product or service early right into the market...