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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:40PM (#50345066)
They actually did math no one could.
Re:GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:25PM (#50308974)
Really smart insight lmao
I am in OC and newport beach really suffered...
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:54PM (#50283064)
lol confirmed
But at this point why even bring a full model into scope in the first place.. just run some cheap embedding retriever
Re:The result of the C++26 DIS ballot on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:19AM (#50240721)
I can only describe current C++ as a Frankenstein. Trying to introduce modern features while having to keep compatibility is just really hard and probably not "the right way".
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:52PM (#50203162)
A really interesting read in the current era.
Re:2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:07PM (#50174836)
typed racket!
Here goes a case:

Paradox publicly admit use of AI in various places, yet their games are good.

Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:54PM (#50157222)
I feel obligated to quote a comment I saw under 3b1b video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc&lc=Ugyrq4aZqNPa6Ol28...:

I feel like the point is still being missed, and it's very similar to the way software engineers are trying to cope. The argument you are making "Well yes now this part of math we will not need to do again, but now we can do this instead" however the issue with most people just don't want to do that....

Like who are we kidding, the type of nerds who were attracted to math and software were into it because we saw it as an art-form, it was a craft, it was being the only one in your city to be able to solve a complicated math problem, it was immortalizing yourself because you discovered a proof and added to the ever expanding human knowledge.

Imagine a leather workman who's life passion is making insanely high quality handbags, who takes joy in knowing everything he touches will last someone a lifetime and give them joy everytime they use it. And then not gradually, but almost overnight someone comes to his door and tells him we can make bags 50 times better than you at 1/tenth the price. But don't you worry, you can make more money overseeing the factory, or selling people on how good this bag is, and explaining that to them.

I mean, ok, that just is not what I wanted to do with my life. I never wanted to be a manager, I never wanted to be a salesman, I never wanted to be a writer. A craft I enjoy doing has been taken away from me, I should be allowed to mourn, I don't care that I can do something else since I never liked doing it in the first place. I enjoyed solving problems and writing code, I don't care if people say "well thats never what programming was about it was actually about becoming a manager all along" I never wanted to be a manager, I never wanted to manage, I never wanted to be a proof reader.

I just hate this existence.

The problem with AI SE is that AI writes un-architecture-ed code. The problem #2 is that a lot of people suck even more....
Re:Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:28AM (#50138159)
It's completely different things. Math itself is abstraction. Lean is formalized abstraction that don't let you write "it is immediately obvious that"
Re:Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:55AM (#50138031)
But is this cyclic? also no matter what we do we will hit Godel?
Re:Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:09AM (#50137846)
I am a math undergrad and I tried lean. It probably is because of habit and familiarity but I still find lean proofs harder to read than NL proofs. I wonder what if the math education switch entirely to a formal language (not necessarily Lean) will be?
Re:Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:07AM (#50137830)
Funnily NL is indeed different from formal language and does different in a way that makes a difference: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openais-blockbust...
I thought this is some Hoare-logic things ported to C++, but well it's only stanzarized guard statements.
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:42AM (#50100535)
Assuming I am a rationalist (I honestly don't like this word, it's more of a self-identifying label; if not it is just saying something really trivial. But yet these people, probably only on LW, decide to call them so, so let's use that word) and is writing to others on this forum, I would assume that they have the same mindset and peer review standard as mine, so I would not write with defensive mindset emphasized.
Re:The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:26AM (#49942085)
You don't get the same nice and smooth trackpad on any other windows (or linux) laptops either.

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