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^ no idea if that makes any sense but it sounds cool and intelligent
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"a tcp socket is ACTUALLY a file" sounds cool and mysterious until someone points out that files aren't files
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the unix idea of "everything is a file" is pretty wise but only because files aren't files. they are streams. everything is a stream.
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conformal geometric algebra has flat points and round points and i think that is beautiful
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This is funny so I'm just going to start believing this
one of my superstitions is that "billionaires" don't exist. any attempt by a so-called "billionaire" to liquidate their holdings would fail to produce a billion dollars in cash.
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i mean this in a loose sense. like obvs the cross product and determinant are well typed as a vector and a scalar. but their interpretations as geometric objects, as axes of rotation or signed volumes, felt incorrectly typed. GA seems to do a much better job
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im irrationally obsessed w geometric algebra rn and the reason it appeals to me is cuz it feels like linear algebra with a proper typing discipline ya know? i was always a lil uncomfortable with the the determinant and cross products and i think it's cuz those ops are ill typed
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go not having sum types is the main thing that prevents me from having any interest in it. if im gonna bother with a modern language i want sum types
The biggest problem with Go is that it doesn't have sum types. A secondary problem is it having zero values, which prevents adding sum types and makes all pointers possibly nil. There are other problems but these are the most scandalous.
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it is mathematically impossible for coffee with cream to not unmix itself it is because coffee is a statistical mechanical system, it tries to choose the most likely physical state, given the physics, given the molecular count and given its internal energy. at its core, cup of
it is mathematically impossible for LLMs to not hallucinate it is because LLMs are conditional probability machines, it tries to choose the most likely next token, given the input, given the training distribution and given its internal weights. at its core, an llm does this:
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one of my superstitions is that "billionaires" don't exist. any attempt by a so-called "billionaire" to liquidate their holdings would fail to produce a billion dollars in cash.
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idk man just the logistics of it don't make sense. the logistics don't make sense so billionaires cannot exist
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"what about taking out a loan using their assets as collateral?" uhh if i go into a million dollars in debt im not a millionaire am i? idiot. fool. imbecile. "why would the bank issue the loan if they didn't think the collateral covers it?" moron. dimwit.
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not to mention that most of the super-duper rich are heavily exposed to a company that they founded. reckless attempts to liquidate would cause a panic firesale by other holders and devalue their holdings dramatically.
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there's something like 2.5 trillion dollars in physical dollar bills in the world. an attempt to obtain 1 billion of those bills would spike demand enough to cause detectable amounts of deflation. you'd have to find so many suppliers of dollar bills.
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one of my superstitions is that "billionaires" don't exist. any attempt by a so-called "billionaire" to liquidate their holdings would fail to produce a billion dollars in cash.
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im so out of my depth but it is weirding me out that 2d conformal geometric algebra has the same basis as 3d spacetime. universe pls explain urself
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if i was a robot in the vacuum of space i'd be an octopus robot. tentacles seem smart when you are weightless
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astonishingly this lil program still renders in real time even tho im issuing an http request on each rerender. still probably shouldn't do that tho
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read this too fast as Practical Electronics for Introverts and got interested
if you don't know the difference between voltage and current, but you're smart enough to know you have to pivot to HW, start here:
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