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Reading the comments, is it safe to say that LLMs are a digest of the internet which is some update over google search, but with the caveat that you need to double check the results? I mean they basically have some compressed version of almost all the written knowledge and will respond correctly about things that have already been written, and hallucinate (extrapolate) about things not explicitly written. Of course if someone carefully curates the input data to filter out misinformation, it might even be an upgrade over google. Is there a consensus on this?

The point about stability is that as the curve of stability is not a straight line. That is as the number of nucleons increases, you need proportionally more and more neutron to be stable. So you cannot just smash small nuclei together to form bigger ones. Somehow you need to add some extra neutrons.

You are certainly right for the higher level higher paying jobs that look for elite candidates. How would you modify your answer to also include less experienced candidates who are looking for something to specialize and build complex products for?

Not a surprise, CL's most marketable advantage is that it is infinitely moldable.

It has the most powerful macro system which enables one to define arbitrary syntax, essentially creating mini languages. So, CL is flexible enough to be able to create many languages without changing its fundamentals, such as those in the article. CL is like clay,not even lego bricks. And while this sounds wonderful and liberating, you end up having to learn many different mini languages for each library you use. I like this idea(l), but I do not have sophisticated enough needs to use it (I wish, feel free to hire me on a common lisp project, anyone), but I can imagine that for most programmers that much flexibility may become a source agony, especially if they need to work with other people's code, essentially having to learn (frequently badly?) designed mini languages.

Enlightenmentware 2 years ago

Although I’m writing these words in Visual Studio Code, I always have my Emacs open

He is writting the blog's text in Code praising Emacs. Makes me a bit sceptical or am I missing something?

I was looking at their documentation:

For example, Axiom's integrator gives you the answer when an answer exists. If one does not, it provides a proof that there is no answer. Integration is just one of a multitude of symbolic operations that Axiom provides.

What does "an answer exists" in this case? Is axiom able to prove that an integral does not have an answer mathematically, which seems impressive, or just that it can not be found using its own substitucion rules?

I don’t mean to argue, and I would agree with you that the debt crisis it self was not because of Varufakis, or the entire semi-communist government that had to deal with it (which it self was voted in power to punish the “status quo”), but few doubt, (even the then prime minister, Tsipras) that the initial negotiation tactics were disastrous and almost resulted in a Grexit that was prevented at the last minute. Varufakis was not only promoting “creative vagueness”, but also was publicly bragging about playing the “chicken game” (who will chicken out first during a head on collision) with the EU partners. He was implicitly threatening a Grexit assuming that the EU would be too scared to do it. It was later found out that the German finance minister was also in favor of a Grexit, but fortunately the German chancellor was not. Also it was later found out that he together with some random US profesor (whatever) was trying to design a second “coin” (of course a crude resemblance of one: he would pay government employees with worthless coupons). This suggests that he was a self absorbed asshole out of touch with reality and the voters’ desire (no one in Greece wanted to exit the euro) whose negotiations admittedly costed Greece about 100 billion euros (or something of that order). He did not quit, he was expelled from the government, a government of incompetent naive idiots that rode the wave of populism in a moment of crisis and not criterion and ability to chose a capable finance minister. So given that, I believe it is fair to say that his world views are probably also out of touch with reality, he would also purposely deceive, and therefore he does not have any credibility. An essay from ChatGPT is more likely to be on the point.

Varufakis does not say things based on some big thinking. His objective is to provoke and get attention. During the greek debt negotiations he was bragging about “creative vagueness”, which means that he was purposely speaking vaguely with the intention to confuse the EU partners (who would be the ones paying for the debt) and throw implicit threats. His term as finance minister was a disaster and he was eventually kicked out. His party was recently voted out of the greek parliament, so nobody takes him seriously in his home country. His soeaches (in any language) are usually vague general bulshit that no one can argue for or against.

You will probably downvote me for ad-hominem, and for not responding to his “arguments”, but from my perspective, I don’t think there is a deeper meaning in his writings than what ChatGPT would produce and he does not deserve even the modest popularity he seems to have.

Cool insights in Desktop! I really hope that someone comes up with a desktop metaphor for the hundreds of open browser tabs (which I think are the new bookmarks) that hang open in an endless horizontal list. Imagine tabs which are like documents, can be moved around, minimized, and spatially organized in folders and subfolders. Actually, why does this not exist somehow?