solomonb

Thank you for creating Recurse! I had an incredible experience at RC in 2019. I still have friends from my batch.

I deeply wish I had time to do it again.

They offer recruiting services.

I'm reading The Drowned World right now. Incredible book, highly recommended.

To be fair the original commenter was incredibly snarky.

The integer `1` can mean whatever you want, it doesn't need to be a cent. Haskell's `Fixed` type is a good example of this:

https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/base-4.22.0.0/do...

Its a wrapper around an `Integer` where you declare the scale in the type. So if you use `Fixed E2` as your type then `MkFixed 1` is 1 cent. If you did `Fixed E3` as your type then `MkFixed 1` is 0.1 cent. In both cases it is entirely an integer encoding.

Getting to discover Oleg Kiselyov's work for the first time is such a treat. His web archive is incredible! I'm envious of the author and anyone else discovering it today.

https://okmij.org/ftp/

There was another project I saw years ago that this reminds me of. It was a guy who had been running a simulated city/community for like 20 years. The whole thing was done on pen and paper and used complex rule system he had devised. Similar pre-internet outsider art vibe.

The modern equivalant is the all-in-one karaoke machine :)

The current tenants will see the listing for the vacant unit.

You're absolutely right!

They don't make them like they used to

Messing around with my Lambda Calculus tutorial repo. I just did a total rewrite of Nominal Inductive Types.

https://github.com/solomon-b/lambda-calculus-hs

Interesting! The rules for AM carrier current appear to be more similar to the FM rules, that is they are based on field strength readings that result in a roughly 200ft range.

There is probably a bunch of subtlety about where you measure from as your antenna could be quite large.

To my knowledge there is no legal way to do unlicensed carrier current transmission. Do you have information otherwise? I've always wanted to try it..

The Part15 regulations for AM and FM are more subtle then what you present here. On FM it is based on field strength readings, the exact values of which escape me, but yielding roughly the range you describe.

For AM the rules are more interesting. You can have up to a 3m antenna length and 100mW of DC power input to the final stage of amplification. The optimal setup is a class E amplifier with ~95-99% efficiency into a properly grounded 3m base loaded vertical antenna. The antenna will be grossly undersized but you try to compensate with a huge loading coil. In ideal conditions this setup can get you about 0.5km range.

LPFM is a much more significant undertaking and it is not trivial to get an LPFM license. I know because I have one :)

I run a LPFM radio station here in Los Angeles.

https://www.kpbj.fm/

There are many more LFPMs out there too!

You could take it to the next level and build a part 15 compliant FM transmitter kit.

I respect you for taking the time to review this codebase. Personally I don't want to do that. It sounds like a mess.

Personally I don't want to read the codebase AND book of someone 3 weeks into a mania focused on a subject it is unclear they have any prior experience with. Its disrespectful for someone to think they can produce something worthy of consuming another human's time under those constraints.

As someone genuinely interested in programming language design, type theory, and category theory this sort of thing really saddens me. There is so much passion and rigor that has gone into developing these fields. Chucking all their jargon into an ai slop blender, imo, is actually incredibly disrespectful to those who have worked so hard.

Imagine someone honestly interested in learning about category theory but not yet knowing where to start. Projects like this only serve to muddy the waters obscuring paths to actual learning and giving the impression that the subject is a joke.

How does `refl` work if its not even dependently typed?

Well first of all I think there is more implicit data encoded in the symbols of the epsilon delta definition of limits. In the Mealy example they really just labels for arbitrary sets. The LLM actually failed a much simpler relabeling exercise. Setting that aside, I still think the analogy is flawed.

The student is mid learning process and its entirely reasonable for them one to be relying on pattern recognition until they have fully internalized the subject. The model is fully trained and should thus have internalized their understanding of the subject.

Additionally the student can update their understanding when pattern recognition fails. The model is fully cooked and will never do more then pattern recognition.

I gave chatgpt 3.5 the type signature for a co-algebraic encoding of a mealy machine:

    newtype Mealy s i o = Mealy { runMealy :: (s, i) -> (s, o) }

Then I scrambled all the names and asked with a fresh context like:

    newtype Foo z e g = Bar { blob :: (z, e) -> (z, g) }

And yes I understand that a newer model would not get confused by this.

Its amazing that after years of advocating for a materialist view of the mind, the tech bros are flipping to mind-body dualism now that they need to believe a concious mind can exist no body at all.

I haven't used CQL but this is how the advantages have been described to me as well.

I would be interested in hearing from framework users who have gone through upgrade cycles on their laptops. General experiences with the process but also the costs.

I had the first gen framework but had to return it to my old employer so I never went through an upgrade cycle.

Also, this may be specific to the first generation but I had terrible battery life and overheating issues. If that carried over through upgrade cycles I would be pretty bummed out.

I love learning about computers, programming, and math so much. I actually got into tech as a career pretty late. For many years I worked as a art fabricator/carpenter in the art world.

I only got good enough at programming to get a job in tech because I became obsessed with the Curry-Howard Correspondence as a backdoor into learning math.

I've always had a wide array of interests. I live on a half acre property with a giant garden and a shop that is bigger then my actual house. I've always split my free time between exploring and learning about computers, gardening, radios, and carpentry, fixing old machines, etc.

The shift in my lived work experience with AI has substantially demotivated me from programming and computers in my free time. A million times over I would rather pull weeds or clean my Bridgeport mill.

I've always wished I could go back to a 1990s experience where the computer lived in the den, the internet was only somewhat monetized, the future was utopian.

OP's plan to fallback to 1980s era technology is appealing but also somewhat depressing. Not only do I really like and enjoy learning about computers, but also making this kind of individualistic decision doesn't really get us to a better place as a society.

I wish we had heeded the warnings of researchers like Sherry Turkle who identified the impacts of technology on the individual as far back as the 1980s.

This literally involves the CEO.

I think you're right. I can't think of any reason an entire organization would act this way unless it had been repeatedly successful for them in the past.

I'm not doubting the claims at all. I simply don't understand why a massive company would shoot themselves in the foot over something relatively small.

This isn't an individual franchise. The franchise was already taken over by corporate!