> Later in the recording, Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January, “you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”.
Let me take this opportunity to post one of the best texts on Galois Theory I have read -- and I had to go through quite a few while preparing for a class.
The subject is developed very naturally and every idea is beautifully motivated. It begins with a quick one chapter intro of Arnold's proof of Abel-Ruffini.
Very cool to see this! It turns out my wife and I bought Andy Barto’s (and his wife’s) house.
During the process, there was a bidding war. They said “make your prime offer” so, knowing he was a mathematician, we made an offer that was a prime number :-)
"... insanity is often marked by the dominance of reason and the exclusion of creativity and humour. Pure reason is inhuman. The madman’s mind moves in a perfect, but narrow, circle, and his explanation of the world is comprehensive, at least to him."
If your server is Linux and you have an NVIDIA card, I would also recommend applying the NVFBC consumer card restriction removal patch[1] to your driver libraries to allow you to capture directly from the GPU rather than X11/Wayland. Sunshine will automatically detect this and use it and it reduces the latency even further.
My focus was not so much on pixel perfect, but instead on creating something that would also work and look aesthetically pleasing on modern systems, like with higher DPI monitors and such. So one of the the things I did was to recreate all the icons and symbols in SVG.
I tried posting it as a Show HN when I added XP and Mac OS 9, but it didn't get much attention. Maybe the title of the project isn't as catchy.
My argument would be - greater the complexity, higher level of personal initiative and responsibility is needed.
This is not an arm-chair assertion. For example - read the works of Admiral Rickover - https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm - in buidling and managing nuclear facilities
You'll see the enormous focus on individual initiative and personal responsibility.
Heavily regimented processes are too brittle for dealing with complex problem-solving end of the day.
In fact, one way I differentiate sophisticated leader from a less sophisticated one is via the understanding of this fact: do they value individual initiative or not?
If they do not, they're not in a great position to lead complex initiatives.
The benefit of journaling is not just reentry, but that you begin to solidify the mental model into a concrete branching of possibilities that is tightly coupled to the specific problem. Your work becomes traversal and mutation of this tree. Several benefits accrue: you begin to see gaps in the tree, and can fill them in. You begin to have confidence in your mental model, recovering the time you used to spend going over the same nodes again and again in a haphazard way. In distributed systems in particular, the work is often detailed, manual, error prone and high latency - with a solid mental model you can get through a checklist of steps with minimum difficulty and high confidence that you didn't miss anything. This ability to take something abstract and make it more concrete on the fly is a critical skill.
Perhaps the greatest barrier to using it is akin to envy. We see others who apparently do this without written materials, in their head. I think we see this as evidence of intellectual superiority and harbor the doubt that using an aid like a journal means we are somehow lacking in skill or ability. This is wrong. Using an aid to map out complex problems isn't a failure, it's essential, especially for problems in systems you've never used before. Over time you may yourself build up your expertise such that you no longer need the aid, but that doesn't signal anything about your intelligence or ability either, only your experience.
Plato was walking by Diogenes the Cynic and saw him with GDB up on his screen, figuring out a memory error.
"If you would only code in Rust, you wouldn't have to fix those bugs." To which Diogenes replied: "If you would only fix those bugs, you wouldn't have to code in Rust."
This should be clarified to explain that MS is only killing their version of custom GPTs (which run OpenAI tech under the hood). It is still possible to make and use custom GPTs with a subscription to ChatGPT directly from OpenAI. (A few examples of mine.[0])
The reason is simple: Most custom GPTs are crap and the idea that consumers will create a viable market out of them is nonsense. LLMs are not a way to avoid programming. They are just another way of doing programming, and naturally that requires the same skills as other kinds of programming. No consumer market for highly-sandboxed LLM software will arise out of such an offering.
Who pays for a full introduction nowadays, though?
Hear me out - we are introducing a PaaS (Pitch as a Service) platform so that founders only pay for what VC is interested in listening.
It's just $0.003/word, allowing you to optimize your introduction. It's also lazily evaluated: if someone gets bored with it, you get cut off from your introduction and just pay for what you said up to that point.
We are offering discounts for the words "AI", "LLM", and "web3". Those are half the price.
> But his concern with sin and punishment was apparent even as early as The TeXbook, where he imposes a wide variety of \penalties for poor typesetting---the worst sin of all, in his view.
There are lots of pleasing, subtle jokes on this site, but the literal triple-hyphen here in place of an em dash is particularly brilliant.
IIUC this article is about the problem in the other direction, i.e. from the shape (a disk!) to the frecuencies of the sound (eigenvalues).It's not about an exact calculation, but about an aproximation of them.
> The conjecture bears on the estimation of the frequencies of a round drum or, in mathematical terms, the eigenvalues of a disk.
From the research paper:
> The celebrated Pólya’s conjecture (1954) in spectral geometry states that the eigenvalue counting functions of the Dirichlet and Neumann Laplacian on a bounded Euclidean domain can be estimated from above and below, respectively, by the leading term of Weyl’s asymptotics.
<guessing> The Weyl's asymtotics is probably a good estimation of the very high frecuencies/eigenvalues, and the conjeture is probabbly that you can use the estimation as upper or lower bounds instead of just an aproximation.<guessing> [Sorry, not my area and I have not enough time to read the paper.]
The text mentions Seymours' Cray algorithm for buying cars, if you're rich enough. However, it's deleted from the linked page. To save you the search, here it is:
1. Go to nearest dealer,
2. Sit at nearest salesman’s desk
3. Buy nearest car
4. Go back to designing computers.
There were programs here that had been written five thousand years ago, before Humankind ever left Earth. The wonder of it—the horror of it, Sura said—was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in the bowels of the Qeng Ho system. Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex—and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely…the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.
It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders).
It really tickles the environmental science geek in me. There's such a wonderful assortment of predators, prey, symbiotes, diseases, treatments, and thoughtful little touches everywhere. Beautiful art too.
Of the pool of successful applicants (there are usually more than one that satisfies your 3 points) are you feeling lucky? Often we have multiple candidates who would be perfect for a job, but ultimately only one post.
At the end of the day we pick one, and often it's more-or-less a coin flip one way or another.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvi...