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Donald Knuth: “premature optimization is the root of all evil”

The article suggests that premature specialization and premature generalization might, instead, be the root of all evil. Really!

Well-written.
> Why are we suddenly screwing around with democracy?

Suddenly? We've been doing this for 60 years, most particularly, in South America. It's now just made it's way fully into Europe.

> We know how to do it - we've known for generations.

We know how to do mob rule. We're not particularly good at Democracy. Sometimes the two would produce the same outcome and people do not struggle to notice the difference.
In the days of local papers, editors would learn the names of everybody in town, and would try to print things about them so people would buy the papers.
As for dates and times interchange, use ISO 8601 (largest to smallest order).

The EU and many other countries ordering of day, month, year (smallest to largest order) also makes sense, but is sadly ambiguous due to

The US format of month, day, year (middle-endian order) https://9gag.com/gag/a2KEqOe

US not TUrkey is the outlier
> We only have to treat them as well as we are legally obligated to

They don't even do that. They only treat you as well as your state's AG is inclined to be interested in your situation.
"if you look at lions two lions fight the one that wins gets to keep the pride while the other wanders even though there are enough mates for both thats a counter example to the chimps"

This exactly proves the point. Lions are 'rich' because they have a 'pride' of women, which is their riches.

Every few years, they are overrun and killed. The new chiefs kill all of the cubs of the old elites. As soon as there is any accumulation of 'wealth', the new elites become targets. They only survive a year or two.

None are allowed to 'accumulate' wealth, because they are killed and their children are killed.
Cherries out of season are wrinkly and weird tasting, unless Costco has solved that. Cherries and pomegranates are my two most "seasonal" fruits, in contrast to the always-available ones. I feel like mangoes and cantaloupes have seasons too, I just don't know how to detect them since they keep selling them even when they're not good.
or in Inuit people who i imagine don't get much fresh fruit except a few berries?
You are using binary thinking. It's not a binary.

I can contend that United's denials are responsible for killing people because they are denying at 2x the industry average. To prove me wrong, you'd have to show that actually the rest of the industry isn't denying enough and that United has somehow stumbled upon the real rate of spurious insurance claims.

And for the 100% of money to healthcare that makes the assumption that we have that much healthcare need to spend that much money on. There are limits to needs which is why the argument you make is flawed.
The example seems like it would be easier if we’d gone in the direction of allowing more complex commands, like vim does. Imagine if real editors had been developed for the last 30 years or however long, instead of stagnating at vim (which is clearly a nice text editor, but it could be nice to have an editor designed around writing prose). Maybe neovim will save us. Some day.

Bob’s intent is to edit the word color, and inserting a u. But, he is limited to just expressing “put u here,” which is not at all what he wants to achieve it is just a mechanical description of what operations need to occur.

Alice’s intent is to delete the whole sentence, but she’s similarly limited to just saying “delete delete deleted delete delete…” to a bunch of letters.

Ending up with a u is the obvious dumb result of treating language as a pile of characters. The correct behavior is to say: because the world Bob has edited no longer exists, his edit is clearly nonsense, don’t apply it. Which editor does that?
Essential Emacs Packages for Efficient Software Development and Text Editing
> I believe it is true because it’s harder to find what I was looking for

Yes, because there’s more stuff and different stuff than there used to be.

What makes you so sure the old algorithm would’ve worked as well with more and different stuff to sift through? Other than the fact that you really want to believe it.

> it’s clear that the algorithm is skewed for political reasons and likely also economic reasons

Bud, it’s a business. This has always been true.
The development of the lithium-ion battery is an example of how scientific discovery does not have a straight-line trajectory.

How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery

"One notable thing about the evolution of the lithium-ion battery is how hard it is to predict the trajectory of research, and how important it is to allow researchers the flexibility to pursue what they feel is promising. Whittingham stumbled across an intercalation-based battery when researching fast-ion transport through a solid electrolyte, an entirely different phenomenon. And his invention of the first lithium-ion battery cathodes was the result of a serendipitous discovery during work on superconductors. Thackeray discovered the manganese oxide cathode at Oxford ... for a year’s sabbatical so he could pursue the battery ideas he found promising. Early research on a graphite-based anode, performed by Rachid Yazami, was originally aimed at discovering a graphite-based cathode, not an anode, and Akira Yoshino’s battery efforts at Asahi Chemical were pursued in spite of the fact that company thought very little of the battery market, and only bore fruit because the company didn’t actively try and stop him. Likewise, the discovery of ethylene carbonate as an electrolyte that would allow graphite to be used as an anode was an accidental discovery by Moli Energy.

This sort of trajectory, of course, makes it hard to capture the value of research, or to have anything like a reliable, predictable path by which scientific research gets turned into marketable products. Exxon’s efforts to develop a practical rechargeable battery ultimately failed, though its research would spawn a successful battery in the fullness of time."

Source: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-we-got-the-lithiu...
What all top models do is recombine at test time the knowledge they already have. So they all possess Core Knowledge priors. Techniques to acquire them vary:

* Use a pretrained LLM and hope that relevant programs will be memorized via exposure to text data (this doesn't work that well)

* Pretrain a LLM on ARC-AGI-like data

* Hardcode the priors into a DSL

> Which is to say, a data augmentation approach

The key bit isn't the data augmentation but the TTT. TTT is a way to lift the #1 issue with DL models: that they cannot recombine their knowledge at test time to adapt to something they haven't seen before (strong generalization). You can argue whether TTT is the right way to achieve this, but there is no doubt that TTT is a major advance in this direction.

The top ARC-AGI models perform well not because they're trained on tons of data, but because they can adapt to novelty at test time (usually via TTT). For instance, if you drop the TTT component you will see that these large models trained on millions of synthetic ARC-AGI tasks drop to <10% accuracy. This demonstrates empirically that ARC-AGI cannot be solved purely via memorization and interpolation.
Yes, one of the common pastimes of eastern europeans is being very critical of themselves and their countries, sometimes missing that others have largely the same problems, but with better press.
It would still be net beneficial for anyone consuming industrial fructose to switch to fresh fruit of any kind. However, yes, if you’ve already withdrawn added fructose in processed foods and drinks from your diet, you could certainly optimize further on which kinds of fresh fruit you consume. It won’t make any difference if you still drink fructose soda, though.
Care to name a few examples? Also, USA, Germany and France are allies to Romania as part of either NATO or the EU.

Russia has invaded Ukraine, our neighbor and we have a pretty good reason to stay far away from them, not to mention some historical bad blood with many tons of gold we gave them for safe-keeping in WW2 that they never returned, or the crimes the red army did while retreating through Romania at the end of WW2.
Delegation is so hard, i struggle constantly and I'm technically a "Sr. Manager". When the project is up against deadline pressure, it's so tempting to do something yourself that only takes you a day vs delegating to someone else and they spin on it for 3 and screw it up at the end anyway. Inevitably you become the bottleneck when a wave of escalations or other management tasks come down the pipe but there's a pile of actual work you decided to take on yourself half done too.
I have the sentiment. would have loved to have kids earlier, but I also was not in the position at an earlier age, relationship wise. Growing up in Germany, having kids in your 20s was almost frowned upon. what a terrible societal development!
Which ones I'm ignoring?
I didn't downvote, but I can imagine that most people weren't aware of that claim. I'm skeptical of it as well since I'm not aware of any research that shows fructose in fruit increasing over time.
It's based on certain presuppositions but 1 thing is for sure - we'll know more in the future as more research is done.
Depends on the workload. In the past, I've worked on several workflow-based systems that performed lots of OLTP operations to drive live workflows forward, but once a workflow was done the operational data became a lot less interesting. So there it made sense to (say) partition the operational data and table by month, and roll off partitions after 3-6 months.
It's not about misinformation either. It's about control over the algorithm that chooses what people see.
Seems there was lots turmoil at the CEO's company
Resentment for Thompson was widespread at the company, the employee said, citing an internal company announcement about his death that only garnered 28 comments despite being seen by 16,000 employees.

Also accusations? of insider trading by CEO in the linked pages. And complaints these accusation's are not mentioned by most media
heh i will say being a parent helps with being a manager. You really understand the carrot/stick balance as a parent.
>The parents I've seen seem to spend every waking second doting on their children for at least a decade, which seems strange to me. This hovering "what can I do to satisfy your desires" literally just constantly

While some of it may be overbearing parenting due to wanting kids to compete or train for the future, there is also the fact that kids cannot be left alone, and there is no extended family supervision for them, and you are told you cannot let your kids sit in front of a screen all day.

There’s no neighborhood chain of kids ranging from high school to toddler playing with each other, there is no outside time without adult supervision, an adult who is legally liable.

And of course, cars. The environment is optimized for cars, not kids, so kids either sit inside alone or with 1 sibling or they need to be supervised.

Not applicable to every single family, but many.
Also part of the reason the interference is so succesful is that America ISN'T some magical wonderland and people in the US know that, so they are inherently sympathetic to any message that says something bad about the current administration. It's a lot easier to have a strong effect in a very muddled situation than say, if it was 1944 and Americans were strongly united.

America is having pains. It's easier to stoke that fire than light one anew.
What if they think you might have cheated, so they cancel the entire entrance exam for everyone because your potential, unproven, cheating would have given you an unfair advantage over the other students?

Because this is what our court did.
Going to go out on a limb here and say you probably shouldn't get any scientific advice about nutrition -- or really any scientific advice at all -- from anyone on Diary Of A CEO.
I’ve been super impressed so far with the Govee lights I’ve gotten. The app is pretty easy to use has tons of cool effects, and they have a LAN API (https://app-h5.govee.com/user-manual/wlan-guide) for most of their lights that have WiFi. Don’t have enough time this year to program a custom show but was going to start earlier next year now that I have a couple of these.
The new scene stage thing they just released where you can map your lights and have them all work together is pretty slick too.
Nobody is claiming the candidate didn't play by the rules. Rather, some agency has asserted there was "a mass influence operation" in his favor - apparently they're not even asserting an organized conspiracy.

There's a big problem with that claim. Intelligence agencies have a long history of making this claim of Russian control over elections all over the world, and it's always been lies and nonsense. What even is a "mass influence" operation? Sounds like the same thing as a political campaign to me? If it's really on a mass scale it should be pretty easy to prove and work out how to stop it next time, shouldn't it?

Such claims are never proven because they aren't true. Back in 2016 when Trump and Brexit were still fresh, the sort of people who didn't like those things were trying to explain their loss. The Clinton campaign came up with the Steele dossier and the American press ran with it. This was the origin of the "Russian influence" claim and back then it was usually described as being done through social media bots. Academics flooded the literature with papers that claimed to prove the existence of such Russian bots. I used to work in bot detection so was interested to read some of these papers, and found they were all based on academic fraud:

https://blog.plan99.net/did-russian-bots-impact-brexit-ad66f...

https://blog.plan99.net/fake-science-part-ii-bots-that-are-n...

Given the long history of this type of claim, a rational person will have to assume that it's a plot by Romanian intelligence to overturn an election and treat it accordingly.
More like Pijul or Darcs?

Git is popular, but it's not particularly great at conflict resolution.
The Dao created the One

The One created the Two

The Two created the Three

The Three created the Ten Thousand Things

Chapter 42 of the Daodejing
The markings on the bullet casings make the motive pretty clear. Maybe it's an attempt to deflect suspicion, or otherwise misinterpreted, but Occam's Razor suggests a pretty high confidence that the motive is directly related to the guy's job.
Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last.

RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself. If 2 million people subscribe to your feed and try to update it once an hour, that is 48 million requests a day just for RSS.

What does work well (and how things have evolved) is to have a service that polls RSS on behalf of its users. This was the beauty of Google Reader but plenty of replacements exist.
I agree with you and in addition I also really dislike trivializing having so many people have to move hundreds or thousands of miles away from their friends and family. This really burns communities and social support networks. It would be better if we could build as much housing as possible in and around existing cities rather than have the economics of scarce housing mandate that so many people have to move away.
They voted for a candidate who broke established Romanian law ?
I have an affectionate place in my heart for Debian, the community is passionate, they have wonderful ideals, hell I even helped found a charity which distributes it on used PC's discarded by large companies to disadvantaged people over 20 years ago which is still running today. It was my favourite distro for a long time after I moved on from Slackware in the late 90's, I used it at home, I used it in my job at a small ISP on everything from x86 to Sun Sparc to DEC Alpha hardware. We are lucky in the Linux community to have them. I could care less about deriatives like Ubuntu, seems to be one too far removed.

But over the years the bikeshedding and some of the poor technical decisions started to wear on me. The debconf approach of asking a million questions on install bothered me. In my current job we use it on small industrial ARM PC's and it does a great job there at a large scale distributed over a wide variety of environments and geographical area, scorching heat, freezing cold and everything in between. But that's easy because it's a single system image which we deploy to hundreds of devices and it only requires minimal customisation to perform the required tasks.

But our datacenter servers remain RHEL for the simple reason ... the deployment and broad customisation process per server is easy, LDAP integration is straight forward and the customer wants to pay for support from the vendor even though we never use it. Security updates and bugfixes are delivered quickly and the vendors commitment to stability is commendable. It's a no brainer. More and more companies started to move their workloads to RHEL once it came out and unfortunately it just didn't make sense to bother with distributions outside of RHEL/Fedora for my personal use anymore, some sort of work/life balance is needed and I don't want to spend my personal computing time remembering all the idiosyncracies between different Linux distributions anymore. I would argue that Debian is pretty idiosyncratic and opinionated if you have come from more traditional UNIX systems in the 90's, while RHEL/Fedora more closely model an "evolution" of those classic systems if you like. It will be interesting to see what happens to RHEL in the coming years as Redhat becomes more and more absorbed into the IBM environment.
That's not how extradition works, even for a common criminal. They knew that would never be acceptable, which is why they offered it.
Meh. You’re making a distinction without a difference. It’s a dwelling on a parcel zoned for a residence. Lots of rebuilds in my neighborhood are full demolitions.

The reason people don’t buy and refurb the Detroit / Baltimore stock of dilapidated properties is because (1) chain of custody it hard to identify because the property has been abandoned so long and (2) there are lots of unknown risks (liens, high utilities costs, neighborhoods full of similar dilapidated homes, undesirable neighbors).
everywhere, cancer & chronic disease rates go up as diets get westernized
> To me "good" is anything that helps humanity thrive, and bad is when something does the opposite.

I agree with that definition. However, it leads to a trade-off between short term thriving of individuals and long term thriving of humanity. We could pour all our resources into supporting every living person but would cripple our future development. Or we could go the other extreme and violate all the human rights to develop a more resilient long term society. Islam, for example, is very robust for thriving of humanity (no population collapse happening there) but very poor for thriving of all individuals within it (severe penalties for seemingly harmless "crimes", women's rights, etc.).
20 years ago, I was a massive Postgres fan and I still am, but I bought and used SQL server for production systems - it was better (particularly in replication), and more importantly had better support as in being on the phone with the lead dev type support.

Today I have no idea about SQL server but if the support is as good today as it was back then it can be worth it.
Looking at trumps nominations of billionaires theyre rightfully confused. Didnt america just elect business super heroes...
I do not think it was a soft coup. I look around me and all I can feel around except the most diehard CG or Lasconi fans is, honestly, relief.

You can't really get the atmosphere in the country when that fascist was about to be voted in. I listened to a couple of journalists in the last couple of days, they were tearing their hairs out in frustration. Radio broadcasters and political commentators were saying the closing of their shows like it was a funeral and the end of free speech.

Me and many people around me could not sleep for 2 weeks straight because we knew what this meant. CG victory would have meant we needed to flee the country, sooner or later.

I am fully convinced we narrowly avoided something terrible. I'm also not convinced that we're out of the woods yet.
Kids used to be seen as a way to increase quality of life. They were free labor and a retirement plan all rolled into one.

They still are seen as a way to increase quality of life but in a more vibey sort of way.
I still can't believe we're supposed to imagine the current or next president as the chief protectors of our minds, of all things. :-) How can anyone desire that much paternalism from our government? Not only are we responsible for it, not the other way around, it is kind of terrible!
Pension reform is unpopular but will need to happen in developed economies at some point or otherwise the youth that remains will completely crash out. One positive of the population pyramid is that the small next generations stand to inherit quite a lot softening it to some extent. But it's necessary.

Not enough discussed is also how much potential for labour saving tech there is. The most 20 common jobs almost haven't changed in decades. Retail, transport, clerks, back office, admin, even without magic "AI" solutions, if we wanted to we could design work around drastically cutting labour already. It's actually one benefit of the demographics, a lot of automation isn't happening because manual labour is cheap in a lot of places, so there's potential for growth even.
The way I read it is that costs are unbounded, not profits are unbounded.

The health insurers are responsible for negotiating, checking and denying costs. If not them, you would have a state bureaucrat in charge of denying claims. Many will argue this is better, but it still isn't a blank check.

As you point out, health insurance companies make money as a percentage of bills approved, not bills denied. The vast majority of Americans don't understand this.

The completely different and more insidious problem is that this provides an incentive to approve claims, but drive their prices up, like any government regulated cost plus contractor.

Cost Plus contracting only works when there is a competitive market and high transparency.

Government laws tying healthcare to employers mean there is almost no competition, and healthcare costs are inherently opaque due to their complexity.
But for people who were undecided/somewhat pro-Trump, it was MAGA nation nonstop. Similar to the alt-right pipeline Google supports via Youtube. It is scary.
People are simply lacking in empathy. Imagine you living so close to a proxy war. Imagine you have children. Which way would you vote?
>Just go to TikTok.com.

My understanding is that the ban does include accessing TikTok via the website.
Wonder what he'd think about my very lispy chess engine I'm writing in Python. A player like that might look like

opener(ender(mcts(ender(ply1(pieces+squares,temperature=25))

the goal is minimum code not through code golf but by design by composition.
calling people names won't change the fact that his life-long diet caused his cancer and killed him. You should read what the research is saying in place of being here offending people that by their personal experience agrees with the finding that "fructose in diet enhances tumor growth".

You are not the only person with experience with this kind of cancer in the family and have no compassion for the many sugar addicts going through cancer getting served fruit juice when they go to the hospital, which is poison for them.
what a dumb remark, what does it matter who the host is