Viewing profile — amval

I am myself an immigrant to this country, one that has had itequally easy, if not more. Lately, or perhaps for the last couple of years, I've struggled with negative feelings about…

I think the article is pretty fair at presenting GingerBill's legitimate grievances, Wikipedia shortcomings, acknowledging that GingerBill can be constructive and, at the same time…

What a fantastic article. I could not care less about the actual topic, but in these times of literacy scarcity, it is refreshing to see someone actually being able to read through…

I don't think I understand your point, beyond downplaying the severity of current events.

You don't think that the fact that Ellison is a staunch defender of regimes that disregard the international order in favour of military might is relevant to the fact that is also …

Well, yes, it would be better if he didn't amplify propaganda for the country that is committing a genocide and would raise awareness for the victims. Is this not self-evident?

> I was active in the Python community in the 200x timeframe, and I daresay the common consensus is that language didn't matter and a sufficiently smart compiler/JIT/whatever would…

Even funnier: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/main/docs/WhySwiftF... > Julia: Julia is another great language with an open and active community. They are currently investi…

The second part of the sentence is very important ;) "... but would struggle with different looking syntax"

It marketed itself explicitly as a "Python superset", which could allow Python programmers to avoid learning a second language and write performant code. I'd argue that I am not su…

For a language that announced itself (and raised a lot of money on the premise of) claiming to be "a Python superset", this does not sound like a huge achievement. In all fairness,…

Ah, yes. The dubious and evil Perro Sánchez.

Apparently this spans more countries? Very strange. Possibly a cyberattack or sabotage? Growing up in Spain I've never experienced anything like this (not there at the moment, but …

Big companies tend to develop cult dynamics. This is not an exaggeration, but a consequence of how humans tend to operate in large amounts. And I'd wager that in the case of Silico…

That's mostly because Julia questions get answered on its Discourse or Slack. The sharp decline is due to an automatic cross-post bot that stopped working. No one bothered fixing i…

I think it ultimately is a sign of the need for better languages. Of course, there are always engineering compromises. But I think a better world is possible, in which we don't hav…

What do you mean, exactly?

Might depend on where you are in Spain. Having lived in both, I'd take Spain over Germany any day of the week.

It kind of reads like satire, to be honest.

Absolutely agree. We changed on my team to primarily use Macbooks. Originally just to make easier testing on Safari. Later, just because the hardware is pretty nice. It has been a …

I thought he maybe meant that, but since LLMs were explicitly mentioned I wasn't sure if image generation was part of this rant. I don't know, I don't really object to the argument…

I fully agree with the sentiment, but I am bit... confused? with the section that raises possible concerns about the negatives of LLMs. In particular the "women" mention, without a…

Why do you say that, for those not familiar with it? EDIT: And the article seems unaccesible to me right now.

To sell supplements, as evidenced by the ridiculously expensive olive oil that he sells on his website and the new line-up of upcoming supplements. There is no way for regular peop…

I encourage everyone to ignore Bryan Johnson, whose not-so-secret goal is to sell supplements to gullible people and has nothing to do with actual science.