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Reinventing the programming paradigm has been Tim Sweeney's hobby horse since before 2006: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/crg/papers/sweeney06games.p... After Epic's wild success…

I tried it in OpenAI's O1. If I give it minimaxir's original prompt it writes the obvious loop, even if I include the postamble "Look for tricks that will make this function run as…

Annual ridership is about 7m passengers ( https://www.caltrain.com/media/34265 ) or 9m if we annualize the numbers in this article. At the same time, the Caltrain is losing more th…

I don't think that's naive - it could definitely help ameliorate the issues. To my knowledge noone has tried this approach. The other idea I had when I was working on this stuff wa…

Supercompilation doesn't depend on having a typed language - you can more or less derive a supercompiler mechanically from any operational semantics, typed or untyped.

My PhD was on supercompilation for Haskell (thanks for the cite in the repo :-)) Cool to see that people are still working on it, but I think that the main barrier to practical use…

The other recent improvement suggested for LoRA is DoRA: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/lora-and-dora-from-s... . It really does seem to strongly outperform LoRA - see als…

Related - here's a fun short sci-fi story about a savant ("the prompt whisperer") who is able to intuit the prompt that was used to generate things: https://interconnected.org/home…

Theoretically possibly by bartering for oil. The EU already has such a mechanism in place for buying oil from Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade...

This is an associative study and thus can't really tell us anything about the causal impact of working from home. A recent properly-conducted randomized controlled trial found that…

This very cool article explains the mRNA sequence chunk-by-chunk which might give you a flavour of why differences exist: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-sour…

Not just a hunch, actual US policy: "Operation Choke Point" was a 2013 inititative by the DoJ to hurt legal but unpopular businesses (e.g. payday lenders, tobacco, firearm dealers,…

These are financial futures. For some evidence that the presence of futures stabilises spot commodity prices see e.g. http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/CNEH/2005/papers/futures_CNEH_030..…

This is cool. I wonder how they mapped the PAC organization names + individual contribution employer names to ticker symbols? Maybe fuzzy matching, or just a lot of manual work...

Thanks for remembering :P

For another approach to making this work in Haskell, see this thread of mine from 2010: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-October... The relevant keyword if you …

I was curious about this question too so I tried to find a list of comparable risks. Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Global_catastrophic_r... The solar…

Market inflation expectations are below where they were at the start of the crisis: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE

If you like the idea of this library you'll probably like the book "How to Measure Anything" by Douglas Hubbard ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20933591-how-to-measure-... ).…

There is some genetic basis for this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/08/albions-seed-genotyped...

https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Journal-Article/A-Cent...

Allegedly, stocks which are highly exposed to government spending outperform their low-gov-spending peers under a Dem presidency, and underperform during a GOP one: https://papers.…

For ridesharing apps, at least, it seems clear that the gig economy has grown the total market and hence the number of workers needed to serve this market. Before Uber entered New …

The value of large corpora for translation may be diminishing.. In particular, Facebook have achieved impressive results using unsupervised ML for translation: https://code.fb.com/…

Real compensation has become disconnected from wages mostly due to 2 factors [1]: - Wage inequality (the average wage is growing faster than the median wage) - Growth in benefits l…