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I know nothing about the organisation of NixOS, but I know that NixOS is in a unique position now that LLMs have arrived. It offers the unique experience where you can fearlessly l…

At the end of brev paper there is a section on the LLM usage. Now, this paper will undergo peer review. And thus, when published, we will trust the result as well as any other publ…

Lots of people talk about cheating here. That is not the framing I put in my mind. Or rather, if the students are cheating anyone it's themselves. LLMs exist and are extremely usef…

This article was the first time I saw that variation of the interrobang with the ! and ? angled and sharing the dot, but… man… I think I am in love‽

If the proofs are formally verified by a proof assistant (Agda, Roq, Lean, ⋯), I see no reason we would need to know how these came about. All the information needed is in the proo…

Having a weaker base system means you can distinguish more fine grained between statements. For example, in an intuitionistic setting there is a difference between a set being non-…

Agda has the most wonderful (terrifying?) operator syntax I know of. Any Unicode (except for a few reserved words) can be used, and you can indicate where operandi go with an under…

I am a mathematician, and I agree with you here. I do not feel at all threatened by LLMs, because for me the joy of mathematics is in constructing the theories and beholding their …

Because then it would be a different thing? WoW and Runescape exist. But MUDs exist too, and text and graphics have different possibilities. So it makes sense to have some of both …

Now that LLMs can do the actual configuration, I started using NixOS and now all my config lives in one repo, and every quality of life improvement fans out to every machine withou…

I feel like there is a lot of interesting things one can do in proof engineering without resorting to "tactics" (meta-programs searching for the proof). In some cases one can repla…

Or maybe the USians need to talk more about human rights, as opposed to just Amrican right? And maybe discuss other ethical and political issues in a rational way too. And less lik…

Yes, in the middle of a bunch of design work on my library. Sigh… Fable was really a step ahead of Opus on this kind of work. I guess I will be looking at Codex unless Fable is inc…

Less common mayhaps, but some of my more blissful moments are when I sit down in the couch, load up one of my favourite albums, close my eyes and go on a musical journey! What I li…

I don’t think political ads should be legal. Political information should be freely available to all, including children. But in no way should we be bombarded with the manipulation…

Ban political ads? That one seems like an immediate win anyways.

Currently considering disabling memories in Claude code as well. It keeps writing a note whenever it struggles with something, but then on the next task, it reads that note and mis…

I love darcs! Somehow its interface just vibes with me. It is interactive by default, and the commands like “record”, “rollback”, etc, are somehow intuitive. Darcs also tried to pu…

Here the other day Claude Code kept suggesting I do the task myself! It is quite often it will try to weasel out of doing difficult tasks and had to be directed to continue. Also, …

I miss when episodes were episodic. Watched Deep Space 9 recently, and it was such a blast: Characters developed and had arches, but there were no episodes where nothing happened! …

Whenever I work on a challenging question I worry about this, because Opus will easily think for 200k tokens on the first prompt. I fear any follow up discussion is lobotomised!

I think you can get a device to put between the VoIP and the phone which makes the bell ring properly! I think it is called a ring booster.

What do you mean? Like either you speak or the person in the other end speak? That I don't remember! Was that a restriction on early cellular and cordless phones? Our phones had co…

Where I live we have long since shut down our copper network. I miss the low latency and not constantly talking over each others sentences.

I find it easier to work out when being mentally exhausted than doing something mentally challenging when physically exhausted. My main sport is climbing and it is perfect for a Fr…