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I wish this were organized according to suggested/logical reading order. For example, the paper introducing the attention mechanism probably ought to precede "attention is all you …

My mind went to Java's checked exceptions -- not sure if anyone today believes that coloring is still a good idea.

https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/releases/latest/downloa... '"> linux download Screaming into the void, I guess, but PSA. Don't use buttons for links. In my case, I couldn't ri…

I love this. Thank you.

Strange article. Why is Go the best language for agents instead of, say, Python? Here are the points the author seems to make: --- # Author likes go Ok, cool story bro... # Go is c…

I have a Ph.D. in a field of mathematics in which complex numbers are fundamental, but I have a real philosophical problem with complex numbers. In particular, they arose historica…

Curious to know what makes this "a proper VT100 implementation in the browser, not a JavaScript approximation of one" -- isn't Ghostty also an approximation, just implemented in a …

Whale oil and solar panels both being signs of high status.

The initial board position is certainly reachable (and reached in every game!), but there are only 20 legal moves available: the 16 legal pawn moves for White, and the 4 legal knig…

Then use 1/3 instead of 1/2 for a combined length of 2/3 -- the total length of the intervals can be as small as you like. This hints at the fact that any countable subset of the r…

There are a couple of strategies for understanding the real numbers. One is to write down a definition of real numbers, for example using rational numbers and Dedekind cuts, hoping…

You can get that every integral domain is a field with fewer words by using a higher powered set theory result -- injections on finite sets are also surjections. The cancellation p…

It's a special move in chess called "castling". See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling

From the page about dwm: > Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No no…

Love the aesthetic, but I'm having trouble finding key information quickly. - Is this a "traditional" RPN calculator? - Does it have bonus features, like symbolic processing? - Is …

For a lot of products, it seems like I use it because I need it, but I'm not necessarily happy or proud of it. For example: - I use TurboTax because it's helpful, but I'm not happy…

For me, it's a fit-for-purpose issue. Make is great when you're creating artifacts and want to rebuild based on changes. Just is a task runner, so while there's a notion of depende…

Your example centered on a symbol which, if viewed as a subset of the plane, is not compact. I tried to argue that the set of symbols that you describe (ink of varying levels of in…

I made a comment elsewhere on this thread that explains that symbols themselves being compact isn't so important, but that the set of descriptions of the symbols must be compact. F…

> here if anywhere :-D We can play a lot of games with "what is a symbol", but compactness pervades many of the models that we use to describe reality. The crux of the argument is …

It's like how there are so many things named after Euler. The joke goes that everything in math is named after the second person to discover it after Euler, but many things are nam…

This reads as a cynical description by someone who identifies as a "skilled pragmatist" (as I do, incidentally), but it doesn't seem to have a useful point of view. For example, "p…

The combinatorics of how the Mandelbrot set is put together is well-studied, and rather independent of MLC. The arrangement of the bulbs on the boundary of the "main cardiod" (whic…

MLC stands for "Mandelbrot Locally Connected". It's not obvious, but this is equivalent to the bulbs of the Mandelbrot set (the domains of parameters where almost all points get at…

True. I do, however, like having some of the amenities of a task runner without bringing in the "cruft" that's suited toward incremental builds. I like using Just ( https://just.sy…