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    Comment #47750896

    I am referring to this slide : https://youtu.be/EVwQsvof7Hw?t=1646

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    Comment #47747588

    Weird Things Happen When Math Gets Too Expressive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwQsvof7Hw Peano arithmetic is sufficiently expressive enough to be equivalent to any possible fu…

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    Comment #47744170

    Human race is indeed fascinating. We kill millions of cows for food while doing the following in the same breath. A bronze sculpture unveiled in March 2026 in Almaty, Kazakhstan (n…

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    Comment #47744127

    On the efficiency side, why do we need 10 companies doing the same thing. "Don't Repeat Yourself" principle would agree with your proposal.

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    Comment #47744087

    I can't run my business without electricity. Yet we don't fear of its access being revoked. Sam makes the comparison of intelligence to electricity a lot. So we are on the path to …

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    Comment #47743951

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superformula Have you heard of Superformula ? I remember playing with them few years ago.

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    Comment #47743875

    You should collaborate with Huygens Optics. I find his videos thought provoking https://youtu.be/hYyrgDEJLOA

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    Comment #47743637

    AI told me my ideas are so good that I should write a book. Luckily I am in charge of I spend my time. Idea guys are very common in game industry.

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    Comment #47742403

    > Certain regions of the world or U.S. seem to care a lot more about peer-perception than others. This wasn't true even for US few decades ago. Jerry Seinfeld - MONEY became EVERYT…

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    Comment #47742372

    Yes. It is similar to the military saying that, "cemetry is full of indespensible people." We think the company won't thrive without us, but flow of life finds a way to do without …

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    Comment #47742215

    One great opportunity is for expert-developers to push the boundary of better algorithms or libraries. No one rolls out their own cryptographic library, majority problems faced in …

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    Comment #47742115

    Another question is would a future world require so much code that we turn code generation into a service itself. Perhaps an analogy will help. e.g. do we use our lawnmowers 24x7? …

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    Comment #47741251

    There is a parody youtube video in which one delusional pro-blockchain speaker is talking about how he wants his food to be put on blockchain which was the audio part, the video pa…

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    Comment #47741152

    A glove (software) that fits the hand (company processes) perfectly.

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    Comment #47740946

    I hope AI will make automated translation of such legacy codebases into any favourite langauge possible in future. Fingers crossed.

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    Comment #47732191

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42041926-the-scout-minds... This is my favourite book. I have followed their podcast for so long. You might like the ideas in this book. Or you …

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    Comment #47731220

    Also blaming the tool for the crime is some sort of fallacy. I don't know name you can ask AI.

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    Comment #47731204

    Nothing wrong in that. But in research we have a thing called survey the already existing literature on the problem and checking what worked or didn't. If you want to learn by doin…

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    Comment #47730435

    Yes it could just simply be a syntactic sugar for a complex operation taking in 4 numbers. But this reminds me of Mirror Symmetry between two theories in String Theory where comple…

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    Comment #47728907

    I also liked the one on lambda calculus. I hope one day we will be able to find interpretation of what it actually means for PLUS Times Plus. Maybe this is how we will explore nons…

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    Comment #47728573

    This is like blaming a knife as being a killer weapon. Social media is inherently good if owners of the platforms allow for good interactions to take place. But given the mismatch …

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    Comment #47728320

    If you think you have found the right idea to devote your next 5-10 years of life, then normatively thinking you should be able to create a 500-1000 pages PPT to document all the s…

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    Comment #47728258

    I remember Facebook while developing it's mobile app in the early days of smartphones did similar tests. https://highscalability.com/how-facebook-makes-mobile-work-a...

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    Comment #47723390

    The Search for the Longest Infinite Chess Game https://youtu.be/b-Bb_TyhC1A