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Nice! On the leaderboard I'd like to see code size vs cycles in a 2D plot with the Pareto front highlighted.

Oooo, link to a photo, please!

Exactly: > Participants were recruited from the Essex University Economics Lab sample pool. ... The median participant was a graduate student with two years of work experience. Har…

Are the scare quotes around wisdom because you're embarrassed to admit that such a thing exists? ;) Since it seems you've thought about it a bit, I'm interested to hear your defini…

Thanks for the links! Seems like we don't need to mask prior to the first compare, since the low order bits only matter if the high order bits are equal (in which case, we can also…

> Tesler's Theorem (ca. 1970). My formulation of what others have since called the “AI Effect”. As commonly quoted: “Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet”. What…

Here's the actual story about that quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk

I read “attaches all these numbers to each other” to mean concatenation, not addition. Presumably you’d want to encode a “next book” token too. This kind of compression is known as…

I like the concept, but if you upload a photo you took, the page will tell you: "These human-made source images were used by AI ... to generate this image." Where "this image" is y…

> we’ll use period-correct graphs, created on Office XP So beautiful.

Agreed, and I second the Looom recommendation.

> And of course you need firmware as well. Love this. It's like Obama's "the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go". Clearly Mr Smith has done his homework on the subject of mil…

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_luck

If you like bad movies, this one manages to be bad on a number of interesting dimensions at the same time. Highly recommended!

I wasn't aware of the Symbolics / SDI connection: > The market created by funding from SDI was quite forgiving. The government was interested in creating complex Lisp programs and …

The takeaways (for me) were that: 1) a small number of high-status parents with different priorities than the broader community will often (without malice) influence a school's adm…