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I think you’re missing my point: we’re only able to predict large numbers of coin flips because we have an accurate model. We don’t have an accurate model for weather, so we can’t …

You can’t predict a coin flip because it is random. However, we have an accurate understanding of the random process producing coin flips and therefore, we can make accurate predic…

If you weight papers by some measure of impact, e.g. by citation count, this is not true.

I guess you’re not a big fan of Plato then?

It’s fine to disagree with my analogy. But I find it a little ironic your dismissal of the analogy is a non sequitur. The invalidness of the analogy doesn’t directly follow, logica…

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Isn’t a better question: why would they migrate off COBOL? Their business is working. What’s the impetus to change? It’s not like they need to use COBOL for every new project.

> Are you proposing that an LLM can extract some meaning from your initial prompt that a human being couldn't? No, I’m asserting that an LLM can help formulate ideas in a coherent,…

I disagree. The purpose of writing is to convey ideas. If written language had just been invented, I’m sure you’d be saying “IMO any important stories you expect others to know sho…

But a query optimizer only matters once you have an established business with large customers. You seem to be implying Salesforce’s business is successful because they have their o…

Your friends don’t produce much content yet people had a need for frequent entertainment. Also, people realized that posting things to social media meant that it was there forever.…

It's not really that hard to make a Salesforce clone now though. Writing the software was never the hard part of building a business.

You should feel that C’s longevity is insane. How many languages have come and gone in the meantime? C is truly an impressive language that profoundly moved humanity forward. If th…

Many of the built-in types in Objective C all have names beginning with “NS” like “NSString”. The NS stands for NeXTSTEP. I always found it insane that so many years later, every i…

How is this different than any other access control system?

I think that’s different. You have a problem: invoice management. LLMs have made that cheaper and you should expect disruption. But you’re not building your own invoice scanner. Yo…

It’s worth asking: what do Wall Street traders know about building software companies? Almost nothing. Anyone who has attempted to start a startup knows that the software is always…

You look at what Claude’s doing to make sure it doesn’t go off the rails? Personally, I either move on to another ask in parallel or just read my phone. Trying to catch things by m…

I don't think this is necessarily a fair comparison. In your sample of David Greene, he's being _interviewed_, which is different than hosting a radio show or podcast. For instance…

I grew up near train tracks. I’m totally of incapable of even hearing trains unless they’re directly in front of me.

I have had good experience with Go, but I've also had good results with TypeScript. Compile-time checks are very important to getting good results. I don't think the simplicity of …

I’m sure there is pressure to be contrarian, but there’s also a huge amount of shared delusion. It’s completely illogical to assume one can know much about society thousands of yea…