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mirman

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About mirman

I'm an AI safety researcher

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    what sorta moat do you have now that openai’s got eyes?

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    Comment #6245305

    Do you have any reasoning behind that opinion, or is it just unfounded religious zeal? Why should somebody who wants to use threading have to know how to write a preemptive schedul…

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    Comment #6228978

    So number of lines of code makes a library a joke? One of the most commonly used Haskell libraries is only 25. http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/forkable-monad/0... Also,…

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    This is a library that can be used to supplement any implementation. If I'd had the option to switch us to stackless easily, and I could guarantee it was as fast, worked with all t…

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    Comment #6226589

    - here actually negates the ordering of the numbers in the list. -1.0.0 === 0.0.1.

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    Comment #6226496

    Technically no, you can't have two things happening concurrently and but not finishing in the same time period. But what a "thing" and how long a period is are up for grabs. If we …

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    No offense taken - both of these are obviously visibly delicate. There is a version in the history that used Greenlet instead of gevent which was potentially a bit less delicate, b…

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    Comment #6225884

    waitAll gone. Before I put it in any package managers it will get style guided. This is currently on version -1.0.0.

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    Comment #6225793

    The lack of options for parallel (and non-parallel) concurrency is, along with other things, feeding the high defection rate to many other languages.

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    Comment #6225693

    Fewer explicit yields & no monkey patching necessary for IO performing libraries.