Is it not that Mathematica, and most of the Wolfram innovation, is about a smart way of applying some rule-based inference. I think of it as parametrized PROLOG rules, with large lib. So term rewriting all the way to the end, correct me if I'm wrong.
One can smell Claude's touch with these reactive teaching material. Not quite unexpected, every sane teacher uses Claude's artefacts to teach, but not all it spits is useful for convening knowledge.
Totally agree. At the same time, I find that my brain learns best when I ingest the same information in different ways. This app doesn't replace papers; it complements them. Unless you're my mom - she's not going to read arXiv anytime soon.
As s.o. who had to browse/navigate/understand all these people's code:
- legacy guys
- super 10x guys who say no to u all the time
- students
- even more legacy
- open source
I got to a point where I honestly care so little about all these guys' damn architectural decisions, which to me - a practitioner, scientist, researcher and academics teacher - made similarly very little sense.
Really, top coders, and veteran Java enterprise copy-pasters, I care so little about your damn code, it is very wrong most of times. I care very little about architectural decisions most of the opensource people took, as they very often come from weird backgrounds and these decisions do not match mine. Needless to say - they often know their architectural decisions are already wrong 10 years later (a great example is the QGIS crowd in this regard). I don't care about somebody's greatly designed ProC code. Neither do I care if Twitter was doing 1000 of API calls, which it seems to have been doing in reality, as even though I despise the Elon guy - well, his new X is arguably faster and more stable.
I don't care about how great your docker scales, if you need to scale to 1m VMs and back again, there is a fair chance you're Google, so I don't care about you either, as you are not the good guys anymore.
Likewise, I very much would bet 99% of visitors here don't really care what architectural decisions YC took when they decided to showcase Algolia's search. Very little interest in this.
The whole idea that there is a right way to do architecture or code is in total and direct contradiction with the history of computing, which has a good record of many successful projects not having great architecture (MySpace for example) and great projects that did not fly, even though they were top notch.
What I care is about is people and what people they are. Are they fakers? Are they smart? Are they in love with their code, or they simply see it as a tool. Are they smart enough to make a step back. Are they calm enough, are they inspiring. And of course - am I getting paid to do it.
So this massive outcry is super misplaced, and you know what - I don't care if you created your code with Claude or by threading it one char at a time, because eventually it's going to be me, with close to little knowledge, that will be forced to untangle this wonderful mess of yours.
And, no, you cannot teach people how to code. You can show them the way, and they learn their approach to it. Leave 5 people alone in 5 rooms, you'll get 5 architectures, perhaps all of them very solid.
It is anyway dead or if you want undead, but in completely suspended animation unless is made to expound sequences. Is not living the very same way a book or even a program is not living unless someone process it.
Practically like asking whether a ZIP would want to be extracted one more time or an MP3 restored just one more time.
yeah - i've been laid off, lets make the dog suffer by having it entangled in some close-to-animal-cruelty-feedback-loop where bots give it the only thing it ever craves - food - as a reinforcement and gratification.
sorry :D sounds like a joke, but we all jokers here, more or less, right.
This crosses into personal attack, which is against the intended spirit of the site. Can you please not do that? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
how is it a personal attack though? sorry I fail to understand. against whom - the dog being kept in addictive loop or against the OP or against the person who was rejoicing the fact that s.o. else was laid off. I beg your pardon, but this statement of yours seems is super subjective and truly vague. thanks for the attention anyways...
The comment implied that someone was responding to their life difficulties by making a dog suffer. That's a huge personal attack, and the added snark was an amplifier.
One thing me.Stephen never made available is for people to copy results of Wolfram Alpha… he persisted doing so even after ocr and LLms were omnipresent, so somehow I don’t trust him even though his reload theory seems very appealing and apparently the team there understands production grammars very well since 1996.
Long overdue in fact. But then perhaps heroin wouldn’t be illegal if it was big pharma was producing it in large quantities. It just got barred early enough. Besides why we always forget how addictive and damaging is the well available alcohol?
Alcohol has fucked up more lives than any other drug in my sphere. People who have had their life fucked by drugs has mostly been because of inhumane government intervention.
Yeah the legal thing used by people many magnitudes more than hard illegal drugs had an effect on more people than something used by a relatively small minority will impact more people you know.
How many heroin users do you know who manage to only have 1-2 hits a week socially though and hold down a career.
The most apparent addictions that ruin precious lives everywhere around us, in every country, are freely available because "eyes wide open" and most of the times - intentional misinformation (you can think of it also as tradition).
Add to these tobacco if you want. Nicotine on its won as a standalone agent is perhaps no more damaging than caffeine, but is used in a form-factor that really grills one's lungs.
for example - Russian influenced Balkan areas all take drinking of vodka as something super normal.
Heroin was produced in huge quantities and it was a very popular drug for many ailments, including cough, asthma, insomnia and calming down children. It declined only after the 1912 International Opium Convention. In Finland it was a popular cough suppressant until the 1950s. In e.g. UK it's still used for severe pain.
Heroin (diamorphine) as a molecule isn't really substantially more problematic than e.g. oxycodone or fentanyl, which are in widespread medical use. The specific ban of heroin is more a historical contingency.
Is it not that Mathematica, and most of the Wolfram innovation, is about a smart way of applying some rule-based inference. I think of it as parametrized PROLOG rules, with large lib. So term rewriting all the way to the end, correct me if I'm wrong.
Where does the mini-core+JIT come into this?
Thanks for taking time to answer.
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