Seth Verrinder @sethev
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Cloud abstraction frameworks are a bit like Esperanto: a great idea in principle and admired by the creator, but a hurdle for everyone who has to learn yet-another-language and might suffer translation errors.
Me, standing outside Geoffrey Hinton’s office, matted hair, bloodshot eyes, shouting at passers-by: IT’S ALL A SCAM. THERE IS NO AI. NEURAL NETS ARE JUST MATRIX OPERATIONS. *sobbing softly as guards approach* they’re just matrix operations.
This is so important but hard for people to grasp for some reason - the temptation to invent new formats is strong.
I saw something about how developers are pedants "because computers are pedants". I used to tell people I was homeschooled and they'd say "but... without bullying, how did you prepare for life?" Sometimes we mistake the constructed rules of a game for the walls of reality.
The REPL is like unit tests that don’t stay and I like unit tests that don’t stay because I don’t need them once my high-level ones work, and they can prevent refactoring.
“Donald Trump signs directive to send astronauts back to Moon.” ICE has been tasked with enforcement; Aldrin reportedly already in custody
Bitcoin was supposed to demonstrate the power of a true free market. Instead it's full of scams, rent-seekers, theft, useless for real purchases and accelerates climate change. Mission accomplished.
whenever you don’t feel up to the task in front of you, just remember jared kushner
they split compute and memory and use RDMA (remote direct memory access)
Looks like there's been some interesting work on distributed joins recently: sites.computer.org/debull/A17mar/…
We think Japan values transit, has completely different funding mechanisms and their trains aren’t 30 years old. TBH
We think Japan values transit, has completely different funding mechanisms and their trains aren’t 30 years old. TBH
My campaign manager was corrupt long before I hired him
Maybe "don't be evil" is similar to "don't think about pink elephants".
Alan Turing, well-known and hugely influential computer scientist, was forcibly chemically castrated for being gay in the 50's.
Alan Turing, well-known and hugely influential computer scientist, was forcibly chemically castrated for being gay in the 50's.
Congrats to today’s GOP On backing a fine nominee, Now busy befriending The Nazis defending Confederate Robert E. Lee.
I wrote a kind of exasperated explainer about the high-IQ idiocy surrounding AI risk. This is what Musk is on about: idlewords.com/talks/superint…
I think that @github should add a "thanks" tab next to "issues". It will most certainly increase the positivity in the OSS community.

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