AI notkilleveryoneist • Medical Doctor • Land Of Lisp Author
Mill Valley, CA
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I bet we won't be seeing a tweet like this ever again
you guys don’t even know how good you have it. you are within two months of the bleeding edge of model capabilities at all times. there is no government or megacorp on earth with access to better models than you. internet idiots will never grant this to us but openai made ai open
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My new development setup:
A Yoga Book 9i dual screen laptop running emacs, with a Vortex Core 40% keyboard
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Epistemic humility is the most valuable trait correlated with intelligent partners IMHO
You want someone capable of handling all things, but if the other person has more expertise on something specific, they should be comfortable fully deferring control on that specific thing
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Presenting: The Lisperati1000 Computer!
An ultra-compact Lisp programming workstation. PETG 3D printed case, PizeroW, 4400mAh dual batteries, Full-sized 40% keyboard, 1920x480 ultrawide screen, so I can see lots of parentheses.
Only 3 will ever be built.
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I've never learned how to correctly panic in python code
I just write panic() wherever I need it to panic in the code
When it gets to that part of the code, since it doesn't recognize the command, python will immediately panic
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naturally, the software Lenovo ships to deal with the dual screens is unusable
had to write my own dotnet background utility app to do window management, now everything is working pretty well
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I would pay big money for a pair of noise cancelling headphones that also has an emergency button to replay the last 20 seconds of external audio at 2x speed when I realize my wife had just asked me a question
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> Twitter says it has created AI art
> ask if it is AI slop
> Twitter doesn't understand
> pull out illustrated diagram explaining AI slop, Twitter still doesn't understand
> Twitter laughs and say "it's good AI art, sir"
> Look at the art
> It's AI slop
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I have a simple rule of thumb I as to whether a book on a science subject is good: It's no good if it has flowery descriptions of people in it.
If a chapter starts "I first met Expert X at the train station, he had a haggard visage but a glint in his eyes" I will stop reading.
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Just realized my breakfast, my keyboard, and my code editor all share the same color aesthetic this morning
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There's a weird divergence right now where people skeptical of LLMs of course don't pay $20 to access chatgpt4, think chatgpt3/bard are state of the art, feeding into their low opinion of LLMs
vs those who paid the $20 and hence have a completely different experience with LLMs
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I don't think Paul Graham gets enough credit for the fact that he programmed a substantial social network all by himself in his spare time (hacker news)
and that he wrote it in his own language (the lisp dialect named arc)
arc is a cool language btw worth checking out @paulg
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I'm worried the US is going to be the laughing stock of the world at the end of this, based on how we bungled the response on a national, local, and individual level.
Just as people like to make jokes about France and "surrendering" they'll make jokes about the US and pandemics.
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.
- EO Wilson
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Today my company and I are excited to release qlkit, an open source clojure/clojurescript web development framework based on graph queries! Check out our walkthrough:
medium.com/@conrad_9565/lets…
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On the 1st/15th of every month, I try to release something cool
Today, dogbunnypuzzle.com, a new form of puzzle I invented!
Though the design is so simple, it can't possibly be truly new (?)
Works great on both mobile and desktop
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Gotta say, this Carp programming language is kind of a dream at first inspection:
- The syntax is similar to Clojure
- Hindley-Milner type inference
- Compiles right down to C
- Steals Rust's memory management paradigm (no garbage collection)
github.com/carp-lang/Carp
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Big Announcement: I've been working hard on a VR RPG game. Hoping it will be pretty epic in scale and fun!
walkingdre.am
(Most of the core engine developed in Clojure, naturally)
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Interesting how much Elon Musk talks in the latest Lex podcast about how important efficient forgetting is to the function of our brains
I think the biggest oversight in productivity apps (note taking, calendar, email, tasks, etc) is that they lack any notion of forgetting
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Someone do a startup that simply takes past stock trading docs from your broker, cleans em up & generates rigorous/bayesian stats as to whether your trades outperform the markets (not so easy)
Would be useful service for people who truly care if they're just "fooling themselves"
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I'm starting to realize why great programmers are so obsessed with automating all the steps in their workflows: It's not for aesthetic reasons or to save time.
It's simply because it's hard work to keep remembering all the steps.
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I think more likely:
1. Board asked Sam not to do something
2. Sam being Sam, starts "overcoming obstacles"
3. Starts meetings with lawyers/potential board replacements about overcoming this obstacle
4. Board catches wind that it may not exist much longer
5. Fires Sam
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All a lay person needs to understand is that if you create a machine smarter than yourself, like maybe that is a dangerous thing to be doing
This is obvious to most people (as we see in polls) and all the important technical discussions are detailed elaborations on this fact
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It would be cool if IDEs let you highlight a code, click "turn into separate function"
Then the IDE automatically breaks out that code into a separate function, determining what variables are used & need to be passed as arguments.
Finally, puts a function call in the old spot.
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Any movie that has a high critic rating on rottentomatoes but an abysmal audience score usually has interesting ideas.
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I don't know what it is about this starbucks
but it really helps me get in the flow with my Lisp programming
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On the 1st and 15th of every month, I try to release something cool...
...today, a sneak peek at PUKE PLANNER
The number of likes of this tweet will determine how hard I will work on this app
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1/3 As requested through the poll, my first round of mascots for other programming languages! (more to come)
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That "we wanted to make Google dance" thing Nadella said was such a nasty thing to say
A reminder that Microsoft is at its heart a cutthroat, brutish company
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UPDATE: Due to high demand, I have decided to fund a project to release this as a kit. If you are an electrical engineer and/or know about machining Aluminum, please get in touch!
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In a moment of weakness I got a GPD MicroPC, a palmtop that runs windows (or ubuntu)
For now I'm using it solely as a dedicated Moonring device (a new indie game inspired by Ultima 3, which is my jam)
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Yeah I just was learning some intricacies of Unix sockets today
It's great for those kinds of topics where there is lots of content online, but all the content is written by people who already know the subject and don't explain it from a novice's perspective
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After 30 years of programming, I almost never use a library directly anymore (in clojure or other language)
Instead, I read the API docs on the library, then ask myself "what do I wish the API had been?" then create my own library that wraps the other library to my liking
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A C programmer, a Java programmer, and a Haskell programmer are stranded on an island.
(I fed that prompt into GPT3 to get it to write some programmer jokes for me. I edited the GPT3 results to tweet size when needed)
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The smartest people in 1985:
I hope we don't have an AI Winter
The smartest people in 2024:
I hope we have an AI Winter
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"It's not until you look at them through a magnifying glass that you realize how often ants burst into flame"- Tim Ewald via @craigludington
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I remember a brief period a long time ago when the term "XML" was used with the same reverence as "deep learning" and "crypto" are used today
Lots of tech evangelists were promising XML would change the world via some fuzzy mechanism nobody was fully able to explain
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On the 1st/15th of every month I try to release something cool
Today: Regulator Rumble
In this fighter, battle government regulators: U can't attack, only duck. Survive long enough & you'll have the opportunity to lick their boots & go to the next level! lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=1158…
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People who said Picasso was overrated 50y ago were mostly right, too much of the conversation was about Picasso, not the many other great artists
it was a weird mass hallucination at the time
Today, people appropriately treat him as a historically important artist out of many
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Liking Closure: Guilty
Liking Haskell: Guilty
Liking Common Lisp: Guilty
Liking Zig: Guilty
Liking OCaml: Guilty
Liking Scheme: Guilty
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Wrote a function in Clojure today that called both a function in a Java library, as well as a function in a Python library to do its work.
Just had to take a second to reflect on how cool it is that this is now completely trivial to do.
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Oddly, people still talk a lot more about lotr and star wars. Though GOT was very good, after everyone watched it, it's mostly disappeared from people's consciousness.
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ChatGPT has doubled my programming productivity
Now I can work on 8 software projects simultaneously, that will probably never see the light of day
Instead of just 4
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If a company is an outlier in terms of technical competence
And something happens to drastically change the dynamics at the company
The rational expectation is that technical competence will start shifting towards the mean
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It requires a greater investment of effort for men to attain a partner, so a substitute good is more likely to impact "real life" relationship dynamics when men have access to such a technology
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I've committed to releasing something cool on the 1st and 15th of every month
Today: EconIsle, a proof-of-concept web game/economic simulation of a stone aged island, designed to teach the basic concepts of economics
#Opensource #Clojurescript #graphql
piped.video/watch?v=Rx_URujI…
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On the 1st and 15th of every month, I try to release something cool...
Today, hirez Lisp wallpaper!
See the final scene of my imagined Lisp movie, which would surely be an international blockbuster
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My go-to explanation for what Lisp is, when asked by a non-coder:
"It's an old language created back in the fifties. People are interested in it again in recent years because it was heavily based on math, which can make it useful for avoiding certain types of bugs."
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Somehow overlooked this lisp alien fan art someone made 14 years ago LOL
(source shorturl.at/gPSY6)
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I joined both Reddit and Hacker News at literally day one, and was initially super aligned with opinions there and got massive karma right out of the gate
but my views have drifted
so when I post now, it gets downvoted
my karma slowly melting away
like black hole radiation
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attractive people wearing weird gear look attractive regardless of what attire they are wearing
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There's two different cafes in Tokyo that do 3D latte art. Naturally, we're going to have a Lisp Alien face off!
Here's the first one, Reissue Cafe Harajuku
I feel like they overly compromised on the promise of 3D, but I give them high marks for a legible "Lisp"!
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the laptop comes with a stand that places the screens at eye level, if that's your thing
never could grasp this concept though
you realize humans evolved to look at the ground most of the time?
that's where snakes/spiders/rabbits/tigers are
snakes don't come on laptop stands
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Programming requires hard thinking, but 33% of it is just tedious, mundane hard thinking that is in no way meaningful or enjoyable
I used to be able to do only 2h of hard thinking a day...
...but by now passing that 33% to an LLM I can do the equivalent of 3h of hard thinking
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This is your once-in-a-decade reminder that my "Land of Lisp" music video exists
piped.video/HM1Zb3xmvMc
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keep in mind we still don't know how active Waymo's human-operated operations center is: They might be performing 3-4 disengagements for every 1.5 hours of Waymo rides
But otherwise I agree with your assessment
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Steve Russell, the first person to implement Lisp & the creator of Spacewar is still alive (and hopefully well!)
eval considered unimplementable
!["Lisp was first implemented by Steve Russell on an IBM 704 computer using punched cards.[13] Russell had read McCarthy's paper and realized (to McCarthy's surprise) that the Lisp eval function could be implemented in machine code.
According to McCarthy, [14]:
"Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval ... and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, he compiled the eval in my paper into IBM 704 machine code, fixing bug, and then advertised this as a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. So at that point Lisp had essentially the form that it has today ...""
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#History](/pic/orig/media%2FFGY7Oz_XIAIQ6-8.png)
ALT "Lisp was first implemented by Steve Russell on an IBM 704 computer using punched cards.[13] Russell had read McCarthy's paper and realized (to McCarthy's surprise) that the Lisp eval function could be implemented in machine code. According to McCarthy, [14]: "Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval ... and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, he compiled the eval in my paper into IBM 704 machine code, fixing bug, and then advertised this as a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. So at that point Lisp had essentially the form that it has today ..."" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#History
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Everyone will build immunity, but Sweden is at risk of building immunity while having their hospital infrastructure collapse at the same time.
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We need to get Haskellers to write diss blog posts on how terrible Lisp languages are, and vice versa
Get a slice of that sweet media attention, like Drake and Kendrick
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I've finished a home-rolled terminal based twitter client that I'm hoping will be less addictive, so I'm going to try to read all my tweets like this now:
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I think this is the ultimate mobile form factor: Drop the touchpad so that you can move the display closer and slope it back (feels more like reading a book than a computer monitor) then add a decent mechanical keyboard and just tap the touchscreen as needed.
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There's a pay-as-you-go lounge above Shibuya scramble, fully stocked with unlimited lattes/juices/snacks/alcohol/wifi/power
You can work on your laptop and watch the scramble
Payment is at the end, via the honor system
My American mind cannot comprehend this
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The feeling when you've written some code that is so ugly, you know the only reasonable solution is to throw it away and start from scratch...
...except you spent a long time thinking how to structure the code & there is no cleaner way to perform the required job.
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Me jumping into the Hacker News comments section when the submission title makes mention of LISP
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By popular request: Open source DIY instructions, with STL files and other resources, for making your own Lisperati1000 using 3D-printed parts!
lisperaticomputers.com
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When somebody not using a Lisp
Explains to me how flexible their favorite programming language is
And I don't have enough time to explain Lisp macros to them
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As requested, daily #dogbunnypuzzles at dogbunnypuzzle.com!
On launch day today, there are 3 puzzles, including an extra-hard "Wicked Wednesday" puzzle
Come back every day for a brand new puzzle- Tweet your number of moves with friends to compete!
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git is a great tool, but it's so overkill for solo personal projects. Tempted to write my own versioning tool that just does the following:
1. Retains last 5 commits
2. Has one command to "commit everything"
3. Lets you easily browse 4 prev commits
That's it, that's all it does
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glad I got my embarrassing tweet of the month completed early this month
It would be cool if IDEs let you highlight a code, click "turn into separate function"
Then the IDE automatically breaks out that code into a separate function, determining what variables are used & need to be passed as arguments.
Finally, puts a function call in the old spot.
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Thread today on HN: "What's the most elegant software ever?"
I agree with those who say it's Turbo Pascal, which I experienced 1st hand
Minimalism (by necessity) of the IDE+language optimized by a single genius (Heijlberg) means it had best usability+performance+size combo ever
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My book "Land of Lisp" is in a Humble Bundle today- A ton of great programming books at a great price humblebundle.com/books/learn…
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Any interest in a Lisp Alien plush toy, as per @_mordocai ? Might consider a little kickstarter, just for fun...
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Guess we need to start an org called "not the CDC" which starts calling the hospitals to get numbers and do the CDCs job for them.
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I've committed to releasing something cool on the 1st & 15th of every month
Today, a brand new "Grand Theft Wumpus" tshirt! something people (an extremely niche group of people) have been asking me for since forever
They'll be made as a 3-pass screen print, on premium shirts🧵
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I have created an official Lisp Alien 3D model- My 8yo daughter helped me pose it for some killer action shots today!
For STL files to print your own, and more build details, visit my blog: lisperati.com/#!The_Official…
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What if we give the generation after Gen Z the name "Gen [", since they're gonna be really into digital stuff, and "[" comes after "Z" in the ASCII table?
That's why you all follow me on Twitter, for insights like this
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I made a pointless new thing!
pickyourparanoia.com
Make your own custom, seamlessly animated gif
(hacker news discussion thread news.ycombinator.com/item?id…)
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I predict Apple is going to horribly regret releasing their VR helmet
It'll probably have cool whizbang features and I might be tempted to get one myself
But they will regret it very badly for many reasons
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thinking about all the brutal insults I'll be able to tweet about non-Lisp programming languages once Elon is fully in control
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But now that that mandatory bullshit warning is out of the way, let's break the fucking rules
Lisp languages > Other programming languages
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It makes me kind of nervous that Bezos is flying into space with his own rocketship next month, given that I hold Amazon stock... maybe I should buy some kind of hedge for my stock, for the duration of the flight lol.
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No matter your background, you'll understand about 60% of Machine Learning with just this one talk by Peter Norvig: piped.video/watch?v=T1O3ikmT…
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I committed to releasing something cool on the 1st & 15th of every month from here on out, so here's todays release
ZEK: create roam-like notes in a line editor. The "Zig Editor of Knowledge" is a minimalistic note taking app w/ some advanced features
piped.video/watch?v=4W_m176P…
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In the next decade, neural networks should be able to take old B&W movie footage and turn it into something that is indistinguishable from 120Hz 4K color video.
Future generations will likely have a very different conception of what the early 1900s looked like, because of this.
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China was unable to manufacture a ballpoint pen until 2017, when they finally figured out how to make the ball with a high enough precision businessinsider.com/china-ha…
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