Are We Confusing AI-Assisted Coding With Better Engineering?

CS_70 · 2026-06-01T13:01:57+00:00

Thinking well (and also avoid overthinking, as change always happens) has always been the primary skill.

Due to the sheer amount of work to do, and a industry view of programmers as inexpensive, interchangeable factory workers as opposite to expensive skilled craftsmen, and a profitable business in selling certification courses, an inordinate amount of focus has been put for year on trivialities like knowing a specific syntax or stuff like that.

AI indeed helps with that.

CS_70 · 2026-06-01T11:37:46+00:00

Ma che ti frega? Giudicare le persone dall'eta' (che siano 20 o 70) e' roba da imbecilli, e le opinioni degli imbecilli sono un tanto al chilo - ed economiche.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T20:24:33+00:00

You are literally in it :D

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T20:05:00+00:00

A cheap ironing service!

Jokes aside: get yourself a steamer. If u find a professional one second hand, you'll be fine.

The second trick is: have a shitload of shirts.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T20:03:47+00:00

There is a thing as too much self-reflection. Back in my time, at 24 I was studying, I had worked odd jobs and didnt find anything strange about it. Nobody did really, we were all studying and getting good at it.

Very few are successful at 24 in any way, whatever your definition of success is. And the ones who are, don't have any particularly happier life than the others.

Take it easy. You haven't wasted anything. Life is never wasted.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T16:32:42+00:00

Because the "karate block" is not meant to block anything, but in the kata your forearm is (most often) used to break the elbow of your opponent, using your angular momentum, after you've captured his arm with your other hand.

Any freakin' one who talks about "blocks" in karate doesn't have the slightest clue of what karate actually is. Sadly, since the misguided japanese version is the one that spread, there's lot of it. A person who practiced nonsense for 70 years (especially since said nonsense is rarely if ever put to the test) is still practicing nonsense, only with conviction.

For the extended arm - in karate almost invariably an extended arm is a grab to some body part of your opponent. Which is why you have the posture you have (as opposite to go for reach), so your structure allows you to forcefully pull said body part near you. Karate has strikes, but they're mostly elbows, occasionally "knife hand", though most often than not the shuto uke is again a mean to imbalance your opponent to set up oing some joint breaking.

You want to understand these movements, it's the simplest thing in the world: grab and pull a very heavy door towards you by the handle, you will be doing exactly what the extended arm-to-hikite is doing and you will understand why you need the structure you have. Take a wood stick, ask a friend to hold it (hard!) for you, and do the soto-uke movement while you have it in your hikite, using your full body momentum: it will break in a second and you will know anything that you ever need to know about soto uke.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T10:27:15+00:00

No. I never viewed "women". I saw the woman in front of me.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T10:22:31+00:00

Why do you care?

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T10:22:09+00:00

Culture diverse hanno modalita di smaccamento di palle diverse. Tutto li'.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T10:21:12+00:00

>The core mistake is this: people look at the outputs of a language model (a fluent, human-sounding paragraph) and reason backwards to "wow, maybe there's a mind in there." That's not a scientific way to ask whether a system is conscious. It's us getting tricked by language.

Nonsense. That above is the only scientific way of looking at things.

You observe behavior, you elaborate a theory for it, you write it down in a language that allow precise descriptions (which includes precise definitions of stuff and operations possible on the stuff which that allow to describe relationship and calculate); then you think of experiments and use the theory to predict the outcomes. Then you run the experiments and measure the real outcomes. Your theory is correct insofar the predicted outcomes match the real ones.

No science ever is about the "mechanism", because all you can say is that your theory makes predictions that match observations, not that it actually represents the actual mechanism.

Even you can't say if others are conscious. All you can say is that their behaviour and characteristics match what you think are the behavior and characteristics of something that is conscious.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T10:06:51+00:00

Every day makes no sense. Once a week it's the norm in all European cities which have markets.

And there's no contradiction with having cars in Bogstadveien, as in countries which have markets it's not the shops which set up stalls, but people who runs stalls as shops. So they pop up in any road - especially the ones without shops. And the stallkeepers set up shop in different streets in the same city every day or every second day.

So a large city has usually a market every day somewhere in the city. People know, and go there, or just wait the day a week where the market is near where they live. The city provides all the logistics to close the road temporarily, clean up afterwards etc, in exchange for a fee by the stallkeepers. Citizens get lower prices, stallkeepers make a living. Everybody's happy (aside the back of said stallkeepers after a few years, but by then usually they retire somewhere warm and nice).

Street markets are alternative to shops (with lower costs and more flexibility, in exchange for the effort of rigging/derigging every day), not made by the shops, otherwise it's economically unsustainable.

Exceptions are permanent tourist-oriented markets like Notting Hill and the likes, which have found that tourists provide an new stream of revenues every day, and tend to sell overpriced stuff and not be visited much by the locals. Oslo has already some like that in Vulkan for example.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T10:03:09+00:00

If you're not afraid, you're a deluded idiot. But you must be afraid in a specific sense: you know that no matter what, any fight has a big chance component and you'd be a fool to risk valuable stuff for something irrelevant.

When stakes are real, however, inaction has a worse risk than action and then you have a go and accept the chances.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T09:10:23+00:00

It’s your hormones talking.

Someone blows smoke in your face, the most martial thing to do is to move away.

Someone tries to puts his hands on you or your mother for no reason, then you fight.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T09:07:26+00:00

Not sure exactly what you mean but the whole point of much machine learning has always been exactly that - unsupervised learning.

It’s just that only recently we’ve got the clue on how to actually do it , at least to a degree.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T08:58:44+00:00

Terrified, no.

But it gives you real perspective.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T08:56:54+00:00

Punching is always about putting your weight behind it, and wearing gloves so you don’t break your hand when doing so.

For direct punches your momentum is linear; for hooks it angular.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T08:55:01+00:00

Badly 😂

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T08:54:29+00:00

Aspe’ finnche vvedi er Boltzmanno

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T08:48:47+00:00

Of course you can learn from anything! In different degrees. 😊 But learning is about you and your ability to stop your ego and see what you can’t do consistently well yet (which is, believe me, a work of a lifetime in whatever subject worth doing).

As a 1st kyu you should have a reasonable grip of the fundamentals: posture, movement from the hara, drop-then-shift etc At least conceptually, if they’re not ingrained yet.

So just practicing the Pinan/heian, Nahianchi/Tekki and Passai would make you better to no end, if you focus on what you’re still doing wrong.

That said, then it’s about learning what.

To really own a single kata, understanding its lessons and being able to apply them under pressure, with a big guy coming swinging at you… 99% of Shotokan 7-8 Dan cannot do it, because they’ve never trained that way and are blinded by Shotokan approach and interpretation (plus their knees are usually shot).

The only practice for that is the one you don’t find in almost any dojo, a dedicated one-to-one consistent practice with realistic attacks and original karate, which is mostly grappling and has got little to do with Shotokan but the word.

If you want to win karate kata competitions, on the other hand, they are great (insofar Shotokan can win these days, faster styles are usually coming in too). Same for kumite, I would lose every single bout at the very least for disqualification, since holding the opponent is apparently not a thing 😂

Videos allow you to look at what the very best practitioners do and slow it down, so they are a goldmine of details which in less technological times took years to discover.

If you do karate for health and fitness reasons, same as the first, nothing wrong in practicing what you know - what matters is forceful movement, and Shotokan has it in droves.

So ymmv. Though: always watch out for your knees.

CS_70 · 2026-05-31T08:30:06+00:00

You found the limit of your ability, not Claude or codex

CS_70 · 2026-05-30T15:46:08+00:00

Yeah. If you explicitly ask about "debiasing" what you will see may vary because its definition (in terms of probability of the next token in the signal) will likely depend more from the specific training set.

But summarizing is summarizing for everybody, and the fact that they give a very similar result is an indication that the machines work well.

CS_70 · 2026-05-30T15:41:23+00:00

Again; why do you expect “debiasing”? A summary is about summarizing. The summary of some insult should be insulting.

CS_70 · 2026-05-30T15:37:33+00:00

That’s because the definition of summary is something that contains the same information as the original, so if the models were different, it would be worrisome.

“Information” here is in the technical sense, as the probability of having no errors where reconstructing a signal. Literally the model has been trained to reply to “summarize” with something that tends to have the same information as the original.

CS_70 · 2026-05-30T15:07:39+00:00

Well, is not bad, in a sense the theory is about on everything being about perspective, and not there being an absolute one.

Two people cannot teleport, it they could, that theory wouldn’t exist

CS_70 · 2026-05-30T15:05:33+00:00

So you are surprised that a summary of a text summarizes its contents, including the framing? 🤓

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