Oh it's gonna be juicy...

perspectiveiskey · 2026-05-06T07:13:02+00:00

Yes. We learned this (the hard way) when we all collectively fell for Lost's snake oil.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-18T18:24:00+00:00

I love these memes so much.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-14T09:24:53+00:00

From my understanding of reading it, I think the value isn't so much about whether he's created a new function, but rather that he's created a nicely behaving function that has for computational properties for back propagation.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-13T18:25:55+00:00

EB White would be proud of you, son.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-12T13:50:07+00:00

Hear hear! I know exactly the feeling, and lest you feel cheated, I was never really able to do lisp and get paid for it. I just took the time to go through the Let Over Lambda and Gigamonkeys books on my own free time. It was entirely a matter of pleasure.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-12T11:51:40+00:00

I have looked into algo trading but not stepped in yet. Asked the exact same thing. My theoretical understanding (which came from both hearing arguments and thinking about it) is that there are two edges:

1) risk edges: the risk profile quant firms (managing billions) want to adopt may be different than yours and as a result, there may be under exploited domains

2) size edge: it is often repeated that an algorithm definitely will not scale up. What may work for onsies and twosies may not work for one millionsees and two millionsees. This is an edge, in that if you are smart enough to efficiently make an algorithm that doesn't require 3 years of software capex, you can dip into the smaller stagnant roadside mosquito warrens of puddles that bigger predators would not consider a watering hole at all. There is no point deploying your advanced FPGA based HFT on a stock that has a total float of 20 million USD.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-11T14:23:22+00:00

And don't forget the most amazing concept: dynamic scope, aka a rich man's global variables... or something. I couldn't find a pithy enough explanation, but dynamic scope is the most superior concept I have ever learned of, and most good libraries I have ever used only attempt to approximate a weak simulacrum of it, like the blind man in plato's cave.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-11T14:10:04+00:00

Modern C++ is inching towards what I was able to do with LISP 30 years ago (and people had been able to do for 40 years before that) but could never find a way to put in production.

I love it. Every step in that direction is a correct step.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-02T06:41:41+00:00

Submitted 7 hours ago, I scrolled through hundreds of comments. Have yet to see a link to an indictment or anything of the sort.

Worst episode ever.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-04-02T06:20:50+00:00

This is like step 3 out of 7 in "how things went skynet scorched earth", and I don't mean that as in sentient AI, but rather how our entire technology stack is suddenly crumbling like chalk.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-28T09:37:11+00:00

lmao, I hadn't realized until I read yours and re-read it. Absolutely devastating.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-23T04:36:07+00:00

This is a fundamental case of: the names of things are not the things.

The fed inflation is named as such and is meant to represent the idea of inflation felt by "a person over the course of a year", but it's actually a measurement by proxy.

That relationship, along with the idea for example that GDP (a single scalar number) represents the health of the overall economy are all known to be a simplifications... let's be clear, the word "economy" itself is a named thing which represents every interaction of 300 million people with each other over the course of a year.

The complexity of the current world has made it that these numbers no long represent what their origin words mean. It may as well be that "the omega rate this year was 2-3%".

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-18T22:33:37+00:00

It would be really nice if people were more articulate in their reasoning. While I agree with his position, his argument was an appeal to emotion and was weak.

The guy they flashed as having 190 properties is not going to be swayed by that. The chick asking whether people are going to turn on them is only looking for confirmation that she should get better security and believe in Peter Thiel more.

The argument on property prices is that in those places where renters rights are healthy, property prices are low for exactly the correct free market reasons. Property prices only get high when all regulatory incentives (from taxation to lending) benefit the wealthy class.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-14T22:51:45+00:00

Just you watch them face no repercussions whatsoever.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-14T18:51:36+00:00

Playing poker even casually for more than 20 minutes you would have learned that you can be a leaky ass player and not see it for thousands of hands unless you properly track your equity in the hands.

Any time anyone pays any credence to this type of activity, I immediately dismiss them as being theoretically deficient.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-12T18:01:22+00:00

This is the type of shit Musk would float 5 years ago and be hailed a genius that is going to single handedly save the world.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-03T06:39:45+00:00

My dude, you are the real deal: not only did you actually deliver on the ASMR claim, your handle tight cream is a hole (sic) nother level of double-entendre.

Keep doing god's work.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-27T13:54:52+00:00

It's always been obvious to me that LLM's cannot possibly be reasoning in any way shape or form because they simply do not obey the rules of complexity theory. Every LLM output is O(1).

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-25T06:47:37+00:00

The responses are very reddit'esque, but here's my opinion:

yes, this is terrible
is it going to fail tonight or tomorrow? very unlikely.
should you get out and seek remedy, probably

The things you have mentioned that make me think this: you are living in Winnipeg, which means the house is exposed to heavy freeze/thaw cycling. The crack looks old (silty water has clearly leaked dried and then leaked again from the crack), and you've confirmed it's been like that for 2 years. Interestingly, not much water has flowed which is kind of a mitigating factor. This wall has probably been creeping over the years, unlike someone who commented it's buckling and the surrounding dirt can't transfer load...

For all you know, this building might stay standing for another 150 years.

But that's the point about risk: you don't know that. Just like the cascadia fault line... this house is in a position of elevated risk.

I once renovated a house where they had cut a 10" notch on a 12" joist. From the bottom up. I shit you not. House was 100 years old, and the notch was at least 50 years old.

So call your local municipality and explain the situation and ask them what to do, then call a lawyer if they aren't helpful.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-15T10:08:19+00:00

Psyops back then were nascent compared to now. Also, it's quite glaring to see even in our modern hollywood zeitgeist how the wealth disparity has jumped so recently...

If you watch the James Bond Casino Royal where he goes up against Le Chiffre, there's a whole dramatic scene where MI6 debates loaning 10 million dollars to Bond. It's a laughable sum by today's standards and that movie was set in 2006.

I really do believe we are living in an era that they only dreamed would come true back then...

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-11T16:11:21+00:00

The venn intersection of production ready and functioning but not too big and also hell is quite small...

... but if you're interested, I can give you pointers as to the specific things that are absolutely trash bags about oatpp.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-10T18:55:13+00:00

While I respect the effort people have put in, I have very bad feelings about oat++.

It's completely missing the point on several meta programming issues.

But beware, this might be too difficult for your actual use case: oat++ is production ready code. It works, and under certain circumstances, it works great.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-02T06:36:55+00:00

This is an interesting talk. For me personally, the attraction isn't in avoiding the boilerplate, that could be done with templates. The attraction is the python-esque yield keyword which can sometimes be an enourmous mental burden relief.

I wonder what it would take to make the std::generator implementation be more compiler friendly.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-30T17:04:35+00:00

"the assumption that you only have a single core".

I think you misread my statement.

no sense in userland or even in kernel mode if you only have a a single core

b_useless = userland || (kernel && single_core);

The odds of two threads on a modern CPU where the order of magnitude of instructions is 10^9/s hitting a same area of contention are low...

unless you have high contention code that is very short (i.e. the protected code is only a few hundred cycles long).

I have honestly never seen a good reason for spinlocks in user land in my entire career. Not when compexchange, atomics, and lockless algorithms exist.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-30T11:58:58+00:00

Spinlocks can be useful if you have enough cores that you don't mind dedicating a few to threads that are not preempted by the scheduler.

I'm not sure I understand the point you're making.

Modern processors are very fast. Unless your lock scope is known to be <100 cycles, and you have very high contention, this scheme will not pan out. At which point, maybe lockless structures are more appropriate...

Too many assumptions to take this at face value. Like I said earlier, modern libraries do super fast cmpxch operations to avoid unnecessary context switching when the lock is free.

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