Avram Levitter

He/Him
Math, gamedev, C++ and more

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

"Можно быть реалистом / И при этом оставаться оптимистом."
-Псой Короленко
"It's possible to be a realist / And at the same time be an optimist."
-Psoy Korolenko

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Artemis II inspired the whole world, and you can measure it in the data.

This is why we fly.

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@EconTalker @anilkseth A digital secretary needs to know about the weather because it helps planning and decision making. It doesn't need to have an opinion on whether a lot of rain is good or bad.

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@EconTalker @anilkseth If you take an evolutionary view, we evolved consciousness because it served a useful purpose.
If you take a religious view, we were given it for a purpose.
Either way, unless it is useful for the its applications, why would we give it to AI?

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

Remembering that it's noon on Monday and that the new EconTalk episode should be out is consistently a highlight of my week.

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

The 20th anniversary episode of EconTalk lands in a few hours.

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@EconTalker It's interesting that decrease in missiles per day adds to the uncertainty, not lowers it. If they were staying steady, we'd all brace for a long war. But instead, we have to calibrate our expectation of how back to normal we can be to what we each predict the danger will be.

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@PDXVictoria Most recently: the industrialists. You had 40% clout and you couldn't even get Laissez Faire passed!

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@ILBaseball Are these going to be livestreamed anywhere?

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@AmitSegal My only question is: is that a @SapirJournal jacket? And how do I get one for myself?

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@BaronDestructo I don't think so, but I think it depends on the kind of show. How much are they expecting every episode to move the plot forward that they need so much setup?

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@BaronDestructo I also miss shows that had full seasons with only a handful of large plot-movers and plenty of smaller plots. And filler. Some of the best episodes of TV of all time were filler episodes.

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@BaronDestructo It's weird, though: when I look at the list of individual episodes, there are so many great ones. But there isn't as strong of a cohesive "season's story" here and I thought several of the episodes were in Season 2, not 3.

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@BaronDestructo Season 3. I didn't find the Harcesis Child plot to be all that compelling, although I do like that it set up Daniel's Ascension arc which went well with the Anubis arc.

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@azforeman Lucky. All I get with my programming skills is "can you fix my computer?"

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@PhilSustainable How does concrete rank against these (in both categories)?

[kay @neoeno]

yes i have created my own virtual machine with its own assembly language to implement my own linked lists for the next video

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

@JackRhysider You joke, but just the other week, I needed to replace an AC adapter.
The kicker is that despite saving several over the years, none of them were the right voltage. Who makes a 5v charger these days that doesn't take some form of USB?!

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

And this is why they call it spin-locking!

[Avram Levitter @AvramLevitter]

I have a little dreidel,
With no progress guaruntee
So with some multithreading
Busy-waits for eternity!

[Liron Kopinsky 🇮🇱 Am Yisrael Chai @ldkop]

I have a little dreidel,
It's made of bits and bytes
But something isn't working
I'll debug it for 8 nights

[Liron Kopinsky 🇮🇱 Am Yisrael Chai @ldkop]

I have a little dreidel
It's running on Android
It's tracking my location
Do you think I'm paranoid?

[Liron Kopinsky 🇮🇱 Am Yisrael Chai @ldkop]

I built a little dreidel
out of Assembly
I forgot one tiny JMP command
and now it spins infinitely.