James Davidson

Here to learn more about Clojure, deep learning and ergodicity economics

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

@jonathannen You were right just seven years early

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

Myer struggling

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

NextDC P1 (Malaga) is to be a Starlink ground station. #NBN

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

@matt_barrie Bureaucracy doesn’t like simple measures, it prefers the proliferation of intricate schemes.

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

I miss Confluence on-prem (data center) because the latency was ~100ms. Atlassian cloud is the same great product but it just takes ~5s to respond and it grates on me. Spin up some more EC2s already!

[Paul Snively @JustDeezGuy]

“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” — @ID_AA_Carmack

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

@RonaldLagnado Great discussion! Thank you. The sound engineering needs a few tweaks. Looking forward to the next instalment

[Manuel Simoni @msimoni]

It takes more than 10,000 lines of code to _parse_ Rust.
On the one hand, syntax is a user interface, and maybe you want to spend a lot of effort on that.
But on the other hand, this is as much code as a practical _operating system_ by Wirth.
So there might be a better way…?

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker.

[Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev]

By the way, today marks the day when I actually sat down and read nfs(5) man page to figure out how coherence is supposed to work there, and I wish I didn't read all the sections.

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

Jira can now explain acronyms with reference to our internal wiki. Who knew LLMs could be useful!

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I think frontend interactivity is overrated for most websites. When I submit a form and don’t see my browser loading a new page the chance of bugs in general on that site is significantly higher.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

Stephen Wolfram says that AI cannot predict future system behaviours because many systems perform complex computations that exceed AI's capabilities.

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

TIL: Tony Hoare studied machine translation under Andrey Kolmogorov
https://t.co/GKzNRdLtCg

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One reason AI works for code is that most people are just writing the same programs over and over. The elegant solutions to this problem are more abstract languages and more powerful libraries. But maybe AI will be the worse-is-better solution that wins.

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

From the gist: "The payload is loaded into sshd indirectly. sshd is often patched to support systemd-notify so that other services can start when sshd is running. liblzma is loaded because it's depended on by other parts of libsystemd" . Ouch #xzbackdoor
https://t.co/PJsgVZYdyZ

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Following an F1 car around a lap with a drone

[James Davidson @jamesd3142]

socat(1) with TUN/TAP is magic #Linux

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I'm very impressed by the way Phind, despite being the tiniest of startups, has managed to keep up with the giants. Phind-70B beats GPT-4 Turbo at code generation, and runs 4x faster. There is definitely still room for startups in this game.