“In God we trust, all others bring data” - William Edwards Deming

In Common Lisp we actually love LOOPs

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It’s becoming clear that decentralized and open source AI is the only hope we have to retaining access to intelligence for everyone. Akash is built permissionless, and is proud to have a history of supporting the mission with leading DeAI partners. More soon.

Turning away from Lisp and Emacs is turning away from Holy Light

You people torpedoed your own initiative with this fear mongering nonsense. Just supply the models to willing buyers and please keep the pseudophilosophical pontification to yourselves. This is extraordinarily frustrating to deal with as a user. I hope you understand that.

self-inflicted. this would have NEVER happened if anthropic didn't make such a big deal about mythos being dangerous.

I love how much Ken Thompson loves Plan 9. "I think it's the best operating system out" "Clean, precise, pretty, very capable of doing anything" youtube.com/watch?v=EoYUZtZl… (h/t @MaineFrameworks)

This is not child protection. It is the end of free, private communication in Britain and digital ID by the back door. This government can’t police the streets, can’t deport foreign criminals, can’t stop the boats, so instead it surveils you. I have prosecuted child abusers. They’re stopped by policing, prosecution, and prison the three things this government has gutted. Not by North Korea-style mass surveillance.

"I use loops", said Linux Kernel creator Linus Torvalds, when asked about new trends. "You can't write programs without loops", he added.

I KNOW THE PERFECT ONE cl-community-spec.github.io/…

the worst distributed system in the history of computing, except for all the others

Simon Peyton Jones is the co-creator of Haskell (pure functional programming language) and I interviewed him about functional programming, why it matters, and his thoughts on other programming languages. In this episode: • Useful and useless programming languages • Rust vs C • Haskell vs OCaml • Why functional programming matters • Static languages and their value for LLMs • Why Excel is his 2nd favorite programming language Where to watch: • YouTube - youtu.be/xcB_LF3cdqw • Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/5d9… • Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… • Transcript - developing.dev/p/co-creator-… Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at workos.com/ Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - What functional programming is 09:18 - Downsides of functional programming 10:53 - Specialized hardware for functional programming 21:47 - Haskell is useless 25:59 - Rust vs C 28:26 - Haskell vs OCaml 35:26 - Side effects in Haskell 44:26 - Type systems 57:30 - How the Haskell compiler works 01:04:35 - Why Haskell is talked about more than used 01:09:07 - Avoiding success at all costs 01:11:12 - LLMs and programming languages 01:13:57 - New programming language design 01:15:59 - Should students continue to learn programming 01:22:33 - Why Excel is is 2nd favorite programming language 01:25:04 - Advice for his younger self

AI augments humans, not replaces them.

Also, those who focus on using AI to help improve the skills of themselves and their teams will be diamonds in great demand, since they will be the rare A players in a sea of mediocrity.

REWRITE IT IN COMMON LISP IMMEDIATELY

Reminder:

YOU CAN TAKE EMACS FROM MY DEAD COLD HANDS BROCCOLI HEAD

Alan Kay on the current form of AI 😂 "but scaling up human stupidity/ignorance with the industrial revolution is a new kind of disaster for our weak minded species."