Human folly for 02025-09-05

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• Why ML needs a new programming language (signalsandthreads.com):

  #Mojo from Chris Lattner is a new programming language for #neural-networks. #interview #toread

• Texas land pricing guide (texasfarmcredit.com):

  median #Texas farmland #pricing is US$4702/“acre” (US$1.1619/m²)

• (berghain.challenges.listenlabs.ai):

  “bouncer as a service” programming contest

• LLMs will be like Ozempic for golf (houseofstrauss.com):

  will #neural-networks #AI revolutionize #golf #education? #toread

• Terminal authority assessing the ccps emerging crisis of political Succession (jamestown.org):

  The Jamestown Foundation think tank engages in #futurism about #Xi in the #politics of #China. Uses the derogatory abbreviation “CCP”. #toread

• Clone (gwern.net):

  Gwern on the possibility of the military cloning Special Forces dogs as #weaponry. #toread

• Alloy agents (xbow.com):

  this idea of "alloy agents" sounds interesting, alternating output tokens between different LLMs to avoid the weaknesses of each one. Scott Alexander says: “AI agents usually have long chains of thoughts/actions where each step depends on the step before. What happens if you alternate models at each step? That is, Step 1 is done by GPT, Step 2 is done by Claude, Step 3 is done by GPT again, etc, with each model thinking the entire previous chain of thoughts/actions is its own? A cybersecurity group claims the resulting “alloy” AI is more effective, since each model gets a chance to apply its strengths where others are weak.” #toread

• (arxiv.org):

  #PDF #paper on #AI #neural-networks: “Alice in Wonderland: Simple Tasks Showing Complete Reasoning Breakdown in State-Of-the-Art Large Language Models” in March of this year

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of the #shovelware post on how #AI #neural-networks haven’t yet produced an avalanche of new software development.

• Evolution ashoka (kcsrk.info):

  #PDF slides on the evolution of #OCaml by KC Sivaramakrishnan, a professor at IIT Madras and CTO of #Tarides. Apparently OCaml finally has dynamic arrays (like C++ vector) since 5.2.0. #toread

• Hardcaml (github.com):

  "Hardcaml" is Jane Street’s #HDL in #OCaml.

• Baker rtas2006 ovm (filpizlo.com):

  #pizlonator’s #PDF #paper from 17 years ago about a hard #real-time #JVM

• (github.com):

  #Wasmtime doesn’t yet support suspend and resume. #Wasm

• Crubit (github.com):

  "Crubit" is a bidirectional bindings generator for C++ and Rust, with the goal of integrating the C++ and #Rust ecosystems.

• InvisiCaps (fil-c.org):

  "InvisiCaps" are #pizlonator’s new representation for pointer #capabilities for #Fil-C #toread

• Forth and the foundations of functional (old.reddit.com):

  #Forth and the foundations of functional programming

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Discussion of #Wikipedia and an article in The Verge about how it’s great.

• (stackoverflow.com):

  restarting a stopped #Docker container uses docker start -ai containername #documentation