@eggsyntax

'If you know before you look, you cannot see for knowing.' (Terry Frost)

 Asheville, NC
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Joined January 2014
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Egg Syntax@eggsyntaxFeb 28
Replying to @eggsyntax @deanwball
Update: I think I understand the DoW's perspective better now. I may post about that but I want to review it in the morning with fresh eyes.
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FAR.AI
@farairesearch4 Feb 2025
7/ This isn’t just a corporate or national issue. It’s a shared challenge. Framing AI as a race—company vs. company, country vs. country, open vs. closed—puts everyone at risk. Global cooperation, not competition, is the only way forward if we want safe AI.
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after thinking for a few months, i've become generally bearish on scaling inference-time compute
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Egg Syntax@eggsyntax30 Aug 2024
Replying to @eggsyntax @davidad @StephenLCasper
AIS terminology proposal to standardize terms for probability ranges: lesswrong.com/posts/NE2vog9A…
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reClojure@reClojure3 Dec 2022
That's a wrap! Thanks you all for attending, thanks speakers for your hard work, thanks organizers team for putting another successful reClojure together! ❤️❤️❤️
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Hillel
@hillelogram6 May 2022
One of my favorite things with learning about new programming languages is seeing all the "small ideas" that could easily be picked up by other languages. Here are some examples:
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The State of Clojure 2022 Survey is now open! surveymonkey.com/r/clojure20… - if you use Clojure we encourage you to share your thoughts!
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Just listened to @the_repl's episode with @bbrinck. I wonder what would happen if Expound and @eggsyntax's Datawalk had a baby. You could "project" a #clojure REPL into a leaf spec error, using hot keys to navigate errors/'zoom out'/switch representations (e.g Inspectable) [...]
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Thomas Wiecki@twiecki9 Nov 2015
Visualization of #Bayesian updating. Data is sampled from normal (upper left), posterior (lower left), history (LR). xitter.cf/twiecki/status/6636821…
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Read former Bush speechwriter @MJGerson on the dangerous conservative turn toward denial of objective truth washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love." - Pete Cordell
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Never forget: the Icelandic word for computer (tölva) combines the words for "number" and "seeress," so basically a computer = number-witch.
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Mark Nelson@mm_jj_nn16 Jul 2017
the best minor faction of the Russian Revolution is the dissident interplanetary left
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Just a robot doing perfect-10 gymnastics
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Ask not what your country can do for you Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by Nordstrom
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that David Bowie has established a better alternate universe and is populating it selectively one-by-one
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Tim Hopper
@tdhopper3 Nov 2015
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.
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Coupling trains.
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zeynep tufekci
@zeynep9 Nov 2016
No, this doesn't happen in a vacuum—but social media, esp. Facebook & Twitter, wildly amplified this method/message. niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-fo…
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This code looks pretty old, I wonder if I can delete th.... what the...
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