> I know lots of people do say they learn better when handwriting, just like some people say they learn better while going for a walk. This does not translate into a universal theory of learning.
If lots of people said they code better while riding a unicycle, I'm not sure I'd just dismiss it off hand.
This advice is basically like a teenager wanting to play electric guitar to jam out a few rock tunes, but their parents insist on learning classical guitar instead because starting with the fundamentals is the only "real" way to become a great musician. Meanwhile the kid loses interest and moves on to something else.
"More importantly, when this loop matters enough for me to care about a 5x speedup, I want the vectorization to be explicit and predictable. I don't want an unrelated code change or compiler update to quietly turn it back into a scalar loop."
Only tangentially related but this is by far the most painful part about optimizing code for JIT compilers like V8. Even changing a constant from 1 to 1.0 somewhere else can change the optimizations performed and lead to an unexpected performance decrease.
> Hearing a song you liked on the radio hit harder then playing it yourself because you knew that there was another human nearby at that moment in time that had picked it out and played it.
Also you knew that there were lots of other people jamming to that same song along with you.
"Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion."
"I wrote this series as a learning exercise, in collaboration with AI (Claude Opus 4.8). It's me thinking out loud with a model to understand the stack end to end, not an authoritative reference. Take it with a grain of salt, and double-check anything you plan to rely on."
The author admits as much. It's basically him prompting, "Hey Claude write a long series about LLM tech." Waste of time.
Also I just realized, the information might be subtly wrong or misleading because Anthropic makes Claude dumber when trying to reverse engineer LLMs, which is hilarious. And the author is basically saying hey, I don't know if any of this is correct but, like, enjoy reading it! Hah.
This is going to create some kind of maladaptive social issues with heavy users, just like sexual dysfunction from pornography addiction. These people won't be able to bond with regular people, or maybe even their own family, after a while.
> What's valuable in a novel (or a poem) is in the words.
Even if the words are a lie? Misleading? False?
I'm not even talking about LLMs. What if it's propaganda designed to influence your thinking, possibly against your own interests; are those still valuable words that you'd cherish reading?
My point is that the source matters, intent matters, and authenticity matters. To me, anyway.
They interpolate data in an XYZ dimensional space. The implications of that is beyond our comprehension. I'm sure there are many novel ideas located within that space. But I'm also willing to bet there are many novel ideas that cannot be found there.
Product and service reviews are completely useless now too, and have been for a while. Restaurant ratings are pure noise, everything is 4 stars and there is absolutely no correlation to the quality of food or service. None of it is real.