100 years after combinators were first presented, Stephen Wolfram shows how the computational paradigm moves closer to the idea of combinators through a series of examples and an eye to the future.
Saša Jurić is fantastic at condensing lots of information in a 1 hour talk without losing the audience, he gave another great talk this year called Parsing from first principles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzoerDljjo).
>> we have some strong theoretical results suggesting that none of the techniques we have developed so far can ever lead to AGI
I've been looking for work in this area without much success since publication is dominated by the opposite movement. I'd be grateful for any references you can dig up.
Sad for the artistic loss but also glad he died at peace after a rich life spent doing what he loved till the last moment. He joins a special list, alongside Hintjens who also passed recently, of those who manage to strip the dread from death and stress the importance of 'tidying up' over passive acceptance as one enters the final days.
“The big change is the proximity to death,” he said. “I am a tidy kind of guy. I like to tie up the strings if I can. If I can’t, also, that’s O.K. But my natural thrust is to finish things that I’ve begun.”
“For some odd reason,” he went on, “I have all my marbles, so far. I have many resources, some cultivated on a personal level, but circumstantial, too: my daughter and her children live downstairs, and my son lives two blocks down the street. So I am extremely blessed. I have an assistant who is devoted and skillful. I have a friend like Bob and another friend or two who make my life very rich. So in a certain sense I’ve never had it better. . . . At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It’s a cliché, but it’s underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.” [0]
> I don't think that this is actually interesting, will drive discussion, or in general meets the site's guidelines.
I disagree with this. The guidelines refer to Anything that good hackers would find interesting and I certainly think a major outage at the heart of open source software is interesting in that it drives discussion around similar experiences, implications, pre-emptive action and mitigation.
It is worth noting that this document reads more like a first draft, in fact the document title is 'QUIC FEC v1'. No details/illustration of the implementation and experimental results are given, instead you find statements like 'Median and mean join latency increased'.
It's not academic writing, just a short explanation on why something that was expected to be a major advantage of QUIC is being removed from the spec for now, due to having a negative impact on Youtube. (Of course that shows that they're able to revert bad decisions, which is definitely an advantage over TCP...)
Though there is an interesting rebuttal in the related mailing list thread [1] suggesting that the feature is sound as-is, but was being applied in the wrong way in these experiments. Specifically, that the largest expected gain is for the client-sent packets very early during the connection setup.
