But transaction fees reset to zero on each block. If relying solely on transaction fees, why would you mine if they are zero? So, on the start of each block, miners will shutdown, or perhaps switch to a different currency where it would be profitable to mine. This surely weakens the security of Bitcoin.

In machine learning, boosting is a way to combine weak learners into a strong one. Perhaps something similar can be done with language models?

look up Mixture of Experts, e.g. Mixtral

Or you can use the "C# without the line noise", which goes under the name of F#.

Yeah, but if you use F# that then you’ll have all the features C# has been working on for years, only in complete and mature versions, and also an opinionated language encouraging similar styles between teams instead of wild dialects of kinda-sorta immutablity and kinda-sorta DU’s, and everything in between, requiring constant vigilance and training… ;)

I’m a fan of all three languages, but C# spent the first years relearning why Visual Basic was very productive and the last many years learning why OCaml was chosen to model F# after. It’s landed in a place where I can make beautiful code the way I need to, but the mature libraries I’ve crafted to make it so simply aren’t recreate-able by most .Net devs, and the level of micro-managing it takes to maintain across groups is a line-by-line slog against orthodoxy and seeming ‘shortcuts’, draining the productivity those high level guarantees should provide. And then there’s the impact of EF combined with sloppy Linq which makes every junior/consultant LOC a potentially ticking time bomb without more line-by-line, function-by-function slog.

Compiler guarantees mean a lot.

So, your argument is that Rust is better because better programers use Rust.

I specifically mean this part: "Rust would never have such a dumb library design".

One could then also say that Rust programmers would never make such a cyclical argument.

If you want to be more charitable, you could say "Rust library design is superior to the Web API library design", and I'd say you were right - particularly for crufty stuff like .href which was designed decades ago.

"C is the language that combines raw power of assembly with expressiveness of assembly."

> "C is the language that combines raw power of assembly with expressiveness of assembly."

The most expressive part of C is the syntax oriented around writing terse, side-effectful expressions that manipulate buffers, pointers and counters, with the array of precedences and the pre- and post-increments and assignment operators and short-circuiting operators. You can write stuff like this:

  while (--n > 0 && (c = getchar()) != EOF && (*s++ = c) != '\n')
      ;
  *s = '\0';

Or these snippets (taken from K&R):

  // Parsing flags for command line arguments
  while (--argc > 0 && (*++argv)[O] == '-')
      while (c = *++argv[O])
          switch (c) {
          // ...
          }

  // Last line of a buffered `getchar()` implementation 
  return (--n >= 0) ? (unsigned char) *bufp++ : EOF;

You can write other programs in C, like GUI programs and compilers, but it's not as nearly tailor made for such programs and it's basically just like assembly, like you said.

The dead person has next of kin, who would see the money if it exists. The signature on the lawsuit is somewhat of a formality.

Why is world not in the hashset? Even gptchat4 doesn't know and thinks it could be because of out-null, and i should try without it. Anyone?

It's weird that you would say Altman is a sociopath without also mentioning that Musk is one as well. Musk is also a narcissist and you can't be one without also being a sociopath.

Are you perhaps a member of the Musk cult of personality?

Just trying to create informational balance.

I have seen no evidence that Elon Musk is a sociopath. I prefer to base such decisions on logic and evidence. You have not provided evidence that he is a sociopath. So what "informational balance" are you providing exactly?

Sam Altman asked Elon Musk to cofound OpenAI as a non-profit entity, and fund it with tens of millions of dollars, with the understanding that the research will be open to the public (hence "Open" AI). After taking tens of millions of dollars from Musk, Sam Altman then turned around and sold out to Microsoft, and effectively changed OpenAI to a for-profit entity which only serves to financially benefit Microsoft shareholders and Sam Altman himself.

Elon Musk is now requesting that OpenAI disclose GPT-4 and their subsequent models inner workings to the public, for the benefit of humanity, in accordance with the OpenAI mission statement. How does this make Elon Musk a sociopath? Please explain.

> Musk is also a narcissist and you can't be one without also being a sociopath.

This is unscientific drivel. According to the DSM, Narcissism and Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) are separate disorders within the Cluster B group. A person can have one or the other, or both.

What exact criteria did you use to diagnose Musk with Narcissism and APD?

I can't say that Sam Altman truly has APD, but he certainly matches this criteria from my perspective:

"deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure"

I believe what he did with OpenAI is a blatant and obvious con job, for his own personal gain.

Pliny the Elder and his son Pliny the Younger are also involved in debunking another historical fakery. This one is about Jesus actually existing and not being made up 100 years later and 1000 kms away, in a different country and in a different language.

As much as you can prove a negative, this guys do it by never mentioning him, despite being at the right place and time, and writing about other religions and prophets.

Even the wikipedia entry on this subject starts with a huge logical phalacy.

The Elder Pliny would have been a small child when Jesus died. Not many 10 year olds in the historical record discussing religion.