Esoteric

I am a well-read Humbert. I even remember reading back then that Norvig’s essay about how all the “stupid” OO “design patterns” can be just higher-order functions, (which are, in turn, are just instances Barbara Liskov’s Abstraction by Parameterization principle). Yes, I have read her books too, and the Jackson’s, and Richard Bird’s and what not. Like Jelal in the Orhan Pamuk’s “Black Book” I have carefully selected and cultivated my “garden of memory” (or was it “memery”?) which is now begin to wither and to fade away. Was it all in vain? Well, everything is in vain in the long-enough run, but not like this. ...

Once upon a time I find it difficult to read these lecture notes in https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1718/L28/materials.html because of ESL and math “fear”. Nowadays I could, probably, explain the fundamentals more clearly in just a few pages. The “End Of Knowledge” (of seeking to Understand) can be achieved by just a few simple realizations, which means attaining one’s own “Right Understanding” through direct experience and one’s own “a-ha moments”. Arguably, the “Upanishads” of Programming began with this book: Abstraction and Specification in Program Development by Barbara Liskov and John V. Guttag. No, a few years earlier Michael A. Jackson wrote Principles of Program Design, which emphasized the fundamental principle that one’s program structure should reflect (actually to be in one-to-one correspondence with) the problem structure (which can be defined as an inherent layered structure of complexity of the domain ). But Liskov and Guttag took it to a whole new level. ...

DESCRIPTION: Idiots, idiots everywhere.jpg I am getting old and my cognitive abilities are slowly declining, and I will have no pension or social security, so I need a “Turing Award” or something. (only partially kidding). And, yes, I “hacked” these “longevity” memes and “protocols”, but seems like fighting an increase in entropy and the second law of thermodynamics is not that efficient as some meme-guys claim on YouTube ). So, lets settle one fundamental meme-question once and for all, so we can let it all go and focus on “bio-hacking” and what not. ...

Lets “solve” programming (once again, LOL), in a couple of pages, simply because why tf not. and to put the LLMs and their shills and worshipers into shame (yes, yes, I know, they do not have any). We will build a simple abstract and general “meta-theory”, which is, like a religion grounded on Buddha’s compassion, provide a foundation of peaceful and cooperating traditions, which guide people in their decision making in a overwhelmingly complex Reality by providing easy to understand and easy to apply “heuristics” or “rules of thumb”. ...

DESCRIPTION: It is over. It is that simple. It explains almost everything correctly. This is just another way of saying that familiarity and 10,000 hours of practice are not optional. The best books about trading the stock market has been published before the dot-com bubble, in the late 90s, driven by the emerged opportunities of computerized trading (using dial-up modems to download the data and to access the broker). People who were familiar with trading back then and have had enough experience were prepared to participate in the crapto craze, while “we” have to learn anything on the go, under a tremendous emotional and cognitive pressure, and fail, because we didn’t know what information is relevant and what signals are meaningful, along with the lack of solid trading practices. It is that simple. ...

Given the US govt. security agencies recommendations for using Memory Safe Languages (as if there is more than one!), let’s bootstrap the right understanding of what the “memory safety” means from the first principles. The “first principles” will be indeed the first ones, because we will go all the way back to the underlying recurring patterns in What Is, from which the fundamental mathematical notions have been captured, properly generalized, abstracted away, named and their properties systematically studied. ...

On the very auspicious occasion of the th Buddha Jayanti it is good to show that his teaching – to see things as they are – still cuts through and illuminates the darkness of ignorance. The praise of an intuitive knowledge, which is based on attentive observations with a quiet mind, to capture the common and recurring patterns, properly generalize them and abstract away the irrelevant details by capturing the “essence” as an abstraction and then to give such abstraction a name. This is not just how mathematics “works” (came to be), but it is a more general and universal process, which is behind not only a human language (which is prior to any math), but how the brain structures has been shaped (trained) to match some aspects and constraints of the shared environment in which it happen to evolve. ...

What is so “natural” about Gentzen’s “Natural Deduction”? It is that our brains are conditioned by the Environment In Which We Happen To Evolve, and the environment is governed by what we call the Law of Causality, which has been captured in the East by the Buddha’s “Dependent Origination principle” and even more precisely by Modus Ponens in the West. When this exists, that comes to be; with the arising of this, that arises. When this does not exist, that does not come to be; with the cessation of this, that ceases. ...

There is a typical quote from some random Chud on the internet: The location within the [high-dimensional hyper-] space represents the semantic meaning of the content, according to the embedding model’s weird, mostly incomprehensible understanding of the world. This is bullshit at so many levels, and in a such “lecturing” tone. First of all, there is no “understanding” whatsoever and it is not “of the world”. “The world” is at a fundamentally different level of abstraction from what has been used as “inputs” to a language model. ...