u/HilbertInnerSpace

First one: I can clearly sense the limitations of this thing. Nothing more than a sophisticated pattern matcher and token predictor.

Second one (especially after it brings to the surface a surprising connection): If anything, I think I am actually underestimating these tools, it is indeed a brave new world.

I know logically it is just pattern matching and token prediction, but sometime it just feels astonishing how much (even as "appearance") can be achieved by merely that.

Good or bad, these tools are here to stay.

What happened there ? Everything before was elegant enough. But complexity in how scoping is presented feels leaky and inelegant. I don't know, still wrapping my mind around it. Compared to how closure is effortless in Scheme in comparison this feels like too much cognitive load, and worse is I don't see the point for it yet. Is it for performance reasons ?

We have a large TV system in the office that we use for presentations and dog and pony shows. When setting it up, there are moments before input source is switched to HDMI when some snippets of a random daytime channel assaults the ears and eyes.

Don't know about others, but those always fill me with a sense of unease, a second hand sleazy feeling and deep melancholy and dread. We have this wondrous technology , information encoded in electromagnetic energy waves permeating all around us filling every nook and cranny, the likes of which would seem indistinguishable from magic to our ancestors. Do we make it a testament of the grandeur of humanity?, fill it with high art?, theatre?, music and profound thought ? No , instead it is the epitome of the base and the banal.

And now the internet feels like that. The thing is, it didn't use too, it seemed at its inception so full of potential. Except for a few corners (like Wikipedia) , everywhere else I go, such as the so called "social media" in particular, feels as debased and full of slop as daytime TV. The rot is pervasive and unescapable unless you completely unplug.

I try to remind myself: "You have a choice in what you give attention to" and these days I am trying more than ever to apply that thought.