Shameless plug: People into this sort of thing might be into my partner's book coming out in April. It's a beautifully written blend of science writing (penguin biology), memoir, and terrifying asides from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Her accounts of the wackiness of living and working out of McMurdo are really fun to read, and include all the orientation and training for which this manual was written (though she was there in 2003). And the history stuff is just hair raising.
One of my favourite lines: "There are many ways to die in Antarctica."
(That's the Canadian publisher link, but it's coming out at the same time in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and Russia as well, and is on all the major book things as preorder).
Any improvising musician or athlete of a complex sport knows with absolute certainty that language is not necessary for thought. And in fact, we spend years learning to turn off all linguistic thought –it degrades performance.
Hard disagree on the moat. I do tech diligence on "AI startups" regularly and so far have yet to hear of one that has had a hard time ensuring they can use competitors just as easily. Everyone is very aware of that issue, if blissfully ignorant of others.
I don't know what it is, but it seems form my slowly blooming collection like the standard of writing in PLT books from that era was just really, really high.
You might also want to checkout the book (surprisingly slim) Implementing Programming Languages: An Introduction to Compilers and Interpreters by Aarne Ranta - https://teach-plt.github.io/www/plt-book/ipl-book/
This has always seemed intuitively obvious to me. I use a lot of em dashes... because I read a lot. Including a lot of older, academic, or more formally written books. And the amount used in AI prose has never struck me as odd for the same reason. (Ditto for semi colons).
The truth is ... most people don't read much. So it's not too surprising they think it looks weird if all they read is posts on the internet, where the average writer has never even learned how to make one on the keyboard.
Delve on the other hand, that shit looks weird. That is waaay over-represented.
One of my favourite lines: "There are many ways to die in Antarctica."
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/796661/where-the-ear...
(That's the Canadian publisher link, but it's coming out at the same time in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and Russia as well, and is on all the major book things as preorder).
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