It doesn't, it hurts you by limiting the number of platforms Git is available on.

If it works on mac & linux I've got nothing to worry about

Fast Fourier transform was not invented by Cooley-Tukey, it was used by Gauss to compute trigonometric interpolation of orbits from observations.

The factorization trick was reinvented several times. The algorithm that uses it to do a frequency decomposition was presented just once by named authors. This happens all the time. Freaking out about naming and attribution isn't really very informative.

Edit: as always, Wikipedia is a better source than comment pedantry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform#History

The wikipedia article you reference confirms my point:

"Gauss wanted to interpolate the orbits from sample observations; his method was very similar to the one that would be published in 1965 by James Cooley and John Tukey, who are generally credited for the invention of the modern generic FFT algorithm."

> Freaking out about naming and attribution isn't really very informative.

It matters who gets the credit for an original idea. Cooley and Tukey are lionized as pioneers, but they are not.

You’re pulling a quote that disproves your point.

There must be something wrong with your reading skills, because it's literally the same point slightly rephrased.

True. Before Fourier did Fourier.

How about: because it's overhyped, but ultimately useless stock bubble prop?

Shhhhhh! Are you saying that not every app or platform needs to have AI shoehorned in for the purposes of appealing to non-technical funders who are lured by any buzzword?

They're more culty than libertarians.

They're a lot like the modern-day version of Ayn Rand's Objectivism, which is also libertarian. I remember people getting involved in that at university in the '80s and thinking how cult-like it all was - people feeling they had "found the truth" and wanting to recruit new members.

Rationalism seems to be playing a similar role for a certain type of person in Silicon Valley today, fulfilling an emotional/religious need.

Another way to look at it: Scientology, but replace Xenu with Yudkowsky and volcanoes with Harry Potter, or something.

It will never cease to amuse me that people calling themselves "rationalists" wound up recreating Pascal's Wager from first principles, just with time travelling robots, and drove themselves to sometimes murderous insanity over it. And that their Bible is essentially a Harry Potter fanfic.

These are the dipshits conspiring to shape our future, control our destiny and create the Machine God in their image. They make the billionaires messing around the big owl at Bohemian Grove look positively tame and... rational.

In my more benevolent moments, despite not being religious, I take a Jesus-like attitude: "Forgive them, they know not what they do."

It all seems to have been a very predictable consequence of the de-emphasis of teaching any humanities at all in favor of STEM uber alles.

It's like the line from "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist": "Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong... as a joke."

Except it wasn't a joke, it was an economic strategy.

> time traveling robots

Won't someone think of the children, I mean, future simulated me?

You don't know what you're talking about. There are just as many socialists among them.

"Rationalists," the "objectivists" rebranded?

Political affiliation distribution is similar to the general population.

This is a text by venture capitalist trying to ensure continuing investment into money-losing product.

That's not a takedown, that's a bunch of lazy slanders

Are you saying SBMC hasn't done the research? That seems dubious.

SBMC has to get some prize for being the least funny comic strip ever

That will depend on the length of the rope, once aerodynamic effects are taken into account

length is negligible

Ordering pizza is much more important and frequent part of a developer's work than tree traversal. Therefore, programming languages need pizza ordering primitive even more, than tree traversal ones.

> I'd be curious about what happens when the ASR fails.

When, not if. The "artificial intelligence" as it is presently understood is statistical in nature. To rely on it for air traffic control seems quite irresponsible.