That's rubbish. Reinventing existing software as a learning exercise has plenty of merit.

No it doesnt. Build new things or dont waste your time.

Learning exercise lol.

I don't believe you understand the word iteration, why that word exists, or the benefits it provides to society in general.

How are you supposed to learn to invent new things if you don't know how existing things work?

There's ZERO room for innovation in the projects suggested.

Wanna do some creative thinking? Read some books, learn how normal people think. Explore latest datasets. That's where the meat is. 98% of what you read online has been written by super uncreative(boring) people. They have no imagination whatsoever, IQ is well statistically speaking not too flattering.

Internet is ran by the bottom. It's slop by the bottom, for the bottom. So you need to hang out with creative people.

Tech people write the most boring blog posts because it's aimed at getting hired. Nothing of substance is shared. That's why gwern stands out like a sore thumb. The majority of human beings are incapable of creative thought.

> There's ZERO room for innovation in the projects suggested.

I do not agree. Improved variants and innovation would be possible with operating systems, GUI, programming languages, etc. It would also be possible that something will be made better for one purpose because others are not as good for some purposes, but it is not the only way to do, though.

You learn how to do these things, then innove in other projects. I don't see these two concepts contradictory.

Are you ok

Novelty is not the only value. Slop comes from your attitude: people like you who think that things must be new to be worth something

That philosophy has some lingering halitosis of truth to it.

Any inspection of any economy suggests otherwise. How many tire manufacturers are out there? How many different brands, styles, and types of tire? How many total US Dollars per year are those companies sharing?

How about oil changes? Car washes? How about car wax?

New doesn't equal profitable. Making a different product, or service, is where most of the profits on earth sit.

Wanna be a rebel and broke? Then by all means follow the new-new and barely break-break even.

I guess you think you're the first person to express that sentiment?

> once you publish a random number it is no longer random

don't overpromote these witchcraft hunts.

I owned the heroku user name on npm and gave it to official heroku website upon request.

That's so cool actually! Did you ask for any compensation? Short "iconic" usernames are kinda rare

my compensation is the story I can tell people like this.

the king always has to be in between rooks in chess960

As a starting position, sure.

But if you have a later board state, with two rooks on one side: how do you know which one is still eligible to castle?

Humans never had tails, just ask charlie brown.

i once bouth chessishard.com not good marketing value.

Stop overcalculating a mess out of junk, learn Rust and see what a Typesystem should and shouldn't have to do.

Why can't someone publish this AI open source and let people build and run it on their own computer again?