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I love that this is human-readable plain text. Plain text is almost always the best format for anything.
by anon291 3y ago
I love that this is human-readable plain text. Plain text is almost always the best format for anything.
- mawildoer 3y agoThank you! We've certainly been heavily inspired by python and Guido's insight that code is read more often than it is written.
- topspin 3y agoText puts the problem squarely into the sights of generative models.
- mawildoer 3y agoAbsolutely! With only a few dozen lines of context to pick up the syntax, copilot is already able to make useful contributions like configuring regulators and filters.
- quailfarmer 3y agoMaybe one day, but I’ve asked the various models basic EE interview questions, and it’s painfully obvious that while it can make a paragraph that has the right words, it’s incapable of reasoning spatially, or describing complex connections. My job is secure (for this year).
- napowderly 3y agoI have noticed a huge improvement in ChatGPTs coding abilities having an interpreter to check its work. I expect we will be able to bring a similar feedback loop to hardware once we can integrate things like simulation and equations. Also having modules that are tricky to configure incorrectly.
- dartos 3y agoI’ve noticed the opposite with chatgpt. To be fair, idk how much elixir code is in the training set.
- napowderly 3y agoyeah I have only really used it for simple python things, its pretty good at that.
- topspin 3y agoThe performance of ChatGPT (4) changes frequently. Lately it has been crazy good. I fed it a non-trivial but naïvely written (and thus slow) numerical algorithm written in Python yesterday. I then told it to vectorize, which worked and was both correct and several orders of magnitude faster. Then parallelize. Faster yet, and still correct. Pretty amazing. Just an anecdote.
- zokier 3y agoWorth noting afaik all kicad file formats were already sexprs, can't get much better than that. In that vein, I'd imagine it would make lot of sense to build a lisp on top of that, macros and sexpr manipulation are very much the strong points of lisps.