Eliah_Lakhin

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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Well, my point was that the speech by itself is not a good criteria to estimate the intellect. This is not only applicable to machines but to humans as well. I assume that the primary evolutionary determined purpose of a speech function was
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
I was hoping that it would be clear from the context, that LLMs are more advanced than birds in just the ability to synthesise the speech close to human speech in its complexity. Sorry, I didn't mean to offend the parrots. I like parro
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
I don't think that following the primal benefit would be a good estimation for intelligence, despite the fact that such behavior is common for most species. What makes human specie special is the ability of some individuals to create n
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
I think that people's believe in LLM is intelligence is closely tied to mistaken association between intelligence and the ability to speak. Parrots can speak, but they cannot reason. Moreover, evolutionary, birds learned to mimic the s
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
It would be interesting to attempt an analogy between software development processes and parallel computations. Let's analyze which job tasks are atomic, parallelized, depend on read or write operations with common shared data, and the
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
I moved to a new place around 8 years ago. In my kitchen, I have all the usual kitchen essentials, and perhaps even some less common items, such as a Cappuccino machine. But I don't have a microwave and never consider buying one. I use
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
As mentioned in the comments, our world is driven by consumerism. I don't like this fact too, but I have to pay my checks every month, so I have to accept the compromises. I obviously avoid to do any commitments in the military sector,
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Perhaps, it would be more useful for students if foreign language courses start with explaining one thing that is well known to linguists, but maybe does not have enough recognition by a wide audience. Most European languages are at some ex
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Interestingly, would the Copilot become better after such training...
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
This grant is given in exchange of publishing, in exchange to a fact that I made my work available to public. I don't have to make my work publicly available. I could make it hidden forever or for long time, or to closely share it with
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
The truth is that the majority of software engineers have no idea how to write Software Licenses. And this is the last thing a programmer want to think about when starting a new programming project. So they pick up just some random, but wid
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Companies are usually looking for average candidates to do an average job.
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
I'm not sure if the current generation of LLMs (basically, chatbots) will be any of use comparing to the previous one. LLMs, as well as other recent outcomes of ANN technologies, are undoubtedly very impressive. Especially for the wide
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Aside from this, perhaps another reason why the first part of the movie looks and feels more promising than the second one is more trivial. As far as I know they experienced a budget shortage at some point of production.
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Tarkovsky's "Stalker" is loosely based on the "Roadside Picnic"[1] a sci-fi novel of Strugatsky brothers. A. and B. Strugatsky are not that much recognized in the western countries as Andrey Tarkovsky, but they made
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Well, the Footer Sitemap maybe was not that good idea, but why not consider the Header Sitemap instead? HackerNews menu looks good to me. If the Sitemap structure is too large to be in the Header, maybe it's a good marker to think abou
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
ah, I apologize for misdirection. In general it could be much bigger of course. Wikipedia[1] says Utf-8 can encode up to 1,112,064. Anyway, it is quite big "alphabet" than the usual set of Lexis Tokens :) [1] https://en
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
I think it depends on how the recovery path is made. During the lexical scanning stage you can persist the token's source code sites, and later reuse them to indicate syntax or similar errors. For example, in Rust when you parse the sy
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
Well, my personal experience was in the opposite direction actually. I used to use combinators-based approach without Lex/Syn separation (aka PEGs) for a long time. But then I came up to understanding that the separation approach is ac
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by Eliah_Lakhin 3y ago
The Unicode input alphabet is up to 4096 symbols. The Lexer's output alphabet (a set of tokens) which is an input for a Parser is up to a few tens of symbols at worst. The smaller alphabet the easier it is to make efficient recursive d
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by Eliah_Lakhin 4y ago
I prefer to use term "programmer" to describe to people who I am, rather than "software engineer" etc. And because programming is what I truly love to do. Even though, in my resume I use Software Engineer/Developer
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by Eliah_Lakhin 4y ago
In Russia it is slightly different. Due to a number of good things inherited from the Soviet epoch. Working for money is imperative here too, but I would say it is bounding you on lesser extent. University education is free, the government
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by Eliah_Lakhin 4y ago
Thanks! That's what I think he should do too. My question was basically if there are other options for researchers like him. Such that he could work on his work directly. Mobile dev is something he could do, and he could do it well, bu
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by Eliah_Lakhin 4y ago
Thank you for your reply! One of the areas is incremental compilation, he is working on a technology to construct incremental compilers of custom programming languages. This is a semi-research and semi-engineering problem. To start, how do
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Ask HN: How to fund personal CS research if you are from Russia?
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by Eliah_Lakhin 4y ago
I'm currently working on a project similar to Tree-Sitter. Basically, it is going to be a full-featured Compiler front-end foundation library with incremental parsing capabilities, error recovering, AST manipulations, etc, but written
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by Eliah_Lakhin 4y ago
Thank you for your comment, Enriquto! > Do you have a reference for that? I didn't talk just about FSF, but about the free software movement in general. Of course individual members may have different points of view. For reference e
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by Eliah_Lakhin 4y ago
Informally speaking, the idea of the free software movement and the copyleft specifically was born as a response to fundamental conflict between a business environment that in its ultimate goal wants to have a full control over the software