Myrmornis

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by Myrmornis 24d ago
Happy to hear this. Is go the right language for d2 or could it be worth considering js? The WASM solution seems pretty heavyweight, and it would be amazing to have it rendered natively in markdown hosting sites like GitHub.
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by Myrmornis 28d ago
A lot of the confusion and criticism surrounding submodules comes from people not understanding that you do not need to learn a lot of new commands to use them: you just cd into the submodule and use it as a normal git repo. Then you cd out
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by Myrmornis 1mo ago
Is there a resource somewhere that tells me, "Given that you have X Gb RAM on your laptop, these are the current local models you should consider trying and here's how to configure them to leave enough memory for other application
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by Myrmornis 1mo ago
Very silly reply. If you learn how toy LLMs work at 17 don't you think that would help you at university and grad school? There's plenty of time to go into the private sector workforce later.
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by Myrmornis 1mo ago
I'm largely with everyone that Claude is much too verbose and uses too much annoying flowery language. However, some of the more unusual language it uses does result in more precise communication, if you can figure out what it means.
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by Myrmornis 1mo ago
The promise as I understood it was that it would map Go programs down to a unique format, as is done in Python or Rust. It's not required that the long lines violate style guides; we just want a unique blessed format.
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by Myrmornis 1mo ago
Claude's verbosity is the biggest obstacle in the technical parts of my job currently. (Why does this project need so much Go code to pipe something through a local LLM?)
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by Myrmornis 2mo ago
> By enforcing a single, standardized format via the built-in gofmt tool I'd read about this many times before I started with Go so I was particularly disappointed to learn that it was a lie. The most important task of a code format
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by Myrmornis 2mo ago
> By enforcing a single, standardized format via the built-in gofmt tool I'd read about this many times before I started with Go so I was particularly disappointed to learn that it was a lie.
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by Myrmornis 2mo ago
> How to Write English Prose > There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful; but two afford me particularly intense pleasure. > To my mind, each is in its own way a perfec
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by Myrmornis 2mo ago
I'm sure you're right that there's poor terminology, and Wikipedia math is certainly daunting. But in general the many mathematical exposition PDFs scattered across the Internet are beautifully written by careful, intelligent
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by Myrmornis 2mo ago
That's not because the nomenclature is bad, it's because the concepts in advanced mathematics are further from our familiarity zone. In other words because it's hard.
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by Myrmornis 2mo ago
> the stochastic parrot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010345
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Crikey. It even bound Shift-Cmd-G to the filesystem picker thing.
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Thanks, your noun/process suggestion is interesting. Perhaps that is indeed a good way of characterizing what happened in biology. It's clear that biology has stumbled into a linguistic/philosophical trap; if it were actually
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Hi, two answers: Firstly, > how do you conclude that these two populations can still interbreed? I'm saying that people shouldn't spend time asking that question of allopatric populations. Secondly you're right that I didn
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Yes I completely agree with every word of this. I hope I didn't give the opposite impression. Clearly the sexual organisms living in one place belong to discrete groups, defined by what breeds with what, no objection to using the word
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Thanks, I've looked at that before, but I don't think I've ever read it properly. Are you sure it's not missing the simple answer? Give up the idea that the question of whether populations are "conspecific" sho
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
It's an allopatric population. It's one of the great embarrassments of biology. The question "is this population part of the same 'species' as this other population" is simply not defined in biology when they a
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
You could reorder so that the test comes in a commit after the fix rather than before if you want to be able to use plain git bisect, so that no commits are failing. The important thing is that you can use git (i.e. revert in this case) to
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
For me, "key", and "critical" merely say it's "important", but don't convey the sense that "out of the mess of connected concepts we're discussing, the one that is actually interacting with
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Sure but the question is why "load" after X?
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
You don't think me using "honest" there might have been a tiny bit of (on-topic, and therefore appropriate) trolling?
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Ah right, you don't like AI and don't care to understand how it works.
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
You don't think it's possible that an LLM's internal machinery could decide that an underused-by-humans word should be used more frequently in output than it sees in input because it maps cleanly onto a frequently needed sema
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
I like to think that the reason it's so noticable is that Claude has recognized some important semantics that we ourselves lack a good word for or at least under-appreciate. What term is used in English (or other languages) with the sa
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
Fair. I think what I'd say is that we don't have to use plain git bisect -- it would be quick to make a bisect script that doesn't land on the failing-test commits. Especially seeing as most teams squash before merging, we sh
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
One good reason is to keep your tests separate from the fixes that make your tests pass. That way you can check your test fails before the next commit makes it pass, eliminating the risk of a false negative (test passes that would have anyw
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by Myrmornis 3mo ago
The article was clearly written by an LLM. Please say so at the top.
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by Myrmornis 4mo ago
You don't need to know the words since 3 out of the 4 definitions are silly.

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