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by NiloCK 10mo ago
Enjoyers of this concept would probably like this wonderful talk about programming language design by Guy Steele (Sun, Java Language): Growing a Language https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
First: a selection mechanism is just a selection mechanism, and it shouldn't confuse the observation of an emergent, tangential capabilities. Probably you believe that humans have something called intelligence , but the pressure that
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
I still don't really understand `skills` as ... anything? You said yourself that you've been doing this since llama 2 days - what do you mean by "become available"? It is useful in a user-education sense to communicate t
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
Again and forever: These fights stem from usage of a proprietary definition of Open Source (the OSI's). Obviously the definition doesn't resonate with DHH, and he uses the words 'open' and 'source' colloquially
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
People use the term to refer to a proprietary definition from the OSI, which is an OK convention. I just wish they would capitalize it, and leave the normal interpretation of the words also available.
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
User consent. Uninformed consent is not consent. You cannot meaningfully consent to running software on your devices, or running your life on software, when that software's source is unavailable.
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
Note that the settings in lower-right allows for an eye-friendlier font.
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by NiloCK 10mo ago
This morning I found myself muttering something I won't repeat as a reaction to Claude Code's remarkably slow startup time. Put the Bun folks directly on that please and nothing else.
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
And what do you do here? - I scroll Why do you scroll? - To forget To forget what? - That I am boring and bored Why are you boring and bored? - Because I scroll!
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
So if someone wants to sucker punch me in pubic, there's also nothing that I or anyone else can do to proactively prevent it. But I don't get sucker punched very often, so it seems like there probably are things that can be do
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
Not crazy - there's a rational self-interest in doing this. But I'm not certain that the relevant players have the same consequence-fearing mindset that you do, and to be honest they're probably right. The theft is too great
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
Waymos, LLMs, brain computer interfaces, dictation and tts, humanoid robots that are worth a damn. Ye best start believing in silly sci-fi stories. Yer in one.
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
> Claude 4.5 - "Claude Flagged this input and didn't process it" I've gotten this a few times while exploring around LLMs as interpreters. Experience shows that you can spl rbtly bl n clad wl understand well enough -
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
Finally some external tooling to justify my microcommit habit. (They will play in order here, presumably, instead of the top-to-bottom per-file playback of large commits). Really nice - thanks for sharing.
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
That is just two years after I burst onto the page. Calvin and Hobbes was a major part of my childhood - I loved it. For something casually consumed on the daily at the breakfast table, it was so earnestly, so obviously, smarter than the me
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
> “Who is going to trust somebody who got a degree in airline engineering who doesn’t know how to think through a problem without a computer telling them the answer?” Years ago when I was working in education (Canadian public schools) ou
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
Absolute sympathy for the author. My own story of heavy industrialized medical process goes the other way. My daughter could be dead, but she isn't. At birth, she presented with some abnormalities around her stomach. Not good. We lived
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
Trying to engage in good faith here but I don't really get this. You're pretending to have never encountered positive visions of technologically advanced futures. Cure all disease? Stop aging? End material scarcity? It's comp
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
This is a lot better than my attempt exactly one year ago: https://paritybits.me/llm-drawing-with-eyes-open/ Poor feet.
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
Meta question: Is there a cadence for these threads? I had in mind to "be prepared" to post in November's with what I'm working on, but I expected it to come around on the 15th (mid-month). What I'm working on: - sk
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
I'd expect the same (fine tuning to be better than mere prompting) for most anything. So a model is or is not "a reasoning model" according to the extent of a fine tune. Are there specific benchmarks that compare models vs th
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by NiloCK 11mo ago
Maybe a dumb question but: what is a "reasoning model"? I think I get that "reasoning" in this context refers to dynamically budgeting scratchpad tokens that aren't intended as the main response body. But can't
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by NiloCK 1y ago
Even inside the claude-code ecosystem, more than ever there are tradeoffs on raw speed vs intelligence vs cost. Moving a bunch of verbose templated HTML around while watching results on a devserver? Haiku all day. It's a bonus that it&
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by NiloCK 1y ago
At that spend, no subscription is available to serve that much traffic - they are all rate limited. I understand the 70K spend as a corporate expense, not an individual... right?
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by NiloCK 1y ago
Well then. Hopefully some Mikes have been involved in the project as well and picked up some stray well wishes.
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by NiloCK 1y ago
I've had a really good time with Caddy on a hobby project over the past 7 years on a digital ocean droplet. Automatic HTTPS, multiple domains, proxying specific routes to local services, etc etc, managed by one extremely legible config
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ClaunkedIn(paritybits.me)
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by NiloCK 1y ago
Whoops, sorry about that. I updated that submission right after writing this post, and re-published the front-end without having committed the changes. Should be working now. Really appreciate the interest.
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by NiloCK 1y ago
This is a fair point, but I'll emphasize that this is developer documentation and there isn't really an existing product or service targeting consumers, teachers or institutions. My focus on that front is the LettersPractice app
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by NiloCK 1y ago
My on again, off again life's work has been a foss dev stack for interactive tutoring systems. Something like a general purpose Math Academy, with mechanics to permit UGC and courses that are both adaptive (to the user's backgroun

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