UncleEntity

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by UncleEntity 1y ago
Just play with the 'free tier' on whatever website does the AI thing and figure it out. Maybe there's a need to try ten different ones but I just stuck with one and can now convince it to do what I want it to do pretty succes
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
Ya know, in the over half a century I've been on this planet, choosing a new pair of shoes is so low on my 'life's little annoyances' list that it doesn't even rise above the noise of all the stupid random things wh
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
Other than it starting out trying to produce a full and complete web app (or whatever) for my daily yak shaving session instead of the normal "let's talk about and work through this thing" the new Opus 4.1 seems to 'get
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
Wouldn't the real test be to run all the code through the bytecode optimizer and see who's faster then? I mean, this is sort of the same as testing the LLM output against the -O3 compiler optimization flag while compiling their pr
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
I've found if you're working on something where it hasn't seen a billion examples you have to give it additional information like an academic paper or similar. And get it to summarize its understanding every once in a while s
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
I've been working on the design of a fairly complicated system using the daffy robots to iterate over a bunch of different ideas. Trying things out (conceptually) to explore the pros and cons of each decision before even writing a sing
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
I think a big part of the problem is everyone just kind of assumed no one would get up to the kinds of shenanigans the current administrations is engaging in. Kind of like a 'please take one' sign on a bucket of Halloween candy br
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
A much more skeptical person than myself might think this is to deliberately hide the effects of some random thing like, IDK, tariffs on consumer prices -- to use a completely made up example for purely speculative purposes.
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
In the couple days since I posted my confusion (threads merged or something) I consulted the daffy robots and figured out how it all works. Also had them come up with a design document for "a specialized compiler and virtual machine ar
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
> If you are exceptionally qualified you should just become a citizen... Exceptionally qualified at what, doing some job nobody else wants to do? I suspect a big part of "US exceptionalism" is that people who were shitty at mat
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
Yeah, I'm starting to see a pattern to these "LLM's aren't the bee's knees" articles. First, it's always some 'telegram bot' type project where it all starts to break down when they try to add to
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
> After all the effort getting to the point where the generated code is acceptable, one has to wonder, why not just write it yourself? You know, I would often ask myself that very question... Then I discovered the stupid robots are good
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
> In other words, a UPB parser is actually configuration for an interpreter VM, which executes Protobuf messages as its bytecode. This is kind of confusing, the VM is runtime crafted to parse a single protobuf message type and only this
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
You don't know me but... I switched to vaping, IDK, 10 or so years ago from an off and (mostly) on cigarette habit and haven't looked back. There was a point where I was spending more on 'cheap' Chinese vape gear than I
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
I actually use that pattern in the VM just with a dispatch function instead of calling the function out of the array directly. The compiler (more than likely) inlines the dispatch call and it let's me add some error checking on the opc
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
That seemed kind of dubious to me as well but setting the pointer to the freed memory to NULL is good, maybe. Though, with their design, I think it would cause problems with passing the address of a stack allocated wrapper struct to the con
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
I've yet to find an even decent python binding generator, TBH. Generally, I use pybindgen to get the basic module and then hack on that by hand. The main problem is most C(++) libraries aren't designed to interoperate with managed
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
No doubt. I was watching one of those youtube bodycam videos of an accident scene where one of the cars ended up in a gas station. Police show up and it's chaos -- victims on the ground needing medical attention, witnesses helping (or
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
The birthday paradox probably comes into play here, somehow. Not a mathologist so...
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
> The crafting interpreting asks the reader to use the visitor pattern... ...or just a big old, plain jane switch statement. In my current project I modified my ASDL generator to output a C instead of C++ AST and the visitor pattern carr
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
People may do things you have no need for or don't agree with. Welcome to Planet Earth.
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
> Maybe the new meaning of “a good degree” will be something to do with a passing standard defined as beyond the reach of large language models? Like having to pass a 'literacy exam' in order to get a Bachelors of Arts? And, ye
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
Probably the methods they use as well. I may not be completely accurate on this because there's not a whole lot of information on how Python is doing their thing so... The way (I believe) Python is doing it is to take code templates an
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
Heh, didn't know there was a name for it... What I've taken to lately is getting the robots to write "scientific papers" on what I want them to get up to so instead of iterating over broken code I can just ask them &quot
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
I know C fairly well and the only time I really use it is to write some python extension code to wrap a C(++) library to solve some problem using python. For example, I've been using json as a database (instead of just, you know, using
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
> It's where people pay me their excess money and get nothing in return, increasing their desperation Wait, isn't that called 'campaign finance'? The problem with competing with entrenched market interests is they can
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
We manufacture plenty of stuff in the good ol' USA, what we struggle with is manufacturing cheap things which require large labor input.
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
> ee how Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work accepted for publication a form of Mein Kampf, rewritten to use more modern inclusive and feminist language Was that a troll or a serious endeavor? Because, as a troll, it's pretty
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking... Some may argue that the (former) US policy of attracting the world's best students and researchers was good for the country as a whole. Perhaps even lead to some industries being far superior
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by UncleEntity 1y ago
I supposed it could be argued that the proliferation of the internet lead to a massive increase in job growth. AI, on the other hand, is seeming to (promise, at least) lead to the polar opposite.

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