abraxas

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by abraxas 4y ago
This may be at least partially circumvented by lowering the temperature of token generation. Otherwise, a strong set of tests should be generated to minimize the impact. The tooling is going to look very different. Every time we move up an
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by abraxas 4y ago
No, my point is not that programming languages are obsolete. Rather that they are shifting one layer down. Just like there is room for different virtual machines today (eg. JVM vs V8 etc) there will be room for different computer languages.
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by abraxas 4y ago
That could be queried by the LLM as needed. Tons of work has been done on giving LLMs long term memory
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by abraxas 4y ago
You are not even responding to the point made in the article but instead ranting about the limitations of ChatGPT which is the fashion on HN hence the top comment. The idea that programming languages are getting another layer of abstraction
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by abraxas 4y ago
He is a master educator. While at Stanford he developed their undergrad machine learning intro course named cs231n which immediately became legendary. It's somewhat out of date on some details but it's still well worth watching es
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by abraxas 4y ago
Doing small, easy things first. It's contrary to the common 'wisdom' of 'getting the hard stuff out of the way first' because doing small incremental steps keeps the small dopamine hits going and gives a sense of ac
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by abraxas 4y ago
C does not depend on Unix in any way. Hell, 8 bit micros like Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum had C compilers.
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by abraxas 4y ago
If my experience is anything to go by it's enough to refuse to give them 2FA credentials and attempt to stick to only using a password (since I don't give a shit about a Microsoft account and didn't store any personal info th
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by abraxas 4y ago
I think that's the perfect answer. I wouldn't be able to reason better myself.
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by abraxas 4y ago
I think the next gent LLMs will have enough reasoning capability to create tools that glue all these point solutions together. That's more likely to be the true revolution. Looking at this zoo of vendors, many have great point solution
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by abraxas 4y ago
Try Azure or Deepgram
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by abraxas 4y ago
Is this in the realm of aspiration or something you've actually worked on? Because Whisper is incredibly difficult (I'd say impossible) to use in a real time conversational setting. The transcription speed is too slow for interact
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by abraxas 4y ago
Oh, Azure's speech recognition API beats it handily on English language. Both in accuracy and speed. Another is Deepgram. Even this obscure vendor seems to be able to handle the samples I tried better than Whisper: https://p
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by abraxas 4y ago
No, no it isn't. Source, me with my Eastern Europe accent. There are engines out there that do far better with my accent. FAR better.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why people get so hyped up about Whisper. In production use it's middling at best and there are commercial offerings the handily beat it in both accuracy and speed. Whisper is mostly an academic toy.
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by abraxas 4y ago
I would not use whisper as a good yardstick for English language transcription. I'm not sure what the hubbab is all about but for myself who is not a native English speaker, Whisper is not very impressive. There are engines out there t
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by abraxas 4y ago
Fast.ai YouTube course is a great intro to practical machine learning. I'm not sure if Jeremy Howard has made any lectures specifically about transformers but the course has plenty of good practical info that's really well explain
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by abraxas 4y ago
I'm hard pressed to think of one modern app that avoids all of these antipatterns. But if you want some UX abominatione let's start with Slack, Chrome, VSCode, Unreal Editor, Blender. That's just a sampling from my frequently
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by abraxas 4y ago
If Apple password manager is anywhere as well thought out as their 2FA for Apple TV then I don't want to come next to it within 10 light years. Every time it asked me to either "confirm on your iPad" (I have 3 of those around
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by abraxas 4y ago
Oh, I see. This brings back so many fond memories of my first programming job...
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by abraxas 4y ago
It's funny in a sad way how nearly every modern app seems to adhere to these guidelines http://toastytech.com/guis/uirant.html
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by abraxas 4y ago
Some additional ones I would suggest are Open Look, latter days Solaris, and Irix. EDIT Never mind about the CDE era Solaris. That's already there.
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by abraxas 4y ago
So called proof of work systems are basically an instantiation of Bostrom's paperclip maximizer running on a hybrid human machine topology.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Greed is a fabulous motivator but it can't surpass the laws of physics. This is probably why we don't have a cure for cancer or room temperature superconductors or jurassic parks. It may be so that scaling down a language model li
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by abraxas 4y ago
You should really step up your elevator pitch. I'm not in the JavaScript ecosystem and after skimming your docs and searching on Google "what does next.js actually do" I'm still none the wiser. Seems to have something to
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by abraxas 4y ago
So this is a way to generate a deluge of blogspam using GPT4? Yeah, if this hastens the demise of social media so that people log off and ignore it then it's a worthwhile goal.
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by abraxas 4y ago
V5 is vastly better. V4 mutations are outright creepy.
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by abraxas 4y ago
This is absolutely true. I love Streamlit whenever I need to get a small proof of concept off the ground and hate it the moment I need to customize it even slightly beyond the rail guards it puts in place.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Nice! I haven't seen this one before. Will definitely take a look. Thanks for posting.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Java does have Vaadin but it's a mostly proprietary software. But it is very good and largely under appreciated.

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