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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
> here’s how LLMs actually work But how is that useful in any way? For all we know, LLMs are black boxes. We really have no idea how did ability to have a conversation emerge from predicting the next token.
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
Try it yourself and report back the results.
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
If it sounds stupid but it works, it's not stupid.
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
Holy shit. How realistic are they?
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
Agreed. I've tried all of the models available right now, and Claude Opus is by far the most capable. I had an assertion failure triggered in a fairly complex open-source C library I was using, and Claude Opus not only found the caus
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
Nice, thanks for sharing. I'll think about getting the same one myself.
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
While that sounds impressive, a $200 subscription is still not pocket change. Do you have any approximation of the amount of tokens you use on average, and how much would it cost on a per-million-of-token billing?
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
Well, you can lead the horse to water, but you can't make him drink. If you assume all students are lazy assholes who want to cheat the system, then I doubt there's anything that would help them learn.
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
Which models do you use the most?
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
That's a fair point, but AI can do much more than just provide you with an answer like a calculator. AI can explain the underlying process of manual computation and help you learn it. You can ask it questions when you're confused,
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
> people use credits? I only use a monthly subscription Those still have limits, no? Or if there's a subscription that provides limitless access, please tell me which one it is.
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by bheadmaster 8mo ago
This is actually a great way to foster the learning spirit in the age of AI. Even if the student uses AI to arrive at an answer, they will still need to, at the very least, ask the AI to give it an explanation that will teach them how it ar
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
It's a joke language, I doubt it will cause any significant ambiguity ever.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
An understanding of READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() is important for kernel developers who will be dealing with any sort of concurrent access to data. So, naturally, they are almost entirely absent from the kernel's documentation.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
Good luck bisecting.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
It's funny how easy Plan 9 would make all this. Just mount the work dir as readonly in Cowork's filesystem namespace and mount a write-only dir for output. We can still do this via containers, though. But it does have some frictio
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
If you want to have a linear history on main, either always rebase your branch onto main, or merge but only accept squashed commits onto main.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
I suppose Bill is going to have a busy schedule in the following days.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
Encapsulation is possible without inheritance. And "code reuse" is a vague concept that had nothing to do with inheritance in particular. Not even gonna comment on "message passing".
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
> interfaces, traits, etc. Those are actually mechanisms for achieving polymorphism. Inheritence inherently (heh) consists of "inheriting" parent class' internals and having ability to extend them. It is basically composit
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
Inheritance is often used as an enabler for polymorphism in languages that don't support it in any other way. Somehow, it leaked out and convinced everyone that it is a good thing on its own.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
> If one skips that part and opts for anyhow because it's too much work, that's really a user problem. If a language makes this more convenient than doing it right, one could argue that the language design is at fault.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
Many Rust programmers despise Go's "if err != nil" pattern, but that pattern actually forces you to think about errors and "design" them to give meaningful messages, either by wrapping them (if the underlying error
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
I agree with you in sentiment - the term "full-stack" is odd and a little too grandiose for its meaning. But it is already established in the industry, and fighting it is unlikely to yield any positive outcomes.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
No, actually Nix is a package manager/system configuration tool. NixOS uses Nix as part of its image.
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
> at least more so than with Go It's actually quite easy to create a C bindings for a Go library, using CGo and -buildmode=c-shared. I'm not sure what effect the Go runtime has on the overall application, but it doesn't se
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by bheadmaster 9mo ago
Can I use the Java implementations in another language without significant headache?
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by bheadmaster 10mo ago
I can think of two possible reasons: First is the Google's manpower. Google somehow succeeds in writing fast software. Most Google products I use are fast in contrast to the rest of the ecosystem. It's possible that Google simply
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by bheadmaster 10mo ago
Yeah, and obesity would be solved if we had government-sanctioned food rations. But I deeply dislike that solution. Personal responsibility beats authoritarive control in almost all cases.

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