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by bsaul 4y ago
That’s also my question. ADT seems really to fit well with the no-class no-inheritance design that go took. I don’t see how it would affect the language in any major way. But then, i’m not an expert.
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by bsaul 4y ago
My guess is this is what swift has planned. They’ve been slowly adding hidden features inside the compiler to detect more and more problematic memory sharing patterns. My hunch is that the two language will eventually converge. Rust slowly
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by bsaul 4y ago
basically any struct containing pointers can be misinitialized and have nil pointers. it is indeed quite easy to fix most of the time, but it's also a non-issue in a lot of modern PL.
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by bsaul 4y ago
I think the main problem with rust, is that the things they decided to settle on early on (aka the borrow checker) are the ones at the root of all the difficulties. They then tried to tame those issues little by little by improving the lang
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by bsaul 4y ago
Coming from swift, it's pretty refreshing to see a language that has decided to settle on the language itself pretty early and focused on improving all other aspects of the dev experience. Last time i ran my go test suite on the CI i t
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by bsaul 4y ago
I love this description. The only thing left is to generate the corresponding avatar with dall-E
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by bsaul 4y ago
How does cockroach compares in terms of performance to manual sharded databases ? My intuition is that a properly sharded database will perform faster-or-same as a non-sharded one in all scenarios. Whereas automatically-sharded database wil
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by bsaul 4y ago
I've been doing that as much as possible. however you're still left with availability issues, such as replicating / failover management etc. Which really are orthogonal issues to tenancy. How do you manage that ?
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by bsaul 4y ago
it would probably be a good rewrite. machines confronting people to situations and puzzle to solve, train them in specials rooms, then wiring their brains to real-world machines.. I imagine today's people will understand it
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by bsaul 4y ago
i hope they're not doing those 10% cut just to look like everyone else. I was about to bet on their product for my analytics and now i'm a bit more hesitant.
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by bsaul 4y ago
"china did this successfully" We have absolutely no idea what happened in china. We know they hid things in the beginning, and in the end ( when they stopped counting infections after opening the fates to omicron). What makes you
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by bsaul 4y ago
i think the last two years shown that nothing acceptable from a human rights pov could have been done to stop the pandemic from spreading once it was out of the bag. i'm not sure which example makes you think things could have been dif
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by bsaul 4y ago
i have a vague memory of a company that wanted to do a universal assistant, accessible by phone, whom you could ask anything, with the hope that one day they could automate part of the process. It was something like 10 to 15 years ago.. Any
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by bsaul 4y ago
that was my intuition as well, but it seems pretty obvious by now that the tech is a little harder to reproduce thzn that. otherwise wouldn't have they already done it by now ?
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by bsaul 4y ago
how is llama performance relative to chatgpt ? is it as good as chatgpt3 or even 4 ?
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by bsaul 4y ago
since its seems that the author is reading HN : congratulations for that article. It managed to be interesting on a topic that's written about non stop those days, and the writing style is very good.
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by bsaul 4y ago
it's not what i meant : you can have a full conversation and then at some point use "it" or "him" , and based on the rest of the sentence, it will understand what previous element of the conversation you were mentio
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by bsaul 4y ago
Still would have been a risky move. There are examples in the past of jokes not well understood ...
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by bsaul 4y ago
At the minimum, chatgpt displays a remarkable ability to maintain a consistent speech throughout a long and complex conversation with a user, taking into account all the internal implicit references. this to me is the proof it is able to c
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by bsaul 4y ago
some prompts results are only explainable if chatgpt has the ability to produce some kind of reasoning. As for your analogy, I'm not sure we know enough about human intelligence core mechanisms to be able to dismiss NN as being fundame
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by bsaul 4y ago
In a way this is a bit less impressive than having chatgpt being able to generate those answers on its own only using learned information. This kinds of admits defeat regarding its ability to solve mathematical problems correctly or answer
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by bsaul 4y ago
any kind of non-critical content production. Marketing, advertising, entertainment, low-level hotline, documentation, etc.
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by bsaul 4y ago
I think the types of error chatgpt makes are indeed very similar to the ones a tesla autopilot does ( probably due to the nature of NN) There is one big difference though : there are TONS of tasks chatgpt can do that don't require 100%
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by bsaul 4y ago
a third option is that balaji already owns tons of bitcoin, and plans on manipulating the btc value just enough to largely compensate for the 1 million $, thus making money. Just buying 37 BTC anonymously won't have the same effect on
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by bsaul 4y ago
it's going to be interesting to see if with all the sudden hype and income around llm people will manage to let them acquire a sense of "facts". From the gpt4 paper it looks like they already managed to get some interesting i
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by bsaul 4y ago
if it didn't have at least some kind of model of chess, it wouldn't be able to play past midgame. Simply because on a new position, moves from other positions aren't applicable at all .
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by bsaul 4y ago
a game of chess becomes « new » after a few moves. starting middlegame, you’re in unknown territories and have no statistics to refer to..
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by bsaul 4y ago
Agree. I feel like rust and swift will eventually converge with time, with swift providing more and more static guarantees and lifetime-related keyword, and rust improving its ergonomics. ( although recently swift definitely also went a com
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by bsaul 4y ago
there's a bit of confusion when people say it's not going replace programmers because they all have tricky things to do in their work week. This is not how it's going to happen : if your boring time-consuming tasks take virtu
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by bsaul 4y ago
there's another way to look at my comment : all the other jobs we "automated" transformed, but kept existing under one form or another. And so will ours.

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