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by coderenegade 7mo ago
There needs to be a measure (or measures) of the entropy of a codebase that provides a signal of complexity. When you're paying for every token, you want code patterns that convey a lot of immediate information to the agent so that it
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by coderenegade 7mo ago
I think that in the long run, AI assisted coding will turn out to be better than handcrafted code. When you pay for every token, and code generation is quick, a clean, low entropy codebase with good test coverage gets you a lot more for you
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by coderenegade 7mo ago
I suspect this is more true than most people think. Today's bad code will be cleaned up by tomorrow's agents. The other factor that gets glossed over is that llms create a financial incentive to create cleaner code, with tests, be
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by coderenegade 7mo ago
You're more likely to save tokens in the architecture than the language. A clean, extensible architecture will communicate intent more clearly, require fewer searches through the codebase, and take up less of the context window.
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by coderenegade 8mo ago
Depending on the type of catalytic converter, both of those things can be true.
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by coderenegade 9mo ago
That's cost, not practicality. Like it or not, the EV isn't as flexible when it comes to ownership, because you need a place to charge it. A product that is less practical has to be cheaper to compete in the market.
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by coderenegade 9mo ago
As long as users are better than 50% accurate, it shouldn't matter if they're experts or not. That being said, it's difficult to measure user accuracy in this case without running into circular reasoning.
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by coderenegade 9mo ago
My experience is that you get out what you put in. If you have a well-defined foundation, AI can populate the stubs and get it 95% correct. Getting to that point can take a bit of thought, and AI can help with that, too, but if you lean on
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by coderenegade 9mo ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. I'd argue it's more the result of the CCP bankrolling the Chinese electronics industry to the point where roughly 70% of all electronics goods are produced in China. The concentration o
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by coderenegade 10mo ago
>The constitution is being summarily ignored by the current administration. There is a right to trial in there that we've just totally blown past, and the deep integration between party insiders and media consolidation is a sideways
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by coderenegade 10mo ago
This. Governments are signatory to a huge number of agreements, and are members of various NGOs. Things start out as being representative of some will of the people, but over time it becomes a millstone around the government's neck if
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by coderenegade 10mo ago
It boggles my mind that you think this stuff is being pushed by the right. Expansion of government and surveillance is a hallmark of the left , and indeed this latest wave of surveillance is being pushed by progressive governments in Weste
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by coderenegade 10mo ago
What's the difference between autogenerated C code and compiling to assembly or machine code? Seems academic to me. The main flaw of autocode is that a human can't easily read and validate it, so you can't really use it as so
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by coderenegade 10mo ago
It's fairly standard to prune the hell out of a model for deployment, because many of the parameters end up being close to zero. This doesn't really help with explainability of the parameters, because (imo) that's a dead end.
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by coderenegade 11mo ago
Our dog remembers the location of toys at the park over long periods of time, though being able to sniff them out probably helps. He also expresses genuine surprise and suspicion when he sees novel objects (e.g. the large Christmas tree tha
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by coderenegade 11mo ago
To play devil's advocate, a leader that dismantles broken systems in order fix an otherwise failing society will look identical to one that siezes power by dismantling those same systems. Indeed, in the latter case, they often believ
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by coderenegade 11mo ago
The morality of an organization is distinct from the morality of the decision-makers within the organization. Modern organizations are setup to distribute responsibility, and take advantage of extra-organizational structures and entities to
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by coderenegade 11mo ago
What if it were possible to get grit from a pill? People who have taken it and come off of it are saying that they haven't reverted. You get good at what you practice, which is as true for grit as it is of anything else. If some people
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by coderenegade 1y ago
This hinges on the assumption that economists are correctly accounting for value, which seems unlikely. For example, what's the value of being able to repair your jets in a conflict, because the supply chain is local, and doesn't
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by coderenegade 1y ago
This. The century of shame, when Western powers came knocking on their door, is etched into the Chinese cultural psyche. East Asia was home to mature nations that learned the hard way that self determination is fundamentally tied to your ab
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by coderenegade 1y ago
Yeah, I meant more in the sense of businesses being the primary consumers for everything, but maybe you're right. In the same way that everyone owns a car today, maybe everyone will own one or more robots that do what they otherwise wo
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by coderenegade 1y ago
More likely businesses than robots, but robots will consume on behalf of the business that owns them, same as currently happens with procurement. If people don't have the money to pay for shavers, shavers either won't be made, or
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by coderenegade 1y ago
Nothing in capitalism suggests that consumers have to be human. In fact, the whole enshittification trend suggests that traditional consumers are less economically relevant than they've ever been.
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by coderenegade 1y ago
They may not have reached a point where there's enough good data to drown out the signal from the bad data.
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by coderenegade 1y ago
It's more surprising to me that the researchers believed that model size matters. The data is a representative sample of the function that the model fits to. If there are enough bad samples to poison the data, the model size doesn&#x27
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by coderenegade 1y ago
I think they might mean something closer to a flow battery, where, in principle, you should just be able to replace the electrolytes in a discharged state with new electrolytes in a charged state. Current flow batteries have very low energy
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by coderenegade 1y ago
To play devil's advocate, isn't it illegal wear a swastika in Germany? How is wearing a burqa, a symbol of female oppression any different? Freedom of religion only goes so far, because the culture of the host country takes preced
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by coderenegade 1y ago
These people aren't rulers, they're public servants that have mistaken themselves for rulers.
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by coderenegade 1y ago
And if citizens don't have access to guns, they'll still be used in crimes. The second amendment isn't about safety or preventing death, it's about the right of the individual versus the overall collective. Governments a
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by coderenegade 1y ago
My post wasn't about keeping the government honest, it was about the individual's right to protect themselves from anyone , including the government. Guns empower the individual to defend themselves without having to rely on the

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