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by com2kid 2y ago
This is trivial to prove false. During fine dining, a meal may consist of small portions that even when added up together total less calories than a large bag of theater popcorn which many people are quite capable of going through. No one w
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by com2kid 2y ago
If I need an RNG rolled to a standard distribution, I can either spend 5 minutes looking it up, learning how to import and use a library, and adding it to my code, or I can tell Cursor to do it for me. Crap like that, 100 times a day. &quot
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by com2kid 2y ago
There is a famous saying: A professional chef is just some one who is willing to use more butter than a home cook.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love. Nearly all people do, food scientists are really damn good at their job. It isn't even that the stuff tastes better,
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Parents choose schools with better test scores, not schools with better teaching. Only because other signals don't exist. Parents know test scores don't correlate perfectly with learning, but what other metric do they have to
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by com2kid 2y ago
You need to work with better engineers. Classically people got into software engineering because they liked writing code and they needed a way to pay the bills. Plenty of retired software engineers still code because it is part of who they
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by com2kid 2y ago
> There is a point of time there where the fastest way to reach an engineer was not to go through a tier one contract that you pay microsoft millions of dollars for, but instead to just open an issue on the GitHub. I doubt that’s the cas
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Back when I worked on .net we had fewer than 50 people maintaining a product that shipped to over a billion machines. If you opened an issue on github we'd usually reply that day. It depends on an org's priorities and what ge
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by com2kid 2y ago
I'm thinking of going full on soap opera complete with a love triangle. Visitors need some sort of vested interest in what is going on. When properly prompted, even GPT3.5 can write compelling short stories[1], but I'm using such
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by com2kid 2y ago
> If you hadn't described your technical choices above I'd think this was just done using normal procedural text generation. Every NPC feels like it's giving the stock phrase they'll say when you run out of dialog opt
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Could you give the villagers a sense of their own agency, meaning that they have lives of their own that would continue whether the hero returns or not? Yeah I'm currently considering working that in. Right now existing game AI te
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Making Bluetooth 10% more energy efficient in the next few revisions is a terrible example because you absolutely cannot just tackle that by yourself. Not because it's technically hard, but because it's actually a people prob
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by com2kid 2y ago
Putting the finishing touches on my LLM based town simulator. Once it's finished I'll have it simulate 4 hours in the town every 2 hours in reality. It is designed to solve the problem of "RPG hero just killed a dragon in fro
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by com2kid 2y ago
> With mixlayer, because the round trip time to the model is so short, you can alternate between appending known tokens of the JSON output and values you want the model to generate. I think this works better than constraining the samplin
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by com2kid 2y ago
On my LinkedIn post about this topic someone actually replied with a superior method of steering LLM output compared to anything else I've ever heard of, so I've decided that until I find time to implement their method, I'm n
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by com2kid 2y ago
3B models are perfectly capable, I've had great luck with Phi 3.5. > For example, they seem to not care about instructions to only write a response and no explanation You need to use tools to force the model to adhere to a schema.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> This is where compound systems are a valuable framework because you can break down the problem into bite-sized chunks that smaller LLMs can solve. Just a reminder that smaller fine tuned models are just as good at solving the problems
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by com2kid 2y ago
RAG without preprocessing is almost useless, because unless you are careful, RAG gives you all the weaknesses of vector DBs, with all the weaknesses of LLMs! The easiest example I can come up is imagine you just dump a restaurant menu into
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Fundamentally, kids that are just trying to pass a class don't see the value in learning and it seems that the contributions towards the "pointless" school work are parts teacher attitudes, parts curriculum design, parts
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by com2kid 2y ago
When I was in college there were professors who were hard but fair, hard and not fair, and just easy. Profs who were hard but fair never had a problem filling up their classrooms with students who self selected for wanting to learn. The har
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by com2kid 2y ago
> The only solution is to require face-to-face proctored exams and not allow students to use technology of any kind while taking the test. But any teacher doing this will end up with no students signing up for their class. The only solut
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by com2kid 2y ago
I think Cursor just mirrors the VSCode marketplace on their own servers. They used to have an ugly work around for installing extensions, but now it just works and I see links to https://marketplace.cursorapi.com/ inside of
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by com2kid 2y ago
SSR is one missing pragma away from leaking api keys to clients. SSR means your web server needs to scale with load on your front page, versus static bundles that can be served almost at infinite scale from a $15/month VPS.
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by com2kid 2y ago
You start streaming the response immediately and kick off your guardrails checks. If the guard rail checks are triggered you cancel the streaming response. Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
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by com2kid 2y ago
You can obviously build any runtime system you desire in C, including one that parses and executes C code with additional features added in. The wisdom of doing this is questionable. Though I've actually seen macro systems that do thin
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by com2kid 2y ago
You can do anything in C that you want to. Of course one can make v-tables and all of that, and even do inheritance. But having the "class" keyword is nice. Having built in support for member functions is nice. Sometimes a person
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by com2kid 2y ago
> They’re private companies. If they can’t tie it to profit, it’s not adding value. Smart companies understand other types of value exist. If a democratic population hates you, it is harder to convince politicians to do your bidding. (No
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by com2kid 2y ago
Perfectly valid to do if you need to interface with a large C code base and you just want to do some simple OO here and there. Especially if you cannot have runtime exceptions and the like. This is how I managed to sneak C++ into an embedde
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by com2kid 2y ago
I interviewed a developer once who was super junior on paper but had a side project of a fully featured desktop anime episode to watch/watched tracker with lots of library feature features. Hire. Interviewed another Dev who made arcade
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by com2kid 2y ago
I've watched entire movies while lucid dreaming. I've listened to entire concerts play out, eaten entire meals with all 5 senses. One of the more annoying parts of growing older was that I stopped lucid dreaming.

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