crustycoder

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by crustycoder 6mo ago
"SSD improves Qwen3-30B-Instruct from 42.4% to 55.3% pass@1 on LiveCodeBench v6" I know virtually nothing about this area but my naive take is that something that means it still only passes tests around half the time doesn't
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by crustycoder 7mo ago
Things have moved on since 1994, not only can you still embed it in C and a load of other languages, you can even run it directly in your browser as there's a WASM port. https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section
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by crustycoder 8mo ago
Dead? What, again ? Yet another rehash of the smoke and mirrors bullshit I've been hearing every 5 years or so for the last 40+ years.
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by crustycoder 8mo ago
Um, no I won't and no it won't. I have no time for tub-thumping.
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by crustycoder 8mo ago
You are using mutexes, they are on the Actor message queues, amongst other places. "Just use mutexes" suggests a lack of experience of using them, they are very difficult to get both correct and scalable. By keeping them inside th
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by crustycoder 8mo ago
Eh? I've written a non-distributed app that uses the Actor model and it's been very successful. It concurrently collects data from hundreds of REST endpoints, a typical run may make 500,000 REST requests, with 250 actors making si
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by crustycoder 9mo ago
Well no, not really. The whole point is to use the appropriate tool for the task at hand. In this case it's the CLP(FD) library, https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clpfd
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by crustycoder 9mo ago
Or perhaps just use a language that's designed to solve those sorts of problems? In 14 lines of code. https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clpfd-sudoku
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by crustycoder 11mo ago
He hates on C++ pretty much the same as he does on Rust. Your argument seems to be that Rust is better than C++, which is akin to trying to make the case that Cholera is better than Smallpox. Language wars are boring and pointless, they all
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by crustycoder 1y ago
It's got compositions on the page, a link to a PDF with compositions in it and a link to the Veronese ringing association which has many more examples - if you can read Italian.
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by crustycoder 1y ago
The other reason jump changes are not a revolution and have remained just a curiosity is physics, something that's ignored by the article. For non-ringers, in change ringing the bells rotate 360 degrees each time they strike, from mout
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by crustycoder 1y ago
Here you go: https://www.whitingsociety.org.uk/articles/basic-tuition/ita... There are a fair few videos on YouTube as well.
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by crustycoder 1y ago
93% of the rings of 6 bells or more which are rung for English style change ringing are in England. Source: https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/ Change ringing is a branch of Group Theory and is mentioned in Knuth. The Steinhaus–John
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by crustycoder 1y ago
I'm licensed by The Engineering Council in the UK for doing computery stuff, and by the relevant European body. I've been writing software for a living for most of my 40+ year career, and still do. So Chartered Software Engineers
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by crustycoder 1y ago
On android it can be toggled on If Developer Options are enabled.
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by crustycoder 1y ago
My favourite example of the underlying probabilistic nature of LLMs is related to a niche hobby of mine, English Change Ringing. Every time someone asks an LLM a question that requires more than a basic definition of what Change Ringing is,
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by crustycoder 1y ago
I suggest you actually try the exercise before making assertions like that. Mind you, there's the old saying, "Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language"...
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by crustycoder 1y ago
Because learning a new language with a different world model gets you to think about problems on a different way. A library for a language you already know will not do that to anything like the same degree.
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by crustycoder 1y ago
Thanks for the recommendation :-)
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by crustycoder 1y ago
I hadn't come across that, In general I'm not a great fan of programming videos (life is too short) but the website content looks interesting - thanks!
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by crustycoder 1y ago
I still have a fanfold printout somewhere of the OPS5 implementation I wrote in C, back in the 80s :-)
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by crustycoder 1y ago
Coincidentally, on Friday I pulled my dusty 1987 copies of Sterling & Shapiro and Bratko off the bookshelf for the first time in literally decades, and built myself a copy of SWI so that I could have a tinker with it for something where
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by crustycoder 1y ago
Yes, but: "Although most people think of twisters striking ‘Tornado Alley’ in the US, the UK actually has more tornadoes per area than any other country." https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/new-map-o
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by crustycoder 1y ago
This is an old article and whilst there are undoubtedly still vulnerable vehicles, with the advent of UWB it seems to be a solved problem. My car has UWB, there's a LED on the fob that blinks when it is in range and if it's statio
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by crustycoder 2y ago
> If anyone care to share their experience with GraalVM's native-image, I'd be interested in hearing that. The main issue is if you are using reflection, which needs metadata adding to describe it so the necessary metadata is i
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by crustycoder 2y ago
I was half way through a project when the licensing change happened, I had to abandon Akka as a result. Fortunately my requirements for an Actor System are low-end, basically just message passing in a multithreaded single process, so I wrot
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by crustycoder 2y ago
> And if you want portability, you can compile a Scala program with GraalVM's native-image and statically link everything with musl libc Getting the musl stuff to work can be tricky, mostly-static (only libc dynamically linked) is a
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by crustycoder 2y ago
Many of these are totally pants/panz/pænts
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by crustycoder 2y ago
How about reading the linked article before posting? "Tesla’s drop came as the German EV market in January grew more than 50 per cent year on year, pushing its market share down from 14 to 4 per cent."
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by crustycoder 2y ago
It seems to have escaped your attention that they did the exact opposite and "felt free" to drive and illegal vehicle on public roads with no insurance, so anyone they hit wouldn't have any compensation. And you can't bu

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