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by davedx 11mo ago
That’s called evals and yes any serious AI project uses them
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by davedx 11mo ago
Chatgpt spins up a python sandbox for any complex calculations. It’s been able to do that for a while now
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by davedx 11mo ago
Chatgpt has been calculating things in its python sandbox for years already. This is a trope indeed
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by davedx 11mo ago
I said you don’t get to redefine what words mean unilaterally . I disagree that enough English speakers agree with the MPA definition for us to adopt it. I sure don’t.
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by davedx 11mo ago
> Preventing someone from getting value out of their work is theft No, it's not. You (or random large media corps) do not get to unilaterally redefine words of the English language like that. Pass whatever laws you want about it, en
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by davedx 11mo ago
Humans, legacy algorithmic systems, and LLM's have different error modes. - Legacy systems typically have error modes where integrations or user interface breaks in annoying but obvious ways. Pure algorithms calculating things like pay
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by davedx 11mo ago
From what I've seen, sometimes people see that their blog post got a lot of referral traffic from Hacker News and they come have a look to see where it came from.
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by davedx 11mo ago
Amazing, the one I go to that only opened last year in Ede, the Netherlands is there! I was its first vote :)
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by davedx 1y ago
No I agree, tone and context matters for technical writing too. Digital nomads gonna digital nomad…
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by davedx 1y ago
When I’ve worked on complex scheduling problems like that I use copious unit tests, they’re perfect for this kind of input->algo->output problem where algo has tons of edge cases. Indeed, not using unit tests and instead trying to man
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by davedx 1y ago
But then how to you build a performant API in python if you don't use async? Do you give your API's giant thread pools?
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by davedx 1y ago
False. You used to be able to read Twitter fine without being logged in
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by davedx 1y ago
It depends on your use case . Exactly. If you’re building big data intensive pipelines with lots of array manipulation or matrix multiplications you know what will shine. Building user facing APIs, use something with types and solid async.
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by davedx 1y ago
Same experience working on FastAPI projects. I don’t know how big production apps are maintained (and supported operationally) with the mess that is python+async+types. Conversely all the node+typescript projects, big and small, have been p
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by davedx 1y ago
Not true. Tesla themselves said the way they got the Model 3 to be so efficient was by optimising every single part exhaustively. It’s expensive at design stage but results in the most efficiency gains across the fleet - so worth it (especi
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by davedx 1y ago
Could lead to significant efficiency gains for EV's, because 1/4 of the motor weight means better power-to-weight ratio... a lot of things will automatically get better. YASA was founded in 2009, a spin out from Oxford University
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by davedx 1y ago
Maybe it's because I'm British, but this post made me scratch my head: no mention of drugs?
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by davedx 1y ago
> the realm of "mystery meat" menus and arcane gestures where swiping from seemingly every different angle of the screen edge does something different. Swipe from the top-right corner to get the Control Center, but swipe from t
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by davedx 1y ago
Am I the only one who won’t click on links to something on medium.com?
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by davedx 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240105211154/https://planetsca... > Hobby > Free forever for hobby use
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by davedx 1y ago
I worked at Serif during the early years of their pivot from boxed desktop software in C++ for Windows to an internet company making modern design software. It was a nice place to work, had some good friends there. Been interesting watching
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by davedx 1y ago
I’ve been using Wouter on multiple medium sized projects for 3-4 years now. I’m never going back to react-router if I can avoid it: a hellhole of API churn and self promotion
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by davedx 1y ago
I’m kind of agreed on this but — many times now I’ve also wanted static site components in my app too, and in a standard express+react app that gets awkward. I think there must be a better way. I don’t think it’s next.js and I’m not convinc
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by davedx 1y ago
I don’t know if this is as niche as the author thinks: there’s a lot of great advice for non-stroke survivors in there too.
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by davedx 1y ago
"3D pixel art" = a 3D engine running in a lower resolution? It looks like 320x200
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by davedx 1y ago
I'm just saying I need a real reason to upgrade beyond "benchmarks make me feel good". I can run local LLM's fine on my M1 Pro from 2021. I play games on it too. Why would I spend multiple thousands on a M(N) Macbook if
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by davedx 1y ago
Not me: I wanted Apple’s software division to innovate like its hardware division. Extra power with nothing to use it on except more and more docker containers isn’t compelling to me. I’ve not upgraded my M1 Macbook Pro and don’t plan to
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by davedx 1y ago
See also https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-...
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by davedx 1y ago
Consumers shouldn't need to do extended due diligence on the history of whether a company told the truth or not about what it's selling you over the last 15 years before making a purchase decision. There are, in fact, laws about t
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by davedx 1y ago
Andy Jassy is the Tim Cook of Amazon Rest and vest CEOs

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