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by dkersten 4mo ago
Why am I not surprised that its a YC startup? Lately, being a YC startup seems to have become a negative signal for me, far too many grifters are getting funded by YC, it seems.
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by dkersten 4mo ago
> That presumes models are only useful if they are one-shot models That’s not at all what I’m saying. I’m saying that in my experience across multiple models, the follow up prompts don’t fix prior underlying issues. They usually patch on
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by dkersten 4mo ago
I haven’t used Fable/Mythos yet, but my experience with recent version of Opus, GPT 5.5 and recent Chinese models is that promoting again isn’t guaranteed to fix the underlying issues, nor is it guaranteed to not introduce more issues.
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by dkersten 4mo ago
That’s the one. The speed is incredible and fun to see, but the model is rather weak to the point where I’m not sure it’s particularly useful for most people.
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by dkersten 4mo ago
> You've gone too fast, too much is vague, nothing is clear. Contrast to when Clojure was released: Rich Hickey had spent years thinking about, researching, and refining the concepts. It was easy to understand what the language is.
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by dkersten 4mo ago
I’ve been playing around with groq and GPT OSS which they run at 1000 TPS (20B) or 800 TPS (120B) and the speed feels quite magical. I haven’t tried cerebras’ 3000 TPS yet but I did try the demo of that 15,000 TPS model whose name escapes m
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by dkersten 4mo ago
I tried to play it about two months ago and it pops up a notice and quits. I found on Reddit that the notice is “we are Rory, but servers for this title have been shut down. Thank you very much for playing” which is roughly like what I reme
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by dkersten 4mo ago
Then they should not be allowed to use words like “buy” in the online stores.
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by dkersten 4mo ago
Some games are perfectly fine without online features yet they still got shut off. Mirrors Edge Catalyst only used online for leaderboards and challenges, everything else was entirely single player, yet it’s not possible to play it anymore
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by dkersten 4mo ago
Crypto was already a term before cryptocurrencies made it about them. Web 3.0 was already a thing before crypto bros made web 3 about cryptocurrencies. So what? Terms are reused in different contexts all the time. And most people have moved
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by dkersten 4mo ago
They still do, but only for enterprise customers.
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by dkersten 4mo ago
Together.ai provide many open weights models and as far as I’m are their servers are US based (the company certainly is)
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by dkersten 4mo ago
Groq don't train their own models, they serve open ones. They're a few versions behind the frontier open weights models. The top model they serve is GPT OSS 120B, released last summer.
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by dkersten 5mo ago
Only briefly for fun (and OCaml too but very long ago). F# does seem like a language I feel I could really like, though. I’ve tinkered a little in Gleam and Elixir too. Elixir was incredibly enjoyable, and Gleam is a wonderful language that
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by dkersten 5mo ago
Haha thanks. Funny thing is, I’ve been a long time Python fan, learning it in 2001 and using it extensively for a long time. But then I learned Clojure, Typescript, and recently Rust and I’ve found Python to be quite flawed. But it sure doe
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by dkersten 5mo ago
Deleted from the current head/trunk of the repo, ie the deployed code. Deleting "from my codebase" doesn't imply deleting it from history or backups. Just that the code isn't present for future edits or deployments.
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by dkersten 5mo ago
Not the most important thing, but it certainly helps.
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by dkersten 5mo ago
Typescript wins in terms of training data IMHO, by which I mean that the training data is large enough that AI does great with TS, and the language is (IMHO) superior to Python in many ways. I personally now use a mixture of Typescript and
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by dkersten 5mo ago
> You deleted them (never delete anything, isn't this what modern VCS is all about?) The person said: "deleted 100k+ lines this year already moving them to faster languages" Are you saying that when you move code to anothe
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by dkersten 5mo ago
But one European countries legal system also doesn’t constitute “most European legal systems”.
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by dkersten 5mo ago
It’s GLM 4.7, GPT OSS 120B, or llama 3.1 8B so not exactly the latest or best models. But GLM is good enough for many small tasks, certainly enough to get a taste for Cerebras’ high speeds! [edit: actually that’s just their general models,
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by dkersten 5mo ago
For small enough tasks with tight enough workflows, you can have it right now. Ie if you can constrain the task to work well with GPT OSS 120B/llama 3.3/qwen 3, then you can get upwards of 600 TPS on groq and up to 3k TPS on Cereb
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by dkersten 5mo ago
Fair enough. I didn’t mean to push Rust, which is why I removed the last statement from my original comment. I was really just trying to make an observation that devirtualisation isnt something I need to think about in Rust (you could make
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by dkersten 5mo ago
I feel like it’s still missing the point. In a discussion about devitalisation, I thought it was interesting that it’s not something that you have to think about in Rust, while in C++ you do.
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by dkersten 5mo ago
I don’t see how that’s relevant when discussing specific language features or semantics, nor how it’s relevant to what I said about Rusts static polymorphism. Nobody is claiming C and C++ didn’t make great contributions or that they aren’t
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by dkersten 5mo ago
In C++, you can’t have an interface without virtual unless you jump through hoops. In rust, you can have traits without dyn. That is, static polymorphism is the default in rust, while in c++ you must jump through hoops for it (eg, see the e
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by dkersten 5mo ago
I’ve been programming C++ on and off for over 20 years and have had my moments where I’ve checked on godbolt to make sure classes got devirtualised. This year, I’ve finally taken the plunge to properly learn Rust (I’ve used it for little th
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by dkersten 5mo ago
While I certainly like parentheses highlighting and rainbow parentheses, I've programmed Clojure without syntax highlighting and while it’s not as nice as it would be with, it’s fine. I’ve also written C++ and Java in Notepad long ago.
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by dkersten 5mo ago
> listening to people talk drives my crazy. People have so many verbal tics and filler words too. Anthropic’s Dario says “you know” after every third word, for example. Or they meander around unrelated/unimportant details.
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by dkersten 5mo ago
> Far and away most programmers today write significantly worse code than LLMs Your experience with LLMs do not match my own. Not to say that I haven’t experienced terrible human written code where I’ve wondered what the author could pos

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