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by drob518 6mo ago
I love it. What’s the rough architecture of the system (using cloud LLM and paying $$$, or local)? The performance for new entries is really good. What is the prompt for each entry and how do you keep the steampunk vibe going?
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by drob518 6mo ago
I’m curious, too. But it could probably run locally with a small model, right? The performance is stellar, so that suggests some hardware acceleration is being used, but that could all be a local system.
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by drob518 6mo ago
I was on my college fencing team. One summer, I had an internship at HP and they paired me with a grizzled old hardware designer, Fred, as a mentor to build a summer project. Fred had a lab bench with drawers overflowing with old resistors,
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yea, definitely don’t let out the magic smoke. That stops all the fun right away.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Great idea.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Real LOL!
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by drob518 6mo ago
So, what did IBM want to use instead?!?!
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by drob518 6mo ago
K&R, ride or die.
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Hello, Babashka(clojurecivitas.org)
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Hallucination Is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (2025)(arxiv.org)
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by drob518 6mo ago
Well, that’s a blast from the past.
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by drob518 6mo ago
https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/doc/geiser.html
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yea, I get that the actual comparison instruction itself is insignificant. It's everything that goes along with it. Seems like quaternary is fetching more data, however. For instance, if you have 8 elements, 01234567, and you're l
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by drob518 6mo ago
> But what the article doesn't say is, compared to other model families, Granite 4.1 8B sucks. Right. This just says that Granite 4.1 8B is better than a previous version, Granite 4.0-H-Small, which has 32B, 9B active. So, they made
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by drob518 6mo ago
Isn't "quaternary" just sort of unrolling the binary search loop by one level? I mean, to find the partition in which the item is located, you still do roughly the same rough number of comparisons. You're just taking the
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by drob518 6mo ago
But LLMs do Python quite well, so white space isn’t necessarily a problem.
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by drob518 6mo ago
My Spidey sense was tingling when I saw that, too. An additional issue is how humans are supposed to read the code at all so that they can provide help to the LLM if it’s off track. If the code is only usable by models, the models need to b
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by drob518 6mo ago
I think syntax matches with our brains or not. I think anyone is capable of learning any syntax. The question is whether they want to. At some level, programming is art.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Try Clojure with CIDER/nREPL (roughly similar to SLIME/SWANK).
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by drob518 6mo ago
If you want a Lisp that basically has M-expressions, try Dylan. It even started with an S-expression syntax initially and then converted to infix.
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by drob518 6mo ago
This is doable in Common Lisp, Scheme/Racket, and Clojure. Yes, it might require some tooling.
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by drob518 6mo ago
It’s common in Clojure as well as other Lisps. I was just doing that exact thing, modifying a running program in production, earlier this week, adding in print calls to gather debugging information and then modifying the code to fix the bug
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by drob518 6mo ago
It’s rare for military technology to completely “move on” to other things. Typically, the new just gets added to the old. So, yea, drones are new, but drones don’t cause artillery to become completely obsolete, in the same way that aerial b
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by drob518 6mo ago
Oh, hell no!
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by drob518 6mo ago
It’s certainly shifted toward restricting the scope to competing IP, but that’s only in the last 15 years or so. Prior to that it was definitely more all encompassing. But yea, companies are becoming more enlightened as key employees push b
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by drob518 6mo ago
I’ve worked at 12 companies in Silicon Valley and they all had variations of such language, whether huge Fortune 50 corporations or 4-person startups with the ink still wet on their incorporation filing. Yes, the better ones have a clause t
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yes, but you have to declare them to the company and the company must approve them. If they don’t, because it’s competitive, you’re out of luck.
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by drob518 6mo ago
It’s very enforceable.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Typically there’s a way to declare things that you are working on before you start at the company to prevent them trying to sue you for rights to prior work.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Most employment agreements for tech companies have a clause that says that the employer owns everything you do while you’re working for them. And if you’re on salary, as opposed to working by the hour, there really is no “free time.” In pra

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