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by elcritch 1y ago
My main concern would be with querying. What is querying like in modern mongodb, or scylladb? I've seen couchbase ads showing a superset of sql, etc. Last I recall Mongo had a weird query system.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Yeah, it has a simple but full featured C API. I used it to provide the Nim wrapper for it.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I’m not sure the performance comparisons, but ThorVG gave me a binary library of 100-200 kb. Also ThorVG doesn’t have any external build requirements.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I discovered ThorVG recently and started experimenting with using it in Nim for a GUI backend: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13072
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ThorVG: Super Lightweight Vector Graphics Engine(thorvg.org)
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Automated trucks will lower costs for everyone. Hopefully so, but it’s not a given. Factors like consolidation, collusion, anti-competitive regulations, etc all can lead to keeping prices high.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Great read! One fascinating to me is how the article frames the field as progressing once again now that researchers are getting over the quasi particle model. Reminds me of the elephant and rope adage: young elephants are trained with smal
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by elcritch 1y ago
That’s what the Illuminati wants you to think. Jk ;) Gotta admit the occult side does make for much more enjoyable movie and book plot lines though.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I found LLMs are really good at taking a web page and transforming it to markdown. Well rather commercial LLMs like Claude and Gemini are. Unfortunately I tried a bunch of hugging face mode on a I could run on my MacBook and all of them ig
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by elcritch 1y ago
I've been thinking for a couple of months now that prompt engineering, and therefore CoT, is going to become the "secret sauce" companies want to hold onto. If anything that is where the day to day pragmatic engineering gets
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by elcritch 1y ago
Yet despite this all the LLMS I've tried struggle to scale beyond much more than a single module. They're vast improvements on that test perhaps, but in real life they still struggle to be coherent over larger projects and scales.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Sure in some ways it's just neurons firing in some pattern. Figuring out and replicating the correct sets of neuron patterns is another matter entirely. Living creatures have fundamental impetus to grow and reproduce that LLMS and
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by elcritch 1y ago
It's not entirely infeasible that neurons could harness quantum effects. Not across the neurons as a whole, but via some sort of microstructures or chemical processes [0]. It seems likely that birds harness quantum effects to measure m
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by elcritch 1y ago
> I don't think anybody is 100% certain that doing a full quantum simulation of a protein (in a box of water) would recapitulate the dynamics of protein folding. True, until it's experimentally shown there's still some pos
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by elcritch 1y ago
Hmmm, run direct carbon capture systems?
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by elcritch 1y ago
> I'll be running my airco to burn off those kWh's :P As an American I welcome you to our national pastime: burning kWhs on aircon! :P
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by elcritch 1y ago
> What "precise and accurate theory for protein folding" exists? It’s called Quantum Mechanics. > Nobody has been able to demonstrate convincingly that any simulation or theory method can reliably predict the folding traject
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by elcritch 1y ago
We already have a precise and accurate theory for protein folding. What we don’t have is the computational power to do true precise simulations at a scale and speed we’d like. In many aspects a huge tangled barely documented code base writt
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by elcritch 1y ago
While automated AI measurement of the chemical makeup of .. human effluent could be helpful for tracking health trends, I fear it’d also come with built in integrations for Instagram and TikTok.
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by elcritch 1y ago
He seems to play the media like a fiddle. It's insane how gullible so much of the media establishment is nowadays and play right into it.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I got an Economist subscription one year. It was nice getting quality content and supportinf journalism. However, it irritated me to no end that despite paying a couple of hundred bucks that the website still showed excessive cheap web adve
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by elcritch 1y ago
Certainly more effective at short term GTD, but less so at sharing intangibles or lowering the barrier to more general or spontaneous communication.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Chicken "sexing" is a fun example of how expert knowledge can be transferred without either expert or novice being able to explain it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7OgZdxRnog&t=174
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by elcritch 1y ago
What? No, those free form unguided interactions are very useful for most novices. They're not a replacement for more structured knowledge teansfer, but an important compliment. Sure some novices are just natural talents that can pick u
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by elcritch 1y ago
In my opinion the paper shouldn’t be take down. Instead a note should be added noting the concerns with the pre-print and that’s it’s likely fraudulent. Edit: Since the paper has been cited, others may still need to reference the paper to d
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by elcritch 1y ago
> ZII for local variables reminds me of the SmallTalk / Obj-C thing where you could send messages to nil and they're silently ignored. I don't really know SmallTalk, but in Obj-C, to the best of my knowledge most serious p
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by elcritch 1y ago
Often in physics the equations are already known or can be derived. However, taking a formula, generally a PDE, and solving it efficiently is the real trick. Also as you point out, formulating the equation in terms of core invariants you wi
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by elcritch 1y ago
Or 3d print a mount for my old iPad and not need CarPlay at all.
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by elcritch 1y ago
He really was involved. As I understand it Obj-C was championed by him. NextSTEP was largely software related: https://youtu.be/Hu-jvAWTZ9o?si=PalSP6POofiRuj3a I still feel like GUI programming hasn’t progressed in the year
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by elcritch 1y ago
What’s that got to do with coherent language design? Just because it’s somewhat open doesn’t mean it has consistent design. Then by all accounts Apple just forced through language changes needed for SwiftUI.

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