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The De-Nerdification of Programming(vivekhaldar.com)
2 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
The cited paper seems to be really bending over backwards to find some trace of bias. Unwinnable game for LLMs. E.g. cited work claims "LLMs assign significantly less prestigious jobs to speakers of African American English... compared
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
Money I earn is taxed. I invest what remains, gains are taxed. I buy a house with what remains after that, I owe property tax. I buy things to live with what remains, I pay sales tax. To keep up the pretense of caring the state occasionally
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback. This was a weekend project. I wanted to explore summarization without paraphrasing, so that the output was a cut up version of the input video. Agreed that it terms of conceptual clarity often a textual summary that
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
> It does grate me then, when someone else manages to raise 100M dollars on the premise of reinventing the wheel to solve the exact same problem, but from a worse starting point because they start from zero and they want to retain Python
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
My brain stopped in surprise after parsing the first half of that headline. "Oslo acquires ChatGPT.."?!
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
Will hit 18 yrs as a SWE at Google in a couple of months. Some thoughts, all my subjective opinion of course: - break up the timeline into two eras: the triumvirate era TE(Page/Brin/Schmidt), and the Sundar era SE. Financials TE C
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
A: model is influenced by artist's work, output of model influences human work. B: human influenced/inspired by artist's work In both scenarios (A) and (B), the activity may or may not be commercial. Why are we so much more w
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
If you don't want to read the full thing, Mollick's substack has more accessible summary of this paper: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the... There are two sides to this thing. The f
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
The "resilience" argument was misused and misapplied during the pandemic. You also saw it used for school closures -- "kids are resilient". It seems to justify inflicting known harms by having faith in "resilience&q
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
If a new prompt enables a new task or enhances performance on a task then it absolutely should be published. Back in the day would compiler optimizations be not worthy of publishing?
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
Just came here to express gratitude to simonw for documenting all this in real time, and all the cool tools (llm cmd line etc) he's been building, helping make all this more accessible and understandable. I was also failing to get the
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Prompting Is Programming(youtube.com)
1 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
Hossenfelder is a technical person able to read technical literature, follow chains of argument and decipher statistical analysis. If such a person reads the literature in a field new to her, summarizes it, and then you disagree with it (oh
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
(self plug) They published a paper describing the language https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03159939 , and here's a short video summary of it: https://youtu.be/OiaFTFSAa1I
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
(Self-plug) If you don't want to read the whole thing, 10 min video explainer here: https://youtu.be/NF5tRQb0Dpc
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Metaphors for Thinking about LLMs(vivekhaldar.com)
3 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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How do experienced programmers use Copilot?(youtube.com)
1 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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Do large context windows for LLMs help?(youtube.com)
2 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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How do novice programmers use Copilot?(youtube.com)
2 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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Faster Python with Static Types(youtube.com)
1 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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Tree of Thought prompting for LLM reasoning(youtube.com)
1 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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Re: I Don't Use Copilot(vivekhaldar.com)
55 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|111 comments
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by gandalfgeek 3y ago
I think of this paper as being in the same category as the GoF Design Patterns book. Short video summary: https://youtu.be/ueRuMDb-cPo
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Large language models as tool makers(youtube.com)
2 points by gandalfgeek 3y ago|0 comments
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by gandalfgeek 4y ago
(At the risk of self-promotion) 5 min explainer video here: https://youtu.be/oXtZAUPGHn8
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by gandalfgeek 4y ago
This would be totalitarian. This is arguing for a group of people to have the power to decide some field is "unsafe" as per some vague, unverifiable criteria, then set up a police structure to verify compliance, all outside the sa
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by gandalfgeek 4y ago
Looking at the underlying prompt [1], it is a one-shot prompt, i.e. it contains one example of a natural language task along with the corresponding Python code (plus a "system" prompt for overall context and direction). Amazing
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by gandalfgeek 4y ago
Maybe this would make more sense if integrated into something like LangChain ( https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain ).
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by gandalfgeek 4y ago
> Of course, Americans are allergic to such things as "state run propaganda". ... for good reason. Is there evidence to show that the BBC and CBC have reduced polarization in Britain and Canada? One could argue that they have

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