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by graboid 2y ago
Yup, to anyone reading this, I want to second-recommend Kagi. Also super-customizable.
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by graboid 2y ago
To me, it seemed a bit better than GPT-4 at some coding task, or at least less inclined to just give the skeleton and leave out all the gnarly details, like GPT-4 likes to do these days. What frustrates me a bit is that I cannot really say
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by graboid 2y ago
The same techniques that native apps use to process large documents should be possible in JS/WASM land, no? Given, you probably won't reach native performance, but it seems to me a snappy text editing experience even for large doc
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by graboid 2y ago
Ruby always seems so appealing. Can anybody tell me how the Ruby ecosystem looks like w.r.t. - (Desktop) GUI - Natural language processing I would really like to learn Ruby, but I can only justify the effort if I can use its ecosystems for
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by graboid 3y ago
Thanks for the details, appreciated.
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by graboid 3y ago
That is interesting! Do you find that setup useful for CRUD-style apps too? What parts of your application would typically be written in WASM then? I am asking because if I look at my usecases, I mostly see rendering logic done by a JS fram
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by graboid 3y ago
I agree that WASM is the better option. In my opinion it is however not viable for public-facing sites. The bundle size even if you pull all the tricks is just too big. I am talking about having to download >1MB in the best case before t
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by graboid 3y ago
I think for a lot of "simple NLP" stuff like constituency parsing, dependency parsing, POS tagging, etc. there have been fast and accurate models/algorithms for quite some time, and putting even a pruned, quantized, hyper-opt
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by graboid 3y ago
> It seems as if there are actually a ton more special case primitives I need to know, when I could get away with a lot less syntax in other languages to be productive. I think most special forms do not complicate syntax, as they look li
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by graboid 3y ago
Thanks! I guess I am okay with antiquated English. I've put it on my list!
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by graboid 3y ago
Always have been interested to read something of that author. Would you say that these books are accessible for a non-native English speaker? I often read in English, but I fear I might struggle to catch subtle word-plays and the like...
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by graboid 3y ago
The Plains - Gerald Murnane [1] -- liked it a lot, poetic, sad and thought-provoking Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto [2] -- very japanese crime story, liked it And my absolute delight: 50 Years of Text Games - Aaron A. Reed [3] -- I am jus
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by graboid 3y ago
Where did he/she even mention Rust?
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by graboid 3y ago
I think it is not the "novelty wearing off", but rather people being disappointed with the decrease in quality. I have been paying for the GPT-4 version for months, but recently, I find myself using it less and less, as the useful
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by graboid 3y ago
Can you elaborate? Rooms + exits can already be done by creating links.
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by graboid 3y ago
> I've found that a lot of social conservatives tend to be unconsciously afraid and ashamed of Lisp out of moral panic due to its implicit associations with homosexuality (the gay lisp stereotypical speech attribute, and lambda bein
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by graboid 3y ago
1) is so important. There are so many cool and interesting languages out there that are developed by a single person/small teams and which will probably never gain traction because of a missing ecosystem of libraries.
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by graboid 3y ago
Generally agree. There is a case for writing down the stuff you learned though (into your notebook, app, zettelkasten, whatever). When I try to note down a concept I learned, I feel like sort of explaining it to myself. And often, I will qu
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by graboid 4y ago
It is a nice language. I just wish they stopped adding features. Except for the one everyone wants, discriminated unions.
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by graboid 4y ago
My experience has been different. It very often hallucinates variables or function identifiers for me. I never witnessed it doing that for code on the first output. But once the chat/context grows larger and I already asked for modific
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by graboid 4y ago
I think a lot of people are thinking about that right now. At least I read that idea a lot here on HN and on Twitter. I personally cannot wait to try it. But for now, I wait until there are better options for local LLMs. Given the current d
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by graboid 4y ago
Cool project! A quick question that I could not answer from reading the Github page: How married is the learning process to those "courses" you describe? If I have a topic X and start with 0 knowledge about it, could I use trane t
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by graboid 4y ago
If I build a desktop app using one of the above-mentioned technologies, there is almost nothing "distributed" about it. HTML, CSS, Javascript. Which is where 99% of my UI building happens. The only thing "distributed" wh
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by graboid 4y ago
Hours instead of weeks? What makes you assume that? An experienced web developer can iterate pretty damn fast. I can understand the appeal and advantages of using native GUI tech. Really. But there is a reason people use stuff like Electron
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by graboid 4y ago
Yesterday evening I thought it would be fun to try to do a Raycaster in Javascript with the help of GPT-4. Experience was mixed. 1. Basic rendering logic was a breeze. I barely had to change anything, just copy paste, and I have a map with
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by graboid 4y ago
I would be pretty interested already in a work containing typical tropes of Shakespeare, stylistically Shakespearean, but still original enough to be not a rehash of any of his existing works. I guess I would not be the only one to find th
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by graboid 4y ago
> Um… I have a lossy-compressed copy of DISCWORLD in my head, plus about 1.3 million words of a fanfiction series I wrote. You mean word-for-word in your head? That's pretty impressive. Are you using any special technique?
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by graboid 4y ago
I mean, if it is a genuinely good book, I don't care about authorship. Death of the author etc. "I want <my favorite novel> rewritten in the style of <favorite author> but please focus more on <interesting theme>
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by graboid 4y ago
Do you think this will be enough context to allow the model to generate novel-length, coherent stories? I expect you could summarize the preceding, already generated story within that context, and then just prompt for the next chapter, unti
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by graboid 4y ago
I have a Markdown note-taking app. Written in Rust+Javascript (Tauri + Preact). I took some inspiration from Obsidian, and added the stuff I most want/need (but of course it has much less features overall, Obsidian is a pretty nice pie

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