gwoolhurme

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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
This is my frustration put really well. When people talk about how humans are also just a form of LLM (not that the above comment did exactly that). That might even be true, but simplifying things to that degree doesn't help actually d
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
Really good point too, though for the most part I like to think if I audit the code well enough it will work? That said the other day I used it for some string manipulation based on powers of 10, and the code looked correct as per my audit
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
That has been a bit of my experience with LLMs in general. If you know what you are doing before hand it's not too much of a boost, in fact it can be a bit frustrating to wrestle with it to do what you want when you can do it faster. I
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
I don't think it is a strange take but can we meet in the middle... there are a lot of things where I would just write them by hand and not look at a 3rd party source too. I think where some people are coming from is extremes on both e
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
This same sort of logic can be applied to a lot of things like Soviet style collective farms. A few Kulaks killed and starved is better for the Soviet Union. I just don't think it is a good argument.
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
I dont think I have ever said this though. Telling truck drivers to learn to code was disgusting and horrible. There HAS to be a better solution to these things that society can come up with. I don't have those answers, but jesus chris
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
That is fine when it comes to competition. How does a graphic artist or programmer compete?
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
The other comment said it best. Let's say programming is going way. Do you think there is suddenly a need for hundreds of millions of trade workers? The economy will support that...? Have you thought this through?
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
Yeah I really hate this line of argument as well. We obviously understand it can have a lot of beneficial effects in society. It's a strawman to say that people don't see that. The problem is nobody seems to be properly discussing
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by gwoolhurme 3y ago
I think it's only natural to think of AI as the enemy no? Sure theoretically it means better healthcare, scientific improvement. However what nobody has really answered well is what happens to the artists, writers, programmers, scienti
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
That’s very depressing. It does make me wonder why the VP of engineering is thinking of firing new blood into the company. Senior people don’t stick around that long. Among other problems with their logic. If it increases their productivity
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
I don't think you are being difficult at all! Also, in fairness I've only ran into it once that I can remember off the top of my head but there was a problem with an optimization flag settings. A crash would only happen with a cer
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
I don’t think so. I’m fairly certain it’s edge webview2. A lot of MS tools these days are web related. Which is why they run so poorly.
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
Sorry I didn’t mean it that way. What I mean to say is that even in cases of iOS and Android, there are edge cases where assembly knowledge does help. While LLVM isn’t exactly assembly it’s similar in logic. It’s not to say “computer scienc
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
You’ve never learned about it in university? It’s still a semi important concept to learn how a compiler is kind of rewriting your code and optimizing things. In rare occasions it can mess things up when you use optimization options. Even i
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
I am sure it will improve even further as you pointed out the languages outside of English are fairly low in data represented. However, I guess you said you speak Chinese correct? How well does it do with certain things like older poetic Ch
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
I am also multilingual as well and I've tested it personally. English <-> Portuguese does really well, but Portuguese <-> Japanese or even Japanese <-> English is not as good as a human translator by a long shot becau
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
I hope so... I really do. Looking at HN, and I understand nobody knows what the future holds, but to get to those flowers a lot of pain is going to come I think. For me, for other people... to me the most disgusting comments I've seen
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
Then what do us software engineers do? If we are obsolete. College diplomas are worthless outside of self improvement. UBI isn’t coming. Even then, I’m in the country I live in through a working visa. If what you say is true… I see this on
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
Oh I personally agree I am just following this article to it's logical conclusion. IF it is even the start of an AGI, it's just used as a product? Ouch... It's literally the meme from rick and morty with the butter passing ro
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
From the intro: "we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system." What does that mean? If we take it as fact, so if it is an early versio
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
That is what makes them also optimal for LLMs as is. It would be more efficient to have something that is direct machine code, but LLMs are Large <Language> Models right?
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
This is the positive take I hope to see with AI. Because yes, blacksmiths no longer exist, but all the professions you named above have their roots in smithing.
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
I think that is true but rich countries are in a position to transfer to clean energies where as poor countries will still use fossil fuels unless they get cheaper alternative that is stable.
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
That is kind of what I thought about my self. I don't see how AI-driven improvements will help poorer countries. I don't think it will wreck them, but if things don't solve Climate Change and if richer countries don't su
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
While you are not wrong, the idea that gives me anxiety is that this replaces all programmers. My job theoretically is safe for now. I work on fairly novel stuff, while a lot of my day is json parsing there is a big chunk of it that is doma
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
That is certainly true about the hype-machine it is in full force. I imagine that will level off soon and the really useful and novel stuff will float to the top. I have no backup plan but as you said, what happens is going to happen? It&#x
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
This is why my anxiety is at levels unseen before. I am a programmer who’s on a working visa. Assuming it does take my job, I have no idea what to do next… other than panic.
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
I don't know what I want as an outcome. I think that is part of the discussion. You have come at me with a lot of really good questions. I think the discussion is the most important before we hit that hypothetical soon. For sake of cla
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by gwoolhurme 4y ago
You are ultimately right. Progress cannot be stopped, won't be stopped. My only wish is to help mitigate the pain. You brought up t-shirt manufacturing. That was true and while the luddites ultimately lost, I thought maybe a lesson soc

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