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by hedgehog 1y ago
GitHub Copilot is pretty easy to try within VS Code
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by hedgehog 1y ago
If I recall correctly this was ground level of building 115, now renamed Studio G. Someone from Mac BU cruising the halls on a Razor scooter while wearing a propellor beanie once gave me a peek in that lab.
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by hedgehog 1y ago
What models do you use that you've found to be powerful enough to be helpful?
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by hedgehog 1y ago
CGI still makes a lot of sense when there are many applications that each only get requests at a low rate. Pack them onto servers, no RAM requirement unless actively serving a request. If the most of the requests can be served straight from
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by hedgehog 1y ago
No the shift hasn't happened yet at all. Let's take those examples one by one. Banks: Normal retail customers are responsible for managing their account balances, importing transaction data into whatever book keeping system, downl
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by hedgehog 1y ago
Viewed from a different angle I think he's probably close. A service provider changing the back end while leaving the front end UI similar is not dissimilar to early cars being built like carriages. But when the product can shift from
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by hedgehog 1y ago
First, you point out that Moore's law was about the transistor count per chip at the optimum cost process, and that's very important. We have transitioned from a more-for-less leading edge to a more-for-more leading edge. It'
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by hedgehog 1y ago
I've used Copilot a bit and found it helpful for both coding and maintenance. My setup is pretty basic, and I only use it in places where the task is tedious and I am confident reviewing the diff or other output is sufficient. Things l
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by hedgehog 1y ago
There's a third category I'd place myself in which is doing day to day work in shipping codebases with some history, using the tools to do a faster and better job of the work I'd do anyway. I think the net result is better co
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by hedgehog 1y ago
Yes, one of the reasons I like Copilot over some of the terminal-based systems I've seen is the changes are all staged for review in VS Code so you have all the navigation etc tools and can do whatever needs to be done before committin
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by hedgehog 1y ago
Over the last couple months I've gone from highly skeptical to a regular user (Copilot in my case). Two big things changed: First, I figured out that only some models are good enough to do the tasks I want (Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 4 out
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by hedgehog 1y ago
I don't know about the boilerplate part but when you are e.g. adding a new abstraction that will help simplify an existing pattern across the code base something like Copilot saves a ton of time. Write down what has to happen and why,
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Asynchronous Error Handling Is Hard(parallelprogrammer.substack.com)
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by hedgehog 1y ago
Aha, I got MACE and Advanced Mac Substitute (AMS) mixed up. AMS looks less complete but has source available. https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/
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by hedgehog 1y ago
An accurate emulator with clean codebase is a good starting point onto which to add patches/shortcuts. I've looked through the Basilisk patching code, it's not really complicated, and there are a handful of partial Toolbox re
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by hedgehog 1y ago
Bringing this back to startups, which hubs seem likely to benefit most from this policy direction? It seems likely a lot of students will choose (or be forced) to go elsewhere, places like London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vancouver could t
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by hedgehog 1y ago
SPECULATION ALERT! I think there's reasonable motivation though. In the last few years there has been a steady drip of papers in the general area, at least insofar as they use vision transformers and image pyramids, and work on applyin
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by hedgehog 1y ago
LeCun's technical assessments have borne out over a lot of years. The likely next step in scaling vision transformers is to treat the image as a MIP pyramid and use the transformer to adaptively sample out of that. Requires RL to train
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by hedgehog 1y ago
If you use something like Open Web UI today the search integration works reasonably well.
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by hedgehog 1y ago
Fast enough depends what you are doing. Models down around 8B params will fit on the card, Ollama can spill out though so if you need more quality and can tolerate the latency bigger models like the 30B MoE might be good. I don't have
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by hedgehog 1y ago
I'm a little skeptical, it would be interesting to add odometer data, time of day, and distance from home. My driving is on low end of the collision risk spectrum because I don't drive much, mostly day time, and mostly routes that
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by hedgehog 1y ago
I just mean poor vs trucks from Honda or Toyota. I don't know if there's anything from a US brand that has comparable build quality and engineering these days.
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by hedgehog 1y ago
Keep a desiccant pack in the car, it'll go a long way towards avoiding damp-related issues. The reusable silica gel ones market for gun safes come in a metal can that's easy to handle & recharge in the oven at low temperature.
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by hedgehog 1y ago
The Maverick apparently has poor build quality but I'm hoping Toyota comes up with a pickup using the same small footprint + bare bones + hybrid drivetrain formula.
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by hedgehog 1y ago
I really like this design by John Calhoun (known to me originally for his game Glider, I think he posts on HN as well): https://www.engineersneedart.com/systemsix/systemsix.html A wire-free version running a Mac emulat
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by hedgehog 1y ago
f strings are syntax rather than a type, the resulting templates look like a reasonable way to specify a prepared statement.
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by hedgehog 2y ago
Did they abandon that goal? Last I heard it was still under development.
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by hedgehog 2y ago
I use something similar to this decorator (more or less a thin wrapper around instructor) and have looked a little bit at the codegen + cache route. It gets more interesting with the addition of tool calls, but I've found JSON outputs
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by hedgehog 2y ago
This technique has three significant advantages over popular low bit quantization: 1) it retains more accuracy, 2) it does not require calibration data, 3) it's easier to implement in hardware.
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by hedgehog 2y ago
It's apparently targeting lower price and has flip around screen with touch/pen input.

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