jimmaswell

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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
It actually is an illusion though. The narrative the brain makes up after the fact for why we did something is not perfectly correlated with the actual reason. It's just very good at its job of spinning a convincing narrative, even to
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
I strongly suspect that if you dug deeply enough into how a human brain does reasoning, the answer would boil down to "it tries a bunch of pathways and picks the one that seems right". Pathways weighted by experience, but ultimate
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
I find human answers and handwritten code to be much worse of a slot machine. An article (or stack overflow post) has a not-insignificant chance to be riddled with outdated API calls, human-made bugs, unspoken assumptions of knowledge on my
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
I'm pretty familiar with the technical details of how an LLM works. They absolutely operate more on a level of abstract concepts than acting like some kind of text-Frankenstein as you're suggesting (as if the model is Frankenstein
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It's an invention that can invent things on its own, improve itself, do research, etc. The importance of such a thing should be obvious. The hockey stick that's coming for human progress overall is going to make the industrial rev
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How is this encouraging? They're sticking their heads in the sand and dooming themselves to irrelevance. All but the most strongly and wrongly ideologically motivated will contribute to other projects like LLVM when GCC asks them to co
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
No, you can't copyright an idea, only an expression of an idea, and LLMs operate at the level of ideas. They don't literally stitch together code from training.
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
I've had a steady 2 gigabits (my maxxed out ISP bandwidth) since I started the download at launch.
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Show HN: Codex fixed my 2010 MacBook Pro driver troubles with kernel patches(github.com)
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
Somehow I've never had an experience like that on Sol. I find it to never really "cheat" like that. I've had all my best results from Codex CLI though, maybe that's somehow different. I also don't go below xhig
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
In my case it's usually a video game in question, not a life support system, so I'm not poring over every line of code. I mainly look at: - The overall architecture to make sure it's in line with what I want - The points wher
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
Prior to 5.5 I thought the models were very useful but not trustworthy for certain tiers of tasks and needed more in depth verification. Frequent hand edits and times where it felt more productive to just finish something myself than keep r
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
> For things you're already highly skilled at LLMs can be handy but the overall gains, after all is accounted for, are not so clear. Preposterous. I can tell 5.6 Sol to do something like "optimize this entire subsystem to have
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
> Find works, but the syntax is arcane. fd is a lifesaver: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
Beats the pants off "please sir, may I have some more" as seen in many other places
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
My day job is relatively boring JavaScript components and SPA's, but even there I find things I learned in my Computer Science degree valuable. "Hey, this looks like a finite state machine.." "This could be a simple doma
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by jimmaswell 3mo ago
What kind of work do you do now that you feel is entirely unhelped by your time in higher education?
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by jimmaswell 4mo ago
My partner has been trying various models on our server but we haven't gotten anything to run at a usable speed. Q30H engineering sample (Xeon 8570) with two cpus, 56 cores per CPU, 768GB DDR5 RAM running at 5600MHz, two old 3090s in i
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by jimmaswell 4mo ago
> why aren't there more people pursuing alternative lifestyles? Similar to the 60s counterculture. I think the brony and furry community count for some examples. Brony community has been a major counter-culture since its inception a
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by jimmaswell 4mo ago
> Culture is destroyed, truth is destroyed, democracy is destroyed. Just because those things happened in Dune doesn't mean they'll come true. It should be obvious what massive potential the thinking machines have for humanity
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by jimmaswell 4mo ago
Can't really agree. It's improved my life more than any other single innovation made in my lifetime.
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by jimmaswell 4mo ago
Why is anti-AI soothing?
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by jimmaswell 4mo ago
15A and 20A receptacles on the same circuit sounds fine as long as it's a 20A circuit? And how could it tell which outlet is on which circuit?
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by jimmaswell 4mo ago
Working on Unity games with Codex 5.5, it has no problem rummaging through and hand-editing any kind of game asset file. So many things that would be so tedious to fix by hand are so easy now. It's really made programming and game dev
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by jimmaswell 5mo ago
Isn't it also impossible to spawn a window in the last place it was open (or any arbitrary point) because you're not allowed to know or change where your window is by design? Nonsense like that makes me dread having to eventually
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by jimmaswell 5mo ago
Thousands of agents could remote into one strong enough machine, or even use DCOM.
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by jimmaswell 5mo ago
I have a 12 and the screen is fine. It's no OLED but I have no complaints for what it is. I love it as a secondary tablet-laptop for drawing and reading comics (primary laptop is a Framework 16 which I'm also in love with for Unit
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by jimmaswell 5mo ago
> There's no equivalent of python2->python3 schism and the package management churn I tried to run a Ruby script recently and got an error about Fixnum. Apparently they made some breaking change to how integer types are reference
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by jimmaswell 5mo ago
I tried to introduce a partner to programming with an introductory Python book one year ago. It was brand new on the shelf in the impulse purchase area at Micro Center. It looked nice on the outside and decently vetted at a glance of the in
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by jimmaswell 5mo ago
The solution explorer from Visual Studio flashes into my mind when I think about the codebases I'm most familiar with, and thinking about the code makes the code file come to mind like it's a big piece of paper and it's all r

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