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by jmaker 1y ago
I’ve just tried the MNIST demo on that page, but at least in a third of cases it’s plainly misclassified with zero probability. Is it due to WASM? Browser limitations? Does it impose any constraints on inference?
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by jmaker 1y ago
Sonnet 4 is weird. Sometimes it creates empty files and wants to delete what I asked it to refactor, only to confuse itself even more. So I retry, same path of destruction. Next time I interrupt it and explicitly state that it must first mo
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by jmaker 1y ago
> but as any user knows they are top tier at instruction following, highly reliable and predictable, and have a certain intangible theory of mind that is unique to Anthropic. I’m not such an “any user” as in my experience they are except
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by jmaker 1y ago
How much of the existing ecosystem can be used via Jank? How much compatibility is there?
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by jmaker 1y ago
Even the iOS and macOS typing correction engine has been getting worse for me over the past few OS updates. I’m now typing this on iOS, and it’s really annoying how it injects completely unrelated words, replaces minor typos with completely
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by jmaker 1y ago
Granted the Scala language is much more complex than Go. To produce something useful it must be capable of an equivalent of parsing the AST.
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by jmaker 1y ago
Until the model injects a subtle change to your logic that does type-check and then goes haywire in production. Just takes a colleague of yours under pressure and another one to review the PR, and then you’re on call and they out sick or on
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by jmaker 1y ago
I haven’t used Cursor yet. Some colleagues have and seemed happy. I’ve had GitHub Copilot on for what feels like a couple years, a few days ago VS Code was extended to provide an agentic workflow, MCP, bring-your-own-key, it interprets inst
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by jmaker 1y ago
A Markov chain is commonly understood to be a time-discrete Markov process. Intuitively, it’s a “chain” because you can “single out” its states in time rather than intervals. That’s also Markov’s original definition. Instead of Wassermann o
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by jmaker 1y ago
You can substitute anything like “banana” or “parrot” for that and ask the same question. Change of roles is a twist I didn’t suggest, it’s not related to my argument. I was talking about an engineering role. I’m not seeing an analogy with
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by jmaker 1y ago
Hard no. I’ve had that in lots of cases, it just applied some symmetry pattern to come up with purposefully absent public endpoints that exist for employees only. It gets dangerous the moment you put as much trust in it as you’re suggesting
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by jmaker 1y ago
The pace differs though. A junior would need a week for a feature an LLM can produce in an hour. And you’re expected to validate that just as quickly. And LLMs are trained to appeal to the reader, unlike an average junior dev. Devs will onl
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by jmaker 1y ago
I can’t speak to how others apply the LLMs, but in my coding experience they’re mostly in the way. A couple days ago VSCode released an agentic workflow similar to Cursor’s. And I must say, the YouTube demo was persuasive and I thought I’d
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by jmaker 2y ago
I feel like most discussions touching on Rust revolve around the same lines - one person says they don’t want to use Rust (for whatever reason), a proponent starts regurgitating the selling points, the former feels misunderstood (because th
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by jmaker 2y ago
And particularly often while you’re typing, hitting the spacebar or return to confirm whatever pops up, only to make you perplexed and try to recollect those few milliseconds you believe to have managed to see the name to try to find out wh
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by jmaker 2y ago
There’s also OpenJDK Project CRaC (based on CRIU) and AWS Lambda SnapStart (leveraging CRaC).
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by jmaker 2y ago
There’s still a bit nuance to that - in most cases I’ve experienced integrated via API in a third-party app, the results have been mostly underwhelming, as opposed to being used directly, preferably with the configurable contexts. Including
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by jmaker 2y ago
Great points. Though I think in order for any search to become a default in some browser app would take a billion or so in competing annual payment, or Google it will remain. Also, AI aside, Searx has been around for many years as a very pr
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by jmaker 2y ago
I think AI capabilities have been becoming an integral part of modern search. On the flip side you have the SEO optimizations. Brave Search has offered an AI summarizer and assistant for a long time now. Bing with their OpenAI-powered Copil
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by jmaker 2y ago
My Apple Watch regularly gets burning hot and drains the battery. Sometimes overnight, sometimes during the day. Very annoying. Reset several times, Apple Care was of no help, no fix to this date either. Only way to alleviate is to reboot t
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by jmaker 2y ago
I thought that initial flight sequence was about his prior flight experience where he’d hit a turbulence and had to abandon, which later is referred to at that roundtable scene at the NASA meeting when they begin to mention the gravity clus
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by jmaker 2y ago
My experience is diagonally opposite. I haven’t written Scala for a while now, I guess a year or two by now, and just a few days ago got back to it because the logic I wanted to express was hard to fit in to Java, Kotlin, C#, Go. I have cer
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by jmaker 2y ago
There have been many exaggerated claims surfacing across Twitter and the blogosphere. What I found to resonate best with my own experience is that Copilot is okay on simple tasks, but actually misguides, confuses, and in fact breaks your fl
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by jmaker 2y ago
Briefly: The cost of spawning schedulable entities, memory and the time to execution. Virtual threads, i.e., fibers, entertain lightweight stacks. You can spawn as many as you like immediately. Your runtime system won’t go out of memory as
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by jmaker 2y ago
Also, Arrow.kt is worth mentioning for functional error handling.
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by jmaker 2y ago
You could try extending your candidate pool if you haven’t yet. Java devs are the fastest to onboard for Kotlin, also Scala, and vice versa. The stdlib APIs and the third-party libraries are the same, plus you get the Kotlin libraries. Lots
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by jmaker 2y ago
That won’t work already because your timestamp isn’t part of your primary key.
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by jmaker 2y ago
Other than the already mentioned JavaFX which now goes by OpenFX due to Oracle’s TM license changes, there’s also - Swing with FlatLaf look and feel, just exactly like the JetBrains IDEs, there’s a kitchen sink app JAR you can download from
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by jmaker 2y ago
In my experience, Go appears simple as long as you’re solving simple tasks. Once you need to model fairly complex semantics, whose structure and detail depend on your business domain, Go code turns illegible, with lots of hackily lumped tog
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by jmaker 2y ago
My recollection is as recent as a few months ago. Well I guess I’ll have to take another go at it this month, hopefully. I used three or four different JSON libraries aside from Foundation, including as I mentioned the quite popular yyjson

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