kmaitreys

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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Hmm I can see that. Some people are like that. I sometimes swear in my commit messages. For me it's quite funny to sometimes read my older commit messages. To each of their own. But my opinion on this is same as it is with other things
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Leak what?
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Can you explain the philosophy behind this? Why do this, what is the advantage? Genuinely asking, as I'm not a programmer by profession. I commit often irrespective of the state of the code (it may not even compile). I understand git
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
I would be very concerned about someone working on a 16k loc codebase without a VCS.
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
I mostly I agree with what you said. Comparison with a google project is bad though. That's a corporate business with a lot of people that might touch that codebase. Why are you comparing that to someone's personal project? Also I
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
I understand your position. If I were in your place where someone else posted my personal (?)/hobby project on a public forum where it got discussed more on the point if it was LLM generated or not rather than the more interesting tech
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
While I would not call this AI slop, the probability that LLMs were used is high. > It's really demeaning to call someone's hard work "AI slop". I agree. I browsed through some files and found AI-like comments in the
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
What do you mean by harnesses?
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
It's quite amusing the one time I did not make an anti-AI comment, I got called a clanker myself. I'm glad the mood here is shifting towards the right side.
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Can you prove that this is what happened?
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
It's actually quite easy to spot if LLMs were used or not. Very few total number of commits, AI like documentation and code comments. But even if LLMs were used, the overall project does feel steered by a human, given some decisions li
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
That's right. Historically, nebula was anything that looked cloudy, so a lot of astrophysical objects that we now understand are distinct, were simply labelled as nebulous. M31, as you said, being a great example. Modern astrophysics s
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
I feel uncomfortable labelling nebulae as collection of stars. The more appropriate term is stellar nursery if you want to allude to their role in star formation. They themselves are just clouds of gas and dust where protostars have begun t
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Well that's not what the claim and clarification was about. The question was: can a mountain rise higher in the equator as compared to higher latitudes? It is not about highest point from centre of Earth. That's is related to equa
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Not a geologist either but an astronomer. Never heard that tectonic activity has any association with proximity to equator. Mountains can rise higher near equator because you have the least gravity there. The whole Earth bulges along the eq
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Something that looks and sounds impressive but in the end not of much substance. This will be true for next 2 years, 4 years, next decade, few decades. Until the state of the art ML paradigm remains language models.
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
Weird analogy. This makes sense if you liken this automatic editor to a LSP or compiler of the language you're writing in.
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
The more I read about things like this more I realize that software engineering today's just bloat and grunt work that people want to escape. It's so ironic because computers/computer programs were literally invented to avoid
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
I see this retort pasted everywhere. What exactly are you referring to? I think it's fair to assume any competent person never spends their brain in what may be considered as rote in the first place. If one was doing that, well it&#x27
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by kmaitreys 8mo ago
> Open source" is no longer about "Hey I built this tool and everyone should use it". Was open source ever about that? I thought it was "Hey I built this tool and I'm putting it on internet if anyone wants to use
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
Half the comments on this forum itself have this incessant it's not X, it's y" pattern. i would think humans would start writing in a way that doesn't scream ai generated writing by now, or perhaps the internet is truly
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
It's a great collection. Do check out "The Dead Past" as well (it's the first story in the version I have).
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
I have it in print. As part of Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories Volume 1 (Published by Harper Voyager)
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
I got some additional context from another reply. Your replies are vague and don't clear things for me. Just like the article. In your earlier reply you said relevancy of something was subjective. No. Inference of facts from given info
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
Thanks for more context. Yeah the article seems very neutered (I think it's fair to say lying by omission, especially to me who just learn about the incident through this thread/this article). I think that's the whole argumen
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
Your incompetence doesn't imply everybody else's.
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
Your examples are not equivalent at all. Why do you think the person was bullied? It's additional information that makes the picture clear, which is the purpose of an encyclopedia. Any information which is relevant to the subject of ar
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
I don't think what should be neutral account of factual events should take into account if it would be rude to an individual.
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
This analogy makes no sense. Years ago you gave them the ability to do something. Today you're conditioning them to not use that ability and instead depend on a blackbox.
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by kmaitreys 9mo ago
My experience has been mixed. Honestly though, talking to AI and discussing a problem with it is better than doing nothing and just procrastinating. It's mostly wrong, but the conversation helps me think. In the end, once my patience r

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