mike_hearn

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by mike_hearn 5d ago
Really cool effort but it might be better to just document the game mechanics really well, reimplement an open source version and then use it as a base to improve it, OpenTTD style. Stars! was fun for the day but had a lot of frustrating pr
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by mike_hearn 5d ago
But Stars! was very heavy on the micromanagement. I remember wishing it had a scripting language.
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by mike_hearn 5d ago
Ha, same! As teenagers me and my friends got into it and we'd play by sneakernet. Every day at school we'd exchange floppies with that day's turn. It sounds insanely slow but turns in Stars! could easily take an hour to prepa
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by mike_hearn 9d ago
I wrote my own harness last year back before Codex was any good, and one of the first things I did was add a tool call that let the model fail its mission. When developing a sandboxing harness the first thing you notice is that a bug in the
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by mike_hearn 9d ago
It did, no? If you send a JSON schema to an LLM endpoint, at least for OpenAI and Anthropic, they turn it into a grammar behind the scenes and use it for constrained decoding.
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by mike_hearn 9d ago
You can and some databases can do this (e.g. Oracle).
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by mike_hearn 10d ago
That's not been true for a long time. About 80% of EU laws are passed by qualified majority voting.
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by mike_hearn 11d ago
Dishwasher rinse aid - the tablets you put into the machine containing chemicals Beverage - another word for drink Makeup remover - for women Condiments - something added to food to enhance its flavor iOS tries to put shopping list items in
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by mike_hearn 11d ago
It's probably asynchronous reranking doing something weird. My guess is that the underlying ranking algorithms in these desktop search bars are very ropey, and they can't debug or diagnose because privacy reasons means the develop
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by mike_hearn 11d ago
You can do that with backprop too. Nothing says you can't inference on a set of weights at the same time as you produce an updated copy from them. They say in the paper what it's about: mostly just scientific curiousity but such a
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by mike_hearn 12d ago
BTW, for some reason a lot of your comments are dead. I'm bring them back.
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by mike_hearn 12d ago
For the sort of architecture described in the blog post, you're persisting the program rather than a log, so you only need idempotency between any two checkpoints. For a lot of apps that's easy to achieve if write the snapshot int
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by mike_hearn 12d ago
I've built a framework that provides durable threads using serializable continuations in Java (with a modified JVM) and all these issues are easily solvable. Sadly it's not public :( The framework actually does have solutions for
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by mike_hearn 14d ago
How is cheating unexpected? OpenAI were talking about cheating behaviors in video game playing models over a decade ago.
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by mike_hearn 14d ago
Yeah, I agree the situation for CLI apps specifically could be a lot better, especially as the complexity keeps going up. Native Image does produce single binaries in many cases, but what we need here is a much better tool in general. Actua
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by mike_hearn 14d ago
I think there's some sort of communication gap here. My point is that neither fact tells you anything much, especially not about "how screwed" we are. It's not a battle of data points.
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
But they were almost exactly average in February. You're reading far too much into noise. The idea of a climate crisis is built on arguments about trends that span hundreds of years, not two weeks.
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
OK, I see where you are getting it from now. It's quite misleading to take a two week period and describe it as "last winter". No wonder people give blank looks, it was a transient spike that means nothing. The idea everyone
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
Don't sweat it. Everyone wants to write games at that age. I wanted to write games at 13, I was taking part in an open source game project at 15. Kid's interests in what kind of things they want to make do widen over time.
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
But it was ever thus. The knowledge of writing assembly language has largely been lost. The vast majority of working programmers today could not write a whole program in assembly, without looking up nearly everything. In the early years, wh
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
They won't. Radiologists already got told years ago they were doomed by no less than Geoff Hinton. There are more of them working today than before and their salaries are humungous. https://fortune.com/article/ai-g
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
Where did you get that from? This must be relying on picking very specific parts of the Arctic. This year has not been unusual for the Arctic, in fact, it was colder than the normally cited average (1958-2002). Take a look, see for yourself
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
Luckily you didn't get into trouble? It's the professor's responsibility to stop their students cheating, not yours! Heap allocators are hardly unique and the internet is full of source code. It's really time to stop con
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
What would be in your ideal tool? I have a company that makes Conveyor, which is very good at distributing JVM apps. It's primarily meant for desktop apps and replaces jpackage with something that can cross-build, make apps self-updati
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
Maybe cryptographers think this way, but I'm struggling to think of a case where a normal person had genuine photos leaked and then just baldly denied everything. Deniability isn't an option most people use or want to use in pract
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by mike_hearn 15d ago
KMP can call into native libraries easily. C FFI is not a competitive advantage. Rust has a smaller library ecosystem, I'd say. Kotlin can use Java libraries on the server side, and on the client side on Android, and the ones needed on
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by mike_hearn 16d ago
Ah, that makes more sense.
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by mike_hearn 16d ago
It wasn't years ahead of its time. It was nice but the original iPhone was far behind its smartphone competitors in many respects. IIRC: • No 3G! This made the whole "i" part of the iPhone mostly worthless when not connecte
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by mike_hearn 16d ago
Is it? I looked at the source but it doesn't appear to be react. It has a React API but also a "vanilla js" API and when I looked at the code it seems to be doing everything by hand: https://github.com/pierrec
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by mike_hearn 16d ago
Rust is uncompetitive for the use case of sharing logic between mobile apps. Kotlin has Swift interop and KMP is a mature tech by this point.

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