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by mpweiher 3mo ago
Yes. Our programming languages are far too low level, and have been for a long time. I've long held this view, LLMs are fairly clear evidence that this is true, because it looks like the much, much more compact prompt(s) have enough in
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
“Since FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging…” --- http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/BackusE... IMHO, the key here is "coding" and "the spec". The codi
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One of the Busiest Shipping Ports Wants to Go Nuclear(wsj.com)
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SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity [video](youtube.com)
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Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++(haqr.eu)
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China's new solar installations fall 66% on the year in first half(reuters.com)
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Thoughts on Integers (2023)(blog.xoria.org)
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African nations eye nuclear for energy security(semafor.com)
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
Yeah, Verse also confuses me as an onlooker. Good to know that people that are closer to it share that impression. As a language nerd, I find some of the concepts interesting, though pervasive use of failure has been tried in Icon and didn
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Introduce a memory safe compilation mode inspired by Fil-C(codeberg.org)
84 points by mpweiher 3mo ago|44 comments
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Dictionaries and Tables(defconq.tech)
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Another Taste of Verse [video](youtube.com)
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Oxford Physicist Says an Antigravity Machine May Be Possible(popularmechanics.com)
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
Insider Trading as a Service.
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SuperCritical lands US Gov't licence for seawater uranium(mining.com)
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
Poe's law continues to be a bitch...
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
We need programming languages that can express the problems at densities similar to the English language prompts. So: better modularity. https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/02/why-architecture-oriente...
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The Last of the Three Amigos(theatlantic.com)
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
For "code", substitute "object code". For "ideas", substitute "code in a higher level language". At least if we actually want to control the ideas. Right now, with those ideas expressed only in
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
Maybe the key difference is that you are so far off the beaten path that there simply are no examples of what you are doing that the models "want" to emulate? I've also had reasonable success with the models generating fairly
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
> A new language now has to clear the ever growing hurdle of not being in the LLM training data. I found this to be far less of a prblen than I thought it would be. Do you have practical experience?
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Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)(danq.me)
4 points by mpweiher 3mo ago|1 comments
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Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1(mathspp.com)
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Making a Contribution: The Story of EBR-II [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mpweiher 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
TFA: The type safety we gave up hasn’t been noticeable in any concrete way yet, especially considering our test coverage has never been better.
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Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1(mathspp.com)
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NRC Proposes Major Modernization of Environmental Review Process [pdf](nrc.gov)
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Experiences with Local Models for Coding(martinfowler.com)
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Preemption is GC for memory reordering (2019)(pvk.ca)
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by mpweiher 3mo ago
Algol? Did you mean APL?

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