noodletheworld

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by noodletheworld 2y ago
> modularisation is an approach to software construction that I generally tend to avoid - as a human writing code I just find it confusing and high overhead How baffling. Anyone who avoids modularisation or considers it 'overhead&#x
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> which is effectively what this model is doing. That isn't what it's doing and it's not what distillation is. The smaller models are distillations, they use the same architecture they were using before. The compute requir
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> according to these benchmarks Come onnnnnn, when someone releases something and claims it’s “infinite speed up” or “better than the best despite being 1/10th the size!” do your skepticism alarm bells not ring at all ? You can’t w
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I've worked with moai (1) reasonably extensively, and the lua in it is not easy to use and sucks. Specifically, a project that is composed entirely of lua with no other dependencies is indeed very easy to build and maintain. I agree.
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It stands for Monte Carlo search tree. Ie. Better outputs from models, not external tooling and prompt engineering. https://github.com/zz1358m/MCTS-AHD-master
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Those “how I feel about Devin after using it” comments at the bottom are damning, when you compare them to the user testimonials of people using cursor. Seems to me that agents just aren’t the answer people want them to be, just a hype wave
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Alas, I was desperately keen to read transcripts of actual gameplay and all we got was user surveys? Was there a structured combat system as sort of this or was it a talking only kind of thing? Who knows? Trying to get empirical evidence th
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The ollama application has zero value; it’s just an easy to use front end to their model hosting which is both what this is and why they’re important. Only having one model host (hugging face) is bad for obvious reasons (and good in other
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> people like to use new language features and frameworks. Have of the point of this article is that people need to suck it up and not use new frameworks sometimes... There are times for coding in a way you, personally, find pleasing; an
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> It is still too early to understand the ultimate success or failure of these projects — both the original and the fork. Mm. This is more “here are some projects and their forks” than “what happens to…” Ie. TLDR; they’re both going fine
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> examples from past and present experience spring immediately to mind Examples of what? Picking the wrong abstraction? Regretting your mistakes? I can certainly think of many examples of that. How you unwrapped an abstraction and made t
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Pretty easy to give generic advice without examples. “Write more tests, but not too many” “Use good abstractions where appropriate?” “The next time you reach for an abstraction, ask yourself: Is this truly simplifying the system? Or is it j
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Im going to go out a limb here and say: if you’re going to respond to this with “lol Java” or “but you’ll like go if you try it for long enough”, you’re doing yourself and your community a disservice. Responding to detailed critique with