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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   I made a comment in another thread about my acceptance criteria https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280645 It is more about LLMs helping me understand the problem than giving me over engineered cookie cutter solutions.
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   And you don't know what might trigger AI into overthinking. ;-) https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/bc301a60067f687b65dad64... (This is an ongoing experiment, it doesn't matter what model I use.)
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   I am running local offline small models in the old fashioned REPL style, without any agentic features. One prompt at a time. Instead of asking for answers, I ask for specific files to read or specific command line tools with specific option
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   I found out the other day that llama.cpp can work with PDF images offline without Internet connection. Combine with local Rustdoc and TeXLive, playing with plan TeX becomes fun again. https://ontouchstart.github.io/rabbit-ho
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   It doesn’t matter, you can replace “Rust” with any trendy language at the moment. FORTRAN, COBOL, PASCAL, C, Java, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, JS, TS, and now Rust… The only thing matters is people pay attention to them and then have to u
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   Hoarding is becoming an epidemic mental disease in the society of abundance. I don’t know what the solution would be. https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   It seems that GitHub gist can renders some of \LaTeX, but not perfect. https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/bcffb186a753c5b75522fc8...
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   LLMs only produce markdown [1], usually Math is wrapped with KaTeX [2]. The rendering happens in the Web UI. If some math failed to render, you can copy the code and paste to latex-sandbox [3] and fix yourself. [1] https://docs.g
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   by ontouchstart 7mo ago

   What is NUS?
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    I don't have time to do that myself yet so I just dug a quick TL;DR rabbit hole for fun: https://ontouchstart.github.io/rabbit-holes/llm_rabbit_hole_...
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    Fascinating report by DEK himself. Time to sit down, read, digest and understand it without the help of LLM.
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    Is it possible to build a full OS emulator on top of MMIX? > The above tools could theoretically be used to compile, build, and bootstrap an entire FreeBSD, Linux, or other similar operating system kernel onto MMIX hardware, were such ha
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    I did a google search on “dup2(2, 1)” in a fresh private tab on my iPhone Safari and this thread came up the second, between https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/dup.2.html and https://man.archlin
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    That is correct. And also simple `man bash`: REDIRECTION Before a command is executed, its input and output may be redirected using a special notation interpreted by the shell. Redirection may also be used to open and
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    https://www.gnu.org was there for decades, much older than SO and google. I know GNU -> Google -> SO -> LLM is a culture shift, this is how human attention goes. The search engine and LLM only capture the latest group a
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    Sometime all you need is to RTMF from the source instead of Nth hand information (N > 1) https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirecti...
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    Fascinating reading if you care about system design. Who would imagine this charged the world. https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/DesignIssues/Overview.htm...
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    by ontouchstart 7mo ago

    For example: Allen Newell, 1975 ACM A. M. Turing Award Recipient: “Desires and Diversions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCe0ZPGap_k Wisdom from the previous AI era.
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    I am watching ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Interviews to set the perspective. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn0nrSd4xjjaSLBSzmno-...
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    I watched this YouTube video Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdEI I was surprised that he only spent four months on it as a maintainer. What a great piec
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    I am not at lecture 9 yet. I would love to follow their journey at human pace just like I did 30 years ago. I do think your point is valid. The trend in the industry is putting emphasis on cosmetic qualities (format, workflow, testing), pr
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    When I was a Physics Ph.D. student in NYU in the late nineties, I took a course called UNIX tools in the CS department. It was a hands on course where the instructor did live REPL in the terminal and we watched him showing us all the tricks
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    I have played with both mlx-lm and llama.cpp after I bought a 24GB M5 MacBook Pro last year. Then I fell down the rabbit holes of uv, rust and C++ and forgot about LLMs. Today after I saw this announcement and answered someone’s question ab
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    Attention feeds attention. Attention is ALL You Need.
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    This is the easiest set up on a Mac. You need at least 16gb on a MacBook: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/15396
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    This topic is very relevant in the age of agentic AI when every decision is a statistical next token prediction “trained” on some loss function. AGENT.md, SOUL.md etc are just smoke and mirrors of The Wizard of the Oz. Eventually manager as
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    I got a kindle Scribe which can load PDF, HTML and text files via iPhone Kindle App and read offline. Since most pre-1925 books are out of copyright and free on https://gutenberg.org , ACM is open access ( https://dl.ac
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    This one is my favorite too. I had the three volumes of hardcover copy. > Later chapters do not depend on the material of this special lecture—which is intended to be for “entertainment” We might say this is the most important chapter in
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    I miss the good old days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286
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    by ontouchstart 8mo ago

    I think there are two use cases of open source, one is for people who need a solution to grab and use. In this case, I think LLM Agents will pick up quickly and replace grab and use type of engineering. The second use case is for HUMAN to l