perrygeo

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by perrygeo 5mo ago
I tend to agree with his point. But I found myself laughing at the style; just ranting about software like a cartoon villain in his bathrobe. No fucks given.
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
Thanks for this perspective. Do we really miss typing ascii characters into an editor? That seems to me the least consequential and least interesting part of building software systems. Always has been. Dare I say those stuck on nostalgia fo
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
Running models locally using LM Studio, you can use a shell function like claude-local () { MODEL=$(curl --silent localhost:1234/api/v1/models | jq 'first(.models[].loaded_instances[].id)') ANTHROPI
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Seconded. I learned a ton from it, as well as his previous book The Ends of the World on mass extinctions. His writing style is wonderful, he turns an academic subject into a page-turner. The Story of CO2 taught me something I had never c
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
> About 20% of the crude oil and natural gas used to come via the Strait of Hormuz. 20% of the world's oil production. But only half is sold on the international market, the rest is used domestically. So roughly 40% of the world&#x2
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
LLM poisoning refers to feeding the model false information during training. Anti-AI folks are openly talking about intentionally flooding the internet with garbage to reduce the quality of the models. Reddit just provides a convenient and
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Where did you get 40%. I'm sure reddit content is all in the training set but that seems high. If it is that high, reddit comments seems like a ripe target for LLM poisoning.
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Before REST gained mind share, developing for the web was effectively templating. Vanilla PHP, Java server pages, Django, Rails, etc all had this idea that business logic would be transformed server-side into complete web pages by injecting
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
My intent is to point out that these results don't in any way shape or form indicate AI sentience. All I see is a human that said "act poorly" and we're somehow surprised that the model acts poorly. These models pattern
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Human: "Say 'I am Alive'" LLM: "I am Alive" Human: OMG (credit to https://old.reddit.com/r/coaxedintoasnafu/comments/1qtavj9/c... )
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Counterpoint: most AI slop authors have multiple books/posts on random subjects. This is their only book on Amazon and their posts sound like draft chapters. Could this just be new author with an unconventional writing style and a disc
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Came for the FreeBSD content. Stayed for the game. I am easily distracted.
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Our culture idolizes productivity. It's all about getting somewhere fast. Where? Who knows! Slowing down and picking the right destination is always prudent. Otherwise you end up sprinting hard in the wrong direction. You're furth
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
WHO classifies it as "Probably carcinogenic to humans". But it's important to talk about the exposure model. Glyphosate in our food supply - almost no evidence of cancer risk. (The gut microbiome is affected though). Direct a
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
I love the one page idea. If you can't spend the time to articulate a page worth of constraints, you're going to flail around discovering them as you go. And these aren't "bugs", they're "oh shit we'r
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
More evidence in support of the central governor theory. It's not about the carbs, it's about the brain getting the "we got carbs" signal, which leads to increased effort.
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Biometrics, heart rate and sleep tracking are huge, like 95% of the reason I own a smart watch. It's a sensor, not a UI. Everything else can be done better on a phone. I turn off notifications (because if I get a message on my watch, w
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
I am thankful to live in a town with a full ban on public smoking; weed and tobacco are legal to buy, just not to smoke or vape in the city center. It's a clear and rational line - do unto yourself if you must, but keep the air clean a
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
As it should be. Issues are a dime a dozen, sometime coherent, rarely relevant. There is no barrier to submitting a garbage issue. PRs, at the very least, provide a quality gate. You have to a) express the idea in runnable code and b) pass
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Carter Vail was right. Cocaine was invented by salmon - I bet you didn't know that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0tVk5T6zc
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
If you're looking for kafka-like semantics, you might want to keep messages around. Your temporal partition idea is spot on. But instead of dropping old partitions, you can instead archive them.
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
You might be interested in https://jank-lang.org/ - still early days but full C/C++ interop is the plan.
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
As I tried to explain above, Clojure is made for a specific set of problems. Your problem seems to be interop with the SDK of the month and hiring. My problem is mutable state. It's logical that we'd choose different solutions.
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Some thoughts: 1) Clojure is stable and there will never be big news or big changes to the core language. It's simple in the objective sense. There's fewer patterns to learn, hence less to talk about online. The code I wrote 12 ye
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Hidden 13 paragraphs down the third page is the first actual description of the project: > So FSet has a dual mission: first, to bring Common Lisp up to date, by giving it a much richer ensemble of functional collection data structures,
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
It's more than context-rot. If you ask a vague ignorant question, you get back authoritative summaries. If you make specific request, each statement is taken literally. The quality of the answer depends on the quality of the question.
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Assembly theory approaches the question from a different angle but largely reinforces this conclusion. Essentially, anything past a significant level of chemical complexity is a sign of life. DNA is astronomically unlikely to form spontaneo
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Current LLMs are powerful because they are trained on the patterns of existing data. Without training on real token patterns, what outputs would you even expect to see? It's an LLM. Literally, a model of language. A language is necessa
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
The thing is, we have evidence that these "unproven" peptides are potentially very effective in certain cases. We just don't really know if they're safe universally. The FDA needs to make sure it's both safe and eff
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by perrygeo 6mo ago
Let's put it this way. I always end up needing the functionality and ACID guarantees of a database. I always wish I had a database. But some times I'm forced to use the project's legacy data stores (often flat-file data lake

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