pmarreck

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by pmarreck 10mo ago
Not wrong, but also misses the point.
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
While providing zero visibility into the contents. I know. Tradeoffs.
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
Shouldn't Forth (when directly translated to either ARM or x86_64 assembly) be faster than compiled C?
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
Site isn't loading but I have a neat side project that works with any monospace font that includes Unicode glyphs which converts raw binary to unicode and back while passing through 7-bit ASCII characters, replacing control characters
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
It's a Wolf of Wall Street quote.
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
I don't contest these examples, but that's exactly why I call what it does "thunking" (think: "clumsy thinking") instead of "thinking" (in order to get around the epistemological/philosophical pr
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
Silly. You know what I mean. A way to sell an app. Contributing to open source is nice, but some people want to eat food sometimes.
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
wow dude, a new 950 in the box is a mere $50,000 on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/154469885901
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
Peripheral question: Is there any "real" App Store on Linux except for Steam?
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
It is trained on WASM btw, but if we invented one specific for it, it could easily be trained up on it or refined with it. I've already had some success just handing it a language guide and it runs with it.
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
> BTW, Erlang does not implement CSP fully. Specific evidence? > Its' interprocess communication is TCP based in general case No, it is not. Only between machines is that true. > and because of this is faulty. LOL, no. Why are
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
And people are also still clearly confusing "isn't human or conscious" with "can't possibly create new logical thoughts or come to new logical conclusions i.e. do intellectual labor" when there is a plethora of
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
At that point, why not develop a custom language or IL that is specifically designed for LLM use and which compiles to good native code? I propose WASM, or an updated version of it
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
Or WARS, if you're colemak
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
how does this compare to the inbox and supervisor model of erlang/elixir?
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
Ruby is 1000x better than Go or Python IMHO. Personal opinion, of course. I've been lucky to work in Elixir jobs for a few years. Funny thing, though, I've been curious about getting closer to the metal after messing with LuaJIT a
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
I switched from Ruby to Elixir about 10 years ago for a number of reasons. 10x performance on various algorithms I translated into Elixir was one. Another one was 100% immutability, ruling out an entire class of bugs. A third was excellent
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
omg! Seriously, wow. That was quick! Only just heard that Hashimoto libbed out his terminal the other day and remarked about how smart that was... And it made this possible
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
I don't believe there's a foolproof way to do this. It's basically the usual cat-and-mouse game of an arms race.
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
I remember trying to install Valorant for the first time, and its ridiculously invasive anticheat kernel mod (or whatever it's called) gave me my first blue (or was it red??) screen I'd seen on Windows in years. Immediately uninst
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
Critiquing Israel as well as any political or religious entity or set of beliefs should be allowed, or there will be problems. This is basically the Paradox of Tolerance coupled with the fact that intolerance itself seems to be a viral meme
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
> “CRITICAL (PRIORITY 0):” There's no need for this level of performative ridiculousness with AGENTS.md (Codex) directives, FYI.
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
I've found that Codex is much better at instruction-following like that, almost to a fault (for example, when I tell it to "always use TDD", it will try to use TDD even when just fixing already-valid-just-needing-expectation-
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
I was last a Director of Engineering at a startup. Everyone I hired is still there. I'm fine with passing the baton, I enjoy mentoring.
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
Meanwhile, I have a ton of experience, am personable, am highly technical, and can't find something for some reason despite requesting a fairly moderate salary ($180k) given being 53 and having worked in technology for decades.
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
shameless plug of my anti-bitrot tool, which I am actually enhancing with a --daemon mode currently https://github.com/pmarreck/bitrot_guard
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
I think Marvin Minsky had this same criticism of neural nets in general, and his opinion carried so much weight at the time that some believe he set back the research that led to the modern-day LLM by years .
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
I’m not talking about “magic” as in “I don’t understand how it works.” I’m talking “magic” as in “all that is LITERALLY happening is that bits are flipping and logic gates are FLOPping and mice are clicking and keyboards are clacking and pi
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
Can you tell when code is “beautiful”? That is an artful quality, not an engineering one, even if the elegance leads to superior engineering. As an example of beauty that is NOT engineered well, see the quintessential example of quicksort i
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by pmarreck 11mo ago
> This is exactly what I mean by folk magic. Incantations based on vibes So, true creativity, basically? lol I mean, the reason why programming is called a “craft” is because it is most definitely NOT a purely mechanistic mental process.

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