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by qsort 4y ago
> Or have I just misunderstood this completely and python actually is unusably slow for common things? I use python for some side-projects at work and for most of my personal stuff and it's mostly fine, but its general slowness&#x2F
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I don't see a future where we replace code with natural language -- and I'm not only skeptical about it, I know for a fact it will never happen: it's an idea that has been tried and did not work . Formal language is easier,
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by qsort 4y ago
No solution is good and this is the least bad. Security people are holding the line, which is great.
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by qsort 4y ago
Very cool project, I love it. A couple of questions: - Do you have any plans to make it work with more languages? As it is I would have to find a way to get my non-JS code to talk with JS or am I misunderstanding something? - How restrictiv
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by qsort 4y ago
My analysis is limited to tech people. For the rest of the world, while some might be excited by what you describe (and it that works for them, that's great!), I believe in general the interpretation is far simpler: me like shiny.
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by qsort 4y ago
>> the usual debate on emerging technologies between Thymoetes and Laocoon. > Could you expand on this? Not important, it's just a rhetorical flourish. In the second book of the Aeneid, Thymoetes is the guy who says (paraphras
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by qsort 4y ago
I don't quite know how to put it, what follows is a rough draft of an idea, maybe someone can help me to reword it, or perhaps it's trash. Since its inception, computer science has had two "camps": those who believe CS i
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by qsort 4y ago
> It's also fascinating to realize that their REVENUE per employee is ~85K USD. Is it me or this number is ridiculously awful? I work for a small firm that isn't even US-based and we are easily at multiples of that figure.
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by qsort 4y ago
https://github.com/IoLanguage/io last commit merged to master Nov 2022. It's not exactly the most active project in existence but not dead either.
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by qsort 4y ago
This is the doomsday scenario again, though. In a world where we have the technology to go from two lines of prompt in a textbox to a complete app, no questions asked, then the same technology can run the entire company. It's kind of h
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> Isn't the "Chat" part of ChatGPT already doing something close to this? No, the amount of handholding you have to do to get it to work effectively presumes you already know how to solve the problem in the first place. Th
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by qsort 4y ago
> Are we sure that an AI could not engage in enough back and forth conversation to firm up the spec? This is the doomsday argument. What would I do if there's a nuclear apocalypse before lunch? I guess I'll die like everyone el
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by qsort 4y ago
I'm pretty sure sooner or later we'll collaboratively upload our prompts to PromptHub so that our PromptOps team can achieve AICI/AICD. Because it's definitely not easier with 2 lines of code. Not at all.
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by qsort 4y ago
I'm the last to defend visual programming, it's mostly spaghetti nonsense and you'd be better of with an actual programming language for most complexity levels -- but I think there's a viable niche for stuff that satisfi
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by qsort 4y ago
> - giving more power to people eventually leads to a disaster (e.g. industrial revolution and climate change) This sure is a take. > - jealous because I didn't choose an ML path at uni Unless by "ML path at uni" you me
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by qsort 4y ago
I was thinking about the same thing a few days ago. One of the most interesting takeaways from this war is how soft power is very underrated, and lack of any soft power whatsoever is one of the reasons behind Russia's problems.
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by qsort 4y ago
Nerds like to write code, as you put it, because it's easier than the alternative. Seen from the other side, it's amazing to what lengths people will go to avoid learning some very light scripting. Historically the 4GL/nocode
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by qsort 4y ago
You're probably trying to say something but I don't understand what. The way you 'have' infinity in math is by postulating there exists an inductive set (axiom of infinity in both ZF and NBG), and constructing other infi
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by qsort 4y ago
This isn't even consistent. You can't disprove that language can express infinitely many thoughts by showing a thought language can't express. Likewise, the fact you can show that there exist functions a universal Turing mach
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by qsort 4y ago
I'm saying 'unfortunate' because the open internet has some beautiful corners. There is some good in the world, and it's worth fighting for[0]. But on the other hand it's hard to deny that the mainstream internet is
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by qsort 4y ago
Not rules as in "match this regular expression", rules as in "if I don't know you, you can't join", BBS-style. Which is a bit unfortunate but also definitely what's going to happen. The masses are still on
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by qsort 4y ago
Completely agreed, the technology itself is in many ways impressive, but some stuff like prompt sorcery is downright laughable. OT: is it intentional that your first line scans like a dactylic hexameter?
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Practice the art of scanning lines of ancient poetry(hexameter.co)
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by qsort 4y ago
> It may be illuminating to try to imagine what would have happened if, right from the start our native tongue would have been the only vehicle for the input into and the output from our information processing equipment. My considered gu
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by qsort 4y ago
Any sane mail client of your choice > whatever the fuck Outlook does.
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This one is actually baffling to me. The only dimension where chess.com is better is that it has better players at the very top end... which is not a concern for anybody except ultra-high level GMs.
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by qsort 4y ago
It's in the same sense of "whitelist, don't blacklist", or "by the love of god it's 2023, do not escape SQL". Don't define reasons why the input is invalid, instead have a target struct/object, a
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by qsort 4y ago
This is similar to the moral panic around Google and Wikipedia. No, people won't stop learning because of chatgpt. Studying and developing critical thinking is more important than ever before. What people miss when they babble stuff li
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by qsort 4y ago
> Anyone can break into programming, all you need is the internet, interest and aptitude to understand code. If by "break into programming" you mean getting any decent paying job, it's even easier than that. I'd say i
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by qsort 4y ago
I use Python all the time both for my personal stuff and for some side-projects at work, so this isn't a dunk on Python, but honestly it feels like a circular thing: it's popular because it's popular. I wouldn't say it&#

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