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by sieve 5mo ago
Do Adobe or Arri or Red get authorship credit for the work their hardware and software do on projects? After all, artists would not be able to produce a single pixel without them. In a similar vein, you could make the argument that modern f
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by sieve 5mo ago
> AI-generated code should be clearly identified. Let AI autonomously produce code of a quality that I care about and I might consider giving it credit. I don't know how other people write code but I come up with an idea and use a m
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by sieve 5mo ago
Building the UI was superfast. Wiring the logic was somewhat painful but manageable. But you did not really need more than that to build CRUD apps. For everything else, you had C/C++ and the Win32 API. I am a huge fan of keyboard-only
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by sieve 5mo ago
I find this constant churn in the software world to be tiresome. I get it if there is a security update. Or you are building something new; it takes time and a series of updates to reach feature parity on 1.0. But most software is not like
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by sieve 5mo ago
Kate is REALLY underrated. The UI is a bit meh, but it makes up for it in terms of features. It is actually a fantastic document editor. Don't really use it for coding.
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by sieve 5mo ago
The UI is a bit different for each and I got used to the differences I guess. I have a lot of projects and I pick one IDE for each and then do not deviate from it.
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by sieve 5mo ago
I was using JetBrains for more than a decade. Then I got into Python as well and so was juggling between WebStorm, PyCharm, CLion and Intellij Idea. Zed has replaced the first three completely. Put the appropriate config file in project roo
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by sieve 5mo ago
I having a proofreading project and have been storing structured text using an s-expr serialization of XML. But MD is just so convenient that I decided that starting from scratch and building around the idea made sense. I considered typst f
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by sieve 6mo ago
Management problem more than anything else, I feel. Compilers should not have so much churn. You decide on a set of language features, stick to it and implement. After that, it should only be bugfixes for the foreseeable future till someone
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by sieve 6mo ago
Compiler code can be pretty if you have the time to maintain it. Compilers are some of the most modular applications you can build with hard boundaries between subsystems and clear handoffs at each level. The problem is that people often do
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by sieve 6mo ago
It doesn't work like that. AI is not a Jinn. You cannot simply command it and have it produce an entire project from thin air. You get to have fun: do the thinking part, and let it do the boring stuff. I have a long list of projects th
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by sieve 6mo ago
I am building an assembler+compiler+VM for a python-like statically typed language with monomorphized generics and Erlang-style concurrency. Claude Sonnet/Kimi/Gemini Pro (and even ChatGPT on occasion) are able to handle the task
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by sieve 7mo ago
I am continuing with my proofreading and language learning efforts and have been working on tooling for it. = Proofreading = https://github.com/adhyeta-org-in/adhyeta-tools provides image extraction from PDF, OCR as we
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by sieve 7mo ago
India has a lot of languages and people need access to something than allows them to do basic stuff with it. I don't think relying on the US is a long term solution. An example. I am into proofreading and language learning and am for
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by sieve 7mo ago
llama-cpp provides an API server as well via llama-server (and a competent webgui too).
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by sieve 9mo ago
This is a typical technical solution to a sociopolitical problem. The powers-that-be are not comfortable with the free-for-all that exists on the internet. All these laws are meant to fix that squeaky wheel, one ball-bearing at a time. &quo
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by sieve 10mo ago
What is the useful life of something like this compared to an RCC structure? Do you have to keep painting them to protect it from rust? You do see steel used in mobile towers etc because you may not be able to place an RCC structure of that
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by sieve 11mo ago
The issues with subscriptions to streaming services are manifold (if you ignore the gargantuan waste of time that mindless TV-watching is): - the UI is deliberately crap - the library is deliberately incomplete - accessing content is delibe
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by sieve 1y ago
I only used it to build the CPU back end. It was a fair bit faster than the previous numpy back end. One good thing about JAX (unlike numpy) is that it also gives you access to a GPU back end if you have the appropriate stuff installed.
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by sieve 1y ago
I have been doing this for 25 years and no longer have the patience to deal with stuff like this. I am never going to install Arch from scratch by building the configuration by hand ever again. The same with pytorch and rocm. Getting them t
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by sieve 1y ago
What is there to misunderstand? It doesn't even install properly most of the time on my machine. You have to use a specific python version. I gave up on all tools that depend on it for inference. llama-cpp compiles cleanly on my system
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by sieve 1y ago
If you want to train/sample large models, then use what the rest of the industry uses. My use case is different. I want something that I can run quickly on one GPU without worrying about whether it is supported or not. I am interested
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by sieve 1y ago
Nice! His Shakespeare generator was one of the first projects I tried after ollama. The goal was to understand what LLMs were about. I have been on an LLM binge this last week or so trying to build a from-scratch training and inference syst
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by sieve 1y ago
> The CEO is also more puritan than the pope himself considering the amount of censorship it has. In that case, you should try OpenAI's gpt-oss! Both models are pretty fast for their size and I wanted to use them to summarize storie
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by sieve 1y ago
I started using this a couple of days ago. It is a fully functional replacement for what I have been doing with WhatsApp. About 30-40% of my n/w is on it now and I have also created our Sanskrit channel on it. What it is missing: - E2E
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by sieve 1y ago
I will post it on our website as well as reddit when it is ready. I am taking my time to ensure that it does not become a one-off thing and can continue for many quarters. - https://www.adhyeta.org.in/ - https://
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by sieve 1y ago
I have been planning to put out a quarterly Sanskrit newsletter for some time now, and was dreading having to deal with LaTeX. For basic stuff, LibreOffice PDF export works. But that is not a plain text workflow. I then discovered typst and
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by sieve 1y ago
There is no single prompt. The languages I am learning have verb conjugations and noun declensions. So I write a prompt asking the LLM to break the given paragraphs down sentence-by-sentence by giving me the general sentence level English t
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by sieve 1y ago
I find that surprising, actually. Gemini is VERY good with Sanskrit and a few other Indian languages. I would expect it to have completely mastered European languages.
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by sieve 1y ago
They are very good at some tasks and terrible at others. I use LLMs for language-related work (translations, grammatical explanations etc) and they are top notch in that as long as you do not ask for references to particular grammar rules.

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