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by tehnub 8mo ago
How can people still make such mistaken analogies when ChatGPT was released over three years ago?
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by tehnub 8mo ago
Totally on point, except I'm pretty sure Jobs was not like that. From what I've read he'd be more of a hands on "agentic engineer". Baby-sitting his engineers and designers and steering them.
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by tehnub 8mo ago
I think Asimov is right that 1984 was not intended as a forecast but rather a depiction of Stalinism with British characteristics, so to speak. >In short, if 1984 must be considered science fiction, then it is very bad science fiction. B
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Sublime Merge(sublimemerge.com)
1 points by tehnub 8mo ago|0 comments
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by tehnub 9mo ago
I worship both thank you very much.
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by tehnub 9mo ago
This is a nice guide. I especially like the masked decoding diagrams on this page https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs/basic-... . edit: Somehow that link doesn't work... It's the diagram
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Which programming languages are most token-efficient?(martinalderson.com)
115 points by tehnub 9mo ago|91 comments
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by tehnub 9mo ago
I guess this applies to the type of developer who needs years, not weeks, to become proficient in say Python?
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by tehnub 9mo ago
What's most useful to you is not necessarily most useful to the business. The bar for critical thinking to get staff at this company I've surely heard of must not be very high.
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by tehnub 10mo ago
People did?
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by tehnub 10mo ago
I predict by the end of next year we will have our AIs write TPS reports.
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by tehnub 10mo ago
Beads?
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by tehnub 10mo ago
It's obviously tongue in cheek
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by tehnub 10mo ago
I've seen him a few times in the last few years. At each show he played like two or three covers, and the rest were his songs.
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by tehnub 10mo ago
Well it's been guaranteed since 3.7 which came out in 2018, and 3.6 reached end-of-life in 2021, so it's been a while. I could see the advantage if you're writing code for the public (libraries, applications), but for example
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by tehnub 11mo ago
>Management can't evaluate the value of maintenance work, so it doesn't value it at all. So it's the McNamara fallacy?
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by tehnub 11mo ago
sipser's theory of computation
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by tehnub 11mo ago
>For every person who gets to make creative decision, there are hundreds upon hundreds of people whose sole purpose is slavish adherence to those decisions. Miyazaki gets to design his beautiful characters - but the task of getting those
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by tehnub 11mo ago
Could SwiftUI ever be used outside of Apple?
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Python 3.14 added support for max-heaps(docs.python.org)
1 points by tehnub 1y ago|0 comments
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by tehnub 1y ago
Are we at the point yet where we can advise people to ask ChatGPT how to install something called "FFmpeg" and have it tell them what to copy-paste into an app called "Terminal"?
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by tehnub 1y ago
And the ongoing gambling scandal gives credence to a third incentive I've long suspected. Only half joking
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by tehnub 1y ago
How come it's easier if the tool is in another language? What are the technical (or cultural) reasons? Do most C programs use static linking, or just not have deps?
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by tehnub 1y ago
>NBA players shot long 2 pointers for decades before people realized 3 > 2 And the game is worse for it :')
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by tehnub 1y ago
Before uv, I was fairly happy with pyenv + venv + pip for development and pipx for running "tools". IMO, the specific things uv improves upon are: - Faster dependency resolution. In fact, everything uv does is extremely fast.
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Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live(twitter.com)
3 points by tehnub 1y ago|1 comments
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by tehnub 1y ago
Write this paper please!
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by tehnub 1y ago
Richard Hamming in his "You and Your Research" talk compares it to compound interest: What Bode was saying was this: ``Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.'' Given two people of approximately the
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by tehnub 1y ago
Is guru being used in some special sense here? Cuz Karpathy has been an AI luminary for at least 10 years. This post for instance taught RL to a whole generation https://karpathy.github.io/2016/05/31/rl/
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by tehnub 1y ago
Wand, Polycam, smart comic reader, Photos of course. Those are just the ones on my phone, probably many more.

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