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by thom 2y ago
There has to be some point of diminishing or indeed imperceptible returns.
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by thom 2y ago
I don't think you're ever too old. But before you create a popular programming language, perhaps you ought to aim for an unpopular, slow and crappy one first. At least then you won't discourage yourself if it doesn't tak
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by thom 2y ago
It's rumoured that they _did_ build some sort of pontoon out of barrels, to transport the elephants captured by Lucius Caecilius Metellus after the Battle of Panormus. The story's widely attributed to Strabo or Pliny the Elder but
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by thom 2y ago
Having a working version of some code to refine is often helpful. I most often just use the output as better documentation that I can interact with. I'll definitely grant you that I never end up using AI generated code directly in prod
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by thom 2y ago
Yup, that and the 209 other reasons is why the western Roman Empire fell.
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by thom 2y ago
I’ve not really spent much time with Datomic in anger because it’s super weird, but is any of this surprising? Datomic transactions are basically just batches and I always thought it was single threaded so obviously it doesn’t have a lot of
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by thom 2y ago
I too preferred the home button, not just for all the navigation features, but also because TouchID worked so well, and FaceID angers me basically every single time I have to use it.
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by thom 2y ago
The only tradeoff here is the pure NOTIFY approach (if you don't care about losing notifications) can sit there on a single connection, and probably performs a bit better than having a bunch of workers in contention for that connection
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by thom 2y ago
Yeah, Dijkstra is more for graph search where maybe you have weights but not actual vectors. But this does give a nice visualisation of how far you can get from a single point in a given time.
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by thom 2y ago
Surprised at the small size of the dataset here. Surely it’s possible to record thousands if not millions of results… has someone been able to do this? Seems like the simplest thing to do here would just be to develop some sort of plus&#x2F
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by thom 2y ago
Rappel sounds very similar to Clojure’s transducers in spirit and implementation.
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by thom 2y ago
A lot of that going around. Have a great weekend.
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by thom 2y ago
Okay, well, no sale I guess. Stockfish's training dataset is mostly self-play games from an engine directly inspired by AlphaZero. It moved to neural network evaluation after a fork based on a paper that cites AlphaZero. It plays chess
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by thom 2y ago
Where do the evaluations come from? The idea that Stockfish isn't benefiting hugely from Google having created and advertised AlphaZero is preposterous, can we please just stop?
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by thom 2y ago
It's a neural network trained on self-play games (many of them lifted from Leela Zero). I get that it's a different shape of network, but people really seem touchy about crediting Google with the kick up the bum that led us here.
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by thom 2y ago
For whatever it's worth, the NNUE training dataset contains positions from Leela games and several generations of self-play. Stockfish wouldn't be where it is if not for Google's impact. AlphaFold will likely have a similar i
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by thom 2y ago
The original NNUE paper cites AlphaZero[0]. The architectures are different because NNUE is optimized for CPUs and uses integer quantization and a much smaller network. I don't think one could credibly claim that it would have come abo
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by thom 2y ago
And then what happened is AlphaZero changed the professional game in various interesting ways, and all its ideas were absorbed into Stockfish. A little bombast is forgivable for technology that goes on to have a big impact, and I don’t doub
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by thom 2y ago
Is there some slightly more raw footage available somewhere? This video is obscured by various bits of educational content.
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by thom 2y ago
Perhaps one day the engineers and designers will make peace, the former conceding the need to be technically correct despite wildly successful UI, the latter adding bevels back to buttons.
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by thom 2y ago
Laughed out loud when I scrolled far enough to see an actual example. Still not sure if this is a subtle satire about people’s aversion to Lisp syntax. The ideas here are really interesting though, of pushing metaprogramming further up the
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by thom 2y ago
This makes me wonder what you could achieve if instead of iteratively growing the grid, or worrying about pruning or regularization, you governed network topology with some sort of evolutionary algorithm.
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by thom 2y ago
It’s funny because I do hate this behaviour at work. But also my youngest son is always saying “can I tell you something?” instead of just telling me and I find it adorable. Right up until the fifth or sixth repeat at bedtime, at which poin
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by thom 2y ago
I have no beef with the actual content or conclusions, but it’s a shame the article is framed the way it is, because I don’t think we can rigorously define the goalposts for what qualifies as a future LLM. It could just as easily have been
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by thom 2y ago
Not as attractive as those in the article, but still quite striking near me: https://modernmooch.com/2018/08/19/trinity-united-reform-chu... Somewhat terrifying when they light up the front in red at night.
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by thom 2y ago
Hard to know what TaleWorlds are actually optimising for because half the features of Bannerlord feel like they’ve never been played by a dev let alone iterated on.
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by thom 2y ago
I will admit I only played the computer game, but yes you could die one of several ways, in action, of old age or sometimes having risky surgery to fix an injury. Obviously games from the D&D lineage had similar, but were largely limite
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by thom 2y ago
The original idle RPG was sitting on a character creation screen re-rolling your stats for hours if not days on end. I'm pretty sure I played the character creation bit of MegaTraveller more than the actual game.
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by thom 2y ago
There’s no shame in just having complex constructors to check some invariants in non-structural ways. At least you still capture and enforce the transition.
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by thom 2y ago
I listened to a lot of Apple Music recommendations while getting my three kids to sleep over the years. I would say that in my 40s I’m discovering more new music, and music I genuinely love, than I did in all my teens. I don’t get to go to

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