waffletower

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by waffletower 4mo ago
The author's perspective seems strange to myself and likely my teammates. We use Claude to document our development work and it seems to me, my manager and likely my teammates, that our documentation services both ourselves and LLM c
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by waffletower 4mo ago
John23832, you are still an AI to me too.
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by waffletower 4mo ago
This analogy is absolutely absurd and inappropriate on multiple levels. It reflects a parochial mindset that can't fathom contexts where dynamic type systems can be advantageous, such as a breadth of data processing applications. My
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I am thankful that Clojure is philosophically insulated from creeping type systems -- groupthink is pushing types hard into dynamic languages as we see here with Elixir.
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by waffletower 4mo ago
I wonder if it should read "Elixir taught me that I don't need static types as much as my professor taught"?
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by waffletower 4mo ago
"(O)ther well-known developers are now writing code in languages they don’t know. It’s as striking as a Poet Laureate of the United States writing poetry in a language they don’t speak" This statement ought to be embarrassing to
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by waffletower 5mo ago
Arguing over whether we all die or we all don't cheapens the risk of the death of millions if/when wet-bulb temperature limits (> 35C,95F at 100% humidity) become routine in populated geographies.
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by waffletower 5mo ago
I have written C code for several decades. I hate a priori, divorced from context, rules such as "never use goto". "Avoid premature optimization" as a rule is much worse. I used goto a few times in that timespan, surr
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by waffletower 5mo ago
Use of the word "plagiarism" is plagiarism itself. Culture and thought are deeply shared phenomena. Using a common language, such as English, to communicate is equally an act of plagiarism. You didn't invent these words --
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by waffletower 5mo ago
Interesting that Google is the counter target in your mind. Anthropic is the only company mentioned that doesn't release any open weight models -- as a so-called "public benefit corporation" this is arguably a glaring lack.
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by waffletower 5mo ago
There is a difference with the very first line item, though minor: "clojure --version" is available. True that transducers aren't going to be a part of this comparison.
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by waffletower 5mo ago
I have been a clojurist for more than a decade and I started with Clojure 1.7. 1.6 was released in 2014!
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by waffletower 5mo ago
I am very concerned, particularly if Anthropic and/or other frontier model producers begin to hit an inference performance ceiling, that Anthropic will use its safety scare tactics to lobby for the marginalization of the open weight mo
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by waffletower 5mo ago
I received JSON too. This worked for me on a Mac: curl https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA22Xx2j... | jq ".body" > /tmp/body.html && open /tmp
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by waffletower 5mo ago
Shouts "AI wastes water!" with food in my mouth while eating an almond butter sandwich with a pizza lined up next.
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by waffletower 5mo ago
Exactly, clojure.core.logic is an example Minikanren inspired logic engine.
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by waffletower 5mo ago
Bicycling also benefits from road maintenance. Portland does have some innovative bicycle-centered road infrastructure.
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by waffletower 6mo ago
The argument made is reductive, as it confines itself to pure LLMs. It ignores the possibility of an LLM as a component of a robotic body, for example. While technically much more complex than Claude Code, a multi-modal LLM coupled with m
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by waffletower 6mo ago
Neuro-modulation is an extremely interesting idea for generative diffusion models.
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by waffletower 6mo ago
Here's a tautology: slacking, consciously refusing to engage agency, requires consciousness and agency. A model can't slack without them.
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by waffletower 6mo ago
The company also chose to name itself after a fantasy scrying device corrupted by evil. There might be an ounce of self-fulfilling prophecy here.
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by waffletower 6mo ago
It isn't messy in Clojure
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by waffletower 6mo ago
Babashka is definitely innovative and useful
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by waffletower 6mo ago
A not too contrived example: (require '[net.cgrand.xforms :as x]) (into {} (x/by-key :name :size (comp (x/reduce +) (map str))) example-mapseq)
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by waffletower 6mo ago
I am a fan of Christophe Grand's xforms library -- https://github.com/cgrand/xforms -- I find the transducer nexus function, by-key, to be particularly useful for eliminating clojure.core destructuring dances whe
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by waffletower 6mo ago
That is a bit reductive. You can consider these implementations in other languages: https://github.com/hypirion/haskell-transducers -- https://github.com/ruuda/transducers
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by waffletower 6mo ago
I am not revolting; I shower everyday. Related story without paywall: https://www.edgen.tech/news/post/tesla-faces-growing-backlas...
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by waffletower 6mo ago
This is highly reductive, "they are meant to work with physical quantities", but agree that the applicability of an epsilon is entirely situational.
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by waffletower 6mo ago
Taqueria style chile de arbol salsa roja is not a psyop. So I don't like the title. But I enjoy the examples in the article -- I am only Geese adjacent, and much closer to actual Canadian Geese on a daily basis, but my daughter has b
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by waffletower 6mo ago
Even neuronal density is simplistic, and the dimension of size alone doesn't consider that.

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