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by waldrews 9mo ago
I'm being hyperbolic of course, but I'm a little dismissive of the progress that happened since the days of BBS's and car based cell phones - we just got more connectivity, more capacity, more content, bigger/faster. Li
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by waldrews 9mo ago
Remember, back in the day, when a year of progress was like, oh, they voted to add some syntactic sugar to Java...
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by waldrews 9mo ago
Might be a good place for yunohost/coolify style services, especially if you have multiple separate entities - though probably tricky to do inbound mail because of IP allocation?
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by waldrews 10mo ago
It's amazing how often C# (or more broadly CLR/JVM) is the pragmatic answer, even when you feel uncool using it.
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by waldrews 10mo ago
What the world needs is a more expressive language than Go, that interops with Go's compilation model and libraries.
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by waldrews 10mo ago
You might start questioning meaning of life with a billion year time budget. A million years seems reasonable to cover the range of things you could anticipate wanting to learn or experience. A few thousand years, no, that's not enou
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by waldrews 10mo ago
Garfield was in many ways the most personally appealing and brilliant of the American presidents, rising from poverty and obscurity by being absurdly talented across many fields and eloquent. He was assassinated early and barely got to serv
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by waldrews 11mo ago
Now if only the Julia community didn't keep insisting on ligatures and impossible-to-look-up Unicode symbols - the hollow semicolon for compose right to left, seriously?
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by waldrews 11mo ago
(off topic) The code chunks in the article use a ligature font, so ">=" is rendered in a way that makes you stop to think how to type it - which is especially confusing since the context is not exactly math. Down with ligature
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by waldrews 1y ago
For math/data-sci/ML, multiple (GIL-bound) interpreters per process, with (unsafely) shared data structures, would get us much of the way there - basically multiprocessing without the marshalling and process overhead, at the price
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by waldrews 1y ago
If your goal is to prove what an awesome writer you are, sure, avoid AI. If your goal is to just get something done and off your plate, have the AI do it. If your goal is to create something great, give your vision the best possible express
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by waldrews 1y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Seattle, Remote fine, any timezone Senior Role: C# and Python: If you have XAF experience (and preferably already have a DevExpress license?) AND some LLM API (Semantic Kernel or direct) experience, talk to me about som
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by waldrews 1y ago
Doesn't look like they blew up the API use cases, just the consumer UI access. I wouldn't be surprised if they allow it again, hidden behind a setting (along with allowing the different routed GPT5 levels to be in the selector).
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by waldrews 1y ago
Does caching make as much sense as a cost saving measure on Cerebras hardware as it does on mainstream GPU's? Caching should be preferred if SSD->VRAM is dramatically cheaper than recalculation. If Cerebras is optimized for massiv
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by waldrews 1y ago
Or, you know, the Beatles.
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by waldrews 1y ago
Is it ever going to be possible to hear this question without thinking about the DOGE "five things you did this week" email?
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by waldrews 1y ago
Your point holds, but the example of Hellenistic Greek seems ill-chosen to make that case - they had horse races and calendars, and mythological mage equivalents that would be reasonable to name a horse after, so the only thing left to map
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by waldrews 1y ago
The append-only, text csv format you can concatenate to from a script, edit or query in a spreadsheet, and that's still fast because of the in-memory pointer cache, seems like a big win (assuming you're in the target scaling categ
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by waldrews 1y ago
The good thing is, if (-1)^2=-1, we can prove anything! NP=P, every program halts, axiom of choice - math just becomes so much easier.
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by waldrews 1y ago
The model that's doing AI Summary for search results - that presumably needs to be fast and cheap because of the scale - is still sufficiently bad as to give people a bad taste. Presumably they're frantically working to scale the
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by waldrews 1y ago
It's sad that IronPython is effectively dead, but PythonNet is now very stable, complete, and friendly to recent Pythons.
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by waldrews 1y ago
And while we're at it, can we do teleportation too? Think of all the parking hassles, the car accidents, the carbon emissions we could save! And yet, just try to convince those funding agencies...
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by waldrews 1y ago
One is a technical advance as important as anything in human history, realizing a dream most informed thinkers thought would remain science fiction long past our lifetimes, upending our understanding of intelligence, computation, language,
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by waldrews 1y ago
The problem is that you can't host a free LLM based service the way you can host a website, without being exposed to cost spikes the moment it becomes popular (or misused). Lots of smaller apps need a better cost pass-through mechanis
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by waldrews 1y ago
Looks great. We should've stuck with BBS's and Gopher all along. Minor issue, scroll bars are showing and getting slight scrolling when using arrow keys.
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by waldrews 1y ago
I was going to say "so you believe the LLM's don't have the capacity to understand" but then I realized that the precise language would be something like "the presence of photons in this human's retinas in patt
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by waldrews 2y ago
There are type system gotchas. My favorites have to do with integers in place of JS's double-only numerics, the treatment of undefined and nulls, especially in arrays. The LLM's are just fine at AST translation, though they might
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by waldrews 2y ago
Ah, so if doing this once can net tens of millions, all we have to do is repeat the process a few million times, and the national debt is covered. That's where automation comes in.
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by waldrews 2y ago
The smart LLM's are great at this (Gemini Flash seems accurate and cheap), but they can't be trusted not to engage in unexpected censorship, typically skipping parts they find objectionable without reliably telling you that that&#
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by waldrews 2y ago
#1 is a valid and important point, that would explain the model name issue legitimately, and on that I am duly mocked. #2 You wouldn't want to extract all 15T tokens by API, as it wouldn't be desirable to have that as your only so

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