winternewt

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by winternewt 10d ago
When a measurement becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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by winternewt 10d ago
I see stuff along the lines of: if (x == 0) { return y; } y += 25*x; return y; and skipping the if just makes the function shorter and simpler, while also not involving the CPU branch prediction. Another one that doesn
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by winternewt 10d ago
Only a few of these are actual programming tricks. The problem with sharing them is that they'll typically seem obvious to you, since you know them. It's difficult to know what is actually unknown to other people, and if you share
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by winternewt 20d ago
I keep my skills in a Home Manager repo and install them into my .claude / .codex / whathaveyou directory through the home manager config. I'll know if they don't work because they are specific instructions on how to git
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by winternewt 22d ago
Humans are general intelligence, not artificial general intelligence. :)
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by winternewt 3mo ago
Capacity for inference isn't a cost issue, it's an availability issue. There just isn't enough hardware out there.
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by winternewt 3mo ago
From the article: > What is happening here is that leading AI labs are charging not only for inference but also for research in model architecture, training data collection and curation, model training cost (which can be tens or even hun
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by winternewt 5mo ago
> Adding an in-product tip to recommend running /clear when re-visiting old conversations (we shipped a few iterations of this) I feel like I'm missing something here. Why would I revisit an old conversation only to clear it? T
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by winternewt 5mo ago
Instead of just dropping all the context, the system could also run a compaction (summarizing the entire convo) before dropping it. Better to continue with a summary than to lose everything.
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by winternewt 6mo ago
What version of Claude Code is this? I don't have the /cost command mentioned here.
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by winternewt 7mo ago
Unless the bubble bursts and tons of failing AI companies dump used graphics cards on the market.
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by winternewt 7mo ago
And if you don't want to buy a Mac? A 80 GB NVidia GPU costs $10,000K (equivalent to 30 years of ChatGPT Plus subscription) and will probably be obsolete in 5-7 years anyway. What are my options if I want a decent coding agent at a rea
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by winternewt 8mo ago
No need to speculate. The article was published in 2019 and the movie is now six years old.
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by winternewt 8mo ago
When I was a kid reading Marvel comics, Spiderman seemed like a bad and relatively uninteresting super hero. His problems were trivial personal issues and he rarely left NYC, fighting local crime or villains like Green Goblin who were just
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by winternewt 9mo ago
The use case I always envisioned from the sidelines was that I could ditch a poorly designed, garbage-collected mess of a language (JavaScript) for something typesafe, with predictable performance, cache locality by default (as in not makin
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by winternewt 9mo ago
You are allowed to throw from a destructor as long as there's not already an active exception unwinding the stack. In my experience this is a total non-issue for any real-world scenario. Propagating errors from the happy path matters m
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by winternewt 9mo ago
Destructors are vastly superior to the finally keyword because they only require us to remember a single time to release resources (in the destructor) as opposed to every finally clause. For example, a file always closes itself when it goes
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by winternewt 9mo ago
That's not a feature that the developer has control over. All they can do is try to develop a good tool.
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by winternewt 10mo ago
The worst part about MS Office isn't the direct user experience, because I can usually choose to use other software. The worst part is that I and everybody else are subjected to the documents that Office produces. Their defaults and th
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by winternewt 10mo ago
What are you implying by linking to that article?
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by winternewt 10mo ago
You're not explaining why the trifecta doesn't solve the problem. What attack vector remains?
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by winternewt 11mo ago
I see where you're coming from. But I often find that when I have some idea or challenge that I want to solve, I get bogged down in details (like how do I build that project)... before I even know if the idea I _wanted_ to solve is fea
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by winternewt 1y ago
You misunderstand my point. I'm not saying that the purpose of Hermès is to sell bags. I'm saying that the _product_ that Hermès sells is status, and the product of a restaurant is a dining experience.
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by winternewt 1y ago
Maybe not slower once it has warmed up, though for memory-bandwidth bound use cases I would still say the lack of mutable records has you fighting the language to get reasonable cache locality (and everybody will hate your code for not bein
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by winternewt 1y ago
The article got off on the wrong foot from the start by separating the purpose from the product. To my mind the purpose is the product and always will be.
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by winternewt 1y ago
It's actionable if you have some imagination. Raise funds for a nonprofit. Start lobbying on both sides of the aisle. Enlist an advertising company to show the dystopian future if something like chat control comes into effect, poll for
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by winternewt 1y ago
Promote a better constitution that protects people from laws like this?
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by winternewt 1y ago
I think we already ticked that box
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by winternewt 1y ago
Humans and LLMs are deterministic in the sense that if you would rewind the universe, everything would happen the same way again. But both humans and LLMs have hidden variables that make them unpredictable to an outside observer.
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by winternewt 1y ago
I thought it was "there's no position in chess that requires more than 218 moves to reach."

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