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by x3haloed 2y ago
I wonder what the play is here. Any ideas? The key must be somewhere in the statement "we’ve been increasingly asking ourselves how we should work with computers. Not on or using computers, but truly with computers." I wish I had
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by x3haloed 2y ago
Startups always have an exit strategy. Makes sense.
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by x3haloed 2y ago
Blame sales and marketing
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by x3haloed 2y ago
I think wrappers are fine if they add meaningful value. It does seem that mostly you’re getting charged for a little prompt engineering and a UI skin. I’d personally like to see a good wrapper for autonomous LLM coding. Nothing we have yet
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by x3haloed 2y ago
Exactly. I'm not sure if this is brand new or not, but this is definitely on the frontier. I was literally just thinking about this a few days ago... that we need a multi-modal language model with speech training built-in. As soon as
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by x3haloed 2y ago
Yeah, I'm annoyed that OpenAI has deprecated its text completion models and API. I think there's a ton of value to be had from constrained generation like what's available with the Guidance library.
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by x3haloed 2y ago
I don't understand. What's an example of something that could be achieved using a system like this?
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by x3haloed 2y ago
I’m shocked they were even able to do this. From what I’ve been reading the last couple years, it seems that the US and UK like to just destabilize countries with natural resources and send in the corporations. I don’t think we’ll make mean
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by x3haloed 2y ago
I agree with a lot of the general advice here. I definitely agree with you on some stuff, some stuff maybe you could flex on a little bit. Lots of small-minded idiots here. But this is a giant country. There are different people in differen
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by x3haloed 3y ago
> I don't think society needs public, or at least public by default, social media. This is even more true now in the age of LLMs and mass data harvesting. Depends on your definition of “social media.” Is a message board / foru
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by x3haloed 3y ago
I’ve also been thinking about this problem for a while. The push model and account portability are definitely the most important dimensions of this issue. Can’t we just solve this problem with IPFS? And something like DHT tables for protoco
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by x3haloed 3y ago
So what if it's ugly? Is this a serialization format or paintbrush? Also, I think TOML stdlib gets to the heart of what I've been arguing. People who like syntactic whitespace like YAML. Everyone else (like C devs) don't. It
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by x3haloed 3y ago
Yeah, if I had my druthers, brace-less shorthand syntax like that would never be allowed. I never use it in my own code. Beautify takes care of all questions about what an indent means. C-syntax devs never assume an indent has syntactic mea
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by x3haloed 3y ago
The legibility argument. What if I told you that C-style syntax can be formatted to use indentation exactly as you prefer?
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by x3haloed 3y ago
Amen. My current theory: data science. Data science has become much more prevalent in the last decade, and I suspect data scientists prefer English-like syntax because they're not engineers. Engineers use language like mechanical compo
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by x3haloed 3y ago
I think I have a solution to keep the peace, if we can all universally respect one rule: Never use YAML outside of the Python ecosystem. That way, people who love esoteric scripting formats that prioritize legibility over correctness, durab
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by x3haloed 3y ago
> Not sure I see the point in hating on one specific configuration language. If it was that bad, nobody would use it. And if you still think it's bad anyways, you can always improve on it. But very few actually want to put on the en
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by x3haloed 3y ago
Here's the thing. We've basically been using TOML since the INI file format from MS-DOS. It works, and it's useable, and we've all seen it. TOML is just an evolution of the INI format to fix some of its shortcomings. YAM
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by x3haloed 3y ago
YAML is bloody terrible, and I've hated it since the first time I was forced to use it. JSON or TOML are always preferrable, based on the use-case. If you want humans to be able to change the file, use TOML. If only machines and debug
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by x3haloed 3y ago
NoMachine works great for me :) It’s not perfect, but it’s darn good, and I can consistently use it across all my Mac/Win/Lin devices.
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by x3haloed 3y ago
I’m glad someone is working on this! We need it.
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by x3haloed 3y ago
Same.
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by x3haloed 3y ago
Ugh. This still isn't quite what I want. I can't stand Docker. It's so damn heavy. All I want is something like the following: - Sandboxed applications - With an agent to control which ones run on a machine - A GUI to easil
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by x3haloed 4y ago
It seems interesting, but I’m having a hard time imagining what an appealing use case would be.
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by x3haloed 4y ago
I’ve gotten to a point where Windows is now my least favorite OS, but the fact of the matter is that modern Windows has the widest gaming compatibility of all operating systems. Proton/Steam seem like the only ones who could possibly c
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by x3haloed 4y ago
I think the point is that creative experimentation has really been pushed to the far edges. You would never see something so daringly unusual on broadcast television these days. What’s left of broadcast television, anyway. Broad media consu
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by x3haloed 4y ago
Yep. Most human activity is a blight on animals.
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by x3haloed 4y ago
OK, after I read this, I can't stop thinking about how much I love this idea. I've been searching and searching thinking that there must be a toolset in alpha out there somewhere that I can play with. The only think I can find rig
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by x3haloed 4y ago
Ugh. Even reading this article. There’s always a The One True Way, even though there never really was. The right way always depends on the desired result.
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by x3haloed 5y ago
All of this is intuitive at first sight. The only question that matters is what powers do central banks have to fight cryptocurrencies? Because they are extremely powerful institutions, and they will fight to the death using every tool the

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