zoogeny

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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm sorry to use HN as Google or even ChatGPT, but are these systems just for LLMs? I'm wondering about multi-modal models, or generative models (like image diffusion models). For example, I was wondering about noise removal fro
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by zoogeny 2y ago
90% of the time I prefer the first. I am allergic to indentation and I hate anything remotely like: function foo(a) { if (a) { return doThing() } else { return Error(); } } I like
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm not denying the facts of the matter, I am denying the conclusion. The circumstances of the situation are relevant. Marshalling cost across IPC boundaries come into play in every single possible situation regardless of language. It
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think the Prisma case is a bit of a red herring. First, they are using WASM which itself is a a low-level representation. Second, the performance gains appear primarily in avoiding the marshalling of data from JavaScript into Rust (and ba
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This reminds me of how I'll judge LLM ability when it can compete in a 1v1 dark souls battle. Even Factorio is pretty slow compared to what is possible in modern games.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Yes, scripting replacements often usurp existing ossified alternatives. And there is some truth that a higher level language gave some leverage to the developers. That is why I mentioned the advent of LLM based coding assistants and how thi
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I notice this time and time again: projects start with a flexible scripting language and a promise that the performance will be sufficient. I mean, JS is pretty performant as scripting languages go and it is hard to think of any language ru
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> doesn't care if humans all die That seems to be a harsh and misleading framing of his position. My own reading is that he believes it is inevitable that humans will be replaced by transhumans. That seems more like wild sci-fi utop
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by zoogeny 2y ago
runway.ai (video gen) is what I was thinking when I suggested this.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Not related to this post, but I was wondering about AI music generators and I don't have experience with their capabilities. The ones I know seem catered to making entire songs. I was having a discussion with a friend who writes a lot
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I don't think it meets your ask of "solve this particularly well" but the unlimited plans in video that I am familiar with have a fast/slow queue system. This effectively limits the plan. It seems, as well, that these ki
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I hear what your are saying, but there is some advantage to having the same language in multiple places in the stack. One of the advantages of JavaScript is that it can be used both on the front-end and the server. Some people hate that and
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This description matched one of my neighbor so closely I wondered if you were talking about him. My neighbor literally chooses to work mostly with elderly folks who are at the point of not being able to manage on their own, completely out o
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the parent comment meant "never charge hourly, instead do fixed cost projects only" but the grammar is ambiguous. One strategy I've seen used is a fixed cost for the project (delivered to spec) combined w
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I could write a lot about this but you may be too dug in to hear it. The obvious rebuttals are "caveat emptor", don't judge a book by its cover, don't buy a product just because the box looks professional, etc. But you a
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Why only two options? It seems limiting the options of engagement only serves to create a false dichotomy for the purposes of supporting your argument. If the only two options are to become obligated to the public or not to engage at all, w
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by zoogeny 2y ago
It depends on the amount and type of data you want to store and your strategies for compression. Kind of a good exercise which can be done in 5 minutes in a spreadsheet. Most reasonable answers will easily fit on a modern smartphone (or USB
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Please don't take this kind of criticism personally. There was a recent blow up from an open source maintainer because he viewed this kind of criticism as a frustration. Just know that most people understand everything you are saying h
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I once did the math to figure out, how much space would be required to track my entire life. I thought, I would want to know a couple of things: my location and my activity for every second of my life. Since I generally live relative to the
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This reminds me of the famous Library of Babel story, where the entire corpus of a language is imagined to live in a library. Like, every permutation of the characters of an alphabet for pages of a certain number of characters in books of a
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> People using Ada, Pascal (Delphi), JavaScript, or functional languages should also declare types and functions as locally as possible. My own personal approach in JavaScript is to avoid defining functions in a nested manner unless I ex
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> nothing about the entire situation had anything to do with marcan anyway I agree with you but just a point of clarification. Martin was working on drivers that he wrote in Rust for the Asahi Linux project. Those drivers would utilize t
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I read this entire post because the man deserves not only to have his say but also to have his say listened to. That said, I detect a lot of one sided thinking in his post. He took on an incredibly difficult challenge, faced huge opposition
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I was thinking the same on this. It is a classic case of division of responsibility. The argument appears to be: should we force a small number of downstream maintainers to suffer a big maintenance burden or should we make upstream handle a
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by zoogeny 2y ago
This is a good point, and it is the reason why communists argued that the only way communism could work is if it happened globally simultaneously. You don't want to be the only non-capitalist country in a world of capitalists. Of cours
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by zoogeny 2y ago
You said: "Humanity survived and thrived before all this unfettered consumption, we don’t need to kill ourselves for more." To deny that your juxtaposition of this claim with your point about growing seeds and nailing together pla
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by zoogeny 2y ago
You are making a caricature of modern lifestyle farming, not an argument for people literally living as they did in the past. Going to your local garden center and buying some seedlings and putting them on your balcony isn't demonstrat
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by zoogeny 2y ago
You stated one ludicrous extreme (food comes out of the ground! shelter is planks and nails!) and I stated another ludicrous extreme. You can make my position look simplistic and I can make your position look simplistic. You can't then
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm not certain of the balance myself. I was thinking as a counterpoint of the band The Beatles where the two song writers (McCartney and Lennon) are seen in competition. There is a balance there between their competitiveness as song w
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I live in a ruralish area. There is a lot of forested area and due to economic depression there are a lot of people living in the woods. Most live in tents but some actually cut down the trees and turn them into make-shift shacks. Using pla

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