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peter_d_sherman
18,476karma·5,708submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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The author bills this C source code as a "Really stupid get-file-over-http program/function". I wholeheartedly disagree! I claim, much to the contrary, that it is very, very intellige…
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>"Stage two was RLHF training on general chat prompts using a reward model to improve helpfulness. This worked. AlpacaEval scores jumped around 18.9 points on average compared to the fine-tune…
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An interesting set of ideas! The broader concept seems to be "ephemeral environments" , which is related to sandboxing, which is in turn is related to testing/debugging... Related: ht…
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Related: List of linux package search databases: https://github.com/sxiii/awesome-package-search …
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Related: Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684958 https://github.com/jordanhubbard&#…
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>"Virtually all processors today have data parallel instructions (sometimes called SIMD) that can check several values at once. [...] The binary search checks one value at a time. However, re…
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>"Rebuilding Takes Years. Always. [...] Money was never the constraint. Knowledge was. [...] Now map that onto software. A junior developer needs three to five years to become a competent mi…
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>"Single, reusable primitives play a disproportionately large aesthetic and practical role in mathematics, engineering, and even biology. Widely known classical examples include the NAND gate …
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>"If AI makes every engineer 50% more productive, you don't get 50% more output. You get 50% more pull requests. 50% more documentation. 50% more design proposals. And someone, somewhere…
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IMHO: Of all of the videos showing Pi's relationship with the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean (AGM), this is the best one. Related: Gauss–Legendre algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
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Brilliant idea! Heck, a brilliant potential bootstrapped-from-virtually-nothing-except-a-cell-phone business idea!
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(Comedy writing mode ON): SNL's Stefon character: "This one has it all... Waffle House, FEMA, breakfast foods, federal emergencies, waffles, emergency preparedness, eggs, teleportation, baco…
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What a brilliant idea! Split a "it needs to run in a datacenter because its hardware requirements are so large" AI/LLM across multiple people who each want shared access to that particu…
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>" ASGs are more complex and concise than ASTs because they may contain shared subterms (also known as "common subexpressions").[1] Abstract semantic graphs are often used as an …
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There's an interesting set of ideas here! If we look at the history of programming languages, we see the idea of Templating occuring over and over again, in different contexts, i.e., C'…
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Full text: https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/blob/main/bill/rig... …
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>"The quacking that catches my ear is when something develops a dependency graph: your package depends on a package that depends on a package, and now you need resolution algorithms, lockfiles…
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Very interesting! Yes, in this day and age, I could definitely see web pages being harder to crawl by search engines (and SEO companies and other users of automated web crawling technologies (AI agent…