GeorgeTirebiter

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by GeorgeTirebiter 1mo ago
One of the things that drives me nuts about RV is the plethora of Zextensions. And on top of those, manufacturers add on their own proprietary extensions. That is one of the selling points. But... Interestingly, in the Olden Days, machi
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by GeorgeTirebiter 1mo ago
I thought so, too. The Cortex M0+ is quite nice. RPi Pico RP2040 (original) https://pip-assets.raspberrypi.com/categories/610-raspberry-... uses them, and with the RPi on-chip math help (clever stuff) it's quite
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by GeorgeTirebiter 1mo ago
I suggest Practical Common Lisp by Seibel https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ I now generate ALL of my hobby projects in CL (SBCL on windows). I tell the LLM to 'over-comment' the code, so I get to learn as I rea
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2mo ago
Unfortunately, Tyrell is incorrect. https://www.replacementlightbulbs.com/ohmslaw.html which gives the equation: Life(actual) = Life(rated) x ( V(rated) / V(actual) ) ** 13 NOTE that 13th (!) power. Doubling b
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2mo ago
me too. Those things were built to last - and they do.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2mo ago
I bet you do, or you will. In my case, I had been getting movie recommendations from friends and also randomly. I'd look up the flick on IMDB, metacritic, and rotten tomatoes and I'd guess whether I would like it. I wanted somet
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2mo ago
Yes, it IS confident of its weights & biases... but, if you keep at it, Claude WILL find the smoking gun, eventually. Even a broken watch is correct twice a day ( unless it's a digital watch, without a battery, in which case, it&#
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2mo ago
https://archive.org/details/Programming_the_Z-80_2nd_Edition... is where I learned about the "W" and "Z" registers -- if you don't know what they do, I won't spoil your fun reading Zaks!
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2mo ago
I take the previous point about missing MMX / Vector instructions. Presumably, that's a straightforward optimization, when code is vectorizable? That is, yes, it would be nice to have sections on vector instruction use to demons
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by GeorgeTirebiter 2mo ago
MMIX uses register windows to make stack frame pointer offsets unnecessary when referring to PUSHed arguments. Don is trying to make the algorithms understandable and correct, and by hiding some details that are handled efficiently by comp
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by GeorgeTirebiter 3mo ago
This is exactly correct. Low 10s of kHz is quite functional for machines moving in human space / speed. If one is trying to do some assembly line (max # of operations per second), the power requirements alone get hard to manage. And
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by GeorgeTirebiter 4mo ago
Wow, the Python folks do not want to entertain different goals for the language, it would seem. I still remain interested in whether it makes sense to add features to Python anymore, given that LLMs write all the code. Unless, as I said,
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by GeorgeTirebiter 4mo ago
Absolutely serious question: is anybody actually writing code anymore? (Reviewing it, architecting it, sure -- we do that). But writing code? If NOT, then seems to me, what we want in our LLM output is CODE THAT IS TRIVIAL TO UNDERSTAND
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by GeorgeTirebiter 4mo ago
Paul Graham? ;-)
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by GeorgeTirebiter 4mo ago
If we used it more than just "ok look it works, we'll standardize on this internally" we'd have been happy to buy it, as we all other open source that has a donation option. We were just getting our feet wet, tho, and t
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by GeorgeTirebiter 4mo ago
It was written in older version of PySimpleGUI -- it just stopped working! Pretty annoying.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 4mo ago
Now, if only the LoC would recognize the brilliance of the Fossil SCM ....
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by GeorgeTirebiter 4mo ago
I had heavily used PySimpleGUI in various work projects, and one day, when I had to run some older piece of code I had not run in a while, I get a notice that PySimpleGUI won't work, because was free, but nobody paid, and so, good luck
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by GeorgeTirebiter 5mo ago
Excuse my ignorance, but does this functionally mean we can treat this as a 'microkernel' a la minix? I always liked the 'tiny protected subsystem' in Ring 0, then a Ring 1 for Drivers (which are restartable, and dynam
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by GeorgeTirebiter 5mo ago
A bit surprised Sussman's and Wisdom's book hasn't yet been mentioned: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262028967/structure-and-interpr...
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by GeorgeTirebiter 6mo ago
i let v0 = 0.616 u + 0.291 v - 0.135 let v1 = if 0 > v0 then 0 else v0 is there something 'less good' about: let v1 = if v0 < 0 then 0 else v0 Am I the only one who stutter-parses "0 > value"
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by GeorgeTirebiter 6mo ago
yes, and, fortunately -- even the frogs have enough awareness they actually jump out before they are boiled.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 6mo ago
It's possible. I don't know. My tone comes off as support Elon, and I do not, at all. I've seen first-hand almost all of these tactics while I was at <Elon Company>. I'm observing that some people seem to do OK
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by GeorgeTirebiter 6mo ago
BIG Head.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 6mo ago
Karparthy worked for Elon for, what, 5 years? How did he do it, if Elon is Ivan the Terrible?
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by GeorgeTirebiter 7mo ago
I have always disliked the := as assignment operator convention. In these declarative languages, assignment is done frequently. There is little cognitive load to using '=' as assignment, although perhaps a bit jarring for math f
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by GeorgeTirebiter 7mo ago
One other helpful frame: I consider LLMs simply to be very flexible high-level 'language' Compilers. We've moved up the Abstraction Chain ever since we invented FORTRAN and COBOL (and LISP) instead of using assembly languag
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by GeorgeTirebiter 7mo ago
I want to be in your camp, and am trying hard. But the OP's blog entry should at least give us a moment to "respect the dead". That's all he's asking, I think.
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by GeorgeTirebiter 7mo ago
And all that time spent doing leetcode? Yeah, THAT was time Well Spent.... ;-)
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by GeorgeTirebiter 7mo ago
Exactly. On a yuuge project, I first identify the Risks. Then, evaluate the risks -- can <ZZ> actually be done? In XX time? For YY dollars? with acceptable bugs on 1st version? It's sort of the old General Eisenhower quote:

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