LabMechanic

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by LabMechanic 3y ago
LLMs don't necessarily need to think to be useful. Having a simple minimal working example from an API you're trying to grok is helpful, as long as it's error-free and not redundant. However, given the availability of LLMs, h
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
The question remains, what is "value" (i.e., money) that we can use to exchange for other things that bring us "value" (i.e., money)? Water preparation, catching fish and making fire can bring “value” in forms of nutriti
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
I visit job search sites and select the “entry level” filter. Then, I read requirements such as “2+ years (non-internship) experience in C++”, “5 years of professional experience in the game industry”, and “excellent C++ skills”. Furthermor
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
My personal suggestion: Make sure you are able to set pixels and create audio samples (sine function sampled over a discrete time steps). Also make sure to store the results as PPM P3 (very simple text-based image format) and WAV. Some insp
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Who knows what the future will bring (will we ever get AGI)? Needless to say, fundamentals, that is, math (geometry, algebra, and calculus) and physics (mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics). Some basic algorithms/techniques suc
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
You forgot, fire making, water filtration (essential) and fishing (protein, fat, vitamins). How can you do all the stuff without energy? Are you running on sunlight, or do you do nuclear fission inside your body?
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Usually not. For me, it's an “autonomous search engine on steroids, i.e., its huge dataset”. (I.e., it's just another tool you use.) Before LLMs, you would cobble a bunch of disjoint information via a search engine like Google. No
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
You can consider using MinUnit and Clang-Tidy together with Clang-Format as well, further, for C it should be something more like this: CC = clang CFLAGS = -g -std=c2x -Weverything -fsanitize=undefined,address all: app.ex
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Here's a simple NMAKE Makefile using MSVC to compile a Win32 application on Windows 11: CC = cl.exe LD = link.exe CFLAGS = /Od /Zi /FAsu /std:c17 /permissive- /W4 /WX LDFLAGS = /DEBUG
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Use MinUnit.h https://jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002 Consider using Clang-Tidy with `-*,cert-*` (Which disables all default options, and checks your code according to the Secure coding standard (CERT) rulese
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
What do you think about money and income? If people in the Western world get older, lose jobs, earn less money, and have fewer kids, who will buy those kinds of products? Maybe people in “third-world” countries (who might have enough young
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
At least from my experience and from the suggestions from Nassim Taleb (e.g., past events/data != future outcome/data), we cannot reliably predict the future. The only thing that is constant is, as someone a long time argued, is “
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Somewhat similar to the dark ages with its aristocrats ruling over us. Creating AGI needs powerful computers, which are costly. Independence from humans, like workers in chip factories, requires bootstrapping[1]. This leads to a scenario wh
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
I find Clojure, Racket and F# to be nice, yet, it being nice does not help to pay your bills (most likely judging by the job openings you see at those job search sites). But it might help you to enjoy programming again. There are Clojure sh
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
What concrete advantages does OP gain from solving a problem in Rust? If you're considering creating a language binding in Rust, you can't easily bypass C, the predominant language for operating systems, and may end up using “unsa
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
SEEKING PROJECTS: Technologies: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Scala 3, Clojure, Racket, Qt 5, SDL2, Windows API, DirectX Math, Play, Vue.js Projects: I did write basic software rasterizers and ray tracers (in C/C++, Rust, Pytho
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Thank you!
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Location: Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Scala 3, Racket, Clojure, Linux, Git, Make, CMake, Clang-Tidy, Clang-Format, Catch2, Windows API, DirectX Math, SDL2, Qt, Play, Vue.js
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Ask HN: How to Get a Sofware Job?
3 points by LabMechanic 3y ago|2 comments
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Nassim Taleb also suggests to not predict the future from past events. Why? Because we are not almighty and all-knowing, but we seem to collectively pretend that we are. Some people (Munger? Buffet?) believe The Coca-Cola Company will conti
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Getting Started in Clojure [pdf](courses.engr.illinois.edu)
3 points by LabMechanic 3y ago|0 comments
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Compilers – Ghassan Shobaki(youtube.com)
1 points by LabMechanic 3y ago|0 comments
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CS University Lectures (Dr. Daniel Page)(youtube.com)
6 points by LabMechanic 3y ago|0 comments
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
What a coincidence, I was thinking of the same concept pictorially reading the comment you replied to, but I did not remember its name. Panopticon it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon Generally, there is ple
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Hmm... wouldn't you agree that a formal (relatively accurate language) such as math is easier to get right than an non-accurate human language?
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
The non-popular or non-widespread aspect of a "prompt" (e.g., "derive the geometric product given axioms/definitions ...") should be understood as a data point that it might lack reasoning skills. As it seemingly pa
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
A popular user here on HN also had a similar revelation or sentiment. We will see...
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
Seems like you are moving the goalpost (i.e., don't expect it to derive a theorem given a set of definitions and axioms from a non-widespread field). It should, in fact, derive any formula given a set of axioms and definitions, but we
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by LabMechanic 3y ago
You might see them both "being very, very similar", but that does not mean that it is. I mentioned it countless times already, but it gets tiresome to repeat myself. Just ask your "AI", capable of "thought", a

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