aeonfox

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by aeonfox 20d ago
> start generating profit, and then you can start optimizing your costs Good thing they jumped on that as soon as they were profitable instead of burning cash. Oh wait... I think a distinction to draw here is that Cloudflare had relativ
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by aeonfox 2mo ago
> loosely typed Minor nitpick: I believe Elixir and Erlang are strongly typed languages, but for a long time they have both been dynamically typed. With v1.20, Elixir is well on its way to transitioning to a gradually static typed langu
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by aeonfox 2mo ago
Game recognises game
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by aeonfox 2mo ago
Debug yourself of the AI hype^. Besides config, SQL implementations have a very limited textual API surface of accepting queries. Putting whole layers of UI and agents around it is really inefficient way of finding edge cases. I wouldn&#
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by aeonfox 2mo ago
This is where fuzzing would be useful. We have an at-least-parity-bug-level oracle with the reference PostgreSQL implementation. Just build a generator of queries (both invalid and valid) and ensure the output matches. The yardstick is h
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by aeonfox 3mo ago
Or gosh, just read my comment! I said in somewhat gloomy places. Sometimes people are working when the 10 minutes of sunlight comes out. Often that's not enough time to get down the elevator and get outside before the sun hides behi
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by aeonfox 3mo ago
The article cites another study by Richard Weller: > Sure enough, when he exposed volunteers to the equivalent of 30 minutes of summer sunlight without sunscreen, their nitric oxide levels went up and their blood pressure went down. I ca
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by aeonfox 3mo ago
Elixir is not just expressive, it's highly conventional. I've found best practice code usually converges on the same idiomatic patterns, and well written codebases look very similar to each other in style
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by aeonfox 3mo ago
> I feel like most would just pay for the thing that is already setup and ready for them Nothing stopping turnkey OSS AI hardware being productised, including niceties like opt-in automated updates. If the trend continues of models beco
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by aeonfox 3mo ago
> philosophically insulated As an outsider, I'm curious on how?
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by aeonfox 3mo ago
A better example are sodium ion batteries, which are about to take off in a big way https://www.catl.com/en/news/6812.html
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by aeonfox 3mo ago
The difference with biological brains is that the 'weights' (or synaptic action potentials) are updated with greater frequency. If one were reaching to make some kind of analogy to consciousness, this update frequency could be co
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by aeonfox 4mo ago
I've definitely found LLM code to be syntactically/semantically correct in one-shot pretty much all the time. It's usually the functional specification/behaviour that's found wanting. Typing probably makes sense wh
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by aeonfox 4mo ago
How did you score freelance Elixir work?
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by aeonfox 4mo ago
OP might be referring to Jose Valim's 2023 ElixirConf talk where he's explaining why Elixir should go down the path of types. He gives a lot more nuanced take than 'types are useless', which is more like 'types are
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by aeonfox 4mo ago
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The groundbreaking AI tool helping Victorian rangers protect native species(abc.net.au)
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by aeonfox 4mo ago
Separate to the self-host/datacentre argument, it would be interesting to see a speed/performance/watts-per-token leaderboard between leading models. Which model is the most watt-efficient?
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
> Using mouse motion as a control scheme is particularly genius - how did no one think of this before? Point-and-click adventure games and the golden age of Macromedia Flash might be before your time? This really reminds me of novelty s
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
> the user doesn't really care all that much They do. But not in the way that you think. I recently switched from Spotify (well known Electron-based app) to Apple Music (well known native app). The move was mostly an ethical one,
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
> really bad at native Yikes. I spent 15 years developing native on both mobile and desktop. If you think that native has the same design flexibility as HTML/CSS, you're objectively wrong. By design, each operation system li
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
Who said anything about mockups? Design goes all the way from concept to real-world. If a designer can specify declaratively how that will look, feel, and animate, that's far better than a developer taking a mockup and trying their h
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
And HTML/CSS/JS are far more powerful for designing than any of SwiftUI/IB on Apple, Jetpack/XML on Android, or WPF/WinUI on Windows, leaving aside that this is what designers, design platforms and AI models already
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
> unlikely to ever be competitive Bold claim to say these challenges will never be surmounted. Either a more-economic technology would have to mature first, or civilisation halt progress for that to be true. If scientific advances coul
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
Are there any polls (or any educated guesses) gauging what proportion of people who identify as Zionists want equal status with all Palestinians (particularly democratic rights) within the bounds of what was once Mandatory Palestine?
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
Who's the 'non-zionist' choice in the US?
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by aeonfox 5mo ago
A) Wasn't the article suggesting that would be 4-bits end-to-end in this hypothetical photonic matrix multiplication co-processor? ie. the weights are 4-bits B) Power consumption and speed. Essentially chips are limited by the high re
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
I was thinking more if you write a prompt into an IDE that has first-party integration with an LLM platform (e.g. VS Code with Github Copilot), it would make sense on their end to reduce and remove redundant input before ingesting the token
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
Do the larger LLM platforms just do this for you? Or perhaps they do this behinds the scenes, and charge you for the same amount of tokens?
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by aeonfox 6mo ago
Except for the times you do want it to run the CI. LLM issues can often be solved by being more and more specific, but at some point being specific enough is just as time consuming as jumping in and doing it yourself.

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