agarren

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by agarren 2mo ago
What a weird, low-effort comment. Randell’s got another (large) book on ARM assembly. He’s also got a handful of other great books on software engineering in general - he’s more than aware that “there are other 64-bit OSes, CPUs and assembl
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by agarren 9mo ago
That is a fantastic presentation. It reminds me of the annotated source/site that backbonejs used to have, but this one is interactive. Really great job!
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by agarren 11mo ago
Elderly gen-x are screen addicts because they had access to gaming consoles and computers? Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment. Not every gen-xer was strapped to a console growing up. My boomer parents and their friends are all staring
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by agarren 1y ago
> but from time to time, doing this does require doing arithmetic correctly (to correctly add two exponents or whatever). so it would be nice to be able to trust that. It sounds weird, but try writing your problem in LaTeX - I don’t know
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by agarren 1y ago
I’d add that the potential to support other architectures is also a benefit. At the moment the framework 13 chassis supports risc-v [0] [1] with rumors about an arm variant. Beyond practical repairability and sustainability, I appreciate th
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by agarren 1y ago
That jibes with what Nadella said in an interview not too long ago. Essentially, SaaS apps disappear entirely as LLMs interface directly with the underlying data store. The unspoken implication being that software as we understand it goes a
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by agarren 1y ago
> The criticisms in the cnn article are already out date in many instances. Which ones, specifically? I’m genuinely curious. The ones about “[an] unfalsifiable disease-free utopia”? The one from a labor economist basically equating Amode
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by agarren 1y ago
Ditto - no spam at all. I do get reminders that it’s time to file, and conveniently, if nothing has changed since the previous year (address, employer, marital status, etc.) then they can pre-populate the form.
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by agarren 1y ago
I’ve used them for probably the better part of a decade. I’ve never had any issues, they’re pretty inexpensive, they e-file by default and you get a notification when state and fed are accepted. The wizard is easy to follow and explanations
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by agarren 1y ago
That doesn’t seem very likely from my reading. It sounds like it’s not unheard of for prion-diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob to take a while to destroy a person. The poor lady fta apparently had a genetic component that contributed to the la
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by agarren 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of writing? Journaling and getting your thoughts out, or fiction, something else?
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by agarren 1y ago
A “complex” cfg is still a cfg, and, giving credence to Chomsky’s hierarchy, remains computationally less complex than natural, context sensitive, grammars. Even a complex cfg can be parsed by a relatively simple program in ways that contex
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by agarren 1y ago
> [Harper Reed] cautioned against being overly precious about the value of deeply understanding one’s code, which is no longer necessary to ensure that it works. That just strikes me as an odd thing to say. I’m convinced that this is the
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by agarren 1y ago
Why? I can understand the argument that you don’t want an ISP or a middlebox injecting ads or scripts (valid I think even if I’ve never encountered it to my knowledge), but otherwise you’re publishing content intended for the world. There’s
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by agarren 1y ago
I’m seeing a lot about price hikes, new service charges, and bad customer service since the acquisition. I noticed the price hike with one of my domains through them, I paid it but was close to reconsidering. Thinking I’ll try transferring
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by agarren 1y ago
How is it winner-take-all? Training models is expensive, yeah, but big companies are willing to do it, and if deepseek is any lesson, it’s not as expensive as we used to think. You might be building a castle in someone else’s kingdom, but y
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by agarren 1y ago
Temperature? Definitely tweaks the results…but I don’t know if “deterministic” is a term you can use in any way, shape, or form, in the context of LLMs. https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/llm-temperature
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by agarren 1y ago
> It feels disingenuous but even companies I know and respect are adding questionable “agent” features that rarely work. Word. I’m not a huge Microsoft fan, but it feels like they’re just shoving ChatGPT/copilot down your throat eve
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by agarren 1y ago
Ditto! I haven’t found any hardware that’s daily-driver ready, but I keep looking. https://store.deepcomputing.io/products/dc-roma-ai-pc-risc-v... I especially like the idea of getting a framework version in this case
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by agarren 1y ago
That sounds a bit unfair. All that code that we neither wrote nor understood, I think in the case of Rust, it’s either the borrow checker or the compiler itself doing something it does best - i.e., “defining memory safety away”. If that’s t
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by agarren 1y ago
> Monopolies can only be created by government dictate, like old AT&T or modern cable companies. By virtually every definition I can find, a monopoly is a an entity that functions as the sole, or effectively the primary, provider of
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by agarren 1y ago
AST had raccoons on one or two of his books, earlier editions of “ Operating Systems Design and Implementation” iirc. I always thought cartoon raccoons on the cover of a technical text book seemed like an odd choice. I wonder if there’s a c
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DeepComputing – SpacemiT Muse Book RISC-V Laptop(store.deepcomputing.io)
2 points by agarren 1y ago|1 comments
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by agarren 1y ago
I really enjoy Crafting Interpreters, but I’ve revisited it a couple times and haven’t yet made it through half the book. It’s very well written and there’s a lot of material to chew on. That said, Writing an Interpreter in Go, is short, sw
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by agarren 1y ago
He got Jeff’d. Or maybe Bill’d (or Satya’d). Regardless, any kind of non-gnu open-source collaboration with the Powers That Be in the tech world is just begging for punishment. Amazon will just blatantly rebrand something, but Microsoft see
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by agarren 1y ago
My favorite that I’ve heard a couple times is “solve math” and/or “solve physics” Altman’s claimed LLMs will figure out climate change. Solid stuff.
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by agarren 2y ago
I think we have a pretty good idea that we are not stochastic parrots - sophisticated or not. Anyone suggesting that we’re running billion parameter models in order to bang out a snarky comment is probably trying to sell you something (and
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by agarren 2y ago
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, and, say, the halting problem seem to fall squarely into the bucket of “basic computability theory” in precisely the way that “we think, that is a fact”, does not (D.A. hat tip) You’re arguing that we know ar
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by agarren 2y ago
It was (is) an ABI, more stable than something available through a C/C++ compiler. It’s been years since I’ve lived in a Windows world, but as I understand it, it’s still very much alive and well. It didn’t fail because it was complica
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by agarren 2y ago
I doubt he’d think much of it. I’m about 2/3rds through it. It’s all more of the same and not terribly convincing. Fr. Andrew Dalton is a Sindonologist(?), somebody who studies the shroud, but not necessarily from a scientific perspect

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