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Kolmogorov Complexity of Neutral Networks(twitter.com)
1 points by chenglou 2y ago|0 comments
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by chenglou 2y ago
Website contributor here! Answering some of the technical questions on Twitter: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/1826425720522080480
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by chenglou 3y ago
Oh hey =D The ring's source code in particular had to be transcribed from an actual shader I made ( https://www.shadertoy.com/view/msd3R2 ). I didn't have the patience to write it directly in CSS. It's nei
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Pitfalls of Callback-Based APIs(thelig.ht)
2 points by chenglou 3y ago|0 comments
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Markprompt: Open-Source GPT-4 for Markdown, Markdoc and MDX(github.com)
9 points by chenglou 3y ago|3 comments
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by chenglou 4y ago
Yeah I was only talking about quantities. Equivalently, assume that it's a linear algorithm in the child and a linear one in the parent. Ultimately it ends up as O(nm) being some big number, but when people do runtime analysis in the r
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by chenglou 4y ago
It's more than that. The way black box composition is done in modern software, your n=100 code (say, a component) gets reused into a another thing somewhere above, and now you're being iterated through m=100 times. Oops, now n=10k
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by chenglou 4y ago
Quite a few APIs use a pair of `{start, length}` instead, which in the context of the post's example, is even clearer. Empty interval would be `length == 0`, time interval would be a single array of `starts`, etc. Fewer subtractions (t
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So you want to build a generator (10k Bowls of Oatmeal)(galaxykate0.tumblr.com)
1 points by chenglou 4y ago|0 comments
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by chenglou 4y ago
Personally I feel that Cappuccino is one of the last frameworks that still cared about a kind of interaction design that’s no longer discussed on the web, replaced mostly by more devops/abstraction-oriented discussions. I manage a web
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by chenglou 5y ago
No not really. It’s just a bunch of spans styles
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Show HN: Pure CSS Shaders Art(github.com)
11 points by chenglou 5y ago|4 comments
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by chenglou 5y ago
Some upcoming languages like Zig and Jai have features to allow you to easily switch from array-of-structures to structure-of-arrays at writing time ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgoqZtu15kI ). Some edge cases also requir
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by chenglou 5y ago
I help maintain ReScript ( https://rescript-lang.org ) and we've been rolling without an import statement for years now (basically OCaml's module system). The default is to just write `MyModule.doThis` at callsites. Some
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by chenglou 5y ago
Jai is, imo, doing it right! For custom iteration one really _just_ wants it to be a little syntax sugar over a regular loop. Most other languages end up constructing some paradigm for iteration that drags in OO, FP, some interface concepts
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The Countries Apple Cares About Most(justinobeirne.com)
1 points by chenglou 5y ago|0 comments
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Guy Steele: Fortress Features and Lessons Learned(youtube.com)
3 points by chenglou 5y ago|0 comments
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Alien Mathematics(troynikov.io)
67 points by chenglou 5y ago|27 comments
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Refterm Lecture Part 1 – Philosophies of Optimization(youtube.com)
2 points by chenglou 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple Maps: Why Is “Look Around” Rolling Out So Slowly?(justinobeirne.com)
1 points by chenglou 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)(justinobeirne.com)
153 points by chenglou 5y ago|117 comments
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by chenglou 5y ago
In case this isn't clear, RefTerm is: 1. Faster in every case tested 2. More fully-featured, including i18n 3. Easier to read and maintain (see for yourself) 4. Shorter 5. Using existing libs, aka interops well ...So none of these typi
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Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing(notion.so)
2 points by chenglou 5y ago|0 comments
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by chenglou 5y ago
Related, on HN recently: How Doctors Die. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28463482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26685244
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by chenglou 5y ago
Oh for sure, build is the main point and SoA isn't. The SoA feature discussions probably came from its deprecated interesting approach. Collapsing into a single layer is great. As an aside, another language notorious for doing so would
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by chenglou 5y ago
The new way Jai does SoA is through just userland macros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgoqZtu15kI Tldr SoA isn't a single transformation. Depending on your data access pattern, you might want to shape the structure
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by chenglou 5y ago
There’s a much vaster gulf between a truck driver and a truck engineer, vs a Java programmer and a programmer one layer below. Per your analogy, the truck driver is the program user here, not the program maintainer.
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by chenglou 6y ago
You're right; the medium definitely shaped the message here. I've worked with and near many native and web teams, and have observed the engineering conversations of the folks from entry level to senior level. The difference in per
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by chenglou 6y ago
I help maintain ReScript. That it _seems_ to change the way code is approached is an artifact of an early community excited to try FP concepts in it. Nothing wrong with that; however, the ReScript team (me included) don't really approa
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by chenglou 6y ago
I happened to have read many of VPRI’s papers and some domain expertise in a few of their topics, or know close friends with such domain expertise. Btw, my collection of their links are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

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