dlevine

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by dlevine 15d ago
Apparently 2 stones is a huge advantage. An estimate is that the computer is roughly 4-600 ELO stronger on an even match. Also, the human played a strategy tailored to that huge initial advantage. He said that the AI did not handle this par
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by dlevine 1mo ago
It’s not an either/or. It’s doing both. The video makes it easier to understand what the code does. We have used Looms on PRs since before AI, and agents are beginning to be able to do this on PRs they generate.
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by dlevine 1mo ago
I think this is more a symptom of the problem than the actual problem. The issue is that we can generate tons of code using AI, but then are blocked on having humans review all of it. I don’t think we should auto-approve all of this code wi
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by dlevine 4mo ago
I had a TI-81 (and then an 85 later on). I wrote a blackjack program. There was no link cable for the 81, so other kids had to type it in manually.
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by dlevine 5mo ago
Subpixel rendering only gives you 3 effective pixels. M and N aren't really readable with less than 5.
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by dlevine 8mo ago
It seems to have worked for Bill Gates as well. He definitely did some not so nice things when starting and running MS - I think it unfortunately goes with the territory of running a successful company at scale. But subsequently he has beco
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by dlevine 11mo ago
When I was in the college in the early 2000s, I had a friend who ran OpenBSD. He always sang its praises, mostly because it was the most secure operating system. I tried a bunch of Linux Distributions and FreeBSD before mostly settling on M
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by dlevine 1y ago
Something I find weird is that this article compares a 9950x with two different laptop CPUs and concludes that performance has increased massively in the past few years. If you compare the 9950x with its two Desktop predecessors (released 2
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by dlevine 1y ago
I haven't done this that much, but have found it to be pretty useful. When it just gives me the answer, I usually understand but then find that my long-term retention is relatively poor.
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by dlevine 1y ago
If someone uses AI to generate an output, that should be stated clearly. That is not an excuse for it being poorly done or unvetted (which I think is the crux of the point), but it’s important to state any sources used. If i don’t want to r
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by dlevine 1y ago
My theory is that, when done properly, it’s much closer to science than engineering. And by “done properly,” i mean done in a regimented way with evals to verify that a wide range of inputs produce the desired outputs. Prompting is much clo
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by dlevine 1y ago
I had a licensed copy of Executor back in the mid-90s. It was the coolest thing ever. Thanks for being one of my inspirations to go into software development.
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by dlevine 1y ago
I think of LLMs as knowing a lot of things but as being relatively shallow in their knowledge. I find them to be super useful for things that I don't already know how to do, e.g. a framework or library that I'm not familiar with.
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by dlevine 1y ago
I’m job searching right now, and it’s definitely not the doom and gloom that I’m hearing about. I think it’s a challenging environment for developers who are either inexperienced or who have skills that are out of date. I have found that co
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by dlevine 1y ago
I think of LLMs like smart but unreliable humans. You don't want to use them for anything that you need to have right. I would never have one write anything that I don't subsequently go over with a fine-toothed comb. With that sai
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by dlevine 2y ago
The name SheepShaver is a play on ShapeShifter, which was a Mac II emulator for Amiga. I remember running an Amiga Emulator (UAE) AND Shapeshifter on top of that since it was the best Macintosh Emulation at one point in the late 90s.
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by dlevine 2y ago
I have been playing around with MCP, and one of its current shortcomings is that it didn’t support OAuth. This means that credentials need to be hardcoded somewhere. Right now, it appears that a lot of MCP servers are run locally, but there
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by dlevine 2y ago
Non-Paywalled Link: https://medium.com/@dana11235/feeling-the-vibe-coding-with-a...
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Feeling the Vibe: Coding with AI(dana11235.medium.com)
1 points by dlevine 2y ago|1 comments
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by dlevine 2y ago
I have found feature flagged rollouts to be one of the biggest advances in fairly recent software development. Probably too much to say about it in a comment, but they massively de-risk launches in a number of important ways, both in being
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How to work effectively with contract developers(dana11235.medium.com)
7 points by dlevine 2y ago|1 comments
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by dlevine 2y ago
About a year later, I got the P3-550 that overclocked to 733. Not quite as good of an overclock in terms of percentages, but I ran that machine for 5 years with no issues.
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by dlevine 2y ago
I played Disco Elysium when it came out and enjoyed it. In particular, I thought the Inland Empire skill was pretty awesome. I can't imagine what the game would be like without the ability to talk to inanimate objects.
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by dlevine 2y ago
This is super impressive! It's a cool POC, although it is already clear that it would be feasible for Apple to put M.2 slots in Macbooks if they wanted to. I wonder how much it would cost to have someone replace the BGA NAND chips in m
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by dlevine 2y ago
AI adoption can be increasing even if progress of the base technology has slowed down. LLMs as a technology are very new, and there are doubtless tons of interesting uses we have yet to discover.
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by dlevine 2y ago
California’s state tree is the redwood, and that’s where their HQ is.
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by dlevine 2y ago
Reading this, I do get the impression that the Partially Meets Expectation was given to get more work out of this guy. It's the worst kind of manipulation - spinning something that was an unqualified success into a "failure."
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by dlevine 2y ago
I'm surprised they are still shipping these with 256GB of storage base. I had a Macbook with a ~500GB SSD in 2012 (I installed it), and a 500GB spinning disk in like 2008 (also user installed). A 500GB SSD can be had for <$50 these
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by dlevine 2y ago
The specialization did a good job of explaining all of the basic concepts of RL in a fairly understandable way. The instructors don't assume a huge amount of prior knowledge, and make it pretty accessible. They split reasonably between
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by dlevine 2y ago
I did the Reinforcement learning specialization on Coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/specializations/reinforcement-learn... ), which used this book. The specialization was great, but I would say that I had a lot of tro

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