rusakov-field

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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
"There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" - Leonard Cohen LLM's cracked aping written language, true. But they miss the cracks that make it human , the shadows. Sterile is the word I am look
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
I don't know , I like macOS, mainly that zsh is readily available and I can (almost) do anything I can do on a linux box in a personal computer.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
Ah , Java, a language I pray I never have to ever touch again.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
My attitude with writing has been : "Write to the void". There is nothing else to do.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
My blog was getting traffic from that domain! So that is what that is.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
Classic.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
Man, too bad weed gives me bad panic attacks. Alzheimers is the scariest disease I know so maybe if the studies pan out in time and it becomes a standard preventative, I might consider trying again. But somehow I doubt it will be found to b
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
Clarity and Elegance of Syntax > Backwards compatibility. In my opinion anyway. C++ feels so bloated these days.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
With all the AI optimism I see everywhere it's a breath of fresh air to see such takes. Hope the crash is not too painful.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
Not familiar with WebAssembly, but from the namesake was expecting the syntax to kind of resemble assembly. He is showing S-expressions ? That is its' syntax ? I am intrigued now.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
Python is perfect as a "glue" language. "Inner Loops" that have to run efficiently is not where it shines, and I would write them in C or C++ and patch them with Python for access to the huge library base. This is the &q
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
Do you think it will reach "understanding of semantics", true cognition, within our lifetimes ? Or performance indistinguishable from that even if not truly that. Not sure. I am not so optimistic. People got intoxicated with nucle
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
On one side I am frustrated with LLMs because they derail you by throwing grammatically correct bullshit and hallucinations at you, where if you slip and entertain some of it momentarily it might slow you down. But on the other hand they ar
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
That is really creative.
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by rusakov-field 6mo ago
As someone who fell in love with Lisp with Scheme and SICP, I think I agree with the push for minimalism and a bit dubious about the changes in Lisp-2 ... Is that only a recency bias ? Because I learned Scheme first ? When I try CL I find m