sharifhsn

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by sharifhsn 17d ago
The Internet relies on physical infrastructure managed by sovereign nations and multinational corporations, it would never be free from those constraints. Until we reach post-scarcity utopia and harmony between all of humanity—ironically, s
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
The difference between using general knowledge and summaries and doing code-for-code rewrites cannot be understated. When creating `wedeo`, despite DIRECTLY reviewing FFmpeg's code, Claude would frequently make mistakes that would have
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
I don’t really think there’s any actual benefit to `wedeo` existing, beyond the novelty of having pure Rust media processing software and perhaps being easier to use as a library. Like I said, this is mostly an experiment in LLM’s ability t
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
Good to know! I have licensed as LGPL so I think that covers it. Rewriting x264 and x265 are in scope so I’ll keep that in mind. I will design the application as well so that those can easily be excluded from compilation to get a pure LGPL
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
The tests are the real clincher here. That’s the main reason that this project has made so much progress: the FATE suite highlights specific bugs to fix and tracks regressions. As for optimization, that seems to be more of a question of eff
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
To be clear, `wedeo` took a few weeks to get to this point, and it is by no means fully featured. Even with LLMs, it will take a few months to reach that point with me as the sole human contributor.
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
For the purposes of debugging, assembly is machine code, just with some nice constructs to make it easier to read. Transpiling between assembly and machine code is mostly a find-and-replace exercise, not like the advanced reasoning involved
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
These things may not be true in the future. I just meant to describe the current state of the project. With Rust being a modern language and the repository being AI-optimized, I wouldn't be surprised if it grew to have more features. A
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
You don’t have to like it but you have to admit that it’s pretty impressive to pass the entire FATE test suite with purely AI-generated code. I honestly didn’t think it would be possible when I first started this.
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
I don’t know if I would say I don’t “care” about the license. I want to respect the FFmpeg license, and considering that my project is a straight ripoff, it would be dishonest to not have the same license. Whether AI-generated code can even
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
I found this project, but I’m not surprised that it doesn’t have much progress. Doing this kind of Rust rewrite is an absolutely gargantuan undertaking that I don’t think it would be feasible without AI. It’s not as if FFmpeg is some crufty
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
I suppose “review” is misleading, since I’m not actually reading the code, I’m simply asking Claude to explain what the code is doing. I’ll change that so it’s expressly clear that none of this code is actually human-reviewed.
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
It’s used for multithreading and also for assembly loading. It’s not checked by anything other than Claude itself, so that would definitely be a strong candidate for manual review. I did have Claude ingest Rust Atomics & Locks by Mara B
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
I’m using FFmpeg’s own FATE suite, which is intended to poke at those edge cases, as well as JVT vectors. I’d love to get a more robust set of weird files similar to what symphonia has, though, so if anyone has any resources I’d appreciate
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Wedeo – a Rust Rewrite of FFmpeg(github.com)
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
After playing around with Claude Code for a bit, rewriting some Python tooling in Rust to great effect, I was interested in pushing the boundaries of what LLMs could do in terms of rewriting projects in Rust. The result is `wedeo`. For thos
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
It’s playing stupid to pretend that the theft of a hardly used handle has anything to do with an actual user account. I’m sure if @hac had a presence online, their handle wouldn’t have been sold from under them.
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by sharifhsn 6mo ago
Your bot messed up and posted twice in the same thread.
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
Government can subsidize the poor. Remember Obamaphones? Just expand that idea.
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
I hope you feel the same way every time you eat beef.
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
Gemini has this feature but it’s opt-in.
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
Good to know. Thanks.
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
I’m not finding a single article with a good summary, but you can find coverage on Bloomberg of all the twists and turns. FX markets are complicated , so you’ll need to do some research on how they operate as well. It’s not too hard to plu
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
Takaichi is much more popular than Truss was, and Japan is in a much better situation right now than post-Brexit post-COVID UK. And absolutely nobody is seeking a better relationship with the US right now other than satisfying short-term ne
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
I spoke with a silver expert a week ago before the crash and he said half the flow is speculative, structural flow will remain. Looks like he was right.
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
It is most certainly LLM generated. Nobody but an AI prompted with “connect the unwind of the yen carry trade with Trump’s threats to acquire Greenland” would have ever written something like that. My guess is that she did a lot of research
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
Also, while I’m not an expert on Japan, I’ve been following Gearoid Reidy’s commentary on Takaichi and the new Japanese economy and I think the fears expressed are significantly overblown. But this is also characteristic of many other marke
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by sharifhsn 7mo ago
Speaking as a quant that has followed this story closely for months (and was educated about the yen carry trade in my degree), this narrative is somewhat wrong and also very obviously LLM slop. It is true that the yen carry trade is current
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by sharifhsn 8mo ago
Because those criticisms misses the forest for the trees. You might as well complain about the pollution caused by the Industrial Revolution. AI doesn’t use nearly as much as water as even a small amount of beef production. And we have chea
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by sharifhsn 8mo ago
The “fancy math” associated with quant usually refers to pricing derivatives like options. The thing is that there isn’t really strong institutional demand for exotic derivatives, people are happy using existing methods and just applying th

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