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by szopa 2mo ago
Note that capturing a live Russian soldier is worth 10 times more than killing one. Think about how that affects the incentives of Ukrainian soldiers. Avoid committing war crimes, get better gear for your team.
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by szopa 5mo ago
Yeah, that really sucks. I couldn’t quite believe what was the case and spent many hours trying to debug it.
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by szopa 5mo ago
I’m starting to feel that comments about an article being AI-generated are super low value AND super low effort. Who cares? Soon most of the text you’ll be dealing with is gonna be AI generated. But there’s still good and bad AI generated c
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by szopa 6mo ago
I have been a die hard emacs user for 20 years, and I have a very nice emacs setup (if a little bit idiosyncratic, but all emacs configs are idiosyncratic). However, recently I realized that I read code, but almost never write it. What is m
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by szopa 1y ago
Thank you for herding all the cats! :) Some other interesting aspects of the camp: The event’s currency are Łosie, which you get by taking part in classes and winning tournament games. By the end of each week there’s an auction where you bi
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by szopa 1y ago
Apparently in manga and anime regular characters are often drawn as if they were European-ish (so, some of them are going to have blue eyes or blond hair, not common in Japan). This convention is in part historical (matching American comic
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by szopa 1y ago
I first learned to play Go back in university, but never got very good (it was competing with learning how to program). Many years later, shortly after the war in Ukraine started, I was looking for an activity to share with my 8-year-old so
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by szopa 1y ago
One consideration that that is missing: how familiar are LLMs with this technology? And from this point of view the app has sailed, I’m afraid we are stuck with the frameworks that are available today for eternity, for better or worse. And
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by szopa 1y ago
One color go is a training method used in go… I wonder if that was her inspiration.
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by szopa 1y ago
I started at a hybrid company a few months all, after working remotely for a long time (way before Covid). I was initially very skeptical, but then I noticed that coming to the office positively affects my psychological wellbeing. I actuall
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by szopa 2y ago
This is simply… incredibly impressive. I wasn’t expecting they would build a computer all the way up from a CPU and memory to an assembler to a compiler, all in the game of life. Kudos.
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by szopa 2y ago
I was the founding site lead of a Polish office of U.S. tech company, with an initial target of a hundred developers. After looking at… many resumes I realized I strongly disliked custom resumes. As much as I wanted to appreciate uniqueness
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by szopa 2y ago
Why should we be excited about this?
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The Last Decade of the Interface Worker(blog.toasterthoughts.eu)
5 points by szopa 3y ago|6 comments
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by szopa 3y ago
That’s also my favorite song by Louis Armstrong! It was used in Fallout 2, and it started my fascination with Satchmo.
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by szopa 3y ago
I see your male walking with fluffy dog, and raise you a male with a fluffy dog picking up the poop after the dog. I’m tall, dress in black, and have a black beard (so potentially scary), and after such a maneuver it seems I become the firs
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LLMs in My Engineering Workflow(blog.toasterthoughts.eu)
8 points by szopa 3y ago|0 comments
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How I made my biggest career mistake at the time I joined Google(szopa.substack.com)
9 points by szopa 3y ago|1 comments
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Navigating Scientific Literature with ChatGPT: A Personal Guide(szopa.substack.com)
2 points by szopa 3y ago|0 comments
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Hacking My Son's Bath Time with Science(szopa.substack.com)
1 points by szopa 3y ago|0 comments
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by szopa 3y ago
My favorite Le Carre book is probably The Perfect Spy (especially that it is autobiographical to a great extent).
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by szopa 3y ago
I find it hilarious how Dogs of War is different as the book and the movie. The movie is a classical '80s thing with big guns and explosions. The book on the other hand gets into great detail about the logistics of organizing a coup,
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Meditation. How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb(szopa.substack.com)
3 points by szopa 3y ago|2 comments
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by szopa 3y ago
At one point I got so frustrated with langchain that I wrote my own stuff in go: https://github.com/ryszard/agency
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by szopa 3y ago
Thanks for sharing the exercises! What seems to have helped me was losing weight (not easy at all, but has many additional benefits). There are some additional exercises (look for "hiatal hernia exercises" on YouTube), which are v
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by szopa 3y ago
This sounds very interesting. Can you please elaborate?
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by szopa 3y ago
Tokenizers seem to be a massive pain in the neck if you are just calling into an API to use your model. The algorithm itself is non-trivial, and they need pretty sizable data to function: the vocabulary and the merges, which just sit there,
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by szopa 3y ago
Ok, this is indeed a very well kept secret. I have been programming go for a really long time, and was even a readability reviewer at Google, and I had no idea. Thank you, OP.
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by szopa 3y ago
ChatGPT, GitHub CoPilot, I may need to pay for ngrok soon (interacting with Meta APIs and their webhooks...).
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by szopa 3y ago
How I wish this post had appeared a few days earlier... I am writing on my own library for some agent experiments (in go, to make my life more interesting I guess), and knowing the number of tokens is important to implement a token buffer m

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