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by ttkciar 1mo ago
llama.cpp uses a hard cutoff. The agent then does "something" that is specific to the agent's implementation and configuration. It might summarize and then "finish the thought" with a different model, and then res
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by ttkciar 9mo ago
Huh. I thought hosting one's own databases was still the norm. Guess I'm just stuck in the past, or don't consume cloud vendor marketing, or something. Glad my employer is still one of the sane ones.
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by ttkciar 10mo ago
Whoops, you are right. I misread the article.
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by ttkciar 10mo ago
Local inference users are all about sampling, but users addicted to commercial inference services are wary of sampling, because they have to pay by the token.
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by ttkciar 10mo ago
The author speculates that bigger/smarter models interpreting vague directives to utilize general-function tools will outperform more precise and detailed directives to utilize narrow-function tools: > Granted to use a skill the age
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by ttkciar 10mo ago
Well, that's just great. The academic community has been using the term "skill" for years, to refer to classes of tasks at which LLMs exhibit competence. Now OpenAI has usurped the term to refer to these inference-guiding .md
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by ttkciar 11mo ago
Yes, you will need to employ someone with basic system administration competence. That's a given. Cloud infra is touted as obviating the need to hire system administrators, but that's a marketing fabrication. Trying to manage in
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by ttkciar 1y ago
Senior software engineer with 46 years of experience (since I was 7). LLM inference hasn't been too useful for me for writing code, but it has proven very useful for explaining my coworkers' code to me. Recently I had Gemma3-27
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by ttkciar 3y ago
After having worked on accounting software for a living, which did need to precisely take into account the variable nature of time measurements, I greatly appreciate that Numbat has decided not to open that can of worms. Using averaged cons
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by ttkciar 3y ago
I tried very hard to like Ruby. "On paper" it looks great, but I had a lot of trouble getting used to the syntax. I ended up going deep on the D programming language for my "new language". As a statically typed languag
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by ttkciar 3y ago
Working with Perl, two things spoiled me for other languages: JSON and DBI/DBD. In Perl, everything serializes to JSON without fuss. It can be "lossy"; objects without an explicit JSON serialization method and coderefs can&#
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by ttkciar 4y ago
> Proposing "fall back to Usenet" in 2023 makes about as much sense as "folks who use Slack should just use IRC". Hey! :-( IRC is still alive and kicking, thank you very much!
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by ttkciar 4y ago
> Are you just blanking out on the whole of the 1965-1980? If you have to dig back half a century to make your point about contemporary events, you have effectively ceded the point.
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by ttkciar 4y ago
> Rust had a lot of effort pored (and still going) into the nostd variant to be used in bare metal applications like microcontrollers and kernels. D has had "dcompute" since 2017, for native execution on GPUs and other accelera
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by ttkciar 4y ago
Rust has a very enthusiastic following, and D is perceived as interloping on "their" territory because it is good at a lot of the same things.
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by ttkciar 4y ago
> Doesn’t D require a GC to achieve the safety guarantees that Rust provides without one No. The paper covers this. The authors used D's fat pointers, scope, slices, @safe, and ownership/borrowing features to improve code saf
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by ttkciar 4y ago
D has been around for 21 years. It has had a compiler in the gcc project (gdc) for four years. It debugs easily enough under gdb. Several editors support D syntax (including geany and vscode). It has quite a few libraries (though its in
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by ttkciar 4y ago
It always gives me a spell of cognitive dissonance when someone points out that Slackware is no longer a "major" distribution. It used to be the major distribution. Funny how times change.
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by ttkciar 4y ago
/me sees FVWM referred to in the past tense from his FVWM desktop, and scowls
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by ttkciar 6y ago
My thought exactly. It even incorporates functionality for turning any local git repo into a shared git repo. Mainly what they need besides that is a place to co-ordinate, collaborate and track tickets. Solutions abound. The RIAA's a
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by ttkciar 7y ago
I don't disagree with anything you say :-) but it bears pointing out that D already lets you call into C libraries without glue. This means you can write C and use the entire wide C ecosystem, but use D for the parts of the program whi
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by ttkciar 7y ago
For what it's worth, I'm a long-time C programmer, but have piss-poor C++ skills, and despise C++, and D clicked for me immediately. I'm loving it. Whether D "clicks" for someone might be more a matter of subjectiv
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by ttkciar 7y ago
Google for "dlang" (including the quotes) and you'll get all the D hits you want.
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by ttkciar 7y ago
.. and with much better run-time performance than Go.
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by ttkciar 7y ago
D comes with a lot of "casual parallelism" baked in at the language level, and in its standard libraries. Actors are just one feature among many. You -can- explicitly manage threads and processes like in other languages, but much
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by ttkciar 7y ago
We don't have an "NLP lab" here, but when my project required NLP solutions, perl delivered quite nicely.
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by ttkciar 7y ago
Its runtime is quite a bit faster and enjoys a smaller memory footprint. It is also more amenable to "bash on steroids" scripting, and has a quarter-million canned solutions in CPAN. PyPi has caught up with CPAN in terms of sheer
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by ttkciar 7y ago
Since the language-previously-known-as-Perl6 will be known as Raku, there shouldn't be any conflict with Perl v6
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by ttkciar 7y ago
I am fascinated by the economy of packing three inaccuracies into that one sentence. (1) X11 is not a window manager, (2) There have been several really effective window managers for X11, (3) MS-Windows has never been good at remote display
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by ttkciar 7y ago
Yes, what Grinnz says. "Bash on steroids" is one of perl's strongest use-cases. It's why a lot of system administrators learned perl.

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