unoti

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by unoti 8mo ago
> Are there decent wifi communicators on the market? I looked into some Lora projects for this but they never seem to actually ship or get past prorotype Yes, 100%. Meshtastic and Meshcore both do this, but I'd recommend Meshcore.
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by unoti 9mo ago
> Why vibe code with a language that has human convenience and ergonomics in view? Recently I've been preparing a series that teaches how to use AI to assist with coding, and in preparation for that there's this thing I've
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by unoti 9mo ago
> I often try running ideas past chat gpt. It's futile, almost everything is a great idea and possible. I'd love it to tell me I'm a moron from time to time. Here's how to make it do that. Instead of saying "I ha
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by unoti 10mo ago
If you're not sure about what a Markov Chain is, or if you've never written something from scratch that learns , take a look at this repo I made to try to bridge that gap and make it simple and understandable. You can read it in
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by unoti 11mo ago
> Please just use Docker in a microVM or whatever. It's 0% slower and 100% more mature. Wasm has different characteristics than docker containers and as a result can target different use cases and situations. For example, Imagine n
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by unoti 11mo ago
> Yes, I want to play in easy mode. Why would I want to play in hard mode? Working alone can be much easier than managing others in a team. But also, working in a team can be far more effective if you can figure out how to pull it off. I
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by unoti 11mo ago
> If everyone you’re managing is completely transparent and immediately tells you stuff, you’re playing in easy mode So much this. There are many managers who are effective at managing people who do not need management.
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by unoti 11mo ago
> effective management requires that you're able to trust that the person tells you when they've hit a snag or anything else you may need to know This is what we shoot for, yes, but many of the most interesting war stories invo
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by unoti 11mo ago
> I'm not sure that having the patience to work with something with a very inconsistent performance and that frequently lies is an extension of existing development skills. If you’ve be been tasked with leadership of an engineering
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by unoti 1y ago
> I can see why someone might say there's overlap between RL and SFT (or semi-supervised FT), but how is "traditional" SFT considered RL? What is not RL then? Are they saying all supervised learning is a subset of RL, or o
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by unoti 1y ago
> Having spent a couple of weeks on Claude Code recently, I arrived to the conclusion that the net value for me from agentic AI is actually negative. > For me it’s meant a huge increase in productivity, at least 3X. > How do we rec
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by unoti 1y ago
I imagine there’s actually combinatorial power in there though. If we imagine embedding something with only 2 dimensions x and y, we can actually encode an unlimited number of concepts because we can imagine distinct separate clusters or ne
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by unoti 1y ago
> Is it enough to play Human Resource Machine!? That is fun. But this one truly is enough: Turing Complete. You start with boolean logic gates and progressively work your way up to building your own processor, create your own assembly
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by unoti 1y ago
This is the video I wished I had seen when I was a kid, feeling like assembly was a dark art that I was too dumb to be able to do. Later in life I did a ton of assembly professionally on embedded systems. But as a kid I thought I wasn’t sma
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by unoti 1y ago
> Why can’t the LLM just learn your writing style from your previous emails to that person? It totally could. For one thing you could fine tune the model, but I don't think I'd recommend that. For this specific use case, imagi
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by unoti 1y ago
> LLMs lie about their reasoning People do this all the time too! Cat scans show that people make up their minds quickly, showing activations in one part of the brain that makes snap judgements, and then a fraction of a second later the
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by unoti 1y ago
I hear you. But consider this: substitute “LLM” in what you said above with “coworker” or “direct report”. Does having a coworker automatically make a person dumb and no longer willing or able to grow? Does an engineer who becomes a manager
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by unoti 1y ago
When using AI, you are still the one responsible for the code. If the AI writes code and you don't read every line, why did it make its way into a commit? If you don't understand every line it wrote, what are you doing? If you d
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by unoti 1y ago
I came here looking for information about why Ericsson stopped using Erlang, and for more information about Joe's firing. The short answer seems to be that they pivoted to Java for new projects, which marginalized Erlang. Then Joe and
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by unoti 1y ago
> I never used much IBM hardware, and always assumed that their terminals used EBCDIC and not ASCII. Generally this is true. But around this era I used a ton of 3151 terminals on AIX, IBM's version of Unix. They were connected to
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by unoti 1y ago
> C++ is for when complexity cost is worth trading for performance gain. What type of person successfully finds simplicity working in C++? > What type of person successfully finds simplicity working in C++? Be the change you want to s
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by unoti 1y ago
> you can work on your problem, or you can customize the language to fit your problem better There’s a thing I’m whispering to myself constantly as I work on software: “if I had something that would make this easy, what would it look lik
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by unoti 1y ago
Regarding stamina defined broadly as it is in this article: One of my favorite quotes comes from an unlikely source: Mike Tyson. "I don't care how good you are at anything. You don't have discipline you ain’t nothin. Discipl
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by unoti 2y ago
I noticed 4o mini didn't follow the directions to quote users. My favourite part of the 4.5 summary was how it quoted Antirez. 4o mini brought out the same quote, but failed to attribute it as instructed.
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by unoti 2y ago
What a century it's been...
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by unoti 2y ago
> Thing that I don't understand about LLMs at all, is that how it is possible to for it to "understand" and reply in hex (or any other encoding), if it is a statistical "machine" It develops understanding because
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by unoti 2y ago
Oops! That's the same ANKI link as above.
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by unoti 2y ago
Neat ideas here. I've listed 3 thoughts/concerns: 1. Deadlocks 2. Programmer Experience 3. Updating the code with in-flight tasks To avoid deadlocks, it seems like the executor should need to know what the depende
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by unoti 2y ago
There are a lot of suggestions here that seem problematic. For example, the idea that you should read everything and actually understand every detail. While it's a good idea to read a lot about your craft, this task is literally unlim
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by unoti 2y ago
I came here to basically say the same thing. The improvements the OP saw by asking it to repeat all the moves so far gives the LLM more time and space to think. I have this hypothesis giving it more time and space to think in other ways c

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