waynecochran

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by waynecochran 1mo ago
Fight fire w fire. Have AI read it and decide what to do w it.
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by waynecochran 1mo ago
Yes
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
LLM's may have provided a bit of comeuppance. Many mathematicians have cared little if anyone understands their obscure nomenclature and build mote around their work. Now they have encountered something that is becoming far more capabl
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
Apple and Jony Ive killed skeuomorph design a long time ago.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
You do realize EV’s pollute as well? Batteries are nasty.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
| The gas detected in the atmosphere is helium The planet must have an enormous escape velocity to contain helium in its atmosphere. If there is life there they are stuck.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
I am shipping sophisticated computer vision code that is more reliable and better tested than ever before. This isn't some vibe coded bullsh*t. This is me writing detailed mathematical specs and it do all the heavy lifting.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
There has been a steady decline for decades. Release early, release often. One example: Apple used to have a thing called Gold Master release when updating software was not as immediate. The GM programs met a high bar for quality. Not so mu
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
It will be easier than trying to learn to the new features of C++34.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
I think you misunderstand -- I am still reading the article.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
That is exactly what I was thinking. I was a seasoned C++ programmer and always loved reading articles like this. I can't imagine I will every write my own C++ code again -- or in any language. I now program with English specifications
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
The main iPhone app I maintain for work is 100% claude edited now ... I don't touch the code anymore ... I do occasionally look at it. It does a way better job than I could. I do have Xcode open as claude does its thing ... and I occas
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
That is the part Claude can handle and actually does. In fact, recently claude automaticaly converted some spline generating code to double precision and did some other refactoring as well after it realized poor results thru tests it genera
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
... I believe many programmers at this point have less impact they could have because they look at the code. I think my strength is now more in my ability as a mathematician and a writer than as a programmer. Being able to write
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
I am sure it probably was - a bit heavier option. There other mobile / VR / XR apps that I had to port to a variety of platforms using languages like Swift and Kotlin -- each platform has its own vector library. These don't n
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
Here is an example. I wrote a MacOS app in Objective-C++/C++ that used Eigen's JacobiSVD solver at one point. A colleague of mine use Claude to port it into a web tool that used JavaScript. I scrolled thru the JS code and saw that
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
Have you used Claude lately? It definitely will outperform a human at this task now.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
There are cases where you don't want the footprint of bringing in another framework / library or that is not even an option.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
No problem for claude. In fact I would have claude do the PR and go have lunch.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
Go ahead and have claude add and run units tests for you as part of the PR review process.
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
I'll give you one example, an often first step to solving the Perspective N Point (PNP) problem involves using the Direct Linear Transform (DLT) method which boils down to solving AX = 0 where A in a 12x2N matrix (N can be 6 to 500). T
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
You are doing it wrong. Have Claude generate the test code and log test data that it can feed back into itself. Claude can generate tests and verify the code better than humans now. I don't trust humans to get things right anymore -- I
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by waynecochran 2mo ago
The SVD seems to come up everywhere in my work in computer vision. I find myself continuously using the various C++/Eigen SVD implementations. Actually I should speak in the past tense. Claude and Codex are now generating all my code
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by waynecochran 3mo ago
I wish I lived in a world were you didn't have to sign contracts, lock your doors, or have X11 security. It is so fun to run xmeltdown a new user's display.
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by waynecochran 3mo ago
Of course not. You can melt things w thermite without being malicious. Like my friend's toolbox for instance.
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by waynecochran 3mo ago
Do NOT, under any circumstances, use any material in this repository maliciously. This is good-faith, open-disclosure vulnerability research intended to get more people interested in exploring this area of cyber
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by waynecochran 3mo ago
Maybe I like my characters to be in worse situations but inspire me by overcoming them and giving hope. Dostoyevsky leaves you in a pool of gray melancholy and dispair.
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by waynecochran 3mo ago
I have never read a book I hated more than The Brothers Karamazov. I never read a book that depressed me more than Crime and Punishment. No more Dostoevsky for me.
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by waynecochran 3mo ago
I blame 8086 segmented memory and the rest of its horrid architecture on why no one liked programming in assembly language. There were other elegant RISC machines with flat memory models and large general register sets that were a complete
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by waynecochran 3mo ago
What is the legal precedent for this statement? I am not disagreeing, I just would like to know what the law is.

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