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Here are some critical insights regarding the structural shift currently transforming the global ...
So benchmarking LLMs is kind of an unsolved problem. The metrics used to evaluate models are either too narrow or too gameable. Cross-entropy may be a useful statistic to tune a training run, but in practice it doesn't tell me if a model can understand my amazon e-mails or write cool haikus. Practical approaches exist, like the LM Arena. This is going in the ...
So going through some old notes and trying to clean my hard drive I found what appears to be a session log of what was the very first RPG session that I ever game mastered. Actually, that isn't completely true — it was the first one that didn't end in frustration or disaster.
This must have been in the before times of around 2014. We were playing Stars without ...
I really like sum types and matching patterns on them. For example:
class ConnectedClient:
ip: Tuple[int, int, int, int]
class AuthenticatedClient:
send: Callable[[str], None]
auth: AuthToken
class Disconnected:
pass
ClientConnection = ConnectedClient | AuthenticatedClient | DisconnectedThis is very clean and ...
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So we all know AI is taking over coding. It's obvious, and undeniable. Both the quality and speed of production for AI generated code is currently very high, and it's only getting better. I can make frogger in a one-shot prompt on my GPU, and from what people are saying Claude can basically whip up a spinning hexagon program that cures cancer in under 20 ...
This was from a reddit discussion about wether it's possible to use linux and code while blind. Naturally, my response got a little overzealous. I'm keeping it here for future reference.
skelly2611 wrote
I'm just looking for some opinions on what the best programming environment is. ... So my question to yous is, what is the best shell for developing, ...