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Right! Do you know how well the problem of multiple overlapping vovalizations has been solved? But anywway yes it's fantastic, and really cool that the models (Bird Packs to download on a phone) are becoming available for many more places around the world. I had been wanting to try it on South American birds for years and finally got the chance this year in southeastern Brazil and it was especially amazing in a place where I can place way fewer of the vocalizations.

No comparison when it comes to sound. Try Merlin's abilities to identify bird sounds if you haven't yet.

Pretty much agree. Binoculars are essential though, unless you really just want to watch geese and herons and things. And for binoculars you do want to spend a few hundred dollars at least if you can. It really transforms things when you can start watching/identifying the small birds.

I'd really say the opposite - birdwatching cuts across socioeconomic classes surprisingly well in the UK. At least the subarea of bitding which is focused on rare birds.

Right. But, one says "X is thought extinct." or "X is thought to have been extinct for 6000 years" (or "gone extinct ... ago").

As written don't you think it begs the question (joke, fellow language pedant :) of who was doing the thinking that it was extinct over the course of those 6,000 years?

Happy to hear this. Is go the right language for d2 or could it be worth considering js? The WASM solution seems pretty heavyweight, and it would be amazing to have it rendered natively in markdown hosting sites like GitHub.

A lot of the confusion and criticism surrounding submodules comes from people not understanding that you do not need to learn a lot of new commands to use them: you just cd into the submodule and use it as a normal git repo. Then you cd out and commit the submodule hash change if that's what you want to do.

Some things are annoying, like removing them. But in general they're extremely useful and designed basically exactly how you'd want: it's extremely consistent since to a good approximation, a submodule behaves the same as a normal git repo once you're inside it.

Is there a resource somewhere that tells me, "Given that you have X Gb RAM on your laptop, these are the current local models you should consider trying and here's how to configure them to leave enough memory for other applications on your machine."?

Very silly reply. If you learn how toy LLMs work at 17 don't you think that would help you at university and grad school? There's plenty of time to go into the private sector workforce later.

I'm largely with everyone that Claude is much too verbose and uses too much annoying flowery language. However, some of the more unusual language it uses does result in more precise communication, if you can figure out what it means.

The promise as I understood it was that it would map Go programs down to a unique format, as is done in Python or Rust. It's not required that the long lines violate style guides; we just want a unique blessed format.

Claude's verbosity is the biggest obstacle in the technical parts of my job currently.

(Why does this project need so much Go code to pipe something through a local LLM?)

> By enforcing a single, standardized format via the built-in gofmt tool

I'd read about this many times before I started with Go so I was particularly disappointed to learn that it was a lie. The most important task of a code formatter is to break long lines; it doesn't do it. It doesn't even have an option to do it!

> By enforcing a single, standardized format via the built-in gofmt tool

I'd read about this many times before I started with Go so I was particularly disappointed to learn that it was a lie.