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Comment · 21 days ago
I use daily since years at work for all things bioinformatics/research. I think it's a more fun language than most so it help me keep my sanity.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think something that could help is moving together rather than one-by-one. We could have a website where you can register as "ready to move from X to Y when N other people are", when the goal is reached everybody gets a notice it's time to move.
Comment · 1 month ago
And if you don't want to code your own HMM it also has the best (AFAIK) HMM library out there (HiddenMarkovModels.jl).
Comment · 2 months ago
Implement a linear regression or Bayes' theorem.
Comment · 2 months ago
I wonder if there's correlations between tasks and languages, e.g. maybe R is better for bioinformatics tasks, python for webdev, C for CLIs, etc. I'd expect to see it because some languages are used more often in some tasks than others, but on the other hand LLMs can learn across languages and it's not clear if task-language use patterns are just historical or if the language is genuinely better at the task.
Comment · 4 months ago
I thought it was very interesting, but maybe also incredibly naive politically ? it's like he's re-discovering alienation under capitalism.

A wood-worker could do the same argument, there's the "official" wood-working word of perfect joinery and beautifully finished tables one can buy, but behind it there's the "secret" messy human element, the art, the craft, the mistakes and hard-ships, the elevation of human skills and imagination, the creation of whole new types of wood-working inventions and techniques, the perpetuation of millenia-old traditions, the teaching, the joy of selling to a happy customer, etc.

But now comes techo-capitalism, division of labor, you cut that piece a that piece over and over, you operate that machine, you won't even see the finished table, fuck your human element, we want that profit !

Comment · 5 months ago
It's already on my bank app since a couple of week, but I haven't tried it yet.
Comment · 5 months ago
You should really do a Bayesian fit for such predictions and give confidence intervals, it would probably show that the uncertainty is very high in these cases.
Comment · 7 months ago
That works well to get around patents btw :)
Comment · 8 months ago
If it taste as good and is cheaper, sure.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
I gave it a try, I asked to do a reddit like forum and it did pretty good but damn I quickly hit the daily limit of the $20 pro account, and it took 10% of the monthly just to do the setup and some basics. I knew LLM were expensive to run but I've never felt it directly. Even if the code is good it's kinda expensive for what you get.

Ho it was also quite funny it used the exact same color as hackernews and a similar layout.

Comment · 10 months ago
Also tried it on a small project, it did ok finding issues but completely failed doing rather basic edits, like it lost closing brackets or used wrong syntax and couldn't recover. The CLI was easy to setup and use though.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah that was a missed opportunity fore sure, joining forces 8 years ago would probably had yield better results that the current situation.
Comment · 1 year ago

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