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Comment · 2 months ago
The video on their audio editor would have been much more interesting and widely useful if they instead showed how they made their beautiful video. There is much more combined video and audio editing going on than audio-editing alone and doing this well is difficult and time-consuming.
Comment · 2 months ago
There video on their audio editor would have been much more interesting and widely useful if they instead showed how they made their beautiful video. There is much more combined video and audio editing going on than audio-editing alone and doing this well is difficult and time-consuming.
Comment · 3 months ago
The concept of a hyperverse, with rapid, contextual hyperlinking and low to no markup links that Hyperbole provides is quite interesting. Speed to capture and retrieve knowledge, especially in software engineering contexts, is critical but few systems really pay attention to this.

Is there anything your knowledge capture and retrieval systems do or don't do that you love or want?

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Anerli wrote: “When the interface does eventually change, that's where it becomes non-deterministic again by necessity, since the planner will need to generatively update the test and continue building the new cache from there.”

But what determines that the UI has changed for a specific URL? Your software independent of the planner LLM or do you require the visual LLM to make a determination of change?

You should also stop saying 100% open source when test plan generation and execution depend on non-open source AI components. It just doesn’t make sense.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have never heard anyone think this way: “The main mistake people usually make is thinking Newton or Einstein were just scaled-up good students, that a genius comes to life when you linearly extrapolate a top-10% student.

The reason such people are widely lauded as geniuses is precisely because people can’t envision smart students producing paradigm-shifting work as they did.

Yes, people may be talking about AI performance as genius-level but any comparison to these minds is just for marketing purposes.

Comment · 1 year ago
You should check out the HyWiki part of the Emacs Hyperbole hypertext package available from melpa or elpa-devel. It utilizes Org mode for notes and WikiWords to automatically interlink them as you type. The WikiWords work in any kind of text buffer as well, even in programming file comments. It even lets you link to many other kinds of Emacs entities like bookmarks, Org IDs and headings, etc. One command to build a web-based wiki. With a little practice, it might amaze you.
Comment · 1 year ago
The same thing that has happened forever. People practice and gain skills on their own time before being welcomed into the professional community. Skilled new college graduate programmers have often put in a decade or more of learning before they graduate because they start young. They may have taught themselves many programming languages, studied many open source libraries, learned about profiling and efficiency tradeoffs, etc. Companies with serious engineering needs simply don’t want and haven’t wanted those who lack this natural desire to build and iterate. The only change is that the bar continues to rise a bit and all people are now competing at one level or another with machines.
Comment · 2 years ago
The boy can write. Thanks for the laughs.
Comment · 2 years ago
Someone once said to Doug: “I don’t know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of your inventions.”

I had the pleasure of working with him. He was brilliant and kind. The world just wasn’t ready for him.

Comment · 3 years ago
Why can’t you keep the calling interfaces of functions as close to the Py libraries as possible, simplifying the transition for everyone? Will that really destroy the performance increase? Common calling interfaces make everything much simpler. Even in this simple example, the calls differ significantly.
Comment · 3 years ago
Probably because many people struggle to read with any reasonable level of comprehension. People reading this site are not representative of the public at large, as you know.
Comment · 3 years ago
GNU Hyperbole for rapid, implicit linking of all your programming artifacts and management support for handling technical complexity. One of those you can get for free.
Comment · 3 years ago
Actually, using Org mode and the Hyperbole package in Emacs solves all the problems listed in easy to use ways except you get much more editing dunctionality rather than just the features requested. Don’t reinvent the wheel; just learn something that runs everywhere and solves your problems. You start Emacs once and then rapidly edit files from the command-line by calling emacsclient, not restarting Emacs.

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