gritzko
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Comment · 2 days ago
Technically, malloc() is a library function, not core C. My point is this: guarantees cost complexity, and you always have to keep in mind the assumptions and how much of it is theater. So, neither way is strictly better. It depends. For immutable data, lifetimes don't buy much, for example.
Comment · 2 days ago
If you don't allocate, why do you even need Go or Rust? LLMs handle less elegant syntax just as well. I use a zero-malloc C dialect with slices and bounds-checking.
Just recently I was sketching a smallish database in zero-malloc C. https://replicated.live/blog/db That was partly because most LSM data structures are read-only, so mmap was good enough and concurrent access was safe for the bulk of the data.
The "hot zone" (memtable) then requires some intricate engineering, but that is the case either way.
You can go quite far with zero-malloc C.
Comment · 9 days ago
Regulation should not be a problem, there are several past precedents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipknip
Comment · 14 days ago
StarCraft probably has hundreds of bot implementations lying on GitHub. Which makes this bench a recall-from-the-training-set competition, essentially. I tried that method on old games that certainly do not have a ton of bot implementations on GitHub. It revealed some interesting aspects about LLM reasoning and ways to use it. https://replicated.live/blog/games
Overall, this is a useful benchmarking approach. May take some newer papers and evaluate them this way.
Comment · 17 days ago
These productivity gains must go somewhere.
Comment · 18 days ago
E = mc²
E energy necessary to integrate changes
m mass of the monorepo
c rate of commits
Comment · 19 days ago
This graph shows that Yandex Web crawler farm was hit. The other option, it was shut down to accommodate more critical services that got hit. (I worked for Yandex 20 years ago, one crawler guy was in the same room.) Not sure if troll farms got affected in any way, that is a different business entirely, no overlap.
The interesting aspect is this: Yandex was taken from its owners semi-consensually. Similarly, the original owner of the troll farms was blown up in a business jet. He staged a mutiny cause his dirty bloody business was about to be taken from him non-consensually. Some other large non-consensual takeovers unfold for 5 years, soon 6.
What an appetite!
Comment · 19 days ago
I made AIs (the new kind) create AIs (the classic kind) to battle in old games. That was a serious experiment! http://replicated.live/blog/games
Comment · 22 days ago
Do these runtimes have some value today? Sort of. But the cost of reimplementing them goes down, down, down. I made two bespoke JS runtimes within a year. Next year it will be even easier.
Deno/Bun see the picture better than I do, and they decided it was the right time for an acquihire.
Comment · 23 days ago
OK, I guess we will see Turing's Bombe in a browser before Christmas?
Comment · 23 days ago
> the joy and creativity of writing code, of solving seemingly-impossible puzzles with ones mind
Find tougher puzzles then
Comment · 23 days ago
Exactly. I switched to Linux in the 90s.
Comment · 23 days ago
Ah, yes, sorry. At this point, XP and DOS are almost synonymous for me.
The entire point of the port was to add headless play for AI training. But porting the old interface and playing it in the browser was lots of fun. Can not upload that to GitHub, obviously.
Comment · 23 days ago
Opus 5.5.
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