robert-zaremba
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Comment · 1 month ago
what's wrong with elisp? The runtime is really well integrated in Emacs!
Note: AI is good at writing all lips dialects!
Comment · 1 month ago
In my 20 years living inside Emacs, the running joke has always been that it's a great operating system lacking only a good text editor. With Neomacs bringing a GPU-accelerated display engine, and WebKit to the table... it looks like our operating system finally got a modern compositor. On top of that multithreading! (so some cache ops won't pause the editor!)
Jokes aside, this is exactly the kind of mad-science evolution Emacs needs, rather than being hard-blocked by 1980s terminal-era C code.
I'm curious how much of this project is done by AI? PS: kudos for doing it, I will definitely support it!
Comment · 1 month ago
Go is my the most favourite language, so I'm happy to see a Go based editor. However this days I'm writing code mainly in typescript (for Cloudflare workers). TS is the most popular language and you guys will definitely need to prioritize TS.
Comment · 11 months ago
The strategic move to use TPU rather than Nvidia is paying well for Google. They are able to better utilize their existing large infrastructure, but also specialize the processes and pipelines for their own framework that they use to create and train models.
I think a specialized hardware for training models is the next big wave in China.
Comment · 11 months ago
During my university time, I used to do a lot of different programming puzzles and algo. I think it an invaluable training that every serious engineer should try without relaying on AI.
Skills are trained by practice and thinking. Skilled people will never be subsidized by AI. Unskilled juniors, who don't train properly will go into tranches (as it's already happening).
Comment · 1 year ago
It's based on X11, unfortunately. I've fully transitioned to Wayland based desktops
I would be very happy to try FyneDesk if it would be based on Wayland.
I see they work on full Wayland support, and targeting to do it in v5.0. What's the ETA? Last release was 1.5 year ago!
> The 0.4 branch of releases marks the end of X11 native implementations as we will begin the move to Wayland (and XWayland) for 0.5. > https://github.com/FyshOS/fynedesk/releases
Comment · 1 year ago
KAT-Dev-32B and KAT-Coder are optimized via several stages of training, including a mid-training stage, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) & reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) stage and an large-scale agentic reinforcement learning (RL) stage.
Comment · 1 year ago
TBH, I'm sick about LaTeX:
- compilation is heavy
- it's not friendly for writing (far from the dominant markup languages)
- poor support to HTML / Epub / mobile outputs
- output (PDF) not friendly for parsing / digesting.
- tonnes of templates, lot of mess.
We should just use human friendly markups like MyST Markdown [1] or Org Mode [2].
Unfortunately, whitepapers are predominantly written in LaTeX. Thankfully, arXiv recently made a move to parse and render those documents in the web format. It's a hard job. But this is the wrong way around: instead of keep composing documents in LaTeX (which is not human friendly), and then doing the hard job with tooling, we should start with human first approach and have win-win!
We are living in the world where web content is the primary content and friendly for desktop, mobile devices and readers and tools (select, copy, edit...). It's easy to package any web content into epub and ship it in a single file. Printing is also easy. Only cons: precise typesetting is not harder. But this is less of the problem. I would prefer a content that is friendly to read and is responsive, than a precise typesetting.
[1] https://mystmd.org/ [2] https://orgmode.org/manual/Summary.html [3] https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks for a comment. What's the reason for not posting own article to content discovery services / agregators? It's a common thing.
Comment · 9 years ago
I hope one day all popular browsers will render EPUB straight away. Should be lot easier then PDF.
Comment · 9 years ago
Majority of publications are simple text with few tables or diagrams. We don't need complex typesetting for that. Printing from EPUB should be good.
You always need an extra app to view PDF. It's either installed by default or not. Phones, tablets, and other screen devices have available EPUB, MOBI, HTML browsers to install.