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"There is a crack, a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" - Leonard Cohen

LLM's cracked aping written language, true. But they miss the cracks that make it human , the shadows. Sterile is the word I am looking for.

I don't know , I like macOS, mainly that zsh is readily available and I can (almost) do anything I can do on a linux box in a personal computer.

Ah , Java, a language I pray I never have to ever touch again.

My attitude with writing has been : "Write to the void". There is nothing else to do.

My blog was getting traffic from that domain! So that is what that is.

Classic.

Man, too bad weed gives me bad panic attacks. Alzheimers is the scariest disease I know so maybe if the studies pan out in time and it becomes a standard preventative, I might consider trying again.

But somehow I doubt it will be found to be that effective.

Clarity and Elegance of Syntax > Backwards compatibility.

In my opinion anyway. C++ feels so bloated these days.

With all the AI optimism I see everywhere it's a breath of fresh air to see such takes. Hope the crash is not too painful.

Not familiar with WebAssembly, but from the namesake was expecting the syntax to kind of resemble assembly.

He is showing S-expressions ? That is its' syntax ? I am intrigued now.

Python is perfect as a "glue" language. "Inner Loops" that have to run efficiently is not where it shines, and I would write them in C or C++ and patch them with Python for access to the huge library base.

This is the "two language problem" ( I would like to hear from people who extensively used Julia by the way, which claims to solve this problem, does it really ?)

Do you think it will reach "understanding of semantics", true cognition, within our lifetimes ? Or performance indistinguishable from that even if not truly that.

Not sure. I am not so optimistic. People got intoxicated with nuclear powered cars , flying cars , bases on the moon ,etc all that technological euphoria from the 50's and 60's that never panned out. This might be like that.

I think we definitely stumbled on something akin to the circuitry in the brain responsible for building language or similar to it. We are still a long way to go until artificial cognition.

On one side I am frustrated with LLMs because they derail you by throwing grammatically correct bullshit and hallucinations at you, where if you slip and entertain some of it momentarily it might slow you down.

But on the other hand they are so useful with boilerplate and connecting you with verbiage quickly that might guide you to the correct path quicker than conventional means. Like a clueless CEO type just spitballing terms they do not understand but still that nudging something in your thought process.

But you REALLY need to know your stuff to begin with for they to be of any use. Those who think they will take over are clueless.

That is really creative.

As someone who fell in love with Lisp with Scheme and SICP, I think I agree with the push for minimalism and a bit dubious about the changes in Lisp-2 ...

Is that only a recency bias ? Because I learned Scheme first ? When I try CL I find my mind resisting some things due to purely elegance reasons.

If someone put a gun to my head and asked me for a deliverable quickly I will go with CL to save my life of course, but for my own personal pleasure I will always prefer Scheme.