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The tool overhauled significantly to enable drawing 'text only' HTML based plots as well as many other features and improvements.

Just use sanitizers properly. You are done. Everyone doing anything half-professional with C++ has been doing that for years already. And no you don't have to run sanitizers in pro…

Math is math. There is a very important place for it. But it is a very specific corner. LLMs don't come from math or from people who are 'mathematicians'. They use some parts of ma…

Anyone actually physically doing ML research knows it ... but doesn't write the actual code for this stuff (or god forbid write some byzantine math notations somewhere), doesn't ev…

What do you mean 'low'? :-) The barrier to entry is probably epicly high because to be actually useful you need to understand how to actually train a model in practice, how it is a…

'The maths you need to start understanding LLMs'. You don't need that math to start understanding LLMs. In fact, I'd argue its harmful to start there unless your goal is to 'take m…

Being curious is good ... nothing wrong with that. What I took issue with above is (what I see as) attempt to derail people into low level math when that is not the crux of the que…

These are technical details of computations that are performed as part of LLMs. Completely pointless to anyone who is not writing the lowest level ML libraries (so basically everyo…

This is true ... except that it is simplistically naive way of looking at things, because this is just one form (out of many) of anti-competitive practices. It is essentially high-…

The supposed 'taxi cartel' were just (some) scummy operators ... not really a cartel. Fast forward to today => you are paying more for what is essentially very similar service (bec…

On one hand I don't understand what all the fuss is about. LLMs are great at all kinds of things around and about: searching for (good) information, summarizing existing text, conc…

You can copy paste unsourced open source snippets just fine, ain't nothing wrong with that (usually) It is another story whether anyone should do that for other reasons having noth…

Of course. This is kind of to be expected as it has the benefit of hindsight of 25+ years. It is infinitely easier to design better things with all the accumulated experience and k…

This is true ... except that Rust doesn't actually do any better in that regard. Rust solves 1 category of problems in a way that is not without its costs and other consequences. T…

Have a look at any serious job postings. C++ jobs outnumber Rust jobs somewhere around 50:1. Internet hype meets actual industry reality :-).

Hello HN, I have been building incplot, a CLI tool for drawing plots in the terminal using unicode characters. It is intended to be the most convenient way to quickly visualize sma…