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My unworthy opinion: Herbert Gross' “Calculus Revisited” three-part series. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-si... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-007-c…

LLMs don't necessarily need to think to be useful. Having a simple minimal working example from an API you're trying to grok is helpful, as long as it's error-free and not redundan…

The question remains, what is "value" (i.e., money) that we can use to exchange for other things that bring us "value" (i.e., money)? Water preparation, catching fish and making fi…

I visit job search sites and select the “entry level” filter. Then, I read requirements such as “2+ years (non-internship) experience in C++”, “5 years of professional experience i…

My personal suggestion: Make sure you are able to set pixels and create audio samples (sine function sampled over a discrete time steps). Also make sure to store the results as PPM…

Who knows what the future will bring (will we ever get AGI)? Needless to say, fundamentals, that is, math (geometry, algebra, and calculus) and physics (mechanics, electromagnetism…

You forgot, fire making, water filtration (essential) and fishing (protein, fat, vitamins). How can you do all the stuff without energy? Are you running on sunlight, or do you do n…

Usually not. For me, it's an “autonomous search engine on steroids, i.e., its huge dataset”. (I.e., it's just another tool you use.) Before LLMs, you would cobble a bunch of disjoi…

You can consider using MinUnit and Clang-Tidy together with Clang-Format as well, further, for C it should be something more like this: CC = clang CFLAGS = -g -std=c2x -Weverything…

Here's a simple NMAKE Makefile using MSVC to compile a Win32 application on Windows 11: CC = cl.exe LD = link.exe CFLAGS = /Od /Zi /FAsu /std:c17 /permissive- /W4 /WX LDFLAGS = /DE…

Use MinUnit.h https://jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002 Consider using Clang-Tidy with `-*,cert-*` (Which disables all default options, and checks your code according to the Secure cod…

What do you think about money and income? If people in the Western world get older, lose jobs, earn less money, and have fewer kids, who will buy those kinds of products? Maybe peo…

At least from my experience and from the suggestions from Nassim Taleb (e.g., past events/data != future outcome/data), we cannot reliably predict the future. The only thing that i…

Somewhat similar to the dark ages with its aristocrats ruling over us. Creating AGI needs powerful computers, which are costly. Independence from humans, like workers in chip facto…

I find Clojure, Racket and F# to be nice, yet, it being nice does not help to pay your bills (most likely judging by the job openings you see at those job search sites). But it mig…

What concrete advantages does OP gain from solving a problem in Rust? If you're considering creating a language binding in Rust, you can't easily bypass C, the predominant language…

SEEKING PROJECTS: Technologies: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Scala 3, Clojure, Racket, Qt 5, SDL2, Windows API, DirectX Math, Play, Vue.js Projects: I did write basic software …

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Location: Europe Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Scala 3, Racket, Clojure, Linux, Git, Make, CMake, Clang-Tidy, Clang-Format, Ca…

How to approach finding some kind of employment in software, given that I've been looking for a job worldwide since April last year, but haven't found one yet? I'm open to any soft…

Nassim Taleb also suggests to not predict the future from past events. Why? Because we are not almighty and all-knowing, but we seem to collectively pretend that we are. Some peopl…

Or, equivalently, how would you approach running an 180B+ LLM on a Von Neumann computer with say 1 MB of main memory and virtually limitless secondary storage? Or, do you know abou…