Viewing profile — gw32

Interesting work. I'm surprised that hypothesis 2 (that CSV serialization format mangles table columns) was falsified. Back in the gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4o era, I did needle-haysta…

Am I the only one who enjoys taking notes? But more in the sense of recording knowledge so that I have it in perpetuity. For instance, I have almost completely forgotten how to sol…

> Big no for retyping llm generated code by hand. There must be some merit to retyping LLM generated code, even verbatim. In school, I would rewrite or re-typeset notes as a study …

Well elucidated. This problem has irked me for years in the form of multiple inheritance. When it's disallowed (like Java, unfortunately), trying to reduce a directed graph structu…

"beyond comprehension" is a good way of putting it. I've been genuinely baffled by some of these AI designs - why any intelligent thing would write >10 lines of bloat for what shou…

Ironic: my value as a programmer now comes not from my ability to write code, but my ability to delete the useless fluff that AI wrote.

Neat puzzle, juggling between local and long-range effects. It's surprising how often the bishop gets in the way.

I was wondering that too. One would think that with a greedy approach, 1 square diagonally from the corner would be better. (But that doesn't work as well.)