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One doesn’t simply create a Warren Abstract Machine by accident

Strange article. The problem isn’t that everyone doesn’t know how everything works, it’s that AI coding could mean there is no one who knows how a system works.

Sadly, the US is more likely to at war with Europe than China

I haven't been writing Rust for that long (about 2 years) but every time I see .unwrap() I read it as 'panic in production'. Clippy needs to have harder checks on unwrap.

To be fair the performance of rules or Bayesian networks or statistical models wasn't the problem (performance compared to existing practice). DeDombal showed in 1972 that a simple…

Don’t attribute to jealousy that can be adequately explained by vanishing gradients. BTW the ad hoc treatment of uncertainty in Mycin (certainty factors) motivated the work of Baye…

Unfortunately, I think the context rot paper [1] found that the performance degradation when context increased still occurred in models using attention sinks. 1. https://research.t…

I've been using Gemini 2.5 and Claude 3.7 for Rust development and I have been very impressed with Claude, which wasn't the case for some architectural discussions where Gemini imp…

When do you turn it off? I have a Mac M1 Studio and I just let it sleep. If things get weird I reboot. I think I recall using the power button about a year ago after returning from…

But unfortunately it’s not premature. It’s been a problem for so long!

I suspect it's not so much the "expert" instruction but the list of subjects of the expertise. These words will generate embeddings that have a better chance of activating useful p…

Was it the "map of Tasmania"? Then I could understand why... https://info.umkc.edu/womenc/2016/05/20/showin-off-her-map-o... .

Apple’s first in-house designed chip was the A4 in 2010.

I agree with your assessment. The real challenge is how can organisations best leverage super stars to achieve great things. It's difficult because managers have to be smart and co…

With ChatGPT some of the limitations of the tech are handled by the user e.g. starting a new chat when you want to discuss a new topic. An assistant has to detect changes in user c…

ChatGPT has helped me survive learning Rust.

I went from playing with Wordstar at my dad’s office to Zardax on the Apple II which was a breeze in comparison. https://archive.org/details/ZardaxWordProcessorManualAppleII...

Yes, a real “Flowers for Algernon” vibe

It turns out to accurately predict the next word requires huge amounts of implicit contextual knowledge i.e. understanding about the world. Next word prediction was the trigger, th…

Elixir has a vector library Nx that’s designed for these use cases.

F#, Swift

I read it as even if extra type information was there the BEAM doesn’t use type information to optimise across modules.

Actually I think de Dombal’s work showed better than expert performance in 1974 (one of the references in the book): de Dombal, E T., Leaper, D. J., Horrocks, J. C., Staniland, J. …

Interestingly Mycin was used to demonstrate the limitations of rule based inference and with trying to handle uncertainty in Rule based systems by two of Shortliffe’s students in t…

I think their hoping tab groups will reduce the 35 tab situation, but it’s too hard to organise when in information gathering mode. I hope they put a preference option to go back t…