A week-long programming retreat
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A week-long programming retreat
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#2I do trips like this every few years. I can hardly recommend them enough.
I wrote about my specific recommendations here: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/you-should-take-a-codecation.
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#3He mentions it a bit, but openbsd is really a good place to start for multiplatform code. Their focus on security and posix helps a ton.
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#4Good writeup -- and one of the main reminders for me is this:
People throw around words like "revolution" for the current deep-learning push. But it's worth remembering that the fundamental concepts of neural networks have been around for decades. The current explosion is due to breakthroughs in scalability and implementation through GPUs and the like, not any sort of fundamental algorithmic paradigm shift.
This is similar to how the integrated circuit enabled the personal computing "revolution" but down at the transistor level, it's still using the same principles of digital logic since the 1940s.
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#5Interesting to hear that C++ isn’t that well supported on OpenBSD. The story is quite the opposite with FreeBSD, where it’s really easy to use either clang or gcc. I usually spin up new jails to keep different installations sandboxed. CLion works quite nicely with most window managers on FreeBSD, but I rarely boot Xwindows these days and usually prefer to work with emacs inside tmux from the console.
Re: A week-long programming retreat
#6Interesting to hear that C++ isn’t that well supported on OpenBSD. The story is quite the opposite with FreeBSD, where it’s really easy to use either clang or gcc. I usually spin up new jails to keep different installations sandboxed. CLion works quite nicely with most window managers on FreeBSD, but I rarely boot Xwindows these days and usually prefer to work with emacs inside tmux from the console.
C++ support is pretty good with base Clang 5, OpenBSD is using the libc++ standard library and libc++abi (FreeBSD uses PathScale's libcxxrt). The situation with debuggers is another story, the base version of gdb is outdated (GPLv2 version). The ports/packages version (egdb) has better support for things like C++, threads, but may lack other features. There is currently no support for the LLVM debugger, sadly.
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#7I like his insight that a lot of base neural network implementation code is conceptually simple in the same way as writing a raytracer.
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#8>> I’m not a Unix geek. I get around ok, but I am most comfortable developing in Visual Studio on Windows.
This is a lesson for me and probably many others. Don't get hung up on tools, ship!!!
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#9Hands up for everyone who expected John to announce the first self-aware AI at the end.
Re: A week-long programming retreat
#10Interesting to hear that C++ isn’t that well supported on OpenBSD. The story is quite the opposite with FreeBSD, where it’s really easy to use either clang or gcc. I usually spin up new jails to keep different installations sandboxed. CLion works quite nicely with most window managers on FreeBSD, but I rarely boot Xwindows these days and usually prefer to work with emacs inside tmux from the console.
My gut feeling is(was) that C++ is a first class citizen on OpenBSD. Its interesting having my beliefs challenged like this from someone so influential.
The question becomes; if its not C++, then what is the first class citizen on OpenBSD. And if it is C++ then how do we improve support? Just going to ports seems like a poor answer.