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Re: Ask HN: Any New Computer Ideas?

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Post by mikewarot »

Metamine had a amazing demo[1], which is only still with us on the Internet Archive. I've fawned over it before[2], but suffice it to say it was a normal programming language plus a magical equals which kept the left side of an assignment updated after the fact, for the life of the program. (Along with the normal non-magical one) The amazing part is that the author, Ymte Jan Broekhuizen, had coherent rules figured out for mixing declarative and imperative programming. Figuring those out is a minor miracle in my mind.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20201014024057/https://www.youtub...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Re: Ask HN: Any New Computer Ideas?

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Post by idontwantthis »

gysakai wrote: post #9
ahmoddie wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely asking, but why?

I mean, we've spent 50+ years adapting to the machine. with an LLM in the middle, we can just say what we want and let it do the adapting.

I haven't enjoyed speaking to LLMs. I need time to form my thoughts and typing lets me pause and correct myself without feeling weird.

Re: Ask HN: Any New Computer Ideas?

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Post by gysakai »

idontwantthis wrote: post #12
gysakai wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, we've spent 50+ years adapting to the machine. with an LLM in the middle, we can just say what we want and let it do the adapting.

I haven't enjoyed speaking to LLMs. I need time to form my thoughts and typing lets me pause and correct myself without feeling weird.

Same here, actually. I'm more of a typer myself. Voice is only the beggining. Keyboards and mice exist because we've had to adapt to computers. Maybe the next step is for computers to adapt to us. I hope so.
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