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Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by bitwize »

rschiavone wrote: post #7
varjag wrote: post #2

It's bittersweet, isn't it. Software is solved, but at a terrible cost.

How is it solved? LLMs cannot think new things, they can only cobble something together if it's in their training set.

They can think and reason better than most humans. Most problems they're pointed at are not in their training set, but in certain ways they resemble things that are—maybe there are a few different resemblances to different problems in its training set—so it's able to pull these disparate similarities together and apply the patterns it finds to come up with a solution. Much like human brains do.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by pixl97 »

qsera wrote: post #31
rschiavone wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it solved? LLMs cannot think new things, they can only cobble something together if it's in their training set.

It does not think at all. It vibes based on its training and any additional bolted on constraints. It is a quite simple automation that only works by huge amount of existing data. Modern man has grown quite dumb. He only seems to be able to "invent" by massive scaling things that are decades or centuries old..

>Modern man has grown quite dumb

Ah yes, that's why it only took 50 years instead of 100,000 years for homosapients to reach the space age....

Dude, there was no glorious past, we've always sucked.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by avitzur »

felixding wrote: post #78
zweifuss wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The app on your Mac today isn't a rewrite of the legendary Mac OS 7.2.1 Graphing Calculator, but an acquired app based on Curvus Pro introduced in OSX Tiger. The first one has a legendary backstory. 2 devs snuck into Apple after their project was canceled: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ Curvus Pro: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/curvus-pro

Just wow! I’m speechless! Can’t think of any other word than “legendary”.

Good times, good times.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by relium »

bartvk wrote: post #4

The blog mentions a Graphing Calculator. Not sure if it shares code, but macOS still ships with an app to draw graphs, Grapher.app

The current Mac version of what started as the PowerPC Graphing Calculator app can be downloaded from the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator-4/id522175...

The iOS version is at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pacific-tech-graphing-calcul...

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by scotty79 »

lizknope wrote: post #41
throw0101a wrote: post #19

For those unaware, this line is from the movie Terminator 2 : * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day

I clicked on the post expecting it to be something from T2 and wondered why I was reading something about emulation.

I have strong affinity for having references popping into my mind when doing something not obviously related. Sometimes the connection is obscure, sometimes the source of the reference is obscure. I highly doubt people would get many of them.

One of my favorite ones is "Third turtle lies.". When people wonder how something reported could have been possible.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by dredmorbius »

latentsea wrote: post #101
dredmorbius wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spanish: - "ha" sound -> J - silent -> H, sometimes LL - "yu" sound -> LL - "v" sound -> B La Jolla -> "Lah Hoya" (English phonetic). Vallejo -> "Baiyeho" (phonetic), though the north-bay California town is often pronounced "Valayho" by locals. "Vallay-joe" is a sure sign of a non-native. I have it on good authority that mail addressed to "La Hoya, CA" will in fact reach its intended destination.

You missed the joke.

Hokay.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by thepryz »

zweifuss wrote: post #34
bartvk wrote: post #4

The blog mentions a Graphing Calculator. Not sure if it shares code, but macOS still ships with an app to draw graphs, Grapher.app

The app on your Mac today isn't a rewrite of the legendary Mac OS 7.2.1 Graphing Calculator, but an acquired app based on Curvus Pro introduced in OSX Tiger. The first one has a legendary backstory. 2 devs snuck into Apple after their project was canceled: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ Curvus Pro: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/curvus-pro

This highlights what I think is missing within a lot of tech companies today. I don’t know too many people who are so passionate about what they’re doing that they would sneak into their former employer’s office buildings and then find employees willing to work together with them to finish a project that simply had to get done. That alone makes me a bit sad.

Re: I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

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Post by varjag »

embedding-shape wrote: post #22
varjag wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly conflating coding with typing tells me your idea of coding is very different to what I used to do.

Use whatever labels you want, apply charitable reading and I'm sure even you could understand what I mean here. Clearly there are at least two sorts of tasks (or used to anyways) in "software engineering" as a whole, one more mechanical and one more about thinking.

It just shows you haven't programmed computers much so your opinion is largely speculative.
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