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Sept
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minerals, maxerals...
The vibe epoch is the number of milliseconds since Wednesday
Months, but Day. Sept, as already pointed out. The LLM is just following suit.
✨AI✨
It's maaagic. So much so that sometimes we don't know wtf it's doing.
Seems like a reasonable thing to bet a whole economy on. /s
I mean, back when it was a huge, poorly understood leap past previous technology it maybe was, but we know now that this is pretty much as good as it can do, just by scaling.
Nice touch making Months plural and Day singular.
I also like how Wednessecond isn't going to be the end of the list, trailing comma is there.
Cursed.
Well, there's multiple months in a year, but only one day per day, so that makes total sense somehow.
Wednesmillisecond, Wednesmicrosecond, ...
Wednesnanosecond, Wednespicosecond, Wednesfemtosecond, ...
Wednesplanktime
Wednespanktime
Wesdneshornyjail for you
WestDesMoinesICEFacility
Oh, it's right after Bonksday!
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Really curious in what scenarios people would be writing enums with months and weekdays.
Because short of developing yet another library to handle date and time, everything else is likely a disaster waiting to happen...
Wrapping a blackbox/legacy system would be a good reason.
Declare the old API in your new language, warts'n'all.
A lot of developers are not passionate, or not curious, or don't know that libraries exist, or all at once (aka stupid). I've seen this everywhere.
Or they are passionate and curious about reinventing the wheel.
The developer who was there when I started my last job believed that libraries should be avoided at all costs. He wrote a CSV reader from scratch in python. It didn't work in many edge cases. He didn't like it when I pointed that out. Nor when I showed him that his "better way" in another case was more than 10x slower using a profiler... At least he was using git, but the git history was full of long series of identical commit messages unrelated to code changes, because PyCharm has an option to reuse the previous commit message on a new commit...
He eventually quit and I spent 3 years refactoring his garbage before we finally had a tech team who could take over (I'm a scientist, with self taught coding skills). Pretty sure even after we had a tech team of 7 if was still a better coder than most, purely because I was interested in how coding works, and trying to understand underlying concepts.
because I was interested in how coding works, and trying to understand underlying concepts
Ah, yes. The secret to being better than most people at at most things. Curiosity and giving a shit.
This is what I try to tell everybody who wants to do the whole "I can't understand how to use computers" schtick, and it's still often too much to handle.
Yeah, it seems that so many people are that way about so many things. And at some point I honestly thing it is bad for you.
Sometimes learning to do the thing and then doing it yourself is a FAR better experience for your well being even if you get worse results in twice the time and at double the cost versus paying somebody to do it for you.
My impostor syndrome is saying that I suck at everything, I just got curiosity to get over some of it..
I am convinced that impostor syndrome is just the other end of the spectrum from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
That doesn't necessarily mean that having impostor syndrome means you're an expert, but that you have the curiosity to look under the surface and get a glimpse of the long path ahead of you. You don't just assume you "got this" because one piece of many clicked into place.
I guess my strong impostor syndrome has mellowed over these past 5 or so years while I have been working on myself (as in mental health, not job skills, lol). Some of it is confidence gained by knowing better who I am and what I want out of life, accompanied by elimination of a lot of "I should be learning this / doing that / building my career XYZ" thoughts. And part of it is leaning into what makes me different from others at work versus the others, using that stuff as strengths rather than seeing them as deficiencies where I don't match up.
That's the ticket to be a good software programmer, well done! 😁
It will when you realize the people in your room are mostly talking but actually have no clue.
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Is it just me, or are Github Copilot and ChatGPT getting dumber? I'm quite underwhelmed lately.
Maybe the more copilot is used, the more code on github is ai garbage, ths more copilot trains on github, the worse it gets.
Probably quite a lot of other things too, but I haven't used it so I don't know if it has got worse.
garbage in garbage out - sounds like a reasonable take
There is a reason there is sometimes a notable decrease in quality of the same AI model a while after it's released.
Hosters of the models (like OpenAI or Microsoft) may have switched to a quantized version of their model. Quantization is a common practice to increase power efficiency and make the model easier to run, by essentially rounding the weights of the model to a lower precision. This decreases VRAM and storage usage significantly, at the cost of a bit of quality, where higher quantization results in worse quality.
For example, the base model will likely be in FP16, full floating point precision. They may switch to a Q8 version, which nearly halves the size of the model, with about a 3-7% decrease in quality.
But if that's how you're going to run it, why not also train it in that mode?
Expertly explained. Thank you! It's pretty rad what you can get out of a quantized model on home hardware, but I still can't understand why people are trying to use it for anything resembling productivity.
It sounds like the typical tech industry:
"Look how amazing this is!" (Full power)
"Uh...uh oh, that's unsustainable. Let's quietly drop it." (Way reduced power)
"People are saying it's not as good, we can offer them LLM+ plus for better accuracy!" (3/4 power with subscription)
Novelty weared off
Yeah I remember the hype floating in the air when someone showed the magic AI writing a scan all files and folders recursively code in python. The result was like of a first year student, which is kind of incredible in itself to be fair, but it's also just the result like of a first year student so...
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It's been reported the latest model has been optimized for reduced power use, and abilities got reduced somewhat in the streamlining.
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{god, god, god, season, god, god, ceaser, ceaser, number, number, number, number}
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Is that the only one with four letters? How cruel. Lol.
It's like Excel is in my code editor.
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