Posts by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
(DIR) Post #AUQNrDFWKPJzVYdHGK by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-04-03T21:29:00Z
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i'm half-convinced that agile was intended to make 3 person dev teams more like 1 person dev teams, but when applied to a 4 person dev team, makes it more like a 20 person dev team(i say this as somebody who has an hour long daily standup with a ~30 person dev team)
(DIR) Post #AUym9dJx1czWtg5srw by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-04-24T14:01:36Z
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@Polychrome There used to be this subgenre of interactive fiction driven by free-form dialog entry, using keyword matching.I could see people trying to bring that back in a big way -- using mostly hand-written dialog but supplementing both parsing & generation with LLMs + grammars.No doubt it'll be exactly as wonky as the old keyword-based ones from the 80s, but it'll be wonky in a different way because, functionally, bringing in an LLM & expecting its output to determine gameplay is like bringing in a giant untested third party dependency and putting it in the critical path of your core loop.Needless to say, I am looking forward to it.
(DIR) Post #AV5Ut4KszaAIe5laCm by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-04-27T19:57:18Z
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@xerz who are these mastodon non-shitposters and why have i never seen one?
(DIR) Post #AV9CJJHSvfl81po0CO by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-04-29T14:30:03Z
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@ct_bergstrom a pattern that i've seen repeated in tech over and over is that somebody will invent a very clever and perverse way to do something, it will rightfully gain attention by technical people because of its cleverness and perversity, and that attention gets misattributed (largely but not entirely by non-technical people) to utility. so, this thing that's being talked about because of how fucked up it is that it works at all becomes the basis for whole industries, and developers (especially the younger ones) get used to using the cursed object & stop recognizing it as strange(ex., modern web tech is largely a matter of putting automatic self-rewriting code into rich text documents to make them simulate native widgets -- a cool hack that's basically the same thing as writing a word macro virus -- and yet a lot of new software is written *only* to have a web interface, because it's normal now)
(DIR) Post #AVWAVRKDbE4vkL7IsC by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-05-10T16:42:50Z
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive I personally would love to hear about microfiche scanning. Is there a thermal distortion issue? You've piqued my curiosity.
(DIR) Post #AVWIG0kIwBc2bNTLcG by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-05-10T18:12:18Z
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@brewsterkahle @internetarchive I was a big fan of the post on the internet archive blog that went deep into the complications of book scanning; I'd love to see a similar post on microfiche & microfilm
(DIR) Post #AW9InPK42NMHnJ0OHo by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-05-29T13:52:29Z
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@lethargilistic We deserve a higher grade of bullshit
(DIR) Post #AXd85yCbgz7EQT5y2i by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-07-12T21:05:35Z
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@feld what part of it isn't true? that some professional programmers are trying to use LLMs, or that LLMs produce incorrect code? because I can verify both from experience.
(DIR) Post #AXd9xHNnD6sFDOJLVY by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-07-12T21:23:03Z
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@feld maybe not yet. or maybe you're asking it to produce exceedingly trivial code. either way, you must be at least reading and checking it for bugs -- something that's a lot easier to do with code one has written oneself.that said, you've completely missed the point of my post.the fact that LLMs perform well enough on code generation that *anybody* wants to use them instead of coding means that we are doing coding in a fundamentally antihuman, gatekeepy way.statistical models like LLMs work well in a narrow novelty range (since they are novelty-minimizing engines). that novelty range is well below the one we would want programming to live in.we're supposed to all be refactoring code to avoid duplication, using third party libraries to avoid duplication of effort, writing code that's dense enough that it can be understood and consulted without putting too much load on short-term memory but spread out enough that new maintainers can reason about it. if we were doing that, LLMs couldn't write code based on arbitrary prompts, because most lines of code would be so specific to their top-level requirements that the only patterns that LLMs could learn would be generic -- it would not be able to do any better than a typeahead that checked the current token against a list of reserved words.
(DIR) Post #AXf1TCzAaFyXZZrcKe by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-07-13T18:18:51Z
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@vertigo i'll have to dig into this; there are certainly mechanisms for code sharing that do not involve dynamic linking (like message passing & interrupt service routines) but i'm struggling to imagine a code-sharing mechanism based on linking that's not a variation on dynamic linking (even if it's static linking plus a kind of emulation of dynamic linking)...
(DIR) Post #AXf9oXTeOIAOqCnqpU by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-07-13T16:11:49Z
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@oats @cwebber The question is: would it have made the web better, or would it have made scheme worse? (Keep in mind that Java was designed by some of the same people as Common Lisp, so clearly things can go extremely wrong!)
(DIR) Post #AXh4X7FUXjaf7LyNqy by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-07-13T18:39:10Z
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@vertigo Oh, ok. Yeah, in my head that's a kind of pseudo-dynamic-linking but I'm sure there's some distinction
(DIR) Post #AZC9oCDFrkZ5Lu9g8G by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-08-28T16:30:29Z
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@Wolven There are a *lot* of social bonding rituals that are specifically prone to spreading infections -- food sharing is more intimate than eating together (and on the other end of the spectrum there's kissing) -- to the point where I wonder if sharing the same communicable diseases has historically substantially contributed to social cohesion in small communities...
(DIR) Post #AaYyiETZZmW8WzSGJs by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-10-08T14:38:49Z
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@todayilearned the term was not developed as a tactic; the term is the name for the tactic. that's a very important distinction!
(DIR) Post #Ab6CaDYmkejJWSWSIq by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-10-24T15:19:41Z
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@djoerd everything is copyrighted implicitly. so, there is no copyright-based protection against this (unless you find out and sue your student, but it'd be better to just treat it as a case of academic dishonesty)
(DIR) Post #AboGwQMBx1Ntm1viS0 by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-11-14T21:27:41Z
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"I'm not a musician" -> depression"I specialize in experimental ambient harshnoise" -> no depression(I am subtooting myself)
(DIR) Post #AddvedT0sNOdSLoy0G by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2024-01-08T17:33:49Z
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@Wolven Problems related to the necessary scale of training data are, I think, real & worth taking seriously because they represent a serious limitation of this kind of statistical method. People use it to justify questionable decisions they might have wanted to make anyhow, but some of these decisions (especially those involving IP) would have been avoided if the tech could reasonably manage it. For instance, everybody with a large enough corpus of stock photos they own are trying to created siloed GANs with clear licensing (the problem being there are only a couple players who can do it). Similarly, I've heard from insiders that 2 or 3 of the big 5 publishers are doing the same on the LLM side (unclear how seriously).GANs and LLMs are unpredictable in ways that those using them don't want, and that unpredictability stems in part from the difficulty of even *vetting* that much training data.It's theoretically possible (if not typically financially feasible) to license corpus data so you own the model outright & pay humans to vet the data in order to omit certain kinds of things. Moreso than the substantial resources this would require, it'd require a bit of foresight -- which might instead lead people to use the existing, mature technologies that do the things they want done. With only a few (very fringe) exceptions, commercial use of GANs and LLMs is not the product of rational long-term planning but of hype; the bubble will pop pretty soon.
(DIR) Post #Amb797Dw5Z5pcYWSGG by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2023-04-11T16:51:37Z
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@ratkins @jk Correction: the web is an *OK* hypertext browsing system.
(DIR) Post #AoVf4TlmJuFOh1qVrU by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2024-11-28T01:58:32Z
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Wow, bluesky really *is* like circa 2017 fedi
(DIR) Post #AtrX1YSr6Ts0lqTkFk by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2025-05-07T20:57:33Z
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@foone it's disc when you're in ancient greece and disk when you're in 1880s oklaholma. everywhere else? disque.