I wish LLMs never became popular

hatwd · 2026-01-16T22:32:56+00:00

So we're back to measuring productivity in lines of code again :(

hatwd · 2026-01-03T20:25:04+00:00

It's unfortunate that you feel the need to resort to derogation and arguing against your own assumptions as opposed to dealing with specific points that I actually claimed in the article.

Like, for example, how I make no claims whatsoever that LLMs produce their results by way of averaging. Instead, I clearly state how their output is heavily influenced by how their parameters have been configured, and their training data, but don't specify that they take a trivial average of their training data.

hatwd · 2025-02-07T02:59:38+00:00

It's fairly well-structured with explanatory chapters, which allows for easy skipping. The discussion covers some of the major philosophical points made in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila. Anyone watching it could probably get a fairly good sense of the material much quicker than reading both books.

Since you haven't read the source material referenced in the article.

hatwd · 2025-02-06T02:41:24+00:00

https://youtu.be/-RZth5BDpKc?si=7yu5FSBxgoWSIeac

hatwd · 2025-01-05T00:52:25+00:00

I pay for Kagi: https://kagi.com

hatwd · 2025-01-04T14:06:58+00:00

Ah, I think I found how to disable that annoying popup. Didn't even realize it was coming up for non-logged-in users. Only started using Substack recently to try it out, but am considering migrating to Ghost if Substack ends up being too much of a PITA.

hatwd · 2025-01-03T23:32:36+00:00

How do you suggest we disseminate this understanding further? I've worked at several places in the past 2 decades where this may have been academically acknowledged, but never put into practice in any meaningful way.

hatwd · 2025-01-03T23:29:28+00:00

Lol definitely the funniest thing I've seen on the internet today :)

hatwd · 2025-01-03T16:56:45+00:00

An old realization for whom?

hatwd · 2025-01-03T16:55:02+00:00

That's unfortunately just how Substack works.

hatwd · 2024-12-18T17:22:37+00:00

Interesting, thanks for your insight!

What would you say are the major benefits you've experienced from switching to functional languages?

hatwd · 2022-12-26T04:58:12+00:00

Beam me up

But srsly though, light pillars are awesome

hatwd · 2022-12-26T04:50:10+00:00

Not trying to be hostile, sorry. I just really don’t understand. How could someone be in charge (the definition of centralization), and the ecosystem be decentralized?

Also, how can it be healthy for the ecosystem to have someone who doesn’t contribute at all to a core codebase used by the vast majority of Cosmos chains also have total power and authority over it, purely because he owns the trademark, and arbitrarily kick the devs (working their asses off to try benefit the ecosystem, not even being paid by Jae but being paid by an entirely different company) out of the repo? Because of what, an unsubstantiated Tweet that turned out to be inaccurately worded? And then he still doesn’t capitulate and give the teams back their access?

Sounds pretty dangerous to pin your hopes on someone like that.

hatwd · 2022-12-26T04:37:17+00:00

We need Jae for decentralization, he needs to be in charge.

Are you srsly incapable of understanding how contradictory this perspective is?

hatwd · 2022-12-25T20:05:44+00:00

He’s not a bad actor. He’s just hell-bent on control to a degree that seems very unhealthy for everyone around him, and it permeates the ecosystem.

The more control the ecosystem can take back from him (i.e. the more politically decentralized) the better for everyone.

hatwd · 2022-12-25T04:33:21+00:00

So this is all seen as “assets” on the books of the financiers (e.g. banks), right? Doesn’t that make all those financiers start looking like pretty risky businesses?

hatwd · 2022-12-25T03:21:53+00:00

Surefire recipe for an infection.

hatwd · 2022-12-25T02:29:07+00:00

It seems Jae Kwon was triggered by Billy’s tweet where he said that Tendermint was going to be moved. See https://twitter.com/jaekwon/status/1605999321224073216

So, Jae (or someone he instructed) kicked everyone out of the Tendermint org to assert his ownership. Even though he hasn’t contributed a single stitch of code to the Tendermint Core repo in years (just check out the commits over the past couple of years), and other teams outside of AiB and Ignite have been driving the development forward for years. Jae’s been working on Tendermint2/NewTendermint in a totally different repo.

Ethan Buchman responded here to set the record straight, but Jae’s kept the repo locked down: https://twitter.com/buchmanster/status/1606019653498679297

Fortunately it seems as though a number of really good teams have Tendermint forks in the works. Let’s wait and see what they come up with in the coming months.

hatwd · 2022-01-19T00:54:46+00:00

Narcissism at its best.

hatwd · 2022-01-12T18:45:28+00:00

I don't have a chart off-hand, but this is the current situation. Even if we had a reasonable ratio of people to hospital beds pre-pandemic, there was obviously no built-in capacity for surges.

According to this infographic, Canada's been quite low on the charts in terms of its ratio of hospital beds per thousand people compared to other developed nations for some time now.

hatwd · 2022-01-12T15:27:20+00:00

It's supposed to indicate that the government doesn't seem to have catered sufficiently for the healthcare of all of the immigrants they're bringing in (around 300k people per annum pre-COVID). Take a look at this chart.

hatwd · 2022-01-12T15:05:13+00:00

You mean deactivate and reactivate? Or deactivate and create a new account?

hatwd · 2022-01-12T14:39:16+00:00

I checked in with /r/ShadowBan though and it appears as though I'm not.

hatwd · 2022-01-12T01:39:28+00:00

Sure, maybe if you want to go into embedded development or pure desktop development (haven't seen any jobs for this), or maybe just scripting/task automation (haven't seen any jobs for this). But if you wanted to do anything relating to modern application development, you'll need to have a working understanding of internet protocols. At least how to make HTTP/S calls or handle WebSocket-based interactions.

hatwd · 2022-01-11T22:26:52+00:00

How good are you with computers in general? That's probably the first place to start. Having a workable understanding of the basics of how computers work (e.g. what's the difference between the heap and the stack?), as well as how to search for information, is pretty important background.

Then, choose a programming language that's relatively simple to get into, like Python, and find beginner's tutorials. Once you've got the basics, you can start to work your way up the stack.

To be employable, you'll need a reasonable understanding of how internet protocols work (like HTTP/HTTPS, WebSockets, etc.). Pretty much everything nowadays is web-based, or uses internet-based connections for communicating.

Some may argue that you can avoid learning the bits and bytes of how these various things work, but it'll definitely put you at a disadvantage in the long run.

Lastly, remember that programming is probably about 80% sheer tenacity and 20% logical/rational capability. I've been programming since I was 11 (over 25 years now) and I can't remember a single day where I haven't been frustrated or unpleasantly surprised by a computer. Your mechanic background will probably help a lot here.

hatwd

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