And there's nothing "wrong" with the GoF Patterns per-se. The issue was always people applying them blindly without understanding why (or more to the point, "if") they were needed. Once writing code filled with patterns became "the thing you do"... all bets were off. :-(
I remember putting stuff like this on my resume "developed X using visitor pattern" . ppl would ask "what is your favourite design pattern" in interviews. lmao.
> I don't quite get it why they can't take another LLM and vet the output of the first with the second one.
Yes, this technique and its variations[1][2] "work" but it's still not 100% perfect. And it's not as widely used it might be because, among other reason:
a. it takes longer to implement
b. it costs more (more tokens spread across multiple llm calls)
c. higher latency (getting an answer takes longer due to multiple llm calls involved)
d. the final answer is probabilistically more likely to be correct, but is still not guaranteed to be error free, so you can never fully escape the need for Human in the Loop.
As far as I can tell, Lattice products are the best if you're interested in using F/OSS tools. Yosys / Icestorm supports the Lattice ICE40 and ECP5 devices. QuickLogic also apparently do some officially supported F/OSS stuff for their devices, but I don't know much about them. Think I might have ordered one of their dev boards a while back, and then promptly put it on a shelf and still haven't gotten around to touching it. :-(
The problem is, none of these devices can match the raw performance of the devices from Xilinx / Altera / Microchip / etc. So you're kinda limited if you are trying to do something that needs serious horsepower.
I never had much religious faith to begin with, despite growing up in the Bible Belt and having some devoutly religious family members. I was just sort of always a natural skeptic, and somebody who was drawn to the hard sciences, and wanted to see, feel, hear, measure, test, experiment, etc. before believing things. Nothing about religious beliefs really checked any of those boxes for me.
I spent most of the time from my mid-teens (give or take a bit) to sometime in my 30's referring to myself as agnostic or maybe "weak atheist" since I can't prove there is no deity / deities. And a very slight thought that there was some merit to the "irreducible complexity" argument also weighed on that. Then I read Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and that satisfied me that the "irreducible complexity" argument doesn't hold up. Since then I've generally referred to myself as an atheist if asked about my religious beliefs. In some contexts I might say "non believer" or just defer from answering, to avoid starting arguments.
The whole 'agnostic' versus 'atheist' thing is interesting, and to some extent feels like a way to reduce atheism. The semantic game of 'I don't believe in god' versus 'I believe there is no god', "see, you believe in something you can't prove too!"
"Burden of proof turned upon non-believers" as per Tool's 10,000 Days (Wings for Marie Part 2).
I quite like Stephen F. Roberts' "I just believe in one less god than you".
The only way I'd pay for FB or Insta would be if one of the perks was "no ads". If that's not a feature, then it's a non-starter for me. Are there other things that would be "nice to have"? Sure. But I'm not paying for any of them AND still looking at their ads.
No ads, and they need to stop doing the deranged thing they do on Android where clicking a link from their apps will only ever open it in their (presumably) spyware-ridden in-app browser.
I don't use any app I can avoid. Install firefox (or something else) and fake desktop site, plus adblocker.
Edit: Firefox and chrome support the fb pwa, too, if you insist.
As far as I'm concerned (and I know I won't be in the majority here, but whatever) non-ironic or non-meta usage of the term "clanker" for "agent" just makes one sound like a dumbass.
As a GenX kid who was pretty much literally "raised on hose water and neglect", I find it incredibly hard to relate to modern parenting (disclaimer: I don't have children). I had SO much freedom to roam around and do stuff, and half the time my parents had no idea where I was. Once I got into bicycle riding, I'd jump on my bike and go miles and miles from home. And there were no ubiquitous cell phones back then, so if your parents need to find you quick it was pretty much "call all the other parents and popular hang out spots and ask "have you seen Phil?", and/or jump in the car and start visiting the spots they knew I frequented.
Was there a measure of danger to allowing a 12 year old that much freedom? Sure, probably. But to illustrate something that lines up perfectly with TFA... the worst thing that ever happened to me or any of my friends during this time, was when me and my then best friend were riding our bikes on the road between our homes, and he was struck by a car.
Were we ever worried about being kidnapped, or any of that crap? Hell no. That's not to say it couldn't have happened, but that wasn't on anybody's minds back then (I'm talking approx 1984 - 1990 or so).
That said, if I were a parent today, I think I'd be somewhat scared to give my kids the same amount of freedom I had. Which makes me a hypocrite I guess? Maybe I've bought into too much of the prevailing media narrative stuff myself.
That said, if I were a parent today, I think I'd be somewhat scared to give my kids the same amount of freedom I had.
Why? Stranger kidnappings are down since you were a kid. What media are you consuming and what is it saying? "if it bleeds, it leads" has long been an adage that the news talks more about violence than other things, so take the volume of violent stories with a grain of salt.
I think when you are a parent, you also understand that other people in the community are watching out for stuff like this, whether they have a stake specifically in your kids, or keeping your community a nice place to live. Other parents, the guy at the corner store, older siblings, the coach at the basketball court at the playground, the teacher who lives in the neighborhood, etc. It takes a village and if you aren't going to school or other community events, you can lose sight of the village that's out there.
Why? Stranger kidnappings are down since you were a kid. What media are you consuming and what is it saying? "if it bleeds, it leads" has long been an adage that the news talks more about violence than other things, so take the volume of violent stories with a grain of salt.
Sure, and of course I know all that. But here's the pernicious thing about it... even being aware of something like "it bleeds, it leads" doesn't automatically make you immune to some degree of subtle/unconscious influence. Active effort can combat that, and I'd like to think that if I did become a parent that I'd be able to make that effort and make the right decisions. But I have no doubt that there would be some nagging doubt in the back of my mind.
And to make it a little bit more real... I'm still an avid cyclist to this day, and I'm acutely aware of the dangers of riding bicycles on the road. Especially in the era of distracted drivers who are "texting and driving" and given how vehicles have gotten larger when many roads have not necessarily gotten correspondingly wider. And proper bike lanes are still rare in many places. So yeah, if my kid said "Hey, I'm jumping on my bike and heading out to Bobby's house", I'd have some trepidation just about the possibility of them being hit by a car... no "stranger danger" / "chester the molester" stuff required.
That said, I'd be worried about an adult doing the same thing, and for the same reasons! I can even fully acknowledge that it may not be a rational thing to engage in road cycling these days, but I still do it myself, so... what can ya do?
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