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aappleby
·przedwczoraj·discuss
Surely "how to draw a SVG pelican on a bike" has made it into the training data by now ...
aappleby
·10 dni temu·discuss
tiny coin cell, would run for about six hours
aappleby
·12 dni temu·discuss
You might enjoy this dime-sized earring I designed ~13 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyBhdRp_5rY
aappleby
·19 dni temu·discuss
this would be more convincing if it wasn't ai written.
aappleby
·20 dni temu·discuss
The smallest amount of simple code that solves the problem wins. Everything else is irrelevant.
aappleby
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I feel like there's gotta be a catch in there somewhere, like "fails catastrophically when computing logarithms" or something. skeptical
aappleby
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Are you sure you're asking the right questions?
aappleby
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Glad I bought a JetKVM, it's been great (other than the HDMI adapter, lol)
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
No benchmarks?
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Yes, but it doesn't need any funny parsing trick to handle them. Just parse the whole statement as a list of expressions joined by operators, and then you can convert the flat list into a precedence-respecting tree with a few lines of code and an operator-to-precedence table.
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Why do I get the overwhelming feeling that the author is not a technical person and they had a LLM write this based on some handwavey ideas? There's virtually no _there_ there.

"...demonstrates its capabilities through worked examples" - The hell it does, your "examples" are three lines long. If you're going to compare it with LLMs, then have it do something LLM-ish. Or hell, the MNIST number recognition task would be better than the "hey look i modeled a flip-flop in my funny language" example.

Am I being harsh? Yes, I am. The author is claiming that they have a system that can automatically generate code for "quantum" and "spintronic" computers, yet offers zero proof of that.
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
You're probably already using a RISC-V computer, it's just embedded as a supervisor in some other gadget (or vehicle) you own.
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Why "mediocre"? I've written production assembly language for a half-dozen different processor architectures and RISC-V is my favorite by far.
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
The article title is super misleading - this is about measurements of inflammatory markers in vitro and explicitly does not generalize to food intake.
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
No, the article title is misleading. This is in-vitro research only.
aappleby
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
I'm late to the thread, but I was able to solve this on a microcontroller ~13 years ago.

https://youtu.be/yItm-9xl0as?si=9I4DLA3qETnQ1N2G
aappleby
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I get the overwhelming feeling that the author was convinced by an AI that he had a good idea without ever contacting an actual graphics programmer.

"Retro Game Engine owns the full frame lifecycle." - This is completely meaningless. Your engine controls whatever data is in the buffer that's sent to scanout, but the operating system and the GPU drivers and the scanout hardware in the GPU and the input processing and row/column drivers in the display control everything else.

The only actual screenshots this guy has are some "multiply the image with the subpixel mask" demos that.... don't look anything like a real CRT, and certainly nowhere near modern CRT shaders like CRT Royale.

The rest of the posts in the substack page are similarly devoid of actual content, but very heavy on the AI woo-woo this-is-important-and-deep stylings that I've come to find nauseating.

Hey Author, if you can see this - You're clearly a smart guy, but you need a basic grounding in 3D rendering if you're gonna do weird stuff - more than an AI can give you. In particular, the phrase "Light is linear" will be useful to you. Good luck.
aappleby
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Buried in this paper is a mention of "Applicative State Transition Systems", a programming paradigm that never caught on.
aappleby
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
You wrote and shipped this in three days, eh?
aappleby
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
hello chatgpt