I recall announcements in 1984 that Apricot were building a m68k machine. I was very excited at the time. I never heard if it ever really happened though.
To be honest, my first thought was also that the line between how the US treats its citizens and how China does theirs is very fine. You may not be aware of how the USA is represented outside the USA. Quite a lot of…
If you're not good at prompting yet, that $10 doesn't go very far. The local model allows me to learn what works and what doesn't without paying for tokens. Then when I know how not to waste them, I'll try a paid model.
In a zero based array type language. In pascal I believe arrays can start where you want them to as in "array[-10..10] of integer". It's been a while though. There is no year zero. Trying to compute with one is almost…
In my experience, ringing the AEC and saying "I thought I might have flu, and thought it best to avoid crowds" is enough to save AUD$50. A huge difference between here in Oz and there in the USA _as I see it_ is that we…
I'm pretty sure that if the virus and its DNA are undetectable then you can't spread it. I believe that's how it works with HIV anyway.
If it can't run on the metal, is it really an OS that's "native"? Surely an "AI-native" OS runs the AI in ring zero? Is a dockerfile the same as an OS? Always? These are serious questions, about what is surely not a…
I got six a few times at High School. Compared to the beatings at home they were kinda weak. But I guess it'd freak out kids who had never been beaten. I can't see the threat of three strikes with a cane on the bum over…
I've been told that American's have a very low rate of passport issuance. I don't know if that's true, but the figure quoted was only 10% of adults hold passports. Is this a really effective way to get people to pay for…
I just wish it did what it said on the tin. Seriously, separating the hype from the reality is so time consuming.
I've always been suspicious of the claims THC helps anxiety. CBD may, but my experience is that high doses of THC without corresponding CBD tends to induce anxiety in many people. I also found the brief notes in the…
You're welcome. By the way, as an AIdiot, anything that makes RAG less brittle is good.
Just a note on the website, I thought at first my browser had been hijacked by a shipping or travel agent. The first impression is how AI has improved ship tracking, so you can now track ships with 98% accuracy, with…
This relates to my favorite hatred of LLMs: "Let me refactor the foobar" and then proceeds to do it, without waiting to see if I will actually let it. I minimise this by insisting on an engineering approach suitable for…
Interesting. Seems you are automating my qwen workflow. Every output stage is verified through mathematical proof whenever possible, before being fed to the next step in transforming ideas into code. Except for when…
You can run any smalltalk code from workspace-style frames in the Inspector, Workspace, Explorer, Finder and Debugger. You can edit classes and methods in these windows, as well as spawn Browsers as desired. I'm not…
It may have a tidy mmap api, but Smalltalk has a much better file api through its Streams hierarchy IMHO. You can create a stream on a diskfile, you can create a stream on a byteArray, you can create a stream on…
Will this only apply to an OS with human user accounts? I wonder how autonomous agents that are operating systems running on bare hardware are defined under this strange law. Not all OS are for humans. Consider many…
Could you claim any book with boys being different to girls breaches the sex talk rules? I'm just wondering how you could use this law to show how ridiculous it is.
So use Zig to implement Smalltalk. All problems solved.
It would be nice if clicking on a list entry (say llama3 ) opened a window/tab on the home page of that model.
I've been playing with my own Smalltalk implementation. I guess it qualifies as a tiny _language_, but the class library is huge! Yes, I know that all who do not understand Smalltalk are doomed to re-implement it,…
I first saw an Apple I at a Maths Camp in late 1976. It was from the first batch to arrive in Australia. We were all enthralled. We were slightly less enthralled waiting for the floating point libraries to load from…
Microsoft's problem is probably the same as the author of the article. Look at the last sentence. Either it was proof-read by an AI, or the author was so sure of his perfection he never proof-read it.
Not all of this is as straightforward as the author seems to suggest. In particular, I believe the massive increase in mass shootings is only in one country. Part of it is, I believe, the fear-mongering our glorious…
I recall announcements in 1984 that Apricot were building a m68k machine. I was very excited at the time. I never heard if it ever really happened though.
To be honest, my first thought was also that the line between how the US treats its citizens and how China does theirs is very fine. You may not be aware of how the USA is represented outside the USA. Quite a lot of…
If you're not good at prompting yet, that $10 doesn't go very far. The local model allows me to learn what works and what doesn't without paying for tokens. Then when I know how not to waste them, I'll try a paid model.
In a zero based array type language. In pascal I believe arrays can start where you want them to as in "array[-10..10] of integer". It's been a while though. There is no year zero. Trying to compute with one is almost…
In my experience, ringing the AEC and saying "I thought I might have flu, and thought it best to avoid crowds" is enough to save AUD$50. A huge difference between here in Oz and there in the USA _as I see it_ is that we…
I'm pretty sure that if the virus and its DNA are undetectable then you can't spread it. I believe that's how it works with HIV anyway.
If it can't run on the metal, is it really an OS that's "native"? Surely an "AI-native" OS runs the AI in ring zero? Is a dockerfile the same as an OS? Always? These are serious questions, about what is surely not a…
I got six a few times at High School. Compared to the beatings at home they were kinda weak. But I guess it'd freak out kids who had never been beaten. I can't see the threat of three strikes with a cane on the bum over…
I've been told that American's have a very low rate of passport issuance. I don't know if that's true, but the figure quoted was only 10% of adults hold passports. Is this a really effective way to get people to pay for…
I just wish it did what it said on the tin. Seriously, separating the hype from the reality is so time consuming.
I've always been suspicious of the claims THC helps anxiety. CBD may, but my experience is that high doses of THC without corresponding CBD tends to induce anxiety in many people. I also found the brief notes in the…
You're welcome. By the way, as an AIdiot, anything that makes RAG less brittle is good.
Just a note on the website, I thought at first my browser had been hijacked by a shipping or travel agent. The first impression is how AI has improved ship tracking, so you can now track ships with 98% accuracy, with…
This relates to my favorite hatred of LLMs: "Let me refactor the foobar" and then proceeds to do it, without waiting to see if I will actually let it. I minimise this by insisting on an engineering approach suitable for…
Interesting. Seems you are automating my qwen workflow. Every output stage is verified through mathematical proof whenever possible, before being fed to the next step in transforming ideas into code. Except for when…
You can run any smalltalk code from workspace-style frames in the Inspector, Workspace, Explorer, Finder and Debugger. You can edit classes and methods in these windows, as well as spawn Browsers as desired. I'm not…
It may have a tidy mmap api, but Smalltalk has a much better file api through its Streams hierarchy IMHO. You can create a stream on a diskfile, you can create a stream on a byteArray, you can create a stream on…
Will this only apply to an OS with human user accounts? I wonder how autonomous agents that are operating systems running on bare hardware are defined under this strange law. Not all OS are for humans. Consider many…
Could you claim any book with boys being different to girls breaches the sex talk rules? I'm just wondering how you could use this law to show how ridiculous it is.
So use Zig to implement Smalltalk. All problems solved.
It would be nice if clicking on a list entry (say llama3 ) opened a window/tab on the home page of that model.
I've been playing with my own Smalltalk implementation. I guess it qualifies as a tiny _language_, but the class library is huge! Yes, I know that all who do not understand Smalltalk are doomed to re-implement it,…
I first saw an Apple I at a Maths Camp in late 1976. It was from the first batch to arrive in Australia. We were all enthralled. We were slightly less enthralled waiting for the floating point libraries to load from…
Microsoft's problem is probably the same as the author of the article. Look at the last sentence. Either it was proof-read by an AI, or the author was so sure of his perfection he never proof-read it.
Not all of this is as straightforward as the author seems to suggest. In particular, I believe the massive increase in mass shootings is only in one country. Part of it is, I believe, the fear-mongering our glorious…