I just love writing in Clojure -- even wading through all the Swing nonsense is much, much, easier with Clojure.
Are you a pilot? We pilots used to need to know Morse code in order to identify VOR transmitters.
>From: JackDorsey at 03/31/23 11:44:42 on wss://relay.nostrview.com
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I know you've all been waiting for this but...
More-speech now has a menu that allows you to manage your profile, including setting your private keys, etc. Oh, Happy Day!
Perhaps I should have said that LLMs draw very heavily from what came before without applying any thought to what it draws. LLMs have no opinions, no agenda (other than those the trainers intentionally inject), no ability to reflect, no model of personality in order to assess the intent/ideology of the reader.
What LLMs do is regurgitate without thought.
>From: (06ee745...) at 03/31/23 09:22:17 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>I get your point. I was trying to say that most of our thoughts are variants and remixes of ideas we have heard before. Culture in general draws very heavily from what came before.
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>The argument of „no reason to worry because it‘s just a language model that remixes old thoughts“ makes no sense because thats 95% of what we do as humans too. Unless you want to argue that text itself cannot be dangerous.
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>What’s the most dangerous piece of writing ever produced by humans? Was it wholly original? Or did it draw from something that existed before?
Good Morning Nostrdaemons.
Trump has been indicted, the IRS and Russua are intimidating journalists, Gwinneth Paltro won a dollar; and the world is descending into political chaos.
Meanwhile I, and my lovely bride, are in the north woods of Wisconsin, looking out from our cabin windows over the placid waters of our lakland hideaway. It is raining, but warming.
The buoy that marked the anchor to which we attach our warm weather raft has broken loose. I'll go retrieve it today and figure out what went wrong. I'll have to go buy a couple of concrete blocks and figure out a better attachment scheme.
And, today, I'll finish up the profile page in more-speech.
I don't know how compatible the CLR version is with the others. I suspect that it is close. However, the Java and JavaScript versions are so close that it is very easy to write code that runs on both.
As an example of code that runs on both Java and JavaScript see: github.com/unclebob/spacewar and click on the http://spacewar.fikesfarm.com/spacewar.html link.
>From: 43ddb32...<-natha... at 03/30/23 16:15:23 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>Yes, but the languages are not identical among the three platforms.
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I think there's a CLR version out there somewhere too.
>From: (a185d80...) at 03/30/23 10:26:59 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>It runs on jvm. It also runs on JS. Abstraction.
In the case of ChapGPT, that is impossible. _ALL_ it can do is regurgitate old thoughts.
>From: (06ee745...) at 03/30/23 09:42:21 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>I‘ve seen shit on ChatGPT that I‘m pretty sure no one has thought of before.
>As sure as I can be that no one thought of whats in the declaration of independence beforehand.
>From: Brunswick<-Vishalxl at 03/30/23 08:36:33 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>If its a language designed for the JVM, its going to be a nonstarter for most people if only out of principal
A unitque thought is a thought that no one has thought before. ;-)
If you'd like to read a few unique thoughts, read the Declaration of Independence.
>From: (06ee745...) at 03/30/23 08:17:30 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>What makes a thought unique?
Dear Elon, Woz, et. al.
You're joking, right? I mean, really? We're not talking about HAL 9000 here. We're talking about an elaborate Markov chain. If you don't ask it a question, it's not doing anything. It's not sitting there and thinking. It's not devising anything. And when it answers a question, it simply steals from what others have written.
Oh, I grant you that the programmers were pretty clever, and that the AI can do some fascinating data manipulations. But not one unique thought will ever cross the output.
A blurb I just wrote about Clojure.
Clojure is a language that employs a simple syntax to manipulate data types and structures that are as far from the constraints and limitation of the computer hardware as possible. The simplicity of the syntax allows rich and complex data manipulations to be accomplished with very little code — vastly increasing programmer productivity over languages that employ an elaborate syntax to manipulate data that hews close to the machine architecture. For any problem in which the richness and complexity of the data manipulations outweighs the possible efficiencies of adherence to physical hardware, it is difficult to imagine a better and more productive language than Clojure.
Good Morning Nostroddities. Today I will write a little blurb explaining why Clojure is the best language for manipulating highly complex and abstract aggregations of data. I may also be able to make some progress on the profile window of more-speech. (Yes, I know you've all been waiting for that.) Finally, my wife and I may decide to high-tail it up to our NorthWoods hideaway for the weekend.
My flight yesterday. 6 approaches, 6 different airports.
Burlington KBUU VOR-A
Galt 10C RNAV-B
Lake in the Hills 3CK VOR-26
Cambpell C81 RNAV-B
Waukegan KUGN RNAV-05
Kenosha KENW RNAV-25R
I did a demo using Java, but the principles are all language agnostic.
>From: orokusaki<-bender at 03/29/23 10:22:42 on wss://relay.nostriches.org
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>Is it language agnostic or something more specific?
Good Morning Nostrils,
Today I teach a class on Test Design. Time to prepare. It starts in less than two hours... ;-)
I got into the air today. Did 6 approaches with my long-time instructor. Great day.
A good beginning book on coding. Hmmm.
Well, I'd recommend _Clojure for the Brave and Brue_.
https://www.amazon.com/Clojure-Brave-True-Ultimate-Programmer/dp/1593275919
>From: Golfwinch<-ringo at 03/28/23 11:50:35 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>I watched a video on your website about clean code. What is a good book for beginners wanting to start learning how to code? Or top three if you are having trouble finding just one?
>My 15 yr old son and I are both interested in learning to code computers. I love your content. You have a gift. Thank you for your contribution to this online community! PV! 🤙🏽🫂😎
Yeah, that was it. Nasty one. But all bugs yield to relentless determination and persistence. And a good test suite really helps!
And it's one of those bugs that you can't prevent with TDD, but you can add a test after the fact to make sure it never happens again.
From: d4f295d...<-ringo at 03/28/23 10:14:55 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>Always testin