Interesting concept, but they should define mob programming on the landing page instead of having to dig into links.
Readit Newssetopt commented on Mob Programming mobprogramming.org/... · Posted by u/ustad
setopt commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
There is a reason why LLM's are architected the way they are and why thinking is bolted on.
The architecture has to allow for gradient descent to be a viable training strategy, this means no branching (routing is bolted on).
And the training data has to exist, you can't find millions of pages depicting every thought a person went through before writing something. And such data can't exist because most thoughts aren't even language.
Reinforcement learning may seem like the answer here: bruteforce thinking to happen. But it's grossly sample-inefficient with gradient descent and therefore only used for finetuning.
LLM's are regressive models and the configuration that was chosen where every token can only look back allows for very sample-efficient training (one sentence can be dozens of samples).
> And the training data has to exist, you can't find millions of pages depicting every thought a person went through before writing something. And such data can't exist because most thoughts aren't even language.
It would be interesting if in the very distant future, it becomes viable to use advanced brain scans as training data for AI systems. That might be a more realistic intermediate between the speculations into AGI and Uploaded Intelligence.
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setopt commented on A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/sensiquest
Yes they are that good, and "lasting five years" might not mean physically functioning vs not. It could be "meets my computing needs". Yes it could also mean "before the nonservicable battery dies".
I have a 2008 Acer, a 2018 Thinkpad, a 2019 HP, a 2024 framework, and a 2024 MacBook.
I can't stand 1080p for personal use anymore, and never in my life on Windows or Linux have I gotten more than 4 hours out of a battery.
Framework competes on repairability, price and OS choice. Pound for pound, MacBook is a much better piece of hardware.
My 2021 M1 MacBook is still good, but my 2020 Intel MacBook Air (16GB RAM) has felt unusable since 2022 or so. After upgrading macOS past Big Sur it just got unusably slow, would randomly hang or have high idle CPU usage, battery power was short lived, and it was constantly hot. I therefore downgraded it to Catalina and was happy to have my laptop back, until Homebrew and App Store wouldn’t let me install new things anymore, then I upgraded it to the latest macOS again and found it unusable again.
Now I’m not sure whether to install Linux on it (I’ve used Linux as my main OS before the Mac), or try to downgrade to Catalina again and just build whatever software I need from source.
setopt commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
I remember it started out as a native app editor that is all about speed. I think it only started focusing on AI after LLMs blew up.
It focused on cloud / collab from the beginning though.
setopt commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
Because when you sign away copyright, the software can be relicensed and taken closed source for all future improvements. Sure, people can still use the last open version, maybe fork it to try to keep going, but that simply doesn’t work out most times. I refuse to contribute to any project that requires me to give them copyright instead of contributing under copyleft; it’s just free contractors until the VCs come along and want to get their returns.
> I refuse to contribute to any project that requires me to give them copyright instead of contributing under copyleft
Please note that even GNU themselves require you to do this, see e.g. GNU Emacs which requires copyright assignment to the FSF when you submit patches. So there are legitimate reasons to do this other than being able to close the source later.
setopt commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
There shouldn't be anything stopping you from doing that.
You can just use the AGENTS.md file as an index pointing to other doc files.
This example does that -
The point is that .agents is a hidden file while AGENTS.md is in your face like a README intended for humans.
Having an in-your-face file that links to a hidden file serves no purpose.
is there any easier way to manage bookmarks with Obsidian? With Bases, I would get a nice UI as well
I’m not using Obsidian atm, but my approach is simply to store them in normal notes. So if I have e.g. a topic.md file I’d make a section called `# Links` there which I can click on. That makes it easier to rediscover links in the right context.
(I’m currently using Org-mode, but the approach is the same.)
setopt commented on Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians blog.demofox.org/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ibobev
∇⊗∇ would be more like \p_i f . \p_j f, not \p_{ij} f
I disagree, if you apply it in the order (∇⊗∇) f then you should get \partial_i \partial_j as elements of a rank-2 operator that is then applied to a function f. That is, presumably, what you mean by \p_{ij} f.
I feel like Nim made me fall in love with programming again.
Nim fixes many of the issues I had with Python. First, I can now make games with Nim because it’s super fast and easily interfaces with all of the high performance OS and graphics APIs. Second, typos no longer crash in production because the compiler checks everything. If it complies it runs. Finally, refactors are easy, because the compiler practically guides you through them. The cross compiling story is great you can compile to JS on the front end. You can use pytorch and numpy from Nim. You can write CUDA kernels in Nim. It can do everything.
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/yvbt4h/why_i_enj...
That’s very interesting actually. Can you call only specially wrapped libraries from Nim, or is any Python library importable? When you cross-compile to JS can you only use pure-Nim libraries or how does that work?