I want to see more models that can be streamed to a browser and run locally via wasm. That would be my hope for small models. In the <100mb range.
Readit Newssrikz commented on What even is a small language model now? jigsawstack.com/blog/what... · Posted by u/yoeven
It's the classic Amazon-popularised method of working backwards from the user benefit. Write the press release first, evaluate feasibility, build.
Interesting. I had only heard this in the context of Apple before and not Amazon. There is a clip from a Steve Jobs video describing how you need to work backwards from the end user experience and then figure out the technology
If only Arc was native... uses so much memory. but the product is too good to switch to Orion.
But Arc is native. They are building it in Swift. They have even taken on a mammoth task of building their windows version in Swift!
(I guess it's time to post this video again.)
Saša Jurić - The Soul of Erlang and Elixir: https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
This is in my opinion the best demo of Elixir, the BEAM, OTP and any programming language, ever. If this doesn't pique your interest, nothing will.
I was already fascinated by Elixir, but this video drove the nail home. It's a great presentation and I don't think I have watched any conference talks (on YouTube) without taking a break except this one.
srikz commented on 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development 2nd Edition gamemath.com/book/intro.h... · Posted by u/thread_id
The footnotes don't seem to be reflected by a reference in the text unless I am missing something.
It's there in the text but it is not formatted as a link. It would have been nicer if we could click on the footnote to go back to the text.
1. You can search for Space Quest 2. Search for Unique writing stye. It's at the end of that paragraph 3. Appendix B
I'm sure it's been said before by many, but I'd have a few extra mm of thickness to get back replaceable ram, ssd, wifi, etc.
The post yesterday about moving back to an old Thinkpad has me motivated to do something like that for my next computer. A Thinkpad chassis with an updated mainboad, screen, and battery would make me happy.
Hoping more companies like frame.work[1] come up and succeed. They have shown it is possible and the laptop need not be bulky or very expensive and still be repairable.
[1]: https://frame.work
srikz commented on Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++ github.com/ocornut/imgui... · Posted by u/dragonsh
Dear ImGui is excellent and is very handy to make GUI version of a CLI app especially if we want to interactively set values and see results.
It is fairly low level (deliberately) and that’s great to keep it simple. I wish there is a standalone GUI ‘framework’ which builds on these primitives and leans on standard library to make the experience a bit more nicer when building standalone applications.
I understand this is not the goal of Dear ImGui. I may give it a shot in a few months time if I don’t come across any such project.
srikz commented on Does C++ still deserve a bad rap? nibblestew.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/signa11
I've never actually had a problem with c++ grammar or syntax or logic
What I do have a problem with is trying to interface with more complex apis and functions. For example a while back I had to implement a https get and post request and it was a total nightmare. Something that takes only a few lines in python took a few days to figure out. Maybe it's lack fo experience but I tried wrestling with libraries like pocco which I couldn't figure out for the life of me but in the end ended up writing a monster of a program implementing the winhttp api directly.
I made a similar comment earlier and someone suggested I should have just used libcurl. How to people normally wrestle with these things without going crazy?
I am piggy-backing on this to ask if there is a good networking library to handle OAuth2 (client side). I came across cpprestsdk[0] but it was a pain to setup with some OpenSSL conflicts unless I use vcpkg. But I need to edit some code in the httpclient class which won’t be straightforward if I use a package manager.
srikz commented on Does C++ still deserve a bad rap? nibblestew.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/signa11
Is there some sort of standard / commonly accepted way to manage packages for c++? In python its as simple as pip install + import, and the community is generally in agreement with the best library to use with good documentation. Is there some sort of similar tools I can use for c++?
There are many. But none of them are considered the ‘default’ way to do it. vcpkg[1] by Microsoft is the newest kid on the block which is gaining some traction. Apart from that Conan[2] seems to be the (relatively) popular one. There’s also Hunter[3] which builds on top of CMake.
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg [2]: https://conan.io [3]: https://github.com/cpp-pm/hunter