What I used to recommend to my sofware engineering classes is that instead of putting large files (media etc) into Git, put them into the artifact repository (Artifactory or something like it). That lets you for instance publish it as a snapshot dependency that the build system will automatically fetch for you, but control how much history of it you keep and only require your colleagues to fetch the latest version. Even better, a simple clean of their build system cache will free up the space used by old versions on their machines.
Readit Newswbillingsley commented on The future of large files in Git is Git tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/thcipriani
wbillingsley commented on Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell imiron.io/post/linkedin-q... · Posted by u/agnishom
I set this as part of a Scala programming assignment for my second year undergraduate class at UNE (Australia) last term. However, during the working a square is not Queen | Eliminated but Set[Queen | NotQueen]
Largely so from a programming perspective it becomes a simplified version of Einstein's Riddle that I showed the class, doing in a similar way.
https://theintelligentbook.com/willscala/#/decks/einsteinPro...
Where at each step, you're just eliminating one or more possibilities from a cell that starts out containing all of them.
Queens has fewer rules to code, making it more amenable for students.
wbillingsley commented on Why wordfreq will not be updated github.com/rspeer/wordfre... · Posted by u/tomthe
They want to display how they’re truly intelligent (unlike LLMs) by checks notes rehashing opinions that they’ve read millions of times online.
Sound familiar to anyone?
I wonder whether future generations will be ingrained with a Truman Show fear that maybe only the few thousand people they meet are real and everything else is generated background noise.
wbillingsley commented on The Later Years of Douglas Adams filfre.net/2024/07/the-la... · Posted by u/doppp
I've never really understood the problems he had getting the Hitchhiker movie made - all the articles around before it came out talked about having to revise the script to make sense to an American audience (and the eventual movie ended up with a strangely different plot with a villain), but the original radio series is pretty much a road movie, which is almost an American trope.
wbillingsley commented on Training of Physical Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/2406.03372... · Posted by u/Anon84
The way the brain does it is by giving users a largely untrained model that they themselves have to train over the next 20 years for it to be of any use.
Sometimes. Foals are born (almost) able to walk. There are occasions where evolution baked the model into the genes.
Not all of them do --- MIPS was very common once (now probably being replaced by RISC-V), and I've come across recent (<5 years old) lecture slides from Indian universities where they still use the 8086/88, 8051, 8080/8085/Z80, etc.
We use ARM. Because then we can lean on some things (e.g. the ARMlite simulator) UK schools built for A-levels.
wbillingsley commented on Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git ohmygit.org/... · Posted by u/Lwrless
Imagine if apps just… worked like this, somehow. Start off with a realtime visualization and point and click commands, and as you learn them you can evolve into a straight CLI…
That's a similar approach to the one I use for teaching git. First the sim, then the CLI.
https://theintelligentbook.com/supercollaborative/#/challeng...
(Albeit I made mine simulate how things like VS Code look while you're doing it a bit more)
wbillingsley commented on Stuff that is backwards in Australia blog.plover.com/geo/Austr... · Posted by u/082349872349872
> Australians see the moon upside-down
Such hemispherism.
The more obvious one is that Orion's standing on his head.
wbillingsley commented on Stuff that is backwards in Australia blog.plover.com/geo/Austr... · Posted by u/082349872349872
Nice list, the but point 2 is a bit ironic, Australians don't celebrate 4th of July at all
We do sometimes have an informal "Christmas in July". Which is a little odd, since 6 months on from Christmas would be June.
Tying it all in with GitLab, Artifactory, CodeSonar, Anchore etc