Principal Developer | Grind Software Inc. | Typescript Scala GraphQL
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Craig Tataryn retweeted
A BLEEP at the right moment can turn anything dirty!
Whoever made this is a mad genius.
TL;DR: Anthropic copied the code that took human engineers over 37 years to build and it cost $20k + the cost of a researcher.
Anthropic had 16 AI agents build a C compiler from scratch. 100k lines, compiles the Linux kernel, $20k, 2 weeks.
To put that in perspective GCC took thousands of engineers over 37 years to build. (Granted from 1987 - however) One researcher and 16 AI agents just built a compiler that passes 99% of GCC's own torture test suite, compiles FFmpeg, Redis, PostgreSQL, QEMU and runs Doom.
They say they "(mostly) walked away." But that "mostly" is doing heavy lifting.
No human wrote code but the researcher constantly redesigned tests, built CI pipelines when agents broke each other's work, and created workarounds when all 16 agents got stuck on the same bug.
The human role didn't disappear. It shifted from writing code to engineering the environment that lets AI write code.
I don’t know how you could make the point AI is hitting a wall.
Craig Tataryn retweeted
Today's free video on Matthew Explains looks at the "goldfish" loss function, used in the recent Apertus language models. It's supposed to prevent copyright infringement by making the model unable to reproduce word-for-word quotations. Does that work? matthewexplains.com/11182442…
I really hope the opportunity is missed for years to come. First of all it resides within a park. Cottages there are on leased land and are very modest, using a shared well to fill cisterns as needed for water. Sewage is hauled away by trucks because there's no infrastructure.
Craig Tataryn retweeted
My latest video just went live, and as well as being free, it covers some points I know are of interest to people here regarding the distinctions among training, fine-tuning, and prompting. I'm hoping it gets a lot of views. matthewexplains.com/11179488…
I really wish more founders understood this. Also, the ability for the team to communicate effectively and understand requirements is key.
Someone is feverishly trying to get an LLM to churn out some codecs 🤣🤣🤣
Craig Tataryn retweeted
He is the creator of linux, the open source operating system which powers 96% of all servers on the planet.
To facilitate the development of linux, he created a side project called git. Today, git is the most used version control software in the world.
What an absolute legend🫡
Craig Tataryn retweeted
Study by my genius friend to CURE DEAFNESS cancelled because, I shit you not:
"Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry".
Decel anti-science brain-dead take.
Craig Tataryn retweeted
sorry not sorry but you gotta know this cursed SQLite fact too
ALT Not only that, it does not throw any error if you give some random type. CREATE TABLE t(value TIMMYSTAMP); There is no TIMMYSTAMP type, but SQLite accepts this happily. SQLite has five types: NULL, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB. Want to know something cursed? The type affinity works by substring match! CREATE TABLE t(value SPONGEBLOB) --- This is BLOB type! So yeah, this happens too: Note that a declared type of “FLOATING POINT” would give INTEGER affinity, not REAL affinity, due to the “INT” at the end of “POINT”.
Congrats @DallasStars, you put up tremendous pressure in our zone and it ultimately paid dividends. See you next year #NHLPlayoffs #GoJetsGo
They really missed an opportunity by not calling it CRIT
