I think the legend goes Wirth created the Pascal language to be the most easily compilable. To show my age, I recall a class used Modula-2 when I was in college, also from Wirth, very Pascal-like.
Haha! I bought an M1 Max Macbook Pro and I maxed most of the specs. 64GB memory! (Except for the SSD, which I got the 2TB option.) I have not even THOUGHT about “upgrading” to a newer model. I have yet to even tax my system to any significant degree. Bad for Apple? How much are they worth?
IF: yeah I’m a fan and once started to teach myself Inform 6, way back when. My greatest accomplishment was translating a random haiku generator in Inform 6. I sort of lost interest as Inform 7 was coming on the scene.
These are surprisingly beautiful, poetic. They reflect what I think would be the best of the humanity that we have, anywhere and everywhere. I thank the collector of these for some brief moments in the music of others' lives.
Really? In 2019? This is the first I've heard of it, and I've been working here since 2017. I have no notion that this problem has been actually addressed anywhere.
The famous "widowmaker"... I remember these from childhood, looking through a book about fighter jets. Always thought they had a wicked shape, instantly caught my youthful eye.
In retrospect, the article was what one should have expected given the second half of the title. And it was quite interesting. But yeah, I thought this would be about the bullion gold.
What this is showing me is that we are better understanding what actually is happening inside these LLM models. That we are peeling back the curtain and seeing how the trick is performed. This might be a requirement, to comprehend this "unreasonable effectiveness", if we are to take the next step toward actual "intelligence", if that makes sense at all.