stargrazer

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https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net

stargrazer··on Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

Interesting, but why post it? Nothing seems to have been committed/updated in about 6 years. There are a number of PRs outstanding. Is it still in use?

The forum implies that not much maintenance happened after the passing of the primary contributor, even if there were good intentions.

Are there other constraint solvers which have subsumed this one?

stargrazer··on What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?

Some one has to gain the original knowledge to build the original content and form cohesive arguments which can then be sucked up and hallucinated by LLMs to convey to the masses in some sort of incohesive fashion. Can an LLM create a 7 minute read article from only a few nebulous thoughts? Will it take as much time to coach an LLM into something to be read as it would taken to write the original article unaided?

stargrazer··on KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”

If you need an instance of windows at random periods of time, you can always run it as a VM with VirtualBox or KVM/Qemu... or Karton as headlined in the article.

stargrazer··on A Case for Lua Performance

or in the epilogue, #4: use LuaJIT for some additional speedups before contemplating pushing the algorithm to native code

stargrazer··on Baby Steps into Genetic Programming

I suppose with Genetic Programming, given an appropriate set of descriptive symbols, it is relatively easy to understand the final result and intuit if there is any over-fitting involved. On the other hand, machine learning results are typically a black box, the weights involved typically do not easily lend themselves to understanding the nuances of the solution.

stargrazer··on Breaking up with vibe coding

Vibe Coding vs. AI Chat vs. Web Search vs. Thinking for Yourself

stargrazer··on $9B in pre-orders for super-slow, super-quiet aircraft

What sort of range?

stargrazer··on OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

So, why not pay the price of each copyrighted work ingested by the model?

stargrazer··on Who carved South America's mysterious ancient tunnels? [pdf]

I wish there were more pictures.

stargrazer··on Show HN: Terraform Provider for Inexpensive Switches

lanaotek.com has something similar but use a command line ability.

stargrazer··on Show HN: Terraform Provider for Inexpensive Switches

Does any one know of switches similar to this but might be loadable with Linux? Maybe able to run with switchdev or similar?

stargrazer··on I spent 18 years in the Linux console

or better yet, run windows in a linux kvm

stargrazer··on Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi [pdf]

University of Cambridge Revision date: Tue Oct 23 16:58:19 BST 2018

stargrazer··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back

Probably why Tesla's have auto-drive. Car has to drive it self while you focus your attention on the screen to decode how it works.

stargrazer··on Single-pass online statistics algorithms (2013)

Is that supposed to be latex? How to display the formulas?

stargrazer··on Microsoft is basically discontinuing Windows. What will happen, then?

I thought Windows 8 was supposed to be Windows-ForEver. I think I heard the same for Windows 10. Weren't they supposed to be on perpetual upgrade?

stargrazer··on Show HN: AOO – C++ library for real-time audio streaming and messaging

So given the ESP32 aspect, is there also Android support? Such that it could then be used for an interactive door bell?

stargrazer··on CMake: The Dark Arts

The blog has useful entries for C++ 20 Modules & Coroutines plus a series on CMake.

stargrazer··on Pin and Suffering in Async Rust

uh-huh. that was easy in a very complicated sort of way. are they working to simplify this so it becomes some sort of standard idiom? or is there another way?

stargrazer··on Colorize Lidar point clouds with camera images

Isn't there some math which crosses over between what Lidar is showing vs what photogrammetry provides from overlapping photograph images -> providing depth corrected/adjusted/ground-truthing of images?

stargrazer··on Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs

I miss saltstack. I did that whole litany of steps with one tool plus preseed.

stargrazer··on C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading

I'll have to take a look at the code. Maybe I can integrate it into https://github.com/rburkholder/trade-frame

stargrazer··on Alaska's top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point

Glaciers have been melting for many thousands of years. If a trend line were drawn from the time they started melting, you'd find that, given no additional earth changing events, eventually, the glaciers would totally melt. So .... the irreversible tipping point has existed for quite some time.

stargrazer··on Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples

https://github.com/rburkholder/trade-frame/blob/master/lib/T...

Part of a simulator handling limit orders and market orders. I run this real time against a DTN IQfeed live market feed to perform some testing for options trading/execution.

stargrazer··on Blaze: A High Performance C++ Math Library

Is this in represented here for posterity? Last news item is 15.8.2020. There are recent commits for compiler compatibility testing (feb 2024).

What is of import here?

stargrazer··on Silicon Valley is pricing lecturers out of AI research

This is hard to read. Is this a bad AI generation or a bad machine translation of an original article?

stargrazer··on Demystifying the use of Parquet for time series

This reminds me of HDF5, which, even thought the data is written/appended in row format, there is an API to chunk the data, organize into columns, compress based upon column regularities, and write to storage.

On reading the reverse happens.

This becomes the compute/space conundrum: space is reduced with column based regularity, but time is increased due to the extra overhead of columnar compression.

stargrazer··on How to hack your brain when you're in pain [video]

https://paincarelabs.com/personalized-pain-prevention - a couple hops away.

I thought maybe 'repeat the mantra' might be one of the solutions. But no such luck.

stargrazer··on I Built a DevOps/SRE/Cloud/Security Newsfeed

Is there a way to segregate the marketing fluff (95%) from the technically specific (5%)?

stargrazer··on Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically (2023)

I am using https://luajit.org/ in my GCC C++ project.

Can I use this faster Lua JIT in my project as a replacement? And if so, how so?

The existing luajit doesn't do v5.1, so it would be nice to use this newer engine at the newer baseline lua version level.

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