1. Those who see their codebase as a sculpture, a work of art, a source of pride
2. Those who focus on outcomes.
They are not contradictory goals, but I'm finding that if your emphasis is 1, you general dislike LLMs, and if your emphasis is 2, you love them, or at least tolerate them.
I don't disagree with you - LLMs are not at odds with quality code if you use them correctly. But many people who take excessive pride in their code don't even bother to look and see what can be done with them. Though, in the last couple months, I have seen several of the (1) types around me finally try them.
I'm an example, in fact I've loved his music since the 90s and never played it for friends because I always assumed they wouldn't like it. And I'm definitely not being performative for myself. It was a bit surprising to me that his music became kind of legendary recently.
At first I thought this was going to be some LLM thing. I had an idea a while ago, "context-based module development", that I started on a prototype of but never followed up on. The idea is to have a standard format for defining modules, black boxes with interfaces and clear definitions, that can be composed hierarchically. Module definitions and their code should not be larger than the context window of an LLM. As long as each module is well defined and tested and treated like a black box, you could have a system composed of both human and AI built modules that should behave as expected and be somewhat comprehensible. Not all architectures would work with this and I don't know if it would have worked in the end, but I do expect that at some point a more formal system for defining software from the ground up for AI development will emerge.
Yeah same, we do not bother spiders in the house unless they jump into bed or on food or whatever, and then we just take them outside. With spiders and cats in the house we never see any flies or other insects.
I have a rule with the spiders where if they get too bold they get the vacuum. I don't mind them lurking in the corners but I don't want them crawling across my desk. I think most of them understand the arrangement by now. Only occasional enforcement is necessary.
I tried this with a yellowjacket and a screamer of a Shop Vac that has a six-foot hose. I was sure it would have suffocated from the dust inside the vacuum bag clogging its spiracles.
Next morning, the wasp (now with tattered wings) was sitting in the corner of a window. I have no idea how it made it out.
It's probably a pretty natural path for the wasp assuming it survived the initial time you were running the vac. The shopvac is just a big container with at the top an exit path following the wall naturally out the tube. They don't even tend to have a flap like smaller hand vacs might have to keep dust from falling out during use.
I feel guilty when I take down the webs. Wool dusters work as well as the vac.
Lately I have been trying to get macro photos of spiders hanging on their threads and so far failing because they see the camera and drop down a foot before I can set up the shot.
Incidentally, this method cured me of arachnophobia. Having it trapped inside the glass, yet in my hand and up close to take a closer look, allowed me to gradually see them as not all that scary. It's like that therapy where you gradually get closer to the thing you're afraid of (desensitization?).
I deal with trespassing flies this way. They spend some time in fly jail (butterfly net, twisted closed and propped against the door frame through which they entered) pour encourager les autres, then they go free outside at dusk.
Pheromones, interpretive dance, telepathy,—I don’t know exactly how the others get the message but I know that they do, and they stay on the correct side of the doorway.
I've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow. Maybe I have arachnophobia, but they're freaky little creatures that I don't want in my living space.
> than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow
Rare if ever happens. Maybe 5 times in your life time. I will pay that cost any day. I have made friends with spiders. Flies spread diseases, spiders eat them. Spiders seldom bite humans and when they do, it’s nowhere near as bad as getting scratched by a cat.
For what it's worth, it happens to me about 5 times each summer. But I also welcome spiders as pest control, so it's not a surprise, and I forget all about it 5 seconds later.
Suit yourself, I'd much rather have the latter. One of the best features of spiders is that they can't fly. If a bug can fly, all bets are off. Who knows where that thing is going to end up. Spiders are at least more predictable.
I've never been prevented from sleep by a spider buzzing around the room, either.
I saw a butterfly get stuck to a web once. It immediately started hurling itself violently away, trying to shake itself free. The spider was not immediately in evidence.
I managed to take the web off it, but not without tearing off the part of the wing that made contact. I assume that in the butterfly's best-case scenario, that would have happened anyway. It was able to fly afterwards.
I don't mind spiders at all, they mostly stay out of my way. Flies, on the other hand, land on my food, buzz around the room when I want to sleep, and are generally a nuisance.
That's how I feel about dragonflies. Spiders are, to me, equally interesting but less enjoyable. I tolerate a few spiders in our house, but not in bedrooms or the kitchen.
The best way to get rid of spiders it to get rid of the files yourself then.
If there is nothing in your house for the spiders to eat, you won't have spiders. If you remove the spiders but not their prey (flies, etc...), you will have more flies, and spiders will keep coming back.
The reason the spider web in the article is so huge is that there is a huge amount of flies to feed the spiders.
It's actually spider webs that protect you from pests. The webs keep catching bugs as long as they are there, the spider just eats what it wants then moves on.
My house has a problem with little black ants that pest control services never could quite take care of. Spiders kept trying to set up shop near a window, but I would always knock the web down. Once I relented and let the spiders do their thing my ant problem went away. All I need to do is clean up a few ant corpses in the fall, which is a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
The memory bandwidth limitation is baked into the GB10, and every vendor is going to be very similar there.
I'm really curious to see how things shift when the M5 Ultra with "tensor" matmul functionality in the GPU cores rolls out. This should be a multiples speed up of that platform.
My guess is M5 Ultra will be like DGX Spark for token prefill and M3 Ultra for token generation, i.e. the best of both worlds, at FP4. Right now you can combine Spark with M3U, the former streaming the compute, lowering TTFT, the latter doing the token generation part; with M5U that should no longer be necessary. However given RAM prices situation I am wondering if M5U will ever get close to the price/performance of Spark + M3U we have right now.
The M3 Ultra was oddly delayed, though rumours are that the M5 Ultra should arrive much quicker. Most are estimating March-ish. We'll see. I think Apple has a much higher motivation to get the M5 higher end variants out given the enormous benefits the new matmul functionality offers.
The thyroid is I think far enough away from the main cervical lymph nodes and also the olfactory lymphatic drainage pathways too that I don’t think you need to worry about thyroid removal affecting the lymphatic drainage there.
That being said your lymphatic drainage could still be affected by many other things. Eg do you have chronically inflamed sinuses? Difficulty breathing? These would be things pointing towards greater obstruction of the drainage pathways as it points to inflammation potentially impacting the flow of lymph out of the head/brain.
1. Those who see their codebase as a sculpture, a work of art, a source of pride 2. Those who focus on outcomes.
They are not contradictory goals, but I'm finding that if your emphasis is 1, you general dislike LLMs, and if your emphasis is 2, you love them, or at least tolerate them.
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