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rosebayon Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?

The article directly quotes google giving a clear answer….

“Google replied to the tweet directly, saying, “Bard is an early experiment based on Large Language Models and will make mistakes. It is not trained on Gmail data. -JQ”.

rosebayon Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?

Great explanation

rosebayon The fastest math typesetting library for the web

Katex is truly great. Fun trivia facts - one of its developers also played a core role in React (she is a legend)

rosebayon Thinking hard makes the brain tired

Thanks for sharing

rosebayon IBM Quantum System Two

I didn’t know IBM mainframes run the world? Just curious, care to expand?

rosebayon Code Smell of the Day: Type Keys (2021)

I read the blog, was mortified but luckily others have already provided feedback in an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28325563

To the author’s credit, I loved that he is thinking analytically and he did take the feedback positively - there are some good ideas in the post.

rosebayon Pictureworld: A Concept for Future Office Systems (1980) [pdf]

Wow! Cannot thank you enough for such an awesome site!

rosebayon Quickly checking that a string belongs to a small set

Why isn’t a Trie considered the fastest solution?

rosebayon All I want for Christmas is these seven TypeScript improvements

All I want is nominal types, if this is possible already, somebody please let me know!!

rosebayon The empty list

I tend to agree but would be happy to be proven wrong by more knowledgeable folks in these comments.

However I assume here we are talking about dotted lists and not ‘proper’ ones?

rosebayon Where did software go wrong? (2020)

Thanks!

rosebayon Where did software go wrong? (2020)

Unrelated but you most posted a comment many years back (below). Wondering if you have any tips on research / articles in this space?

> Yes, very nice. But it needs an update on structured documents (tree-like, as in HTML). And, ideally, it should be accompanied by work that addresses collaborative editing in such structured documents.

rosebayon Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform

That looks really good. P.s CodeMirror is awesome, by far the best editor plug-in on the web

rosebayon Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web

This is clearly self promotion…and the multiple alt accounts / friend accounts to try to create a particular impression of the software…

rosebayon Closures and Objects Are Equivalent (2013)

I would agree

rosebayon Common Lisp Object System (CLOS)

Agreed. I program in CL and other languages too. I find Java developers tend to have a stronger understanding of OOP and that might be behind your insight. For all its benefits, it feels like at times many CL users miss the point of OOP.

CLOS itself is great, however the decoupling of data and methods is something at times I find leads to harder to understand code.

rosebayon Closures and Objects Are Equivalent (2013)

Closures don’t have inheritance or any of the other machinery that object oriented programming typically comes with.

Perhaps saying they are light weight objects (where objects has its meaning as instances of classes) is a good way of saying it.

The realisation that closures and objects are very similar is one of the main turning points in becoming proficient in both OOP and Functional Programming, it was for me at least.