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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have an internal monologue?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Insightful, I’ve found that most people change their answers at least slightly after having time to observe their thoughts for a while, we are geniuses at believing our own conjectures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have an internal monologue?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone does, I’ve had a lot of conversations with a lot of people on this topic.

  People’s thought processes range from monologue to dialog to narration to silence to images to raw concepts without form.

  I personally do not have a constantly running monologue, but rather have relatively short bursts of thought interspersed with long periods of silence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They terk er jerbs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is jQuery still the go-to JS helper library?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jquery is a swear word in professional front end contexts, the replacement is transpilation and dropping ie support.

  Personally I used jquery up until react and babel got hot, now I never touch the dom directly with jquery and no longer have a need for the polyfill features as I rely on babel preset-env to support the browsers we have selected (especially for things like promises/async await/es6+ features)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When I started out at about 14 I found a few programming books that really helped at my local library. It’s really tough to keep motivated as a kid, but if you give him tools and help him find joy in the process he’ll push himself to the finish line.

  Good on you for supporting your kid, my parents told me to get off the computer and go outside every time they “caught” me programming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite programming language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Favorite for quick tasks: javascript, the last few years of ecmascript features make it an incredibly productive language.

  Favorite for hobby stuff: rust, but with caveats. I miss default parameters, I dislike the syntax soup, the async system has too many “standards” (see xkcd on competing standards)

  Favorite for work: javascript/typescript. Having my team be fully capable of working on any part of our competencies with just one language is huge. Sharing code between front end and backend, across products, and easily finding developers all make it an easy choice.

  Least favorites:

  Php: magic quotes? Golang: using casing to establish public vs private? Objective-C: the worst combo of every one of it’s predecessors Java: forcing the paradigm of everything is an object causes so much boilerplate Vb5/6/a: triggering a button with = True, using a single equals for both assignment and equality, callbacks are an absolute nightmare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit complex, and you can find a better answer elsewhere, but a model is a set of “weights” and “bias” that make up the pathways of the neurons in a neural network.

  A model can include other features but at its core it gives users the ability to run an “ai” like gpt, though models aren’t limited to only natural language processing.

  Yes, you can download the models and run them on your computer, generally there will be instructions in each repository, but in general it involves downloading the model which can be very large and running it using an existing ml framework like pytorch.

  It’s not a place for the layman right now, but with a few hours of research you could make it happen.

  I personally run several models that I got through huggingface on my computer, llama2 which is similar to gpt3 is the one I use the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huggingface takes a bit of getting used to but it’s the place to find models and datasets, imo it may be one of the most important websites on the internet today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries | How we can minimize expensive, ecologically damaging battery storage by changing how we think about energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an interesting article, in places with hydro or wind based electricity I think it’s fine to have the expectation of forever available electricity.

  Even in those cases it does make sense to limit our use of appliances and such to locally produced solar electricity. I wish we had standards for neighborhood solar farms for cases where some houses have minimal sun exposure.