Software, Geekery and other miscellany
For an LLM to work, it needs to somehow assign a meaning to a word. The problem is words can have different meanings in different contexts and be related to different words in multiple ways.
For example, Python and Java are related, so is Python and Cobra, and so is …
👑LinkedIn has a daily game called Queens.
Everyday you get a new map with 8 coloured areas and you have to place 8 queens such that there is one queen per row, one queen per column, one queen per colour and no two queens can be adjacent.
The post below …
There is an interesting parallel between AI and written scripts.
Logographic scripts, like Chinese or Japanese Kanji, there is a separate 'glyph' to represent each word. If you can read the script, you can understand the meaning even if you don't know how to pronounce the word.
Phonetic scripts, like …
I was listening to a podcast today and Brian Holt was asked to pick something that everyone should check out. Normally folks pick the new hot thing that they are excited about. Brian picked Excel.
💯great pick.
Every alternate post on my timeline is about how Excel is obsolete, AI …
What is more important in software development? Having better quality team members? Or having the team members work together in a better way?
I was reading a post today explaining about how team performance in software development is more important than individual performance. And one part of the post said …
The idea of doing a computation within a special context isn't unique to quantum computing. Functional programming has a concept called the monad that does something similar. This is how it works: you have an input value and you want to perform a sequence of calculations within a certain special …
Yesterday, I wrote that Writing is a form of Thinking.
On the other hand, we are taught the way to write is
It rarely works that way because as we are fleshing out the details, we will get new insights and …
As I blogged about in the previous two articles, I recently updated my NeoVim configuration for the fourth time. Although it might sound like a lot of config updates, keep in mind that it happened over a period of four years.
In the previous post, I mentioned how NeoVim can be configured to be more like an IDE. This means features like autocomplete and so on. Let us take a look at some tools which we can interface with NeoVim.
Regular Vim always had support for these to some …