tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823172025-11-27T18:42:43.878-05:00AlephGnosticism, Jung, dreams, politics, art, psychologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1855125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-33446705683353974522025-11-27T18:42:00.008-05:002025-11-27T18:42:43.832-05:00Better LLM editing results using non-interactive "ed"Summary:
Directing an LLM to use the ed editor improves its ability to make lots of changes in one shot.
The problem:
When I ask an LLM to make a large edit or a large series of edits (such as doing a large refactor) it often messes up by deleting way too much or otherwise getting confused.
The root cause:
I think this has to do with LLM's struggle to count properly. An LLM will guess at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-71450629615463376432023-04-02T15:57:00.002-04:002023-04-02T15:59:41.086-04:00ChatGPT explains Epigrams on ProgrammingChatGPT Explains fourteen Epigrams on Programming by Alan Perlis
Explain this: "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons."
The phrase "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons" is a humorous way of saying that the excessive use of shortcuts or simplifications in coding can lead to poor programming habits and mistakes. "Syntactic sugar" refers to a programming concept where Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-11203552511614754952008-08-02T16:42:00.001-04:002008-08-02T16:44:07.347-04:00
For the young who want to
Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting.
Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning to go
out and get a job.
Genius is what they know you
had after theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-70787704170243779962008-04-30T22:43:00.001-04:002008-04-30T22:43:41.879-04:00More one one of my favorite writers, Anna Kavan.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-61713922420061178272008-04-06T04:20:00.000-04:002008-04-06T04:21:54.014-04:00"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself" --
Thomas PaineUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-48786062404688314492008-04-03T13:18:00.001-04:002022-07-10T19:48:06.306-04:00
Diana Cooper
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-57945084113962282822008-04-03T13:10:00.001-04:002022-07-10T19:55:19.735-04:00
Alfonso Ossorio
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-34471586757496578342008-04-01T02:18:00.002-04:002022-07-10T20:14:19.952-04:00
Sherry Camhy
uses an interesting technique where black graphite is drawn on black paper to create light tones.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1100827709073002632008-03-18T19:38:00.001-04:002022-07-10T20:18:27.878-04:00
Daniel Libeskind
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-59342794649632135602008-03-17T00:37:00.001-04:002022-07-10T20:21:50.512-04:00
Ben Grasso
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-59248152683924431802008-03-15T21:20:00.000-04:002008-03-15T21:22:11.861-04:00"Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." --Albert EinsteinUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-8336753612349845392008-02-22T12:20:00.001-05:002022-07-10T20:24:31.465-04:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-78733715159159483702008-01-28T02:12:00.001-05:002008-01-28T02:12:57.622-05:00Zen and the Art of Functional ProgrammingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-29350189224949407742008-01-12T20:40:00.000-05:002008-01-12T20:41:28.989-05:00"In a 43-page opinion, Circuit Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all “persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-59920034868832263862008-01-11T20:30:00.000-05:002008-01-11T20:38:29.834-05:00
I passed a house where I once lived:
A man and a woman are still together in the whispers.
Many years have passed with the silent buzz
of staircase bulbs -- on, off, on.
The keyholes are like small delicate wounds
through which all the blood has oozed out
and inside people are pale as death.
I want to stand once more as in my
first love, leaning on the doorpost
embracing you all night through,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-53255741963420893612008-01-11T03:45:00.001-05:002008-01-11T03:46:12.669-05:00"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." -- Nikos KazantzakisUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-4060611645696801562008-01-07T14:35:00.000-05:002008-01-07T14:36:25.674-05:00
"The child who received a great deal of attention, whose every need was promptly met, as among the New Guinea Mountain Arapesh, became a gentle, cooperative, unaggressive adult. On the other hand, the child who received perfunctory, intermittent attention, as among the New Guinea Mundugomor, became a selfish, uncooperative, aggressive adult...
Another relevant aspect of most of these cultures Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-19791730052058139002008-01-05T18:10:00.000-05:002008-01-05T18:11:15.383-05:00
The Pain -- When Will It End?
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-52228327285263522532007-12-20T00:20:00.000-05:002007-12-20T00:23:39.956-05:00"Jean Rhys said in an interview in Paris Review, 'Listen to me. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.'" -- Madeleine L'EngleUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-86790036713744502742007-12-19T13:02:00.000-05:002007-12-19T13:03:37.822-05:00"Slippery slopes have been the topic of a spate of recent literature. In this Article, the authors provide a general theory for understanding and evaluating slippery slope arguments and their associated slippery slope events."
The Camel's Nose Is in the Tent: Rules, Theories, and Slippery SlopesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-67136153177521448102007-12-18T22:20:00.000-05:002007-12-18T22:23:00.045-05:00"We're a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work?
We actively promote alternatives to the wage slavery mindset and what we call "The Cult of the Job" which automatically equates having a job with making a living..."
More...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-7491459550436583252007-12-18T22:19:00.000-05:002007-12-18T22:20:20.713-05:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-65745119109283244632007-12-06T13:56:00.001-05:002007-12-06T13:56:44.600-05:00Freeze food in ice cube traysUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-83312961164148031102007-12-03T01:48:00.000-05:002007-12-03T01:53:33.007-05:00Word Processors: Stupid and InefficientUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-4084624734360554062007-11-29T12:46:00.000-05:002007-11-29T12:51:05.213-05:00
Benjamin Braun
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