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Not saying that LLMs are particularly data efficient, but in their defence, they don't only learn what a human learns in a lifetime but throughout the whole evolution. There may be information encoded in our genes that LLMs need to learn from the training data

Yes 100%. Using the vim bindings for VS Code and that works great. Makes working without touching the mouse really enjoyable. Also being familiar with vim is a great fallback option if you're sshed into a remote machine.

Looks amazing! Interesting to see the fully integrated approach. Working on gitpaper.com, which takes the bring-your-own-static-site-generator (byossg TM) route.

Really like the idea of keeping content in git, especially for smaller projects.

Time will tell if we need symbolic representations or if continuous ones are sufficient. In the meantime, it would be more productive to present alternative methods or at least benchmarks where deep learning models are outperformed, instead of arguing about who said what first and criticising without offering quantitative evidence or alternatives

Sorry, I realise my comment may have sounded a bit harsh, it was not meant as a criticism of your website - just describing why I don't perceive it as minimalist design

Comparing Gwern's to your website is really interesting. I'd argue, Gwern's website is a good example of minimalist design, whereas the website you posted is the opposite.

To me, minimalist design is as little design as possible (Dieter Rams). All design elements need to serve and enhance usability/functionality of the product. That doesn't mean that the total functionality of something needs to be minimal. E.g. you can still have tags, recommended articles and a comment section.

In the website you posted, I see design elements that don't serve the usability of the website, but are there just for design sake. E.g. the background image, the colour of the toolbar or the right alignment of the text

Hey author of reloading here - cool to see this mentioned. Would love to know how reloading could be more usable for you.

Since the post on HN in 2019, reloading can also be used as a decorator to load functions from source before execution. For some use cases that may work better than the reloading loop.

Everything Is an X 6 years ago

We could add Deep Learning to the list as "everything is a vector".

Love how the article can be interpreted as making statements about itself. The article states everything on this list is an implementation of 'everything is an X'. Or put differently, everything is an X, where X = 'everything is an X'.

Why on earth use a dynamic language like Ruby or Python and then try to bolt types on top

Probably using the languages for the ecosystem (e.g. Python for scientific computing or ML and ruby for ruby on rails) but still wanting to benefit from type checking

Firstly, congrats on the launch! Active learning is a super interesting space.

You say it's possible to download the data and use Humanloop for annotation only while still benefitting from active learning. I'm curious about your experience with how much active learning depends on the model. Are the examples that the online model selects for labelling generally also the most useful ones for a different model trained offline?

The problem with this is, that the caller of the function which returns what you wrote (i.e. a dynamic error message) can't match the error anymore for conditional error handling. That's because errors in go are just strings. I guess a solution could be to provide an error matching function but that seems quite cumbersome compared to typed errors.

Neat idea, this could become a valuable resource for discovering interesting things.

From a UI perspective: Maybe there could be a searchbox for books, songs etc. so that one can quickly enter things one likes. With the current system of entering preferences for the 3 suggested items, the problem is that I don't know many of the items and so I can't enter a preference.

URLs are compact as in a single string they specify everything you need to locate and use the dependency and you don't need any context, like a specific dependency manager (incl some sort of dependency file). I guess I mean compact as in self-contained, not necessarily short.