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The Windows 3.1 theme of my blog says Hi: https://passo.uno/win31/fine-tuning-docs-llm/

Ha! I didn't know the origin was Shannon. It makes sense now. Big fan of my namesake Bellard. :]

Try Runpod or similar services: you can fine-tune stuff for the price of a latte. Stanford's NLP course recommends them: https://cs336.stanford.edu/

I concur. Old docs are the good stuff: https://passo.uno/why-collect-read-old-computer-manuals/

Interesting! I think the advantage of style fine-tuning is that you might not have to provides that much context upfront. Also, it's kind of magical to have an LLM just do something out of the box. I'll compare my local fine-tuned models against the baseline with instructions and see how they fare.

Had to pick a year, and most of the material hovers around the mid-90s, the golden age of MS docs. And 1995 is THE Microsoft year. :)

Author here. Sorry, should have made that more visible!

Author here. Another trick, I would argue, is consistency, hence the focus on style.

I also wrote on what I think makes docs beautiful, by the way! https://passo.uno/what-makes-docs-beautiful/

I sometimes long for audio feedback when interacting with Claude, so I've made a Claude Code hook that makes Claude reply to negative feedback with sounds from a folder. You can use any sound you want.

Thanks! That makes sense. This was just genuine curiosity on how HN works, I couldn't care less about kharma.

@dang Is this item getting a lot of negative votes? I've no way of knowing, other than seeing my kharma increasing only slightly after all the points the story collected.

For a moment I pictured the Jesuits training their own LLM. If Arthur C. Clarke was still alive, we'd read a story like The Star, but with AI as the main plot device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_%28Clarke_short_story...

I'm a non-practicing catholic, and an agnostic (or an atheist, depending on the mood). And yet I acknowledge that the Catholic church is a force to be reckoned with in the spiritual matters, and one of the few institutions to have had continuous influence on the material (or temporal) matters for centuries. Whether their brand of faith is rooted in your culture or not, these are words that deserve attention, I think.

When he quoted Tolkien, my heart stopped. This passage might provide you with a suggestion on how to live a virtuous life:

"The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization."

Microsoft published its own UNIX from 1980 to 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix?wprov=sfla1

Can we have something similar for macOS (to turn the UI to Mac OS 9)?

Had somewhat related thoughts on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035796 (Most vibe-coded tools are not for you)

I love old desktop OSes so much I've created a Windows 3.1 theme for mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909295

Only some of the social buttons

Moved here! https://passo.uno/win31/

@dang Could we edit the link to https://passo.uno/win31/ ? Had to move the theme.

Author here. I'm reverting the theme, but will make it accessible through a link / open source it.

Fixed!

I've made the minimize button functional. If you select maximize, there's a surprise (chord.wav!)

Ha! Thought about implementing real minimize, but then it'd be really hard to find the way back in mobile...

OP here. You know? Yours is the comment I needed to read. You're right. I'm going to remove them.

Just some innocent fun!

How is that link related to the post?

There’s an irresistible, almost demoralizing irony in the fact that developers are discovering docs and accessibility only now due to AI. They needed docs and didn’t know it until they had at their disposal an ersatz user in the form of an LLM that asked for context.

https://passo.uno/skills-are-docs/

Now I only need to find out how to use the 387 gut coprocessor in my belly to crunch those floats.

#include <gpu_control.h> // g stands for gut