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I am a big fan of Simon Willison’s writings about AI and based on this recent post I decided to give QwQ a try. Since I am also a Rainbolt fan I wanted to see what it would do trying to guess the location of some photos. I didn’t really expect it to do well […]
28.12.2024 18:11QwQ tries to GeoguessI find these days to have little energy for hot takes, blaming or recriminations. Instead I will offer this list of some of the books I read or listened to over the last year that helped me understand where we are now and how we got here. YMMV. The Rise and Fall of the Third […]
7.11.2024 18:31A Reading List for TodayI am really bad at spelling. I always have been and the older I get, my ability to spell things correctly only gets worse. Often my attempts are so bad that the spelling suggestions fail because I am not even close. I started playing around with seeing how well ChatGPT could guess what I meant […]
14.10.2024 20:44The most expensive spell check I can makeAfter spending some time on this post I realized I’d already written a different version of it which is arguably better, but I’m going to press on to finish this since I need the writing practice. When thinking about what can we expect from AI in the future, I think its good to analyze it […]
16.8.2024 04:19How Good Can AI Get?I am afraid of heights. I have a dislike for glass elevators, I am unable to stand close to the edge of anything, and whenever I have attempted rock climbing, I have never made it more than 10 feet off the ground. I do like hiking though and I really wanted to do a route […]
28.7.2024 12:54Ruta Del CaresOn a recent trip to Europe I got to try out some cycling in a couple of the most popular places for cycling vacations, Mallorca and Girona. The trip wasn’t a cycling vacation per se but I did select those two places to be able to get a few nice rides in. I also did […]
23.7.2024 22:46Cycling in EuropeI’ve never really been a fan of tablet devices. When I want to actually do something I would much rather have a computer and my phone is good enough for mindlessly consuming garbage. This means I’ve never really wanted an iPad even though they are super slick devices. I often feel jealous of tablet owners […]
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4.6.2024 18:42Comment on Travel Items by jonathanpetersonWe just got back from a 6 week trip in Europe. Mostly in Spain with a couple days in Amsterdam and week in Scotland to make it more complicated. A couple of years ago we did 3 months which was great but also kind of too long but that’s another story. This is just a […]
4.6.2024 18:13Travel ItemsIn this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. – Tony Montana I don’t think Al Pacino’s character from Scarface is a good person to emulate but he does capture something about how we […]
17.5.2024 06:23Money and PowerI’ve lost count of how many trips I’ve made to Central America and I’ve seen many examples of programs that work to improve the lives of people there but none has impressed me more than NicaPhoto. The name comes from its beginning as an idea to teach photography classes to kids in the town of […]
24.3.2024 12:27NicaPhotoSay it ain't so. Us mediocre programmers need some hope for the future. Heheh.
7.9.2010 18:12Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by Maintenance ManOh, I guess for that post you'll earn a lot of flames from mediocre guys who think that they will be great one day. Especially nowadays when everyone and his mother see themselves as coders because they can hack up some javascript/ruby code :)
7.9.2010 16:39Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by LeonCouldn't agree more about programming skill or JS. The best programmers I've ever known generally don't have a comp-sci education (myself included). In fact, the single best I've ever known personally was an English major a couple of papers away from his Doctorate. He found programming and never looked back. As far as JS, I agree that its "appeal" (for lack of a better word) is simply because it's the only trick in town. As a language it sucks for anything more than basic functionality. Although I use jQuery professionally, I find it sad that we have to resort to bloated frameworks and layers of abstraction to try and hide the basic weakness of the underlying language.
7.9.2010 15:54Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by Joel WilsonAlan is spot on here. Perhaps the idea that many programmers overlook useful, basic heuristics for programming (such as "shorter functions imply more manageable code, so break down your functions until they are small") ties in with one theme of the OP, that programming has become more complex in terms of frameworks and maybe language expressiveness. When I started programming, it was on the horrible bare-bones no-frills Commodore 64 Basic interpreter, followed a couple of years later by a lovely language called GFA Basic on the Atari ST, and then by 68k assembly and C. Maybe those formative years of just playing about, writing programs with minimal focus on libraries, industry standards and "frameworks", were helpful in learning how to solve problems and write code. But these days I spend more time reading articles about flashy programming/library techniques than actually thinking about and writing programs. It could be the case that novice programmers nowadays jump too early onto this wheel, without spending the time doing simple, pure programming, so that they don't sufficiently develop these key abstractions and heuristic tricks for managing complexity.
7.9.2010 15:47Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by OisÃnSometimes the "hacker" is just someone who's very familiar with the problem domain. An average programmer may appear to be a "hacker" to their coworkers when they're re-implementing a system very similar to what they implemented at two other jobs. They already know what works best, and the mistakes they've made in previous implementations. I think most people don't program as well as their potential because the best practices haven't been communicated to them. For example, I see many programmers who don't seem to know that reducing function length is a good way to keep complexity manageable. The best practices are still being worked out; the field of software development is still in its infancy, compared to more mature disciplines such as mathematics and mechanical engineering.
7.9.2010 15:15Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by Alan BalkanyRight on. After working in computers and programming for 27+ years, I have to agree. Programming is, unfortunately, something you inheritly understand or you don't. You can teach semantics, but not the thought processes that go along with it. That being said, great programmers start as mediocre programmers, but quickly rise. Mediocre programmers tend to rise to somewhat competent and then stay there. That's, unfortunately, the way it is. Great article.
7.9.2010 15:13Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by Jeffrey LanhamVery good points. I can relate... I started programming, in Basic & Fortran, ... 40 years ago. ;-)
7.9.2010 14:47Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by Bob GibsonYeah, I'll have to admit that was pretty random. I am an ok programmer, not great, but better than mediocre. I approach every job the same however by looking at what needs to get done and then by what is going to be required later to maintain it. Sometimes being OK is all you need to be.
7.9.2010 14:24Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by Michael Fever22 years ago when I started in programming I could mess about at home doing a bit of BASIC and at work I wrote green screen sales and invoicing apps in COBOL '74 using ISAM files. Nowadays programming is many times more difficult- ISAM files have been replaces with all singing all dancing SQL databases with a host of frameworks designed to access them (no in-language stuff as in COBOL with ISAM) - the green screens have been replaced with name your weird and wonderful GUI framework of choice (WPF in my case) and the languages themselves are now many, varied and unreadable to those not in the know. I much prefer doing development work now but there are times when I still hanker after a bit of green screen/ISAM/MOVE W01-FOO TO W02-BAR
7.9.2010 12:52Comment on Some random thoughts on programming by Jonathan Palethorpe