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Archive for January 24th, 2024

Disturbing replies to Tim Urban on Twitter: “What, if anything, do you regularly use ChatGPT (or another LLM) for that has provided a dramatic improvement over your previous workflow?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/24

Gotten there from the reasonable ChatGPT use below, I was negatively surprised what people use ChatGPT for and totally rely on the ChatGPT responses: [Wayback/Archive] Tim Urban on Twitter: “What, if anything, do you regularly use ChatGPT (or another LLM) for that has provided a dramatic improvement over your previous workflow?”

I think this is about the only reasonable ChatGPT use today: [Wayback/Archive] Barry Kelly on Twitter: “@waitbutwhy – minor scripts for things like ffmpeg or Image/GraphicsMagick – trying to do something with an API I’m not familiar with; often gets screwy when it’s obscure though Things I’m not using it for: any kind of creative writing. Execrable.“

Remember that ChatGPT is a text generation model that averages the quality of the text in its corpus that was obtained in the past which means at it’s release, the “knowledge” was already dated.

---jeroen

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Inline Thinking | Patricia Aas – Programmer

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/24

I wasn’t aware that Java has some some catch-up and now supports user definable inline types: [Wayback/Archive] Inline Thinking | Patricia Aas – Programmer

Inline Thinking

97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know

Patricia Aas, 16 January 2020
Computers changed. They changed in many ways, but for the purpose of this text they changed in one significant way: The relative cost of reading from RAM became extremely high.
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These “cache friendly” behaviors are already present in Java when using so called “primitive types”, like ints and chars. “Primitive types” are “inline types” and come with all of their advantages. So even though inline types may seem foreign in the beginning, you have worked with them before, you just might not have thought of them as objects. So when “inline classes” seem confusing, you could try to think: “What would an int do?”

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