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Cole Lawrence 2021-06-28 18:12:39

Does anyone know much about Psionica?

https://psionica.org/docs/workshop/dual/

Amplifying knowledge work through user-defined assistants.>

By Paul Bricman and Benjamin Leveritt

For starters, let’s say you’re a researcher in academia and want to teach your (virtual) assistant how to come up with research questions on different subjects. To best explain this task, you might choose to provide a few examples of what you consider to be good research questions.

🔗 Dual

dnmfarrell 2021-06-29 13:57:54

This classic paper by William Wulf enumerates some principles of computer architecture design that might be interesting for anybody building their own machine https://neilklingensmith.com/assets/papers/classicpapers/wulf-compilers-and-architecture.pdf

Florian Schulz 2021-06-29 15:00:47

It was only a matter of time that all the code from Github would be paired with OpenAI: https://copilot.github.com

🔗 GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer

Nick Winter 2021-06-29 21:34:59

Anyone here have preview access yet? This looks fascinating!

Yusuke Shinyama 2021-07-03 01:53:42

I thought this is cool too, and then I saw this tweet. (linked from HN)

https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

It's probably based on GPT-3, which means this will provide a most "popular" snippet, not necessarily a "correct" snippet. It is actually discovered that some of its codes use a questionable design (e.g. using a float for currency). I guess this is still usable for a boilerplate generator, but we shouldn't expect that much smartness in it. (which is a hard thing to do, because we tend to overestimate the ability of a black box.)

🐦 Armin Ronacher: I don't want to say anything but that's not the right license Mr Copilot.

Timothy Johnson 2021-07-03 16:00:56

I just applied for preview access. But besides correctness, I'm curious what implications this has for software licensing. Is Copilot smart enough to detect the license that's in effect for wherever it's borrowing from?

Yusuke Shinyama 2021-07-04 02:37:56

I think it inevitably raised the good old "does AI have authorship?" question.

This study suggests that it rarely verbatim copies the original code.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitation

Then someone strongly objected to GitHub using copyrighted materials for its training.

https://thelig.ht/abandoning-github/

The summary of this somewhat ongoing debate is found at HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725407

🔗 Research recitation - GitHub Docs

Yusuke Shinyama 2021-07-02 02:18:29

Different people imagine different things with the term "visual programming", but there are kind of common goals. This is a great read.

https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/

🔗 Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming

Mariano Guerra 2021-07-02 07:35:47

"You can quickly spin up an experimental language and try it out because the infrastructure -- editor and command shell -- already exist. This is one reason why we enjoy such a proliferation of new language ideas. New ideas in graphical software require intensive effort to try out."

William Taysom 2021-07-02 13:29:29

"Viewed through this lens there’s almost an argument that visual spaghetti is a feature not a bug — at least you can directly see that you’ve created a horrible mess, without having to be much of a programming expert."

Christopher Galtenberg 2021-07-03 06:07:30

Follow-up small thread https://twitter.com/drossbucket/status/1410991753423953925

🐦 Lucy Keer 🪣: OK let's take a better stab at this.

I'd noticed a bunch of threads on Hacker News about visual programming. These often start at the 'it sucks!' 'no it doesn't!' level but get into interesting details quickly.

This is a long exploratory post mining several threads for insights https://twitter.com/drossbucket/status/1410317786665078786 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5TWAXVXMAAjCsw.png

🐦 Lucy Keer 🪣: I read 1304 Hacker News comments on visual programming and then wrote a giant blog post about it for some reason.

I'll probably make a better attempt to explain why anyone should read this tomorrow but I'm too tired this evening so this will do for now.

https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/

Ivan Reese 2021-07-04 01:39:44

This was a good read. Thanks!

taowen 2021-07-02 03:43:30

record & replay or time travel debugging https://github.com/taowen/awesome-debugger/blob/main/README.md

🔗 taowen/awesome-debugger

Charlie Roberts 2021-07-02 18:00:49

1st Workshop on Programming Languages and Interactive Entertainment (PLIE ’21). https://sites.google.com/view/plie21/call-for-participation

🔗 PLIE'21 - Call for Participation

Andrew F 2021-07-02 23:55:07

Cool, it's like they made a conference just for Bob Nystrom.

(AKA munificent, author of "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". I can personally attest that GPP is great.)

Tak Tran 2021-07-04 09:59:57

This is what I imagine if FoC modular tools had a physical form: https://casholman.com/rigamajig - A lot more inspiration from Cas Holman’s portfolio. Also a netflix episode about her in Abstract: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80057883

🔗 RIGAMAJIG — cas holman