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jedishrfu replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.At IBM, code attribution was important. At the completion of a major project copyright statements would added as comments and sometimes... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.Some projects require a change log in the first comment so you document what you changed. Other projects don’t as the source mgmt tool...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.And there's a story of how one woman got a letter from the bank apologizing for a bank error caused by the computer. Her daughter, a...
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jedishrfu reacted to martinbn's post in the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics with
Haha.
Don't forget the saying. "To err is human. To completely foul things up, you need a computer." -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.Can you provide the prompts you wrote? Sometimes, the prompt needs more detail to get it right.
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Reliability of LLM for generating examples in mathematics.Yes, the LLMs have trouble with reasoning. They can do simple stuff, but as things get tougher, they need a human to guide them to the...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.Not to muddy the waters here but have you looked at Google’s golang programming language? https://go.dev/ It’s C for the internet age...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.No. While it appears that C/C++ is like that, you can't just compile and run when switching from a Unix system to a Windows system...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.Simple answer is no. The most complex structure would usually be a simple array. We never got any formal instruction beyond reading...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.Yeah, that's just a nice convenience feature of the Python interactive shell. Many other languages support an interactive shell. Julia...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.I think he means code and indentation via spaces or tabs.
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.To be clear javascript was originally called livescript. Its focus was to create interactive webpages. When java and its applet code...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Learning data structures and algorithms in different programming languages.It's not about learning and writing in multiple languages. It's about needing a script written by someone else in another language, like...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone.@elias001 you are missing my point. Its in the way Spock interfaced with the computer. He talked to it. Its not unlike ChatGPT where...
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jedishrfu reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone with Haha.
This discussion reminds me of the role of robots in the industrial world of manufacturing. Very few of us can afford a hand-built car...