The study points out, “Python and Rust are the two most popular languages used by Advent of Code participants. This may explain why Rust fares so well.”
Here’s a study that found that for small problems Gemini is almost equally good at Python and Rust. Looking at the scores of all the languages tested, it seems that the popularity of the language is the most important factor:
In my application, code generation, the distilled DeepSeek models (7B to 70B) perform poorly. They imitate the reasoning of the r1 model, but their conclusions are not correct.
The real r1 model is great, better than o1, but the distilled models are not even as good as the base models that they were distilled from.
The DeepSeek R1 paper explains how they trained their model in enough detail that people can replicate the process. Many people around the world are doing so, using various sizes of models and training data. Expect to see many posts like this over the next three months. The attempts that use small models will get done first. The larger models take much longer.
Small r1 style models are pretty limited, so this is interesting primarily from an “I reproduced the results” point of view, not a “here is a new model that’s useful” pov.
“You should consider using this in your requirements” implies that this is not a hard rule, it’s just an ignorable suggestion. It would be interesting to audit gov.uk web pages over time to see whether this advice is being followed.
I remember seeing the PERQ at trade shows. The best thing about the PERQ was its monitor, which was unusually sharp for that era. It used a yellow-white long persistence phosphor. A CMU grad student friend told me that the monitor designer was “a close personal friend of the electron”, implying that the analog circuitry of the PERQ monitor was especially high quality.
They identify 6 bugs/mistakes, of which, not doing staged releases, was the final mistake.
They stop short of identifying the real root issues of running at kernel level, and of not auto-backing-out updates that cause crashes, perhaps because those causes are harder to fix.
A tool for updating bazel build target dependencies. It inspects build files and source code, then adds/removes dependencies from build targets as needed. It requires using global include paths in C/C++ sources. It is not perfect, but it is pretty nice!
That’s certainly how it seemed from the Android side at the time. The Linux side was hoping that they could adapt the desktop Linux stack to work well on mobile devices, without introducing new concepts like wakelocks. It took them a long time to give up on that approach.
https://opengoal.dev/ has reverse-engineered a compiler and runtime for the non-GC lisp GOAL that Naughty Dog used for the Jax and Daxter action adventure games. They have decompiled the game code for all three games.
You can see them throughout Southern California. They are strikingly beautiful when in bloom. Not mentioned in the article is that the blossoms exude a sticky nectar that makes an absolute mess of the area under the tree.
Comparing the App Store listings, it looks like this app has a much simpler interface and far fewer features than Draw Things. Some users might prefer the simplicity of this app.
(Draw Things is by far the most advanced app that supports on-device Stable Diffusion on iOS devices and Apple Silicon Macs. It had a non-standard UI, but otherwise is really good.)
The potential for overlapping numbers was the thing that tripped up many developers. But a simple “find the first number searching from each end, just like the puzzle instructions asked” implementation just worked.
The lesson is to read the puzzle instructions carefully and avoid solving more general problems.
The original Dart language designers gave Dart Smalltalk semantics with JavaScript syntax. But Dart’s users rebelled and forced Dart to adopt a more compile-time-type-checked type system.
Some of the original Dart designers have developed a new language Toit that is Smalltalk-like: https://toit.io/company/about
Which aims to match SQLite quality and provide new features (free encryption, multiple simultaneous writers, and bitflip resistance.)