If you wanted to do some research or learn about post training and agent harnesses, is that a good option with these local models? What hardware is recommended, or easiest to go with a Mac Studio with 64GB+ RAM?
Text can be represented by numbers but they aren't the same datatype. They don't support the same operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc).
I was just reading about programmer's block / writer's block. This Quora answer https://www.quora.com/Do-programmers-suffer-from-Writers-Blo... gives a few helpful tips such as just write some functions to get you going and get the program to show output as quickly as possible (hello world, failing unit tests, whatever). Stopping when you've done the hard work of figuring out what to do next seems like a good technique as well. I don't think you should interrupt yourself mid-task though vs. pausing when you're ready for the next logical piece.
Wow that was a very interesting analogy and theory. Thanks for sharing! I've also never heard of SSC before. I saw the top 10 posts SSC lists in the about page, but do you have any other recommendations for articles relevant to the HN crowd?
After seeing the huge improvements that JavaScript has gone through over the years I'm all for language updates. Same with Java and C++ (although not as much for Java and I don't know C++ but I always hear C++11 is "new").
It's a library that you can integrate into your application rather than passing requests via an intermediary (so performance would improve). It's not necessarily a better solution unless you're optimizing for performance. It probably isn't if you're going for ease of development and maintainability.