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Autocorrect hates me, I am sorry.

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  • Yeah, this seems fine.

    • using encoders to create useful sequence data representations in much more information efficient ways
    • using transformers to act on sequential data, with attention altering focus dynamically instead odd classical AR style
    • training neural networks inside differential equations is very effective
    • you can output higher dimensional outputs, including classifications that need less human review

    This is machine learning mixed with classical modelling, not “AI” by any definition of AI.





  • I’ve always hated AI comments. They’re the bastard fusion medium blog spam and data labelling from underpaid and exploited people seeping into the slop.

    Comments are for why, edge cases, and caveats. They should help explain unintuitive behaviours that usually must be learned the hard way, they help expose a larger structures, they explain an optimization, a shim, or a complex regex, or they explain where a temporary measure exists. Things of that nature.

    Self documenting code is about thinking of the reader. I’ve worked in places that uphold self documenting code as gold and banned code comments at all and I’m convinced that’s wrong. It’s a burden on readers to have to go through history to find the addition, but the file has changed names or moved without a proper git mv and it’s a waste of time.

    On that note, learning objective C and Swift did a lot for how I think about what naming could be. I try to focus on clear verbs and nouns so the action and target are always clear, avoid side effects, include examples in my docs, and embrace typing structures like nanedtuples in untyped languages.