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> One is that math nerds at school insisted on intimidating for the win and I just hated it.

For me the worst part was the teachers that encouraged that behavior and did the same.


Could the conclusions generalize to other types of anxiety such as GAD or OCD?


Which profilers in particular are you referring to because I've always thought that Callgrind is a profiler? perf?


perf or Intel VTune are the two standard choices AFAIK. Both have a certain learning curve, both are extremely capable in the right hands. (Well, on macOS you're pretty much locked to using Instruments; I don't know if Callgrind works there but would suspect it's an uphill battle.)

Callgrind is a CPU simulator that can output a profile of that simulation. I guess it's semantics whether you want to call that a profiler or not, but my point is that you don't need a simulator+profiler combo when you can just use a profiler on its own.

(There are exceptions where the determinism of Callgrind can be useful, like if you're trying to benchmark a really tiny change and are fine with the bias from the simulation diverging from reality, or if you explicitly care about call count instead of time spent.)


perf on the whole system, with the whole software stack compiled with stack pointers, flamegraphs for visualisation, is an essential starting point for understanding real world performance problems.


It works until it doesn't at which point you have a massive, useless pile of uninterpretable garbage.


Then you ask another LLM to explain it to you lol, like - I don’t think people are thinking hard enough about what this future is likely to look like.


Well, someone (a human being) still maintains it, and ultimately someone likely will find the code unmaintainable even if LLMs help. If you use ChatGPT enough you would know it has its standards as well, actually pretty high. At one point the code likely still needs to be refactored, by human or not.


Crazy that people say shit like this without seeing a problem with it.


It’s really not a problem at a certain point. Also, we’ll probably have “remove and replace” but for software in the next couple years with this stuff.


This is great: I like both the concept and how responsive the implementation is. Please consider open sourcing it.


Thank you! I'm looking into it @ open sourcing.


> A canonical list of references from a leading figure would be appreciated by many.

That confirms the opposite, no?


I failed to find any evidence that this person is an OpenAI employee, but please correct me if I'm wrong.


> “if I didn’t chose to do it you cannot be angry at me."

Yes I can, because I didn't choose to be angry either.


But would anger be reasonable? Of course not.


I disagree. But we’re not going to solve free will in HN comments. Personally I don’t think “free will” means anything or makes sense any more than “god” makes sense. It’s just a bundle of feelings that means something different to everyone.


I think that the term "software system" can have a much broader meaning than the one you are using here.


For sure. I suppose the unspoken step is "work out which component is the bottleneck".

If you're lucky then it's CPU bound and everything runs on the same box and you can just look in htop.


Not sure if raw data size is a good metric. One usually gains more information by reading a book than watching a movie.


I suppose we could debate that. Regardless, the point stands that there's still more data outside of text that can be mind.


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