I think Crystal, Nim, Julia and F# were my favorites from last year's AoC

I wrote a bit more about it here https://laszlo.nu/blog/advent-of-code-2024.html

AoC is a great opportunity for exploring languages!

> A hundred years from now, thanks to the workings of the Inhuman Centipede, I’m known as a deservedly obscure dadaist prose stylist who thought it was cool to stop his books mid-sentence.

I love the "Inhuman Centipede" definition for AI. Is that a Stephenson original or he is quoting existing usage.

I guess we've both been traumatized by modern linux distros?

I just renovated an Ikea table from 1980-something. Actually found it in the catalog too.

It's solid wood, so it'll probably last another 40 years at least.

When I opened it, it said it was a multilingual dictionary so I just typed a (nonsense) Swedish word:

Me: gurkburk

Reply: #include#include#include (4096 times)

Seems useful!

I asked GPT about it:

> You are using the newest model OpenAI offers to the public (GPT-4o). There is no “GPT-5” model accessible yet, despite the splashy headlines.

I can use it with the Github Copilot Pro plan.

Great article. The overall idea is summarized by its closing statement:

"strive for overall system clarity as your principle pursuit

I put a chapter of a paper I wrote in 2016 into GPTZero and got the probability breakdown 90% AI, 10% human. I am 100% human, and I wrote it myself, so I guess I'm lucky that I didn't hand it in this year, or I could have gotten accused of cheating?

That's more an indictment of the accuracy of such tools. Writing in a very 'standard' style like found in papers is going to match well with the LLM predictions, regardless of origin.

maybe gptzero had your paper on its training data (it being from 2016)?

I wasn't being serious when I said it, I was using it as an insult for bad work

I've been using Arch as my daily driver for over fifteen years. I'm not a fanatic, it just works really well.