miniblog.

← Back to all posts
Jul 6, 2018 at 23:54
Interesting talk on using PEGs to parse Clojure in Cursive to give good syntax error messages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4haSH2xcs (the messages are largely machine-generated!)

Related Posts

Mar 2, 2023 at 17:48
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-180/ A study of programmers found that using a LLM for completion produced buggier code but users were more confident in it. I wonder if this generalises to other completion techniques?
Generated Code Makes Overconfident Programmers, China's Autonomous Drone Carrier and more
Generated Code Makes Overconfident Programmers, China's Autonomous Drone Carrier and more
The Batch - AI News & Insights: In late December, Google reportedly issued a “code red” to raise the alarm internally to the threat of disruption...
Jan 7, 2023 at 07:33
A survey of parser generator usage in major language implementationss: https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html Most have a handwritten parser. GCC and Go moved from generated to handwritten. SQLite and Python <3.10 built their own parser generators!
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021 | notes.eatonphil.com
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021
Dec 15, 2022 at 03:53
Thoughtful article on the long term consequences of AI generated art, copyright, the art industry and historical innovations (e.g. the invention of the camera):
AI Art Panic
If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art need tagged as such? Should it be allowed at all? There’s the whole Deviant Art situation (ArsTechnica). It’s all sorta messy right now, so let’s talk about it.