This week was very hot because Google published Gemma, a smal-size LLM, and also Nvidia has a rush on stock market, with a evaluation around 2000 BILLIONS dollars. Last but not least, Mistral.ai published a service for its more advanced model, which can also run on-prem.

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.

Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. This similarity is probability-based.

At low level, these systems are based on Transformer deep-learning architecture and are called generative pre-trained transformer  (GPT) first defined in 2018 (for a complete description refer to Wikipedia)

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Add the following css lines to your CSS theme, possibly at the end

div::before { content:" C:" attr(class) "" }

::before,::after { color:red; font-weight:100; font-size:1.0em }

and div classes will showup easily. Very handly while customizing WoooordPress :) This page show a demo.

I think constants are evil (just joking but….I will explain why).

I am tired of seeing a lot of Java classes filled with the same constants repeated over and over again, instead of collecting them in a common file, which in C Language was called include files (ooooah!).

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In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the “gap” between unstructured code and “rationale” behind the code.

1. C/64 Peek and poke where oscure.
2. Gosub on function pointed by numbers was bad
3. 8-bit systems was tight on command names and so on (think to write a python interpreter in Arduino/bbc:Micro, or look at the memory consumed by the COMMAND STRINGS on C/64 Basic v2)
4. C code was not expressive, but good code required little comment, as you can see here

Today comments are used to:

1. Comment obscure code -> instead of writing it better
2. Comment caching code you will end up to commit breaking production ->instead of having a cache config to disable cache on dev machines
3. Comment not working code will end up in production, producing functional breaks -> because you will forget it and  commit the bad version

When I am sent on a Red Project, the code is often obscure and not commented at all. So I dare to suggest to deprecate comments at all, replacing it with a set of meta annotation like:

@Comment("Documentation of this class/method/function/closure")
@Fixme("Reason")
@Todo("Why",  deadline=20230423)

 

 

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Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to San Francisco too.

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Ciao a tutti, è venerdì! Se avete due minuti di tempo, volevo indicarvi un articolo su un algoritmo non banale, molto ben descritto qui:

http://research.swtch.com/sparse

This is the story of a clever trick that’s been around for at least 35 years, in which array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, yet the code behaves correctly no matter what garbage is sitting in the array.

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Arduino Esplora is here! The Arduino Esplora is a microcontroller board derived from the Arduino Leonardo. The Esplora differs from all preceding boards in that it provides a number of built-in, ready-to-use setof onboard sensors for interaction.

News said the price will be around 45 euros http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/67998-arduino-esplora-is-ready-out-of-the-box-sans-soldering http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/12/the-arduino-esplora/

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!UPDATED!

Okey I love emacs, you are allowed to say I am a nerd. But I use emacs. So I could solve your problems with a Ctrl-Alt-x kung fu combination, involving yoga-like finger movements.

So do not mess with me… :D (I am like the Zohan, only with glasses :)

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