Tag: developer
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Paid vs Volunteer Open Source Software Developers
Recently, I’ve been puzzled by the lack of references on whether most of open source development is done by volunteers or paid developers. My intuition is that volunteer work is still largely underestimated and invisibilized. Since most big tech companies advertise their contributions to open source and some even have business model based on open…
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Quoting Barry O’Reilly
[About AI assisted coding] All of this is a statistical sifting – using context mapped to code snippets to filter from the set of all possible programs down to the one we need. There isn’t enough time and energy to do this even for a simple application, so we use pattern matching in the embedding…
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Quoting Ellsworth Toohey
AI systems learned to code by devouring Stack Overflow’s archive of human-solved problems. Now that developers ask ChatGPT instead of posting publicly, solutions exist only in private chat histories. They’re not indexed, not peer-reviewed, not available to the next person with the same bug. We’re trading a searchable knowledge commons for ephemeral conversations with a…
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Citation de Grégory Chatonsky
Qu’est-ce qu’un espace latent ? Techniquement, il s’agit d’une représentation mathématique intermédiaire, située entre les couches d’entrée et de sortie d’un réseau de neurones, où les données sont encodées sous forme de vecteurs statistiques dans un espace de haute dimensionnalité, des centaines, des milliers, parfois des millions de dimensions. Contrairement aux espaces de représentation traditionnels (pixels…
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Barefoot developers
[L]ocal software that means software that is built close to the home and serves the needs of the home. It’s software someone might build for themselves, their family and friends, their neighborhood and community. It solves local problems for local people.