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If you hit wall, hit it hard.

Taelin's X is a war story of how the codexes and fables tried to bend it. If you're afraid then LLMs were used in there - fear no more - they were.

Please make it Fediverse/Forgejo/etc compatible. It is 2026 and I'm so tired of silos.


Let them cook.


They're the ones out here asking for us to try it.


| "I'm not hosting my code with a company that creates child porn"


Ada can't bootstrap? Ironic...


Yes, and that is a serious security problem because the only way to get trusted PCR values for TPM2 gated secure boot and full disk decryption applications, is with open source full source bootstrapped firmware.

Coreboot is the only option, but it has a hard requirement on Ada because that is what they wrote their intel graphics stack in.

It is a real mess.


Interesting, any link I could read to understand a bit more the situation?


Here is some background on the Haskell situation: https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/802-More_thoughts_on_a_...

Ada has had even less progress and I am not aware of any writeups.

TL;DR: Ada and Haskell need to have compilers implemented a language that has a full source bootstrap path such as C, Go, or Rust that implement just enough features to compile the official compilers.


Just curious, are C, Go and Rust and the only viabile languages for an implementation?


Sounds like an opportunity to rebuild an ADA interpreter


Yes. Many efforts have started and fizzled out over the years before completion.

If you know anyone that takes this on and succeeds I have a 2k cash bounty for them, and we can likely find others.


> We humans love quantifiability.

No. Screw quantifiability. I don't want "we've improved the sota by 1.931%" on basically anything that matters. Show me improvements that are obvious, improvements that stand out.

Claude Plays Pokemon is one of the few really important "benchmarks". No numbers, just the progress and the mood.


Not for long.


> does Haskell have a special construct that allows for values to be overwritten

Yes and no.

No, the language doesn't have a special construct. Yes, there are all kinds of mutable values for different usage patterns and restrictions.

Most likely you end up with mutable containers with some space reserved for entity state.

You can start with putting `IORef EntityState` as a field and let the `update` write there. Or multiple fields for state sub-parts that mutate at different rates. The next step is putting all entity state into big blobs of data and let entities keep an index to their stuff inside that big blob. If your entities are a mishmash of data, then there's `apecs`, ECS library that will do it in AoS way. It even can do concurrent updates in STM if you need that.

Going further, there's `massiv` library with integrated task supervisor and `repa`/`accelerate` that can produce even faster kernels. Finally, you can have your happy Haskell glue code and offload all the difficult work to GPU with `vulkan` compute.


> ECS library that will do it in AoS way

TLAs aren't my forte. It's SoA of course.


> Flame bait

I'll take it.

> ChatGPT is the new techno-atheist's substitute for God

Not really, no ~~true~~ AInotKillingeveryoneIst says that ChatGPT (or GPT-like) is ASI. Please stop beating this particular strawman.


Your second thing-that-looks-like-a-quotation does not appear to be quoted from anywhere. I don't think you should do that.

(I am not sure whether your last line is your actual opinion or sarcastic, given the "no true ..." phrasing, but for what it's worth I think it's unironically correct: no one with any brain thinks ChatGPT is anything much like a superintelligence. There are people who expect AI to become godlike, for better or for worse, but the most they're saying about the likes of ChatGPT in this connection is "progress sure seems to be pretty fast these days".)


Why is this a strawman? Have you seen the Jesus AI on Twitch?

Seriously- Goes way back.

In the movie THX 1138 the population talk to a AI Jesus.


Debug.Trace has a lots of stuff for that. You can even generate charts from that when using eventlog-enabled runtime.


Yes. The amount of job postings raises year to year.


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