Post #1295226
2026-04-04 17:51 UTC
@RnDanger @dougmerritt @colinstu "So you assume, first of all, that there could be a way to do it ten times faster."
Not necessarily. If someone said that to me (or presumably to you) the response would be an explanation as to why the code was probably already about as efficient as it needed to be.
(Having said which, I did once get asked to speed up someone else's code, because the daily database update was creeping towards taking twenty-four hours. I got it down to three minutes.)
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-04-04 17:53
@RnDanger @dougmerritt @colinstu Oh, and, I have this textbook which includes the quote "I can make it as fast as you like if it doesn't have to give the right answer." I'd think that was applicable to most LLM systems?
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@RnDanger@infosec.exchange 2026-04-04 17:56
@TimWardCam @dougmerritt @colinstu Nice! That sounds impressive I guess i brought a lot of assumptions of my own 🙃 But i assume you did much better than AI would have