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  • Website is missing the #1 thing I imagine most readers would want to know: why?
    by hungryhobbit
  • Clever, I wonder what would happen if you did this in reverse? Like, if we froze the weights then added some layers trained on a bunch of weird edge cases then tried to convert those weights back into branches.

    QA through entropy lol

    by seamossfet
  • It seems interesting but I am confused. What is the purpose of that landing page? It is not clear since it showcases several (not related) ideas:

    - turning js code into something else, arguably high-level code for training neural networks

    - a mini OS inside the browser

    - a gallery

    - document search

    by auraham
  • What is stopping Anthropic, Google etc from essentially building models that completely replace the concept of code?

    You point a model to an API and get a fully working UI right away. I don’t mean an agent CODED the UI - I mean the model inferred it from its training data and renders it to you “live”

    Or the other way around? You serve it a UI- and it acts as the backend etc? State and persistence becomes an issue, but the model could freeze things into deterministic structures (specific parts become -just in time-frozen, for example when data needs to be saved)

    Maybe this is old news already- but the consequences are kind of mind blowing

    by jahala
  • I think for everyone interested in this project checking your OG twitter thread is also somewhat mandatory:

    https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2110557373651931267

    It took me a bit to wrap my head around what you did.

    by dvrp
  • As far as I understand, this doesn't turn "regular" JavaScript into a NN, it's rather "write your logic in a DSL that creates a neural-net-shaped circuit"

    the source code for the OS demo is not "regular" code, it's full of `emiRelu`... https://github.com/chenglou/handwired/blob/main/src/handwire...

    The main site & readme seem to overclaim, while the docs say things like "With Handwired you write a numeric program" and "No tool converts existing JavaScript source into a program" - https://github.com/chenglou/handwired/tree/main/docs

    happy to be proven wrong, to have misunderstood this, etc.

    by gregsadetsky

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