CodexArcanum

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by CodexArcanum 1y ago
LLMS don't "hallucinate" they generate a stochastic sequence of plausible tokens that, in context when read by a human, are a false statement or nonsensical. They also dont have an internal world model. Well I don't thin
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by CodexArcanum 2y ago
Please elaborate on the measures taken to protect and warn civilians, or which specific military objectives the children hurt by those exploding pagers were in the close vicinity of.
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by CodexArcanum 3y ago
I learned debugging (with the VS IDE and .NET tools) on my first job. School never taught me anything about debugging. Certainly not how to use the tools, but more critically never taught me: how to use binary divide techniques to track dow
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by CodexArcanum 3y ago
It's a silly that you list "please" as fluff. That critical word changes a demand into a request, which is very powerful. "Hand me that." An order, a directive, as one might issue to a servant. "Hand me that, p
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by CodexArcanum 3y ago
Seems like a fine point, I guess, but this article exists mainly as a Trojan horse for that nerd-sniping "encryption by proxy" link. You go "Never heard of that, what is it?" And click and surprise! It's the thing t
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by CodexArcanum 3y ago
I always feel like I should be doing more with Pharo. I love smalltalks and there's something really fun and playful about working with it, even those with a more "professional" shine on them like Pharo. I've been experi
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by CodexArcanum 3y ago
100% my thoughts as well.
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by CodexArcanum 3y ago
I don't really like the latter parts of the article where he begins suggesting that we need to contextually tag all data so the provenance of generated items can be assessed. Somehow, I don't think forcing attribution and tracking
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by CodexArcanum 4y ago
I see we're rebranding SOA/microservices again. I did enjoy reading the preview book for EventStorming, seems like a decent format for getting stakeholders involved in the design process and capturing business details. I'm pr
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by CodexArcanum 6y ago
There's a theory on how the universe is structured that instead of space-time being like a uniform grid, a Cartesian space, that space-time is made up of nodes which are linked together. I guess kind of like a voronoi diagram in 4 dime
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by CodexArcanum 6y ago
Wow, I had never considered this! Although, as "UnFleshedOne" points out, that would imply a fixed geometry (not necessarily a grid) wouldn't it? We don't know that angles are limited within a "Planck volume,"
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by CodexArcanum 6y ago
Since (B|Z)DDs are basically just fancy DAGs, I wonder what the relationship between them and other automata is like? Like can some of these techniques be applied with regexps to make something truly monstrous?
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by CodexArcanum 6y ago
The problem of the cult of the free is a microcosm of the larger global struggle against capitalism. Who will (or rather, can) build an open and secure browser? Obviously, a corporation (like Google, MS, Apple, etc) can't be trusted be
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by CodexArcanum 6y ago
I mean, yes? If you're going to offer a feature that officially marks accounts that have proven their identity, then you need to revoke that marker when the identity changes. If that seems overly complicated, maybe the idea of official
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
He points out below that he was caught because another student overheard him discussing it and ratted on him. I feel like a real hacker wouldn't make a bunch of untested assumptions about situations they have no context for.
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
If only there was some way for people to live decently while working on anything they wanted to. Like, if there was some Universal way they could meet their Basic needs without having to devote all their energy towards extracting an I
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
Ah, that's good to know! That's a fun fact about byuu helping with the FPGA SNES that they built as well, really interesting! Thanks for the knowledge share!
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
One thing I've been thinking about lately with emulation: why can't we replicate and use the original hardware more easily? There's lots of knockoff console replicas out there, so it seems like the chips can still be manufact
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
I believe a lot of this thinking arises from our perception of time and history. We often perceive the past only as "things that happened" and forget about all the things that could have happened. There was an article posted recen
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
On my browser at least there's a pair of arrows to rotate the grid so different equations will be "upright".
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
A while back I wrote a little Rust library that does exactly what you say: parses a regex to use as a text generator. It was a lot of fun, and really gives you an appreciation for just how much bigger than ASCII matching the regex world can
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
I've been very intrigued by their efforts for some time now. Last time I read about NYC Mesh, it sent me down a rabbit hole of research into mesh networks and what it takes to found an ISP. I'd love to replicate their efforts in N
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
Wow, seeing this posted really took me back! I, too, was obcessed with Ithkuil when I was in school. I thought it was just the best idea, to construct a dense, powerful, (dare I say) "perfect" language. Too bad I never actually go
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by CodexArcanum 7y ago
I find this sort of thing fascinating both for what it means about our own consciousness, but also what it means for emergent consciousnesses. We're not sure when a dying brain stops being conscious; and we're not sure when a once
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by CodexArcanum 8y ago
I "love" how many comments are one person praising pandoc for helping them in some workflow, and then commenters ripping into them for not using some other tool. I wonder if there's a corollary to some internet rule that the
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by CodexArcanum 8y ago
I hate to be "that guy" but take a look at Rust if you haven't. It's pretty close to C but incorporates a lot of functional-style type magic. Your particular example is very explicitly supported by the `Result` type (whi
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by CodexArcanum 8y ago
I think this is one of the better explanations of why "enlightenment" in any field is so hard to get to, so hard to explain, yet so compulsively appealing to talk about. The framing around the joke really makes a lot of sense to m
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by CodexArcanum 9y ago
"Blockchain" is a data structure, a pretty well defined one. The buzzword is basically a synonym for "distributed (, decentralized?) system." Buzzwords arr usually annoying and misused. Object-Oriented Programming as pra
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by CodexArcanum 9y ago
I've played a fair amount of D&D, but I've always enjoyed other RPGs quite a bit more. There's a huge variety of games out there covering every genre and playstyles ranging from the densest exercises in tactical spreadshe
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by CodexArcanum 9y ago
I've been considering building something very similar myself! I hope it turns out well, and do write a post about it!

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