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by Nzen 12d ago
I think that you've missed the reference [0] implicit in kelseyfrog's response. Or am I missing some reference about how japanese gardens are germaine to AI/LLM/covert-discussion ? [0] https://iep.utm.edu&#x2F
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by Nzen 13d ago
I can't speak to computing history in China, but Read Only Memory has books about the Japanese [0] and British [1] video game companies. MIT has published books about computing in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and China [2]. The former two are eve
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by Nzen 15d ago
On the clean hand, are the trustworthy tools there for me to plunge out a big poop or wipe a bit of overspray ? I sometimes see a plunger, but don't ever bring rubber gloves and a roll of paper towel that would make me feel comfortable
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by Nzen 1mo ago
Laurence Paulson laments a bug that fooled Ramana Kumar using both Lean proof system and the Nanoda (plugin ? library ?) into thinking that he found a counterexample to the famous Collatz Conjecture [0]. It sounds like Kumar or someone exte
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by Nzen 1mo ago
This is a pretty short post observing that some art has achieved celebrity. Consider the Mona Lisa, you probably can imagine it just from the title. When I went to the Louvre, there was a mob around the (quite small) painting of people who
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by Nzen 2mo ago
I am of the impression that the mission is defined by having the pin ball hit the places where the blue arrow points within a set amount of time. It's a bit of a shame that Microsoft only licensed Space Cadet Pinball from Cinematronics
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by Nzen 2mo ago
Wikipedia is written by various people, but likely someone with interest in a given topic. One or more realtors probably wrote or edited this post. Actually, the history of edits shows that this is contested territory where people regularly
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by Nzen 2mo ago
In 2022 [0], Jan David Nose (jdno) released a game / programming challenge called _Auto Traffic Control_ [1]. Rather than controlling airplanes with UI interactions, the simulation is a GRPC server that expects the player to construct
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by Nzen 2mo ago
Thank you [0]. I searched and all I could find was Virgin Media's Daisy [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(chatbot) [1] https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-gra...
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by Nzen 3mo ago
It feels like this list, if it focuses on individual authors is - if successful - overwhelming in scope. There are, what, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of authors ? If 1%, for argument's sake, this list would have thousands
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by Nzen 3mo ago
I think that this is a plugin library for teams that want to offer a platform for the public (or an LLM-AI) to submit code to. If your team writes some code, you don't generally sandbox it from yourself, you just amend your program: yo
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by Nzen 3mo ago
I don't know what an ovulatory cycle feels like; but, I trust Lindsay Doe's account [0] of how she feels across a given period. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLXxxHVOeec 11 minutes
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by Nzen 4mo ago
If I am to believe the creator of the _History in Taberna_ youtube channel, communal beds were a medieval to early modern practice in inns [0]. [0] https://youtu.be/5IPQIl-FiCY?si=drUMJuR5tLLppWqD&t=738 relevant section
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by Nzen 4mo ago
tl;dr Peter Steinberger shared a product demo for CodexBar [0] with a graph of OpenAI token usage. This graph shows one million spent, prefers gpt-5.5 and spent twenty thousand today. [0] https://github.com/steipete/Cod
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by Nzen 4mo ago
tl;dr Quasicrystals are aperiodic structures. The author notes that the conditions for creating them are rare, given the need for instantaneous high temperature. They recount that these can happen during space debris impact and when lightni
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by Nzen 5mo ago
tl;dr The author [0] describes a simple ticketing system that his very busy coworker, Peter Högfeldt, created in 1986. Basically, it checked in numbered files to their version control (CVS, at the time) that could produce reports with grep.
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by Nzen 6mo ago
tl;dr Eels have a long lifecycle with several stages. They do not develop sexual organs until late in their life, when they migrate back to the Saragossa Sea. This meant earlier autopsies of eels revealed no sexual organs, even though scien
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by Nzen 6mo ago
You could add an appendix with printed, scannable, binary data. You could create a page with a bunch of QR codes. Martin Monperrus vouched [0] for Twibright Optar [1]. [0] https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-pap
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by Nzen 6mo ago
tl;dr This is a project page describing a small hand woven loom. Small, means a little wider than a palm and maybe half the length of a forearm (depending on which you buy). Basically, you will run a string between two circular combs along
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by Nzen 6mo ago
I recommend listening to DJ Earworm's mashup of the top song across the world [0] to hear a greater variety of countries, albeit for this or last year. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZ78RbAdxU 11 minutes In fair
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by Nzen 6mo ago
It looks like Mark Thomas maintained a phone number database up until 2007 or 2023 for many areas in the USA. I guess that could be a basis for starting 'my own' instance of payphone-go, maybe with twilio (or equivalent) to receiv
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by Nzen 7mo ago
This sounds a lot like Jason Rohrer's project with an LLM, Sammy Jankis [0]. There, the posts are generally about the continual deaths when the LLM's context window fills up. The posts do not disclose an overt goal, as they do her
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by Nzen 8mo ago
For targeting advertising expendatures at the site level. If most of my traffic, as revealed by referrer links, comes from social-media-platform-foo and only a little from social-media-platform-bar, then I am likely to spend more on ads fro
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by Nzen 9mo ago
Did you expect some answer that decried world peace as impossible ? It's just repeating what people say [0] when asked the same question. That's all that a large language model can do (other than putting it to rhyme or 'in th
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by Nzen 11mo ago
If you want to see examples of this in practice, I recommend reading Randall Monroe's Thing Explainer [0] or some simple wikipedia articles [1]. [0] https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/ [1] https://simple.
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by Nzen 11mo ago
Could y'all point at instructions for how to imitate this limited internet situation ? I ask because, two years ago, I was able to circumvent the Windows-11-requires-internet-and-a-microsoft-account part of the set up for a new laptop
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by Nzen 11mo ago
Likewise. In fact, I was under the opposite impression because of the benefit that sulfur enriched shipping exhaust had for our climate [0]. It looks like these clouds are thinner and don't have the same impact as that, though. While I
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by Nzen 1y ago
My understanding is largely ten years old and high level and only for one kind of fully homomorphic encryption. Things have changed and there is more than one kind. I heard it described as a system that encrypts each bit and then evaluates
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by Nzen 1y ago
It looks like [0] access to gemini will only be for subscribers, given that it costs them money. This is, "of course", distinct from ai mode [1] in google search that happens from the address bar in chrome. The first video implies
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by Nzen 1y ago
Ah, Agility Robotics' Jonathan Hurst has a talk that I can't find (quickly) about the various benefits of a humanoid form. I could find a 90 second snippet [0] about why their robot has legs. In that case, they use legs to travers

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