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by ar-nelson 4mo ago
I thought that sounded good, so I looked it up. I can find Dells with 1920x1080 screens for ~$560, but the 4K ones, even refurbished, are closer to $2,000. But maybe I just wasn't looking in the right place?
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by ar-nelson 1y ago
> It does not assume that progress will be in LLMs If that's the case then there's not as much reason to assume that this progress will occur now, and not years from now; LLMs are the only major recent development that gives th
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by ar-nelson 1y ago
I find Yudowsky-style rationalists morbidly fascinating in the same way as Scientologists and other cults. Probably because they seem to genuinely believe they're living in a sci-fi story. I read a lot of their stuff, probably too much
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by ar-nelson 1y ago
It's surprisingly funny for AI, but there's just so much of it... It has no sense of pacing. It repeats the same jokes for too long, without including bits of normalcy in between as a breather. Still, it's a lot better than
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by ar-nelson 1y ago
For everyone who's having a hard time parsing what Octelium does, I found this page to be the clearest explanation: https://octelium.com/docs/octelium/latest/overview/how-octel... It's clearer
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by ar-nelson 1y ago
I really like Mithril.js ( https://mithril.js.org/ ), which is, IMO, as close as it gets to web IMGUI. It looks a lot like React, but rendering happens manually, either on each event or with a manual m.redraw() call.
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by ar-nelson 1y ago
I find it interesting that this kind of "animal intelligence" is still so far away, while LLMs have become so good at "human intelligence" (language) that they can reliably pass the Turing Test. I think that the LLMs we
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by ar-nelson 1y ago
Obligatory shameless plug whenever Zod is posted: if you want similar, but much more minimal schema validation at runtime, with a JSON representation, try Spartan Schema: https://github.com/ar-nelson/spartan-schema
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Light can vaporize water without the need for heat(news.mit.edu)
1 points by ar-nelson 2y ago|2 comments
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
A thought I had while reading this: what about putting a flexible membrane above the wheels (or belt) with the dots? This would require the user to press down to feel the dots, but it would remove the issue of fingers or hair getting caught
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
There is at least going to be a Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake coming out sometime in 2024. I'm hoping it's a sign of more traditional Mario RPGs to come, but who knows. The TTYD remake is something that most of the fa
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
Disagree. Mastodon isn't so much a Twitter alternative as a Tumblr alternative with Twitter-like UX. And its value proposition is much the same as Tumblr: curate a collection of interesting discussions and memes from across the network
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
I've had the opposite experience. On Mastodon I get a small, but consistent, amount of engagement with my posts, and I have over 400 followers. Twitter was like shouting into the void.
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
FreeBSD jails don't have a one-command way to install a preconfigured jail for a specific service. And they don't have a way (that I know of) to write a config file describing a bunch of jails and services, then run that file and
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
I really wanted to like FreeBSD. ZFS is cool, jails are cool, pkg has such a wide variety of packages that it's comparable to Arch. In a world before Docker and btrfs, this would be enough to make installing FreeBSD worthwhile. I tried
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
My guess is it's a Magic: The Gathering reference.
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
Using the Jitsi website has worked well enough for me for years, and the calls are P2P as far as I'm aware. What's the advantage of hosting your own? Just preventing jitsi.org from seeing call metadata?
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
I'm just imagining a type system based on this. I've had ideas about a Datalog-based type system before, but it was never really practical; this could be the breakthrough that would make it practical!
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
Yes, but it's rare to see linked libraries that use this as their API, even though it would greatly simplify FFI.
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
I've had a lot of ideas for cross-language libraries that would need a C API, and this issue always comes up. The idea I had several years ago---but never implemented, because most of the projects I'd use this for are in limbo bec
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by ar-nelson 3y ago
Would you consider supporting Deno? (The npm module can probably be imported as-is in newer Deno versions, but a dedicated module is always nice and likely wouldn't be much work)
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
I get the sense that you think I'm saying more here than I actually am. I'm not proposing that this is the only kind of news that should exist, only that it would be nice if it existed for the kind of people that want to read (onl
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
I don't see how an unmoderated, anarchic space like 4chan is close to what I described; the entire point of what I had in mind is a very specific kind of moderation: stories are only published if (a) they're reasonably likely to m
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
The way I see it, news serves three purposes: --- 1. To let you know about local or world events that could affect you and those close to you. 2. To let you know about world events that affect others far away, in order to judge the effectiv
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
This could be implemented as an import assertion[1]: import foo from ' http://example.com/foo ' assert { sha256sum: '...' } This feature would even be useful in the web platform in general. Would also be n
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
> Should it have a "repository" of whitelisted domains? Yes, actually. Deno's security model allows you to whitelist file paths and network domains with --allow-read, --allow-write, and --allow-net. But this doesn't a
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
iirc I wanted to port it to Guile originally but there was one major bug in Guile R7RS support that was stopping me. I think it was something about the way imports were named. I submitted an issue but it languished for at least half a year,
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
From my experience working on Schemepunk, Gerbil has a lot of interesting functionality but it's also very immature. Frequently modules will not quite match their documentation, or a simple mistake will cause a segfault. I wouldn'
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
I started a project a few years ago with the goal of making more Schemes practical like this: Schemepunk ( https://github.com/ar-nelson/schemepunk ) The idea was to make a standard library as widely compatible with exist
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by ar-nelson 4y ago
I'd been thinking recently about how to write a "train your own recommendation algorithm" feed reader and fediverse reader, but I was unsure how those sorts of algorithms work. It looks like cosine similarity is a good place

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