colbyn

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by colbyn 12d ago
Something I’ve been thinking about. Your eyes are broadly sensitive to the visible light spectrum. But this is not uniformly distributed. Emission in the green - yellow band is bright, equivalent intensity at higher energy wavelengths such
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by colbyn 12d ago
Brightness is important, and blue light isn’t necessarily the sole factor of concern. What you want is to accommodate both. Which has been a subject of recent academic literature concerning industry standards. Specifically, there are new pr
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by colbyn 1mo ago
> As a native speaker, it feels like reading an impression of a literature book by a high school English class’s most overconfident student who’s only ever read LinkedIn-speak. You wouldn’t happen to have gone to Westlake HS? lol i may h
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by colbyn 4mo ago
I’ve thought about this. Or at least something like that. When reading dune there’s a class of women who can control their biochemistry in such a way that they can eg prolong lifespan, or anything else within the realm of feasible biochemis
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by colbyn 6mo ago
In my experience Grok is the least likely to push back on crazy ideas out of all major chatbots and it’s more often wrong on technical matters. Although I suppose this isn’t necessarily bad. I go to Grok for subjective explorations.
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by colbyn 7mo ago
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by colbyn 7mo ago
I can’t get downvoted further but as a friendly FYI this page can’t be opened in iOS safari (too many redirects). But I was thinking some time ago I disabled algorithmically prompted content even though it had its advantages for work relate
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by colbyn 7mo ago
Oh I guess I stand corrected. I sometimes wish AI wasn't a thing because any natural talent for writing has now been rendered almost meaningless.
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by colbyn 7mo ago
Why should we presume it’s an AI description? The writing seems reasonable enough. Some people are more naturally inclined towards articulate writing than others (seems like projection) and furthermore the OP claims to be a screenwriter.
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by colbyn 7mo ago
Design can go a long way when reading long form text. If someone here is in contact with the author please tell them to improve the typography; most notably smaller and justified text for mobile phones. Other designers could probably weigh
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by colbyn 7mo ago
The title could have been a line out of Dune. It’s interesting that many of us myself included once thought that the butlerian jihad was silly until now. Frank Herbert wrote something that is particularly prescient. (Usually writers are jus
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by colbyn 7mo ago
Nope. For all I know it’s due to the sins of the people. The reckoning of heaven.
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by colbyn 7mo ago
For context there are many theories for why younger generations are less “cognitively capable” than older generations. Nowadays we call it the reverse Flynn effect. IMO this article is nitpicking, probably confirmation bias at play.
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by colbyn 7mo ago
Okay I see. Are people being attacked for engaging in AI research/dev irrespective of their character or other personal attributes?
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by colbyn 7mo ago
I’m confused can someone please explain to me why he or she is so controversial?
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by colbyn 7mo ago
I have yet to read this article (in full), but I love trees! As an amateur AST transformation nerd. Kinda related but I’ve been trying to figure out how to generalize the lessons learned from this experiment in autogenerating massive biling
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by colbyn 7mo ago
My thoughts exactly. I’ve been using them for exposing local services to the public internet from my home network. Super convenient for initial proof of concept work…
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by colbyn 8mo ago
Cool I sent you an email and included a screen recorded video demo of that project. Although FYI: the UI in that demo needs some work since updating iOS but it's an interesting proof of concept that took me some time to figure out (in
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by colbyn 8mo ago
As old a rust dev. Any interest in the client side of things? I’ve been experimenting with a few ideas in this regard. Especially, true native markdown rendering and a branching conversational data model. (This complicated the UI and requir
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Native GFM+ macOS (iOS WIP) Markdown Rendering via TextKit2(github.com)
3 points by colbyn 8mo ago|1 comments
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by colbyn 8mo ago
A while ago I figured out how to extend my native TextKit 2 based markdown renderer to support full blown markdown tables with full text selection support. At the time this was quite novel. I'm now working on a fresh rewrite with iOS s
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by colbyn 11mo ago
Perhaps because people who are convinced that they’re on the morally right side of history will always assume the problem pertains to others.
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by colbyn 1y ago
Not sufficient. Would people pay money to have these ideas explained to them by a former self educated zealot? (Id have to refresh my memory but if my younger self could get into this anyone can.)
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by colbyn 1y ago
That’s too simplistic because there’s different types of equality. Things can be different but semantically equal in other regards. Equality in elementary algebra is very vague.
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by colbyn 1y ago
Oh also I’d like to add to the above, the TextKit2 API is way more freeform than people think. You could probably implement your own web browser upon it with optimized line by line text rendering (which isn’t that bad). One thing I always w
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by colbyn 1y ago
Oh hey good to see some more literature on TextKit2. I remember diving into it when I wrote my proof of concept markdown renderer: https://github.com/SuperSwiftMarkup/SuperSwiftMarkdownProtot... It’s a good example of
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by colbyn 1y ago
I thought this was referring to articles as in the part of speech (i.e. there are nouns, verbs, but also article like “a” or “the”) given the title and something spanning across languages… I wonder what his exact thought process was that mo
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by colbyn 1y ago
Suppose someone wanted to dive into other projects with the ambition of finding high value bugs. Besides chromium what would you recommend or consider? What would be your thought process for deciding what projects to look into?
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by colbyn 1y ago
On a side note some time ago I wrote this utility specifically for optimizing the encoding: https://imager.io/ I often wonder if I should have done something productive with this tool (kinda abandoned it)…
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by colbyn 1y ago
Personally I’ve been thinking about this problem for some time and have had a neat idea that im almost tempted to patent, I have yet to test it via an actual implementation but the core idea is quite simple…

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