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by exebook 12d ago
There is 2006 paper "Polychronization: Computation with Spikes" E. Izhikevich. that describes one simulation they have done in silico and it explains how exactly distribution of activity happens and why you can't run out of
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by exebook 2y ago
Tokenization can be bypassed like this; (mistral large 2) How many letters R are in the word "s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y"? The word "s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y" contains three instances of the letter "R." How many letters R
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by exebook 2y ago
I'd guess these poor teenagers were mentally sick of something else before the social networks thing came to be. And they will be sick of another thing after social networks get replaced. Important thing is that we have developed rules
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by exebook 3y ago
Sounds like a cross over of The Age of Supernova and Tri-body Problem. In the former Supernova radiation kills all people on earth except kids under 13.
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by exebook 3y ago
I made my own proportional font Variable.ttf and refined it for over a decade. I am using it daily. Over many iterations I refined space width and each important coding character's shape and size. Added some ligatures in the last few y
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by exebook 3y ago
When you say community, where exactly you find people who can help with wezterm?
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by exebook 3y ago
And especially strings, which with all those escape codes are small programming languages in it's own right.
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by exebook 3y ago
It is also about performance. I've watched a video recently from a guy who compiled entire Linux kernel in under 1 second I believe, he used TinyC and also noticed that something like 90% of compilation is tokenization of headers that
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by exebook 3y ago
Exploration seems like a natural way for civilisation to live, but that's because exploration is needed to expand knowledge and grow more intelligent, we as a civilisation mostly became obsessed with intellect dozens generation ago, if
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by exebook 3y ago
posted here because I couldn't find the repository. I was looking here https://github.com/memechain
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by exebook 3y ago
Huawei y8p, Android 10, 2400x1080, Chromium 88. Hope this helps.
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by exebook 3y ago
Are you an author? I have read the sci-fi short novel when I was a kid, and that was 80ies. The future earth have found signs of life on some distant planet and the science ship was sent to investigate, they got there but could not find any
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by exebook 3y ago
Maybe first thing super civilisation would do is to upgrade their bodies, I'd first thing get rid of 50-100 kg of useless meat, bones and blood, I guess then the entire consciousness, memory, emotional sphere can be fit in something si
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by exebook 3y ago
I guess while Python interprets this branchless code it still can do some branching? Or am I missing something here?
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by exebook 3y ago
Do you want a bug report? The lowest row doesn't fit into width of my phone's Chrome. I can only see few millimeters of the rightmost and leftmost cubies. Pinch zoom seems disabled so I cannot adjust. Tried switching to PC mode, b
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by exebook 4y ago
Wanted to play, but after the tutorial a first touch makes the ship disappear. When I reload the page, I can see the ship again, and the landing curve, then again if I touch the screen everything disappear except for the stars.
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by exebook 4y ago
Amazing work! If I had a GPU, I'd join. I know similar project for text-to-image: https://aqualxx.github.io/stable-ui/
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by exebook 4y ago
It seems that the wires prevent the drones to go further inside the ship, so I wonder if they can be made wireless? If radio is not working in such conditions maybe sonic or light signal can get through?
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by exebook 4y ago
Might be they estimated based how quickly bacteria eats pure metal, but it could be covered with something that protects it, dust, rust, another bacteria, some chemistry that is synthesized there over decades.
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by exebook 4y ago
Came here to say this. I didn't like any available variable width font for coding though so I created my own based on helvetica. https://github.com/exebook/variable
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by exebook 4y ago
From quick googling(yandexing?) Yandex.Robot appears to be a self driving briefcase.
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by exebook 4y ago
Values seem to be nan-boxed, which means numbers are simply doubles and therefore will still be located in the same block of contiguous memory. When the higher 8 bits are FF the remaining 48 normally are an indirection pointer. So right, fo
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by exebook 4y ago
#line directive gives you exactly that, you step through original code, it's similar to source maps in JavaScript. #line directive has two arguments the file name and the line of the source in your language i.e. nim, nelua, koka whatev
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by exebook 4y ago
What was your language? I read two of his books when I was a kid in Russian. Also built the matchbox machine but I think it was playing hexapawn which was too simplistic compared to tic tac toe and a bit disappointing. I couldn't find
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by exebook 4y ago
What are the bugs in tcc you have discovered? I am using it almost every day for many years and yet to encounter a single bug. It generates much slower code than gcc but the point is it does it at least an order of magnitude faster. The cod
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by exebook 4y ago
Regardless how fast zig compiler self is, as far as it outsources code generation to llvm and linking to ld it will always be much slower than tinycc. Although recently I've noticed that if you ask llvm to generate and execute somethin
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by exebook 4y ago
Lexical scope and first class functions in JavaScript as a descendant from Lisp.
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by exebook 4y ago
OCaml is one of those languages that has it's own compiler backend. I might have forgotten but I think it even uses it's own linker. It is also backed by organisations, for example people from INRIA university and Jane Street comp
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by exebook 4y ago
Am I the only one who after seeing the title thought they are building Nintendo switch inside Factorio? Which makes me think can it at least run something like Atari 2600 at decent speed?
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by exebook 4y ago
Didn't know Unity relies on a garbage collected language. How do they deal with the mark and sweep pauses?

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