iamwil

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by iamwil 20d ago
Plato thought writing was a lie: > If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written...And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, b
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by iamwil 20d ago
Any specific Sony bots you're recommend looking at and studying?
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Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling(alexzhang13.github.io)
2 points by iamwil 23d ago|0 comments
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by iamwil 25d ago
This reminds me a web 2.0 startup in 2006. It was similar in that it wanted people to break down arguments into a flowchart. Had more of a public collaboration flavor to it at the time. https://web.archive.org/web/20060
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by iamwil 29d ago
That's great. I spent the majority of my time at the Recurse Center doing a first implementation. The full rebuild version of an insert is trivial. The incremental version took most of the time.
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by iamwil 1mo ago
This is pretty neat. How long did it take for you to implement the core basics? Upon insertion do you incrementally build the tree, or do you rebuild it from scratch? How did you ensure the distribution of nodes was about the same with the
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Not for me. By asking it to interview me, and then working through the options and their consequences, it feels more like the whiteboarding-with-a-colleague part of engineering. I don't have to remember to specify everything. The agen
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by iamwil 1mo ago
btw, your website is down.
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Has there been a time when your spec was accurate, the agent implemented it, everything passed — but you still felt you didn't really understand what was happening? If so, what did you do about it? Did it degrade your ability to make s
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by iamwil 1mo ago
> when you come back later and have to remember wtf is going on." When that happens, do you read just the spec, or do you also need to read the code? Is there a difference between "I can remember what I intended" and &quot
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by iamwil 1mo ago
I think the cringiest are people talking about their cancer or their divorce, and how it helped them realize an insight about B2B sales.
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Was "Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man" thought of as great art at the time it was taken in 1840? Or was its status as great art a retroactive judgement with the perspective of time by people after 1840? Not being familiar with the p
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Would you be able to pick out an example of "good photography as art" in the first 6 years of photography's existence, given generative media has been around for about 6 years? Does the lack of an existence proof for fine art
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Your quick take lacks perspective. Photography wasn't always viewed to be art. Critics called photography "slop" in its infancy for a long while. See Charles Baudelaire for his 1800's take on photography: > As the pho
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Charles Baudelaire argued photography could not be considered a fine art because it merely produced mechanical replicas of reality without input from human imagination. He called photography "art's most mortal enemy" and the
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Exactly my point. People simply weren't alive in the beginning of a medium, so they think how it is now is how it was always so. For the first 20 to 30 years of film, people disregarded it as art. And somehow, it's a leap of logic
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by iamwil 1mo ago
Would photography discourage OP from reading a blog? Should I hand-paint my imagery? If I am the type of person that would use a camera, then maybe I'd be the type of person to hire a ghostwriter.
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Constructing A Good Enough Color Space For Skin Tones(toneyalexander.github.io)
3 points by iamwil 2mo ago|0 comments
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Replicating the physics of the Gameboy screen for realistic emulation(note.com)
3 points by iamwil 2mo ago|0 comments
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by iamwil 2mo ago
What should an ESP32 with a display cost? It seems like the chip itself is a couple bucks, but the combo of ESP32 + display is around $40. Is there a way to do it cheaper? Put it together myself?
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by iamwil 2mo ago
Is it a real physical cartridge? How do you get the source code off the cartridge at the end? Or does it give you a passcode to a git repo or…like an NFT with access to the source?
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by iamwil 2mo ago
Other people have expressed interest too. Will let you know when I'm done.
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by iamwil 2mo ago
It's not building itself, though I did build a harness. It's a collaborative workspace for humans and AI.
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by iamwil 2mo ago
What I really want, is a plane that can load passengers like containers--or like a rollercoaster car. Of course, it should be comfortable. I just mean that the passenger compartment should be modular. So you can put your luggage in and get
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by iamwil 2mo ago
I've been building and running my software factory for 8 months now. Granted, there's no automated pulling down tasks and pushing PR right now (soon!). But after specifying what I want, it mostly goes to shipping on its own. On oc
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by iamwil 2mo ago
For those interested in incremental systems, I recommend checking out DBSP. I thought it was pretty neat.
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by iamwil 2mo ago
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/an-opinionated-ma... Can help map out the landscape.
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by iamwil 2mo ago
Anyone tried tangle as a replacement? Verdict?
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by iamwil 2mo ago
I think Evan's pointing at something, and everyone's looking at the finger. I don't think this is really about Elm at all, but the preparation for Acadia. In his talk, Economics of Programming Languages https://www
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by iamwil 4mo ago
I think I've always called this "Ontology is hard". It's genuinely useful when it's used as a tool for clarification. It's constraining when it's used as a tool for modeling.

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