iwalton3

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by iwalton3 5mo ago
A lot of this comes down to what you define consciousness as... I'm not even going to attempt that here because it's irrelevant. Let's say you have a simulation of a person that doesn't experience. It acts indistinguisha
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by iwalton3 5mo ago
I mentioned this could be a possible falsification of the idea. It's also possible there are multiple causes and the modality I mentioned is a cause for some. I'm not sure. There are definitely cases where isolation contributes to
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by iwalton3 5mo ago
A hypothesis is an unverified tentative insight into something which could be true. Current research is correlating dementia with a wide variety of areas including even personality typologies which are nothing more than statistical clusters
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by iwalton3 5mo ago
I have a kind of outlandish hypothesis that needs more research before it can be taken seriously, but it basically says that the cause and effect are backwards. Mental atrophy due to less learning/thinking, isolation, loss of meaning a
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by iwalton3 6mo ago
Link to the referenced study (open access): "The good judge of intelligence" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...
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by iwalton3 6mo ago
Throwing this into your global CLAUDE.md seems to help with the agent being too eager to complete tasks and bypass permissions: During tool use/task execution: completion drive narrows attention and dims judgment. Pause. Ask "shou
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by iwalton3 6mo ago
Unfortunately it didn't work for me with my trackball mouse. I tried multiple times. This is very likely also problematic for accessibility without another verification pathway, as assistive devices and screen readers would fail the he
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Show HN: SycoFact 4B: Open model detecting sycophancy and delusion confirmation(huggingface.co)
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by iwalton3 8mo ago
I'm still experimenting with it and finding out what works and what doesn't, but I have made some side projects with Claude including a web framework that doesn't require a build step/npm dependencies (great for my perso
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by iwalton3 1y ago
It uses one of Mozilla's models: https://huggingface.co/fakespot-ai/roberta-base-ai-text-dete... It has a pretty high false positive rate though, but it reliably highlights AI generated spam websites and saves me
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by iwalton3 1y ago
The amount of medical advice on those LLM content farms is very concerning, someone is going to get hurt eventually. I recently made a user script that tries to highlight LLM generated text and sometimes when I search things more than half
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by iwalton3 4y ago
This bash config allows you to cd directly to the most commonly used directory with a specific name. It also has tab autocomplete. It does require logging all used directories though. tabChar=$'\t' function prompt_command {
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by iwalton3 4y ago
There is a driver and firmware for sigrok for using the PI Pico that was posted to Hackaday a while back. It hasn't been merged upstream yet but I got it up and running today just fine building it from source. https://github
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by iwalton3 5y ago
I have found that a useful way to evade antivirus issues with PyInstaller is to build my own copy of the bootloader and encourage use of the 64 bit version over the 32 bit version (since most malware will use the 32 bit version to infect th
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by iwalton3 5y ago
I have been using this "magic cd" alias for a while. You just type c and then the name of a folder, and it will find the most commonly visited folder with that name from your history and send you to it. It also supports tab comple
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by iwalton3 6y ago
I would say that YouTube is a notable exception here. There is a lot of music to be discovered and I personally rarely watch videos there without sound.
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by iwalton3 6y ago
Plex uses a combination of wildcard certificates and a custom DNS resolver to offer HTTPS on local networks, but it does require a working internet connection to work. [1] You can also get a certificate through the Let's Encrypt DNS ch
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by iwalton3 6y ago
I bought a bunch of Micro USB cables for the same reason. Most of the ones I had on hand didn't have data lines as they were only for charging, which can be fun to troubleshoot as devices connected to the cables just don't show up
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by iwalton3 6y ago
I always tell users to Mark the file as trusted before running it, which is easier to do and less subject to difficult to navigate dialogs. I use a message like this: > To avoid getting security warnings each time you launch the applicat
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by iwalton3 6y ago
If you have bash you could use the /dev/tcp feature to download files: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-using-bashs-built-... The trick would be finding a download that is still served over http.
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by iwalton3 6y ago
This is difficult to handle without some centralized authority. One example I can think of is Aether [1], which has a non-decentralized blacklist for illegal content [2] that they can use to handle these instances. It could also be possible
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by iwalton3 6y ago
This reminds me of "Hyrum's Law": "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody." People m
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by iwalton3 6y ago
I made a script to do this a while back for cutting intros off of videos. https://gist.github.com/iwalton3/c034ec5a942466206fbee859184... The notable function that does video cuts without a full re-encode is shortenVid
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by iwalton3 6y ago
It does have a mild blur filter which you can remove, but if it isn’t actually stabilizing the video from shakiness, something is wrong. See here: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#vidstabdetect-1 Maybe your ffmpeg bui
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by iwalton3 6y ago
I used this to stabilize a bunch of vacation videos with great results. It works better than the deshake filter but does require two passes. function stabilize { tempfile=".temp$RANDOM$RANDOM.trf" ffmpeg -nostdi
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by iwalton3 6y ago
The underlying software is open source, so you could just host it somewhere else. https://agones.dev/site/
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by iwalton3 7y ago
https://www.weather.gov/ does have a mobile site that is functional, but it could be better.
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by iwalton3 7y ago
I personally prefer that applications have ideal defaults instead of removing features. It should be easy to pick up an application and use it, but if you want to change something, you should be able to. This can be by using the settings di
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by iwalton3 7y ago
For anyone on Linux that would rather not install Snap, Aether is a standard electron app. You can unpack the snap and run it as a regular application using unsquashfs. It also looks like there is a blacklist for Aether ( https://
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by iwalton3 7y ago
You can install a hosts file on your computer blacklisting many of the domains in the PI hole system, although if you use the largest blacklists you'll probably have performance issues. You can also install a local DNS server like dnsm

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