lokimedes

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by lokimedes 26d ago
We get the future that sells the most novels?
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by lokimedes 1mo ago
My bag of tricks is better than your bag of tricks. Alright. As with most textbooks, it fails to motivate why reading it is worth the investment. Perhaps it is a millennial old tradition of the Greek mystery schools, that the rite of passa
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The Applicants (A Short Story)(skaersoe.com)
2 points by lokimedes 1mo ago|1 comments
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by lokimedes 2mo ago
Glad I didn’t spend the last ten years on that problem! As my CERN advisor suggested :)
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by lokimedes 2mo ago
Many mindfulness practices seem to direct attention at two place at once, to quiet the inner voice. Perhaps this relates to more than just speech, but to attention itself. George Gurdjieff's "The Fourth Way" deals with self r
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by lokimedes 2mo ago
I actually have experience with that stuff, “old school” deep learning and ML as well. Is that something worth joining the fray with I wonder? Or is it as you point out really only the richly connected “locals” that are recruited?
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by lokimedes 2mo ago
The meeting between my magnetic Apple Watch strap and the edge of the MacBook did the same for me, involuntarily. Apparently the magnets in these straps are quite abrasive.
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EThOS(ethos.bl.uk)
2 points by lokimedes 2mo ago|0 comments
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by lokimedes 3mo ago
Would the AI “GW-scale” clusters be able to run the Top500 benchmarks meaningfully? And what might be the outcome?
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by lokimedes 3mo ago
I have not reason to defend these people or their actions, but can we know their future success was not formed by their formative experiences at Id? I think we undervalue hardship and struggle as accelerants.
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by lokimedes 3mo ago
At least it was just a game company :) I find that initiative and grit combined is an exceedingly rare commodity, and it do power progress. We can always be picky about the worth or risks of the projects these souls end up realizing, but th
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by lokimedes 3mo ago
Yeah. My point is that this is the double edged sword of youth vs. experience. We’ll never know if the world would have been better of Id software were managed by more tempered, middleaged people, but (since I was merely the gamer) I’d rath
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by lokimedes 3mo ago
I’m sitting here in Denmark having been affected by these geeks. They may not have built the Pantheon, but surely they have channeled a group of people’s creativity towards something we have integrated into our society?
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by lokimedes 3mo ago
Young energy shouldn’t be apologized. Apparently Bill Gates had that psycho energy too, Jobs and many others too. On a civilizational scale it seems like a net benefit that young, eager and driven people give a bit more than they wanted to
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by lokimedes 3mo ago
Not just an IDE, look at the prospect, they’ll soon lead in farming, genetics, AGI and teleportation. Remember to price in the TAM of that!
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
I attend “The Party” in Aars, Denmark for a few years around 2000. It was at the crossroads of broadband, but got to taste the demoscene vs gamer experience. It was magnificent. There were a real festival atmosphere, and afterwards you’d d
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
Thank you, great spotted. I did make a CLI tool for it, but it was a bit too cumbersome to distributed it via the App Store for the first release, so I dropped it from the release but forgot to update the help.
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
We did https://markant.md with TextKit 1, flies through multi-megabytes markdown files with latex rendering etc. took some scaffolding (like only rendering attachments when they are close to the viewport) to make it smooth, but
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
Maybe it was good weather [1] on the isles for once? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
Uncool or not, working at a place with a confluence of technical problems to solve, sounds wonderful.
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
I have a feeling this goes waaaay back, but was covered by claims of authority, in a time where merit and authority were intertwined. My pet peeve is that management is a transferable skill that supersedes industry expertise. It is such a c
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
If we see our contributions as brownian motion rather than preconceived trajectories, then, rather than focusing on the Gausses, Einsteins, Patons as providing singular progress, they become the the dominant least energy paths to what we re
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by lokimedes 4mo ago
I built a Markdown viewer https://markant.md to go with the flow rather than against it. I also cooked up a mew format, which basically bundles markdown and images into “Markbooks” https://markbooks.org . LLMs don’t e
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by lokimedes 5mo ago
By now I wish people just published their prompts, preferably with their motivations. At least tat part may be original.
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by lokimedes 5mo ago
It is at least Apple only for now, as it is a native app. I'm working on an iOS and iPad version. What would you like it to work on?
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by lokimedes 5mo ago
The concept of “absorptive capacity” our ability to gain from the information presented to us, is a key factor in education. If we humans remain agents of our own lives (which I find axiomatic) we still need education to interact with AI, t
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Show HN: Markant – A Dedicated Markdown Reader(markant.md)
6 points by lokimedes 5mo ago|3 comments
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by lokimedes 5mo ago
Oh the days when these scenarios just lead to a slowdown of the database server, felt by everyone, not just accounting.
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by lokimedes 5mo ago
(Not so) funny enough - I just did the same thing for https://gunsight.com complete with Claude generated interactive simulations for ballistics. We are actually building radars, and are likely going to use the domain in the fut
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by lokimedes 5mo ago
To my great dismay, I discovered the physical incompatibility of two Apple products recently: The sharp edge of my MBP and my Apple Watch’s magnetic strap. It seems that the magnets are an effective abrasive, resulting in a ruined strap and

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