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by lutusp 3d ago
All such prediction engines should include an obvious warning -- "If you act on my predictions, then all bets are off." This is why stock market predictions are a waste of perfectly good paper: people try to act on the predictions
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by lutusp 3d ago
> Before concluding what to do about it, it is worth asking why. But that's the easiest question to answer -- AI engines don't possess a moral or ethical dimension. They've been programmed and trained to efficiently carry
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by lutusp 21d ago
Apart from the article's probable origin in AI, it makes an elaborate, wordy argument about consciousness without trying to define the term. That's just as well, since consciousness is philosophy's "hard problem," m
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by lutusp 2mo ago
> It feels like we're actually returning to the age of the individual cottage programmer. True. I've recently been vibe-coding a number of projects that I wouldn't tackle if I had to ... what's the current expression
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by lutusp 2mo ago
About Apple Works ... Apple paid me massive royalties for Apple Writer but got tired of that arrangement pretty quickly. So they made an outright-sale deal with the Apple Works guy. Then the Apple Works guy refused to answer after-release b
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by lutusp 2mo ago
I guess one could launch Claude Code on a quixotic project to create optimally terse 6502 assembly for some imaginary project that might never execute on actual hardware. Hmm ...
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by lutusp 2mo ago
LibreOffice, for the most part. Still an open-source True Believer.
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by lutusp 2mo ago
> ... immediately readable to a human eye, but even leading AI models can't decipher it easily. For the moment. This pattern is easy to code -- it relies on the premise that a character has an inside and an outside. Outside, a patte
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by lutusp 2mo ago
I wrote one of the chapters in Digital Deli ( https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programm... ), in a computing world that bears little resemblance to the present. Am I exaggerating? You decide. I wrote a
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by lutusp 3mo ago
> There's something incredibly peaceful about being in the hands of an expert you trust. You don't have to worry anymore and can let them guide you through the process. > AI can absolutely shatter that feeling in an uncomfor
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by lutusp 3mo ago
Why isn't my favorite color on the list: Unforeseeable Fuchsia?
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by lutusp 3mo ago
The linked video is a must-see -- it's one of those rare video essays that shed more light than heat.
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by lutusp 3mo ago
If Stephen Wolfram really wanted wide adoption of Wolfram Language, he would give it an open-source license and release its source. As things stand it's an expensive walled garden whose costs outweigh its advantages. A quote from the l
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by lutusp 3mo ago
This is easy to answer -- the nerds are out there, but they don't push themselves into the spotlight. The reason Sam Altman gets more press than Linus Torvalds is because Altman is a media spectacle and Torvalds is a technologist. In t
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by lutusp 3mo ago
AI describes images in a photo archive, creates a searchable Web page
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Photo Database Searchable Webpage Generator(github.com)
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by lutusp 5mo ago
I create CAD instructional videos based on SolveSpace, and I sometimes try to get people interested in CADQuery as well, but many people interested in CAD will learn SolveSpace or another similar design program, but don't have the prog
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by lutusp 5mo ago
Are you asking how the bracelet multiplies two numbers? It's the same idea used by slide rules -- you take the logarithm of the two numbers, then add the logarithms instead of multiplying -- same result, with somewhat less accuracy dep
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by lutusp 5mo ago
Wait a sec ... > The problem AI inherits from us is that context and intent cannot be known. > Both can be omitted or lied about. This implies that neither we nor our creations can ever be ethical or safe. It follows logically that no
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by lutusp 5mo ago
> ... 40 kilobytes. How times have changed. My best-selling program "Apple Writer", for the Apple II, ran in eight kilobytes. It was written entirely in 6502 assembly language.
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by lutusp 5mo ago
For context, the same phased-array transceiver technology is used in Starlink terminals, some of which have 1,280 active elements. Such a terminal can require as much as 150W to function. It's also why pictures of modern naval vessels
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by lutusp 5mo ago
>> Power Supply: 12 V DC (≈1.5 kW peak) > That's a lot of juice for 12VDC Indeed it is. It's 125 amps, which apart from car starting motors is essentially unheard of because of wiring losses. I think the article somehow g
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by lutusp 6mo ago
> This isn’t a library, you don’t include in your application, and it doesn’t try to replace an understanding of floating point issues on the programmers part. If that were true, it would serve no purpose, since competently written float
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by lutusp 6mo ago
> You didn’t even look at what the tool does, did you? On the contrary, I did exactly that. It proactively intervenes where mathematical knowledge would be a better remedy overall. It shields programmers from their ignorance. If floating
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by lutusp 6mo ago
> I think it's going to be awhile before the full impact of AI really works it's [sic] way through how we work. This was definitely not written by AI. Granted their many drawbacks, present-day AI engines avoid this classic gram
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by lutusp 6mo ago
Second reply -- if anyone wants to run Dune3D, flatpak or compiled, they must set this flag in advance: export GDK_DEBUG="gl-prefer-gl" I discovered this while trying out the compiled version (it's essential for the program t
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by lutusp 6mo ago
Thanks -- I missed this. If it pans out, it might get me to shift away from SolveSpace, which has a few perpetually annoying quirks.
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by lutusp 6mo ago
Okay, but unless you choose to download the Windows executable, compiling from source is very difficult. Many people won't accept the Snap option on an otherwise open-source platform. This project improves on SolveSpace, but it does th
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by lutusp 6mo ago
Wait a sec -- the reason RSS readers don’t have ads is because no one uses them. If we all used RSS, the advertisers would follow us there. The linked article doesn’t offer any real remedies, so I will: * Step one: dump Microsoft Edge, inst
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by lutusp 6mo ago
It's true that a Nobel prize can blunt a scientist's productivity, but for balance, the kind of extraordinary result that merits a Nobel might also not be replicable in one scientist's career, regardless of how the world reac

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