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by masswerk 4d ago
Yes, you could have done similar with GIFs already with Netscape 3 and IE 3 (I think, IE 3.1, or was this just the Mac version?). "Dynamic HTML" with z-layering became a thing with Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0, which bec
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by masswerk 4d ago
Yes, this is pretty much how we did such things already in the 1990s. The problem with this is that this only supports a predefined, rather limitted character set. But you could have expanded on this and may have loaded custom characters on
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by masswerk 4d ago
PS: For the those seeking comfort in literature, we get some discussion on accomplishment in the work of Jane Austen, as in a worthy and virtuous entertainment for young gentlewomen, accomplishment for display, "true" accomplishme
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by masswerk 4d ago
The first paragraph kind of reads like an inverse of Kant's criteria for a moral action: are you sure that there was no enjoyment, no pleasure was involved in this action or resulted from it? At the same time, it kind of establishes th
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by masswerk 5d ago
> "It's not clear what exactly the end goals are, as the information appears to be publicly accessible anyway." Another reminder that LLM productions are really a prompt on us to inflate this output with meaning. (And that
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by masswerk 6d ago
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggs_eumorphic_projection
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by masswerk 6d ago
Isn't this more like a 1997 website, though? ;-) (I.e., all the webpages with a rotating globe with "News" spelled around it in the fashion of the animated Universal logo, embedded as an animated GIF [GIF89a].)
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by masswerk 6d ago
Goode homolosine projection, which enjoyed some popularity in the "Space Age", deserves a mention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goode_homolosine_projection
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by masswerk 8d ago
It's the great desemantification machine: want to look, read, sound, feel just like the median, without personal traits or individual expression? This is for you! (And people used to talk about communism and everything being same. Well
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by masswerk 8d ago
Which is, BTW, a funny way of thinking of living creatures.
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by masswerk 9d ago
Of course. As we're told to prepare for the new times… :-) On a more serious note, I think, if we're going to criticise the kind of distortions LLMs do to language and the construction of meaning, we should be able to come up with
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by masswerk 10d ago
The construction of meaning is totally distorted, though. In the original, the first part is entirely motivated by the conclusion, and puts emphasis to this by a crescendo of counterintuitive observations. This is what made this memorable p
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by masswerk 10d ago
I think, there's a systematic flaw in RLHF: constructs reinforced as effective or sophisticated style will always suffer overuse and significant overexposure. Which will be also very obvious when used out of the intended context, it&#x
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by masswerk 10d ago
That's the flaw in RLHF: constructs tagged as effective or sophisticated speech become templates, are increasingly used out of context (e.g., "not just A, not just B, but C" is usually meant to provide some synthesis and furt
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by masswerk 11d ago
In contemporary YouTube-script wording: > The Ecclasiast looked under the sun, but there was something he didn't understand. Something that wasn't right. Something that was not as it was supposed to be. And here is what the Ecc
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by masswerk 14d ago
There was also an interesting, while mostly under the radar, in-the-middle: using the Flex [0] compiler, you could write and compile pure Flash Player files in AS3, which would be considerably smaller and leaner/more performant than bo
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by masswerk 26d ago
I prefer to think of this in terms of Umberto Eco's opera aperta (open work): if any text is a collaboration between author and reader/recipient, here, all the burden of meaning is left to the recipient. There's simply no m
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by masswerk 1mo ago
Mind that even in their first example, "The results of the study were quite (important | significant | substantial | notable)", the meaning is by no means interchangeable. "Important" refers to impact, "significan
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Commodore 8-Bit 5¼" Disk Images(masswerk.at)
50 points by masswerk 1mo ago|0 comments
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by masswerk 2mo ago
Yes, the version of Snow Leopard people are referring to (and have fond memories of, me included) was 10.6.8.x. The point is really that it was given time to mature. (Back in the day, users used to explicitly refer to "10.8.6",
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by masswerk 3mo ago
How do these 3D architectures scale regarding yield? (The naïve expectation would be that adding vertical layers should have exponential impact on yield.) Is this commercially viable, near term?
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by masswerk 4mo ago
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by masswerk 4mo ago
I played around with one that, I think, was a type-in from Compute! Gazette. Since this was also the time of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose , I remember devising a medieval handwriting font (so quite the opposite, but fun!)…
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by masswerk 4mo ago
Regarding the shape of the letter "C", mind that of the 10 digits of the MICR E-18B font, the digits 2, 5, 6, 7, 0 don't have any "thickenings" at all, all thin, even strokes. That's 5 out of 10 or half of the
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by masswerk 4mo ago
Every hand-knotted carpet has some error per design, since only Allah is perfect. But, I guess, "resulation" may be a bit blotchy for a sign of humbleness. :-)
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by masswerk 4mo ago
Sorry, I had to fix this. (You're welcome anyway. And yes, I think, it's the sort of quirky article, an LLM can't come up with.)
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The C64 Dead Test Font(masswerk.at)
150 points by masswerk 4mo ago|30 comments
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by masswerk 4mo ago
*) "emulgate", maybe better emulsify, but this is a bit lateral to this? The point being, a homogenous preparation, which is more a superficial operation than an essential one, as the establishing ingredients remain the untouched.
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by masswerk 4mo ago
If we're talking about concepts and communication, in text, I don't know what meaning of synthesis to apply (as long as there is meaning), other than the meaning this has had for centuries. I think, aggregation, extraction and emu
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by masswerk 4mo ago
The general consensus used to be that questions should be either closed (i.e., all the knowledge is disclosed in the interface) or open (any in-between doesn't help to organinze and conceptionalize thought) and that UI elements should

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