maxbendick

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by maxbendick 24d ago
What a bizarre README. From the top: > 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses! Ok, it's a framework. That can mean many things. Let's look at the "Key Features." > ~3,50
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by maxbendick 1mo ago
Marx builds on Smith. Would you agree then that Adam Smith is disproven even more and responsible for far more starvation? That would be ridiculous.
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by maxbendick 1mo ago
Marx actually has a bit about this: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm... The most interesting point here is relating machine speed to intensity. Plenty of tech folks are both w
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by maxbendick 2mo ago
Can't argue with that! And what a prologue it is.
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by maxbendick 2mo ago
You've found the right market. There's an awful lot of tech folk who don't read but want to feel like they do. I gotta rep my favorite though, even if it's typical. "Call me Ishmael." It's not the narrator
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by maxbendick 5mo ago
Careful you don't fuck up your hearing with an fx chain mistake.
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by maxbendick 5mo ago
As a long-time web/app developer getting into game dev, it feels like I'm entering "the big leagues" of software engineering. Tougher problems, more problems, more _interesting_ problems, and problems without prebuilt so
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by maxbendick 6mo ago
Theory and practice are both important. A few analogues: - fundamentals on an instrument vs performance - low-level graphics programming vs using a game engine - comp sci vs software engineering The theory side here gets to the root of thin
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by maxbendick 10mo ago
Living in LA, the LAPD helicopter noise really is incessant. It's hilarious to hear flying cops try to be intimidating through when dispersing illegal concerts or singling individuals out in non-violent crowds. It's impotent postu
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by maxbendick 11mo ago
As is their right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener
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by maxbendick 1y ago
Ah gotcha. My bad, didn't know it was a joke. But I'll still take it as an excuse to post RFK being a fool hahaha.
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by maxbendick 1y ago
You really ought to never trust the output of LLMs. It's not just an unsolved problem but a fundamental property of LLMs that they are manipulatable. I understand where you're coming from, but prompting is unacceptable as a securi
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by maxbendick 1y ago
Love this article. If you'd like a book that works deeply through the topic of commodified humanity, Minima Moralia by Adorno is painfully pertinent here.
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by maxbendick 1y ago
He is not a vegan. Here's him drinking raw milk recently: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PzSe0z6gH0M
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by maxbendick 1y ago
Thanks so much for replying. I didn't think it was your intention at all.
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by maxbendick 1y ago
The logo is fairly evocative of the SS insignia. To explain in the clearest terms: unlike the SS insignia, the lightning bolt in the logo has tapering at the bottom. The second element in the logo, the slash, does not have tapering at the b
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by maxbendick 3y ago
Imagine typing a description of your ideal self into an image generator and everything in the resulting images screamed at a semiotic level, "you are not the correct race", "you are not the correct gender", etc. It would
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by maxbendick 3y ago
Definitely Guattari! Anti-Oedipus, which he wrote with Deleuze, is a trip and really wonderful. That's actually how I came across Reich. Guattari is interesting for pioneering schizoanalysis at the La Borde clinic. He's also one o
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by maxbendick 3y ago
I agree that would feel pretty artificial, if we understand it the utilitarian way. But Wilhelm Reich doesn't really follow a utilitarian calculus. I.e., for him pleasure is not the equal yet opposite of unpleasure. Rather, the calculu
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by maxbendick 3y ago
One of my favorite radical psychoanalysts. He has a stellar analysis of fascism in "The Mass-Psychology of Fascism." It's almost frightening how prescient he was not only for it's 1933 publication but for our current day
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by maxbendick 3y ago
I'm happy to see people learning the Curry–Howard isomorphism the fun way.
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by maxbendick 3y ago
Of course this message comes off as rude. Some open source leaders have immense skill in being nice. Dan Ambramov and Matz (Ruby community's motto: Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice) are positive examples of a high order. I might have gi
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by maxbendick 4y ago
I wouldn't call it fearmongering. The shortage is real and has been happening for months. Those affected are likely aware of it.
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by maxbendick 4y ago
Always love to see Tero Parviainen's new projects. Big inspiration for my webaudio tinkering.
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by maxbendick 4y ago
I think diving into his personal life can be very useful with Nietzsche. I can't say the same with every philosopher though. Wonderful Wittgenstein quote, btw. Nietzsche's almost constant sickness helps explain concepts like the e
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by maxbendick 4y ago
In analyzing political pieces (especially one so concerned with The Enlightenment), it's important to go deeper than content. What moved someone to put so much effort into this thought specifically? Nietzsche, critic of enlightenment
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by maxbendick 4y ago
This may very well be true, but only as a post-hoc explanation. Reactionary politics (all politics, really) have their home at a subconscious level. Politics are ways of feeling and acting. It's an error to think that if the other side
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by maxbendick 4y ago
This is an area that many parties handle differently. Streaming services, artists, labels, and distributors don't all handle translation metadata consistently. There are specs in DDEX for this, but it's a matter of support and doi
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by maxbendick 4y ago
My time to shine! I work in music distribution. The Apple Music style guide is a great and accessible place to look if you're interested in music metadata: https://help.apple.com/itc/musicstyleguide/en.lproj&#
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by maxbendick 4y ago
I can't help but feel too old for this piece post-Trump. Eco succeeds in helping us identify fascism, but this is not the problem. The story of Eco's friendship with African American soldiers is odd to me. Eco sees them as culture

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