throwawayForMe2

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by throwawayForMe2 1y ago
I wonder if the Scholastic method of the Schoolmen would be useful with its argument and counter argument style.
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
I also remember the first version of Smalltalk from Digitalk that was character based and windowed. It was called Methods. I can’t seem to find any reference to it on the web now.
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics by Benade is a great Dover book for those interested in musical instruments.
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
I always thought of what I learned in some philosophy class, that there are only two ways to generate a contradiction. One way is to reason from a false premise, or as I would put it, something we think is true is not true. The other way is
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
It also frequently seen in images of the child Jesus.
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
I spent a number of years pounding out code on 327x terminals. They were built like tanks.
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
As an “enterprise” developer in the 80’s, we all had beepers to go along with our suits and ties. People often thought we must be doctors, but we were just corporate mainframe developers.
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
A great game to use a SpaceOb 360 with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceOrb_360
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by throwawayForMe2 2y ago
I worked for a few banks starting in the 1980’s. It was all MVS. End user applications were created using CICS and IMS. What we used to call OLTP (online transaction processing).
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
I had Mu-Lisp for myfirst computer, an Osborne-1, that came with a copy of Eliza. You may find the original here: https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/commonly-known-el...
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
Leica has a camera model out implementing this standard. https://leicacamerausa.com/leica-m11-p-in-silver-chrome.html
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
They should add a section on the language of a ship’s lights at night.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
I used to own a Sony PS-F5, a portable vertical linear turntable.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/FindingFennsGold/
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
I have made many flutes out of pvc. Shakuhachi, bansuri, Ney, are all good to make in pvc. I have also made recorder style, using a shaped cedar plug on the mouth end.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
The FRB moved the last of its major services off of the mainframe around 2017 I believe. It does use MQ as an interface.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
After 9/11 everyone in the Fed working on the payments systems had to get National Security Clearance. These systems are considered critical national infrastructure. Exposing the source code will get you jail time.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
The Fed has been using IBM MQ for connectivity for over 20 years for their outward facing services such as Fedwire and National Net Settlement.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
As a contrast to those works, Summa Contra Gentiles by Aquinas would be a good follow up. Then to pull both together try Christian-Islamic Preambles of Faith - An Exercise in Philosophy of Religion or Kalâm for Our Day Modeled after Thomas
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
https://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/about-the-c...
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
It hallucinates a sequence of tokens, and we hallucinate meaning.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
I spent some time looking at Loglan, purchased some books and tapes, but never really made any progress with it. A Scientific American article got me interested, pre-internet days so finding a community to converse with was not easy. https
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
I did commercial team Smalltalk development using the Digitalk toolset, for a team of around 16 people. You start with a base development image, loaded with the toolset and frameworks for the project. No one modifies this image. You share t
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
Are the “chippers” autonomous? After creating one do you just sit back and wait for it to chirp?
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
>> The next major leap in LLMs (in the next year) is probably going to be the prompt context size. Right now we have 2k, 4k, 8k ... but OpenAI also has a 32k model that they're not really giving access to unfortunately. Saw this
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
Parallel Sysplex with 32 mainframes in a cluster.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
I also found it lacking when asking for chord variations and inversions on guitar (gpt-4)
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
My first car was a used 1976 MGB. Some models came with an electric overdrive, mine didn’t but it still had the switch in one of the steering wheel stalks. A friend showed me how to switch some wires around so the unused switch would contro
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
I don’t think this is what you are looking for, but there are many IOS shortcuts that front end the OpenAI api with Siri, using Siri for voice input and output. You can even ask ChatGPT how to create a shortcut like that.
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by throwawayForMe2 3y ago
A little late but here is the full paper, with longer explanations https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12173.pdf

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