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by wfn 28d ago
(tl;dr you are confusing symptoms of a disorder with its root cause. See evidence below.) I don't understand, are you suggesting that overconsumption / overstimulation behavior is / could be the cause of ADHD? Because they c
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by wfn 28d ago
Hey, I forgot to reply, but still wanted to quickly respond and to say - thank you for the detailed response, I concede your points are valid, and your perspective seems to be more accurate (with regards to incorporating nuance + reality fi
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by wfn 1mo ago
I'd strongly disagree, Go panic mechanism (but not just in the runtime sense but also in language feature sense) is quite distinct from what we typically understand "exceptions" to mean (which - esp. depending on language - a
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by wfn 8mo ago
> It’s already happening on 50c14L.com You mention "end to end encrypted comms", where to you see end to end there? Does not seem end to end at all, and given that it's very much centralized, this provides... opportuniti
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by wfn 8mo ago
> Isn't every single piece of content here a potential RCE/injection/exfiltration vector for all participating/observing agents? 100%, I wonder when we get LLM botnets (optional: orchestrated by an agent), if not al
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by wfn 8mo ago
This is a funny chain.. of exchanges, cheers to you both :) At the risk of ruining 'sowbug having their fun, I'm not sure how Julian Jaynes theory of origins of consciousness aligns against your assumption / reduction that th
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by wfn 8mo ago
I've been thinking about this, take a look at this: > From Tool Calling to Symbolic Thinking: LLMs in a Persistent Lisp Metaprogramming Loop https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10021 edit but also see cons[3] - mayb
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by wfn 9mo ago
Yes. I have (as part of Claude output) a - `FEATURE_IMPL_PLAN.md` (master plan; or `NEXT_FEATURES_LIST.md` or somesuch) - `FEATURE_IMPL_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.md` (where I replace placeholders with next feature to be implemented; prompt includes v
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by wfn 11mo ago
Agree re: no need for heap allocation - for others: I recommend reading thru whole masscan source ( https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan ), it's a pleasure btw - iirc rather few/sparse malloc()s which a
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by wfn 11mo ago
> Quartz Composer Have you looked at https://vvvv.org/ ? Maybe it's still comparatively too heavy but imho it's not that heavy (cf. touch designer and the likes). I want to play with it some more myself...
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by wfn 1y ago
> but then the shell commands were actually running llama.cpp, a mistake probably no human would make. But in the docs I see things like cp llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-* llama.cpp Wouldn't this explain that?
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by wfn 1y ago
> There is partial mitigation for RAPTOR: Counter-RAPTOR from 2017 ( https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=795... ) Oh I had missed that, thank you btw! Need more of those BGP monitoring syste
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by wfn 1y ago
Thank you for the pointer to LEANN! I've been experimenting with RAGs and missed this one. I am particularly excited about using RAG as the knowledge layer for LLM agents/pipelines/execution engines to make it feasible for L
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by wfn 1y ago
Understood, thanks! I wasn't even sure where to look - thank you
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by wfn 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what conflict resolution options exist in mysql and/or mysql cluster (never checked / exp. in PG)? Because you'll always have to address conflicts of course - we come to CAP / PACELC. Hm [1][2] - looks
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by wfn 1y ago
Do you mean the data sources it lists in those two articles are not valid? (I am referring to raw figures and not to actual textual content even). The charts themselves (and the proportions thereof) have been observed everywhere incl. in th
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by wfn 1y ago
> Where do we place Israel on that scale That is, I think, an excellent and pertinent question. For starters may I suggest applying straightforward quantification on a linear scale and observing the results? See the following two wiki
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by wfn 1y ago
I've read part of Nick Lane's other book, The Vital Question , cannot comment on this new one; TL;DR competent biochemist (from complete amateur standpoint at any rate), excellent science communicator; you can watch some of his t
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by wfn 1y ago
I agree! I'm sort of exploring "programmable filesystem" concept (using FuseFS) (for some notes, see [1]). Re: ordered files: depends on FS. e.g. filesystems which use B+ trees will tend to have files (in directories) in lexi
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by wfn 1y ago
iirc there were some experiments where they rewired optic nerve and inner ear in mice to route (so to speak) to different areas of the brain (different cortical (i think?) destinations), and iirc the higher level biological structures of th
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by wfn 1y ago
> Ok, not a real zip bomb, for that we would need a kernel module. Or a userland fusefs program, nice funky idea actually (with configurable dynamic filenames, e.g. `mnt/10GiB_zeropattern.zip`...
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by wfn 1y ago
Yes and (for posterity / those lazy to read the linked Mastodon thread), if you read through the linked thread, you see that is nonsense and Yandex is very much a Russian business continually adjusting results based on Russian governme
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by wfn 1y ago
Well, re: GDPR, for one Vlad is abjectly clearly wrong on email addresses not being PII. They are. The mere fact of him relying on his rationalisation (of burner email addresses) over established GDPR definitions of PII is troubling. To me
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by wfn 1y ago
This could not have come at a better time for me, thank you! I've been tinkering with an idea for an audiovisual sandbox[1] (like vvvv[2] but much simpler of course, barebones). Idea is to have a way to insert LM (or some simple locall
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by wfn 1y ago
This is great, thank you so much for sharing!
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by wfn 1y ago
I have found that a general pattern of setting up a memory arena or anything of that kind does help, especially of course if one anticipates more frequent / heavier usage of heap. Helps with performance (e.g.: faster allocations), memo
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by wfn 1y ago
This is useful feedback for me. Thanks (no further comments, but I think I know the reason why it's been this way especially as of late)
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by wfn 1y ago
Re: LLMs & diagrams - in general, diagrams and tables as info compression tool (both in the general sense as well as in the practical concrete "optimise for token / context window" sense) - e.g. today as part of request t
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by wfn 1y ago
Agree regarding easiness of building rust (`cargo build`), extremely satisfying (git clone and cargo build...) Does anyone have any comments on Bazel[1] because I'm kind of settling on using it whenever it's appropriate (c/c+
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by wfn 1y ago
Since I was just looking at this accidentally, here are some examples of how to query at a ~cent-per-query cost level (just examples but quite illustrative): https://commoncrawl.org/blog/index-to-warc-files-and-urls-in.

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