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livcomp

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The universe exists. Reality is up to us.
We Are Coders.
We Ship Code.
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Spirit before name
Name before truth
Truth before judgment
Judgment before action
Action before evaluation
Evaluation before automation

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livcomp, to random
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worth it
https://mas.to/@TodePond/112438340816978146

chrxh, to random
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Some interesting creatures that evolved from a simple organism after 7 days in an evolution simulation.

image/jpeg

livcomp,
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@chrxh wow! are they more like agglomerations or individuals? any breed true?

skinnylatte, to animals
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Ahahaha cookie is on the website for a conservation org in Marin

livcomp,
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@skinnylatte ever more fambous!

arstechnica, to random
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A Sun a day: Brightest quasar found yet is eating a lot

An accretion disk 7 light-years across powers an exceptionally bright galaxy.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/a-sun-a-day-brightest-quasar-found-yet-is-eating-a-lot/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

livcomp,
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@arstechnica
..and that's not a picture of it

chrxh, to evolution
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Emergence of a little ecosystem with different occupied niches in an simulation (after 2.5d).
Video is in time lapse.

video/mp4

livcomp,
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@chrxh lovely! are the yellow shock waves exogenous?

danhulton, to random
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Saw a prime example recently in my feed here of how not to make a compelling argument, and literally nobody in the comments realized how counterproductive it actually was.

Does nobody understand that you're never gonna bring anyone around by starting off calling them an asshole?

https://greaterdanorequalto.com/maybe-dont-call-someone-an-asshole/

livcomp,
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@danhulton
fighting is to defeat
understanding is to bring around

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to Birding
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Today I drove from Santa Fe to Bosque del Apache in south-central New Mexico.

It was an overwhelming experience and I don't even know where to start trying to describe my emotions.

I'll simply offer an image as a gesture toward my profound sadness for the trajectory of the past half-millennium.

livcomp,
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@ct_bergstrom
we fucked up so bad
yet hope persists
spirit first

Alice, to random
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By "lowbrow" y'all mean like a merkin, right?

livcomp,
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@Alice or canuck

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

It really is not fair how hard cybersecurity is IRL

livcomp,
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@SwiftOnSecurity it's the Find Out of CPU+RAM architecture

lcamtuf, to random

I really dislike the use of "hallucination" as a way to describe the behavior of LLMs. Not because it anthropomorphizes them, but because hallucinations are disorders of sensory perception. They don't make you spew out plausibly-sounding bullshit.

If you need a familiar term, "confabulation" is probably a better pick.

livcomp,
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@lcamtuf
"babbling"

ct_bergstrom, to science
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  1. “Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place on the planet?”

livcomp,
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@ct_bergstrom I think here Kolmogorov is just playing the customary complexity straw man, as if there's no third choice. Unfortunately, their attack that it "reflects nothing of the underlying process" largely applies to AT as well.

Their "conservative" assumption, taken seriously, requires an "underlying process" capable of performing constant effort searches of a hyperexponential space.

Rather than a third choice like, you know, looking at what reactions are actually happening in the 'goo'.

ct_bergstrom, to random
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If I were to set up a wordpress blog to write about bullshit, science, big tech, large language models, and all that, what would you think I should title it?

livcomp,
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@ct_bergstrom Carl Bergstrom's Blog

grammargirl, (edited ) to random
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Do you ever deal with an edit that won't leave you alone?

I have a sentence like this:

The company that invented the device was located in the same building as ...

I took out the word "located." It shouldn't be necessary. "In" means the same thing. But now it doesn't feel right to me, and I keep thinking about it.

[Update: I changed it to "worked out of," and now I'm happy with it.]

livcomp,
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@grammargirl fixed with a touch of E-Prime

kdenlive, to random
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🚨 Breaking News 🚨

Thanks to the amazing work of MLT framework devs, next release of will come with new keyframe types (smooth natural and smooth tight) and easing modes:

livcomp,
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@kdenlive yay! i will use these!

TheConversationUS, to random
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The word “sonder” means “the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.”

grants you the ability to experience sonder as one of its many benefits.

Jen Cole Wright, a psychology professor at the College of Charleston, has studied this often overlooked virtue, and how your life can benefit from it:
https://theconversation.com/humility-is-the-foundation-to-a-virtuous-life-207897

livcomp, (edited )
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@TheConversationUS
Night Sonder

As I walked alone down the
middle of Simpson Avenue
in the fall evening dark
of Somerville Massachusetts,

returning to the house
I was living in that late
1970's undergraduate year,

looking at the lights
from the curtained windows
of the duplexes crowded
against the sidewalks,

I was overswept, inflated,
a sudden chill breath of
air caught in my chest,

as a vast awareness swelled
of the impossibly vivid
lives and endless intensities
behind each curtain.

organicmaps, to random
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We are looking for better UX ideas on how to tell our new users about OpenStreetMap and teach them to add/edit map data in osm.org instead of complaining to us. Please share your thoughts in this Github issue: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/5686

livcomp,
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@organicmaps one of these on every screen that might have results? (pardon my ignorance if app already does)

livcomp,
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@organicmaps for sure. anything from it's a link to a explanation page on up. key is the affordance is already there right when the user pain occurs.

livcomp,
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@organicmaps Don't have to! Keep a happy little 'See an error?' floating in some corner, so it's Already On Screen when the pain occurs.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Consciousness

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/conscious-6

livcomp,
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@ZachWeinersmith [yeah yeah as long as we see
she's more right than he is.

the fundamental problem
has been that you can't step
in the same brain twice, but
with a neural net you can.

it will take time I know it, but
in a while, the 'hard problem'
will be accepting the obvious.]

ct_bergstrom, to random
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The 1990s and 2000s were a heyday for nerds. Tech was now cool and we could unabashedly embrace our enthusiasm for math, science, etc.

We've backslid.

Today's tech founders compete to be like "Fuck math. I hunt Siberian wild boar in the nude using a knife made from only my own frozen excrement."

What happened?

livcomp,
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@ct_bergstrom the road to hell is paved with success

TodePond, to random

I thought I was going crazy

But it's really happening: The cursor's internal position is getting out of sync with its real position

Can you see what's going on here?

Moving the cursor around. A white dot followed it but sometimes shoots ahead a bit

livcomp,
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@TodePond one extra move on the release?

livcomp, to random
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big picture computer nerds might
be interested in a talk I'm giving
this coming Tuesday just saying

https://youtube.com/live/tGBwbuLkSOE

livcomp,
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Here's just the talk, at higher quality -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euFgci7Y318

TodePond, to random

Let's try stress-testing it

Yeah that looks pretty slow. I bet we could speed it up loads

Welcome to... the EPIC THREAD OF SPEEDBOOST

-- thread begin --

Right clicking my button to make lots of cells at the same time

livcomp,
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@TodePond ur gonna want driveby fx 1 day ono

livcomp,
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@TodePond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGT0P0XJRFM

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