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keithjgrant, 12 hours ago to random

Sometimes an idea pops in your head, and it won’t go away until you follow it through to completion.

📝 Anyway, new post: I Do Not Like These LLMs

https://keithjgrant.com/posts/2024/05/i-do-not-like-these-llms/

ancient_catbus, 1 day ago to random

life under capitalism

splorp, 2 days ago to apple

Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an #AppleNewton developer named Stephen A. Cronin.

He worked at #AMD and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.

Together they released a sequencer program for #NewtonOS called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.

Boosts appreciated.

jon, 2 days ago to random

phranck, 2 days ago to random

ROFL 🤣
Genauso ist das!

paulrickards, 2 days ago to genart

CMY Truchet tiles big arcs, plotted with a HP 7585B #PenPlotter on 11x15 watercolor paper.

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlot #PenPlotterArt

Detail from a pen plot of large concentric swirling intersecting and overlapping arcs of many different colors.
Detail from a pen plot of large concentric swirling intersecting and overlapping arcs of many different colors.

shantini, 2 days ago to random

The synesthesia will continue until morale is purple

gknauss, 3 days ago to random

At the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, there are large panels with context and background on his career, and quotes from people like John Lennon and Mick Jagger.

And the attributions for the quotes inconsistently use em- and en-dashes before the name.

And it’s driving me crazy.

This is your goddamned fault, Internet. People weren’t meant to be like this. You broke me.

Kurt, 6 days ago to random

The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

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baldur, 5 days ago to random

“Boring is good”

I don’t think it’s that much of a coincidence that I read this in NetNewsWire. https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/boring-is-good/

gknauss, 6 days ago to random

It’s like they opened an Arby’s. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/state-news/large-amount-of-meat-dumped-on-ohio-road/

PaulStoffregen, 6 days ago to random

Donkeyahoy created a tape loop effect using actual tape and Teensy to control playback speed controlled by a software or analog control voltage

Article by @ishotjr
https://www.pjrc.com/vc-rev-var-tape-loop-machine/

Project site
https://gofund.me/53eca2c9

gsuberland, 7 days ago to random

scy, 7 days ago to neovim

"I'm not happy with the number of plugins required to use #Neovim"

Darlings, the number of plugins required to use Neovim is exactly zero.

lefebvre, 8 days ago to programming

Whatever happened to Modula-2?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40398480

#programming #coding #retrocomputing

ylegall, 9 days ago to random

rubiks projection

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mcc, 10 days ago to random

Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

attacus, 10 days ago to ai

Most products and business problems require deterministic solutions.
Generative models are not deterministic.
Every single company who has ended up in the news for an AI gaffe has failed to grasp this distinction.

There’s no hammering “hallucination” out of a generative model; it’s baked into how the models work. You just end up spending so much time papering over the cracks in the façade that you end up with a beautiful découpage.

#AI #generativeAI

andxor, 10 days ago to random

Keeping signs up is a job too

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jef, 10 days ago to random

jensbest, 12 days ago to random German

"What radicalized you?"

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divbyzero, 13 days ago to random

One thing I learned from my tiling theory students this semester: Each of the 12 pentominoes can be decomposed into nine smaller pentominoes. Here's a decomposition of all 12 using exactly nine sets of pentominoes. (I believe the configuration is due to Aad van de Wetering.)
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The 12 pentominoes decomposed into pentominoes

docpop, 13 days ago to random

"Trying to get Steve Reich, James Brown, and John Bonham in the room together" is how Dosh describes his funky new track, "Stone Cold Boogie". This 9 minute jam is what I've been listening to this morning. https://dosh.bandcamp.com/track/stone-cold-boogie?from=butts

I highly recommend picking up the remastered edition of his debut album too.
https://dosh.bandcamp.com/album/dosh-20th-anniversary-bonus-cuts-edition

george, 13 days ago to random

Skinner “Am I so out of touch?” meme with the caption “No. It’s the New York Times who are wrong.”

HiromiGoto, 13 days ago to random

This morning a polar bear slammed their heavy paw against the wall by my head. I awoke with a start and stared around me for several seconds. I was in my bedroom. The sun was beginning to rise a cool light shining through the trees. Behind my eyes a ragged starving bear with patchy white fur. Furious. I rose from the bed. The dream bear slowly turned into wisps but remained tethered to my spirit.