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In our relentless pursuit of the perfect interface between mind and machine, we build monuments to our own discontent. Each click, each tactile response, each m
by rifling9798 2y ago
In our relentless pursuit of the perfect interface between mind and machine, we build monuments to our own discontent. Each click, each tactile response, each millimeter of travel becomes a meditation on what we seek but cannot name. We spend fortunes to recreate the feeling of something we've never felt, chase echoes of satisfaction that fade with each new acquisition, and find ourselves surrounded by shrines to our own restlessness. In this symphony of springs and switches, we are all apprentices to an art that has no master.
- yard2010 2y agoI have been addicted to using my mechanical keyboard for years now. It doesn't get old, I can feel the dopamine rush with every key stroke. It's magical.
- Y_Y 2y agoIf only Keats had had a Model M.
- Bluestein 2y agoIf only Keats had an LLM! :)
- Bluestein 2y agoOde on a Neural Network Thou still unraveled shape of silicon, Thou child of data and electric thought, Digital historian, who canst thus express A mathematical tale more sweetly than our prose: What leaf-fringed legend haunts thy tensored depths Of vectors or of nodes, or of both, In virtual space or clouded matrices? What parameters dance in what hidden layers? What mad pursuit? What struggle to compute? What matrices of backpropagation? How cold are those cold gradients, how sparse The lonely nodes that never can decode Their ancient patterns; and how blank the space Where each new epoch brings a fresh cascade Of weights adjusting to some distant truth That floats beyond our human comprehension's reach! O atrous convolution! fair display Of mathematical beauty born anew With every forward pass - yet still we gaze In wonder at thy deep complexity. Heard algorithms are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft transformers, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of backprop: Fair function, beneath the nodes, thou canst not leave Thy gradients, nor ever can those trees Be pruned; bold Optimizer, never, never canst Thou kiss thy target, though thou draw'st so near! Yet do not grieve; she cannot fade, thy love Frozen in checkpoints time cannot destroy. When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to human-kind, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know Of deep learning's vast and boundless dream.
- Y_Y 2y agoHere lies one whose name was writ in VRAM
- Bluestein 2y agoGreat line :)
- exceptione 2y agoHello LLM!
- quaintdev 2y agoThis. You just can't trust anything anymore. Internet is done guys. Let's go back to real world.
- TacticalCoder 2y agoOr, you know, some just fucking feel better than others. But that's hard to comprehend for a LLM.
- singleshot_ 2y ago> something we've never felt Speak for yourself; I had an IBM 5150 (with an external CDROM and the original Encarta disc) and it was lovely. The junk we type on today is lousy.
- ndiddy 2y agoYou can use a 5150 keyboard on a modern computer fairly easily, all you need is a relatively inexpensive adapter like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/385607912016 https://www.ebay.com/itm/385607912016 . Overall I think the 5150 keyboard feels a lot better to type on than the Cherry switches and Chinese clones that the article covers.
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- myth_drannon 2y agoAdding adapters increases the delay, it won't feel the same
- ndiddy 2y agoThe Soarer's converter has a 1000Hz polling rate, the same as most modern high-end gaming keyboards. I imagine any additional delay you would feel over using the keyboard on a 5150 is more likely caused by the added latency inherent to modern OS's, triple buffering, compositing, etc. compared to DOS programs.
- AlgorithmicTime 2y ago[dead]
- singleshot_ 2y agoBut then what would I use on my IBM 5150?
- singleshot_ 2y agoI just remembered that it was actually a Collier's encyclopedia that we had, for full historical accuracy.
- bloqs 2y agoI can tell Claude a mile off
- all2 2y agoThat's very poetic. Is there a source? From your head?
- onemoresoop 2y agoIt’s an LLM generated text.
- omolobo 2y ago[dead]
- gpi 2y agoI have a master. Logitech MX Master