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Git Diagramming "The Weave"
- huflungdung 1y ago[flagged]
- bootsmann 1y agoThis isn’t a conversation, he is holding a monologue.
- conorcleary 1y agoholding it underwater
- DonHopkins 1y agoMoronologue!
- atombender 1y agoThis wasn't a conversation between ordinary people like you and me, but a statement delivered to reporters by a sitting US president. So the fair comparison would be to other such statement made by other sitting US presidents.
- georgemcbay 1y agoToo much of a coward to post this on your main account, huh?
- DonHopkins 1y ago[flagged]
- fortyseven 1y agoWon't someone think of the orange felon?!
- keepamovin 1y agoThat's funny. I'd like to see you do this more, on more of them. More diagrams! A good source is the introduction he gives at cabinet meetings. Or the way he answers questions with the press. You could compare with his campaign speeches and improvisations.
- AceJohnny2 1y ago> Four minutes of the weave was about all I could handle I wouldn't want to torture the author by force-exposing him more to Trump's inanities. That's already 5x longer than I can stand before the urge to tear my ears off becomes unmanageable.
- MPSimmons 1y agoI hate to be like, "Let's use AI for this" on everything, but this actually does seem kind of like a good thing for AI to do, rather than subject a human to it.
- AdeptusAquinas 1y agoSeems really unfair to the AI
- robaato 1y agoDouglas Adams: video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself;
- teleforce 1y ago> this actually does seem kind of like a good thing for AI to do Actually this type of applications should be the killer application of AI. The extreme analogy is that robot instead of human should explore the nuclear incident of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now we're trying to build automated analysis of ECG interpretation using AI. In order to interpret standard 12-lead ECG waveforms signal of 5 minutes for Afib detection that's equivalent of 60 minutes duration. For long duration multi-lead Holter ECG it's at least 24-hour, but I think you get the idea. You can hire cardiologist that interpret the ECG but you probably need sub-specialist cardiologists specializing in ECG interpretation for the best results but only handful of them exist in the world with ratio of 1:100K or 1:1M for experts:populations, depending on where you're living. These expert cardiologist would rather spent the time doing more meaningful exercises for them like pace maker & IPC surgeries, teaching future cardiologists, and having holidays once in a blue moon.Even they can mistake due to human errors and other limitations. Thus this exercise is tailor made for AI.
- ivape 1y agoWe act like small models are inconsistent and incoherent, but we rarely point out that it actually matches certain mental states and capacity accurately. We may need to actually see, how would a 0.5B model handle the presidency, because … it could be accurate. Having a super large model simulate these things would not be authentic. For example, it could be truly true that a developer is roughly as good as a 1.5b model. It could really be true, in which case we’re not valuing these models for their true simulation power (yet). Might be the best interview test, you must generate hand written code that’s better than a small model (or show better judgement). For the presidency, the current benchmark to beat is GPT2 it seems.
- AceJohnny2 1y ago> For the presidency, the current benchmark to beat is GPT2 it seems. You're generous. I would've gone with Eliza, but on second thought that's an insult to Joseph Weizenbaum.
- grues-dinner 1y agoTo be representative, the models need a stronger bias towards what the last person they talked to said was the truth rather than what was in their training data.
- iamflimflam1 1y agoThis would be very useful for understanding business people who answer questions with endless word salad answers.
- ggm 1y agoChange over time. Get this done for 10y or more back non teleprompted lower edit recordings, chart and compare for some metric
- Xmd5a 1y ago[flagged]
- mnewme 1y agoNot to that extent. Most public speakers try to convey one coherent thought they were working on before. Trump just rumbles like my granddad
- IshKebab 1y agoWe do not all talk like Trump.
- timeon 1y agoProbably not all. When senility hits? Sure.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoDo you reckon you could take some of Obama's speeches and do the same thing as this with comparable results?
- Xmd5a 1y agoYou're probably thinking about Obama's prepared speeches. A fair comparison would rather involve spontaneous conversations Obama partook in. And yes you would see the same patterns as in Trump's improvised announcement, the pauses, the hesitations, the sudden ruptures to fix unclear anaphora, the pushing and popping of items on the stack of topics, etc... It's certainly not what is drawing attention to this thread, but Trump's ideas. However we should be aware that transcribing someone's speech with high fidelity 1°) will inevitably make them look dumb 2°) but only because we're not used to do this task, in fact our brains constantly do the opposite, fixing and filtering what we perceive in order to make out what is being communicated. You need some training to do that in fact! Nonetheless, the author decided to included repair initiators ("uh") but not pauses, because I think he wanted to underline how dumb Trump sounds (pauses do not carry this connotation). This argument was used during the 2012 French presidential election against candidate Eva Joly (a prosecutor) in an attempt to tackle critics about her Norwegian accent on more objective grounds. Moving beyond right-wing gut-driven glottophobia, some people on the left thought they had found reasons to validate this criticism by examining improvised declaration she made during interviews through the filter of written transcription. I can accept this argument only if the author's article is a transcription of a spontaneous monologue (which is impossible of course). Anyway I stress my point: we underestimate how messed up our actual linguistic production are. We're all too focused on the ideal of written language. https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/17211/frontmatter/9781108417211_frontmatter.pdf https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/17211/frontmatter/9781... >SPONTANEOUS SPOKEN ENGLISH >A new, thought-provoking book on the theory of grammar and language processing, Spontaneous Spoken English is based on the analysis of authentic speech produced in real time. Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, neurology, and conversation analysis, the author offers a fascinating, easy-to-follow account of why spoken English is structured the way it is. The traditional product-based approach to grammar is given up in favor of a dynamic, speaker-based perspective that integrates language-structural, neurocognitive, and dialogic aspects of speech production. Based on fresh empirical research, Haselow argues that grammatical knowledge rests upon two cognitive principles of linearization called microgrammar and macrogrammar, which are shown to interact in various ways. The book discusses a broad range of speech phenomena under an integrated framework, such as the omnipresence of “unintegrated” constituents (e.g. discourse markers), ellipses, or the allegedly “fragmented” character of syntax, and explains the mechanisms of processing efficiency that guide syntactic planning.
- rzzzt 1y agoThere is a top-to-bottom mode and it works in their editor, not sure about the library: https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gitgraph.html#top-to-bottom-tb https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gitgraph.html#top-to-bottom-tb
- nilsherzig 1y agoDoes not render properly on iOS mobile (iOS 26 beta) https://files.nilsherzig.com/IMG_9236.PNG https://files.nilsherzig.com/IMG_9236.PNG
- nilsherzig 1y agoI should really add some enumeration protection to these image sharing urls haha
- nilsherzig 1y agohttps://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/IMG_9239.png https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/IMG_9239.png The difference between posting an image url without and with a random string in the url. Blue line is successful requests (people viewing the image I posted), green are unsuccessful requests (people trying to find other files). Second blue bump is the screenshot with a randomized „hard“ to guess url. First bump the default iOS screenshot name in the url.
- grues-dinner 1y agoAlso not on Firefox: https://imgur.com/a/fkaQeIp https://imgur.com/a/fkaQeIp
- TristanDaCunha 1y agoSame result on Firefox mobile
- nilsherzig 1y agoonly got the working on chrome desktop https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/2025-0831-105623-643b84e1.png https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/2025-0831-105623-64...
- carterschonwald 1y agoOh!!! Thx. This makes way more sense
- ehnto 1y agoSomeone I know speaks in a reverse tree of sorts which actually does resemble a "weave", they start with various statements about the topic at hand without ever mentioning the topic, and eventually arrive at stating the topic near the end (hopefully). Sometimes I have no idea what they are talking about because they forgot to mention it until the very end when they have merged all their branches.
- aDyslecticCrow 1y agoI had a professor in a math heavy subject that just started throwing out maths on the blackboard to derrive formula after formula. It could take 20 minutes until we reach the conclusion, at which point he finally explains what the purpose of the final formula is and why we want it. I got the habit of reading his book in reverse before the lectures; reading section by section in reverse order from the end. This way the mathematical calculations had a clear goal and were faar easier to follow. ... brilliant maths, but he was fully and utterly incompetent at teaching it. And he had a bit of an ego about how many students fail each year because "they're lazy". Me and a few friends did deep recaps to de-tangle the explanations using his book, rephrasing it in a easier and shorter format; and he accused us of cheating because our scores deviated from the normal distribution. All this to say; sometimes clever doesn't correlate well to great with words.... though dont take that as a endorsement of trump.
- mebassett 1y ago"As with many books, this one is best read piecewise backwards. In describing the contents, I accordingly begin with Part III." Intro to one of the maths books I had to reference to do my masters thesis. :)
- xtiansimon 1y ago> “…at which point he finally explains what the purpose of the final formula is and why we want it.” I can’t learn this way. Great description of some of my instructors. I gravitate towards design and engineering. Goals are first. This sounds like play: “…and this happened, and this happened…” nope. Not me.
- TheAceOfHearts 1y ago[flagged]
- N_Lens 1y agoAlso most likely lost the 2024 election (plenty of irregularities).
- grues-dinner 1y agoReminds me of a flash game (branch) or tool, art or general "thing" perhaps (branch) I suppose it depends how you see it(return)(return) that I cannot not find (branch)such is the state of the modern web(return) (branch) something in the flavour of a Jared Tarbell piece (return) where you could type and the text would be displayed in a spiral in 3D space (branch) there was a way to make a branch a thought (branch) like this (return) and then return to the parent level. but even that wouldn't handle the weave (branch) not sure if that's a good thing or not (return)
- shrx 1y agoI think the diagram would be more comprehensible if the branch (topic) name would be shown next to the "New Topic" label, not only at merges. I had to read it from the bottom up the first time to understand what's going on.
- heresie-dabord 1y agoIt's hard to graph the semantics of a set of arbitrary human statements. It's even harder to work with literal, even intentional non sense. Humans can indeed make sense. Not to be too Swiftian, but in some countries, children even go to school for it. For semantic analysis, however, git is just not the right tool. It's a chronological graph that affords diffs. For code. We need Python NLP and spacy here. But even the best tooling won't get far. A compiler would abort nonsequential logic and unsatisfied contracts and grammar. An important business presentation would have structure and facts. Inside the theoretical classroom, a public speech is different from casual, random remarks. Unless the speech is intended for entertainment (e.g. comedy, theatre) or some dark usage, such as propaganda. From TFA: > the cyclical pattern of his speeches, little snippets of “the best words” and talking points assembled like a ransom note cut from a magazine That's gold!
- pointlessone 1y agoI wish people did more testing or at least acknowledged the limitations. I'd expected at list some level of diligence from Dave. This is half-broken in Firefox and looks like a regular nested list in Safari. I understand it's made for personal use but if it's posted on the public web at least a disclaimer would've been nice.
- GeoAtreides 1y agoworks perfectly on my firefox
- Liquid_Fire 1y agoI thought it worked fine on Firefox, but then I saw the screenshot of what it actually looks like in Chrome (elsewhere in the comments).
- aDyslecticCrow 1y agoCould we do this to Jordan Patterson? I feel like his branching really needs a git tree view to parse sometimes.
- N_Lens 1y agoCan git handle recursion?
- codegladiator 1y agothat depends on what you mean by "can" and "git" and "handle" and "recursion"
- TacticalCoder 1y ago[dead]
- sorokod 1y agoPerhaps Sankey diagrams is a better way to visualise
- neuroelectron 1y ago*made famous by Donald J. Trump
- brador 1y agoI talk like this. It’s an ADHD thing. All RAM no HDD. Just swap file thrashing like it’s 1999.
- qwertox 1y agoAn AI could generate them automatically and visualize the contradictions.
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 1y agoThis would be interesting to psyhiatrists I believe. If you happen to make the code public I'm very interested (starting my residency soon)