MontagFTB

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by MontagFTB 11mo ago
Looping through inflate/deflate on rotated pixels still takes more time than updating a bit in the Exif (and the chunk’s associated CRC)
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by MontagFTB 11mo ago
Dithering the errors across the image would make the final result a lot more palette-able.
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by MontagFTB 11mo ago
There are plenty of posts out there on using Knuth’s dancing links as a fast sudoku solver. Has it fallen out of fashion?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
How’d they get Claude listed as one of the contributors? Is that due to changes coming in to the repo from a Claude/github integration?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Perhaps not, but a big benefit according to OP is the smaller number of tokens / context pollution skills introduce v. MCP.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
A blast from the past! I once wrote an implementation of dancing_links in C++ as part of a Sudoku solver: https://github.com/stlab/adobe_source_libraries/blob/main/ad...
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
The largest tsunami on record came from a landslide in a bay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and...
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
As a baseball fan, I for one welcome this change. I have seen how the system dramatically improved tennis matches. Players have built an implicit trust in the calls, and the game is more about the athleticism on display than ever before.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
This is amazing. Can we get a heat map of ticket disbursements?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
This was the plot of a James Bond movie and when I was a teen I thought it was brilliant. Crack California off at the San Andreas- what could go wrong?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
The Boost thread starts with an example of how Bjarne replaced a bunch of complicated code with it. It may be just two stable partitions, but “just” is doing a lot of work there. The algorithm becomes obvious once someone has identified it.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
I am familiar with an algorithm that stably brings a disjoint selection of items together around a specified point. Sounds similar to this case, where the disjoint selection are changes that happened to a given file. The name of the algorit
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
When NIST released its summary judgement against C++ and other languages it deemed memory unsafe, the problem became less technical and more about politics and perception. If you're looking to work within two arms' length of the U
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Aside: In the table relating n to pi, what’s with the baselines of the text in the second column? (“exact” and “you are here”.) Is some renderer treating the characters like mathematical symbols?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
I’d recommend Halide for the AI-free photography. Hiccups here and there, but getting pixels straight off the sensor is amazing.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
As a years-long user of both Monodraw and Clear: thank you for making software that is opinionated and focused on what it wants to do.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
> The way gradients work in OKLCH is pretty different compared to sRGB. In sRGB, gradients are calculated in red, green, and blue values, which often leads to muddy midpoints and uneven brightness. I always understood those “muddy midpoi
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
It came into perspective for me when I heard astrophysicists may round pi to 1 and pi^2 to 10 in calculations.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
I love the layout of the article, where the images are allowed to bleed into the margins, and the footnotes are immediately to the right of the paragraph. Is this an open or well known format?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Depending on the CRM, is this not a HIPAA violation?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Bret Victor had an old video where he talked about a world in which computers very organically figured out how to interoperate. MCP feels like the first realization of that idea.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
This isn’t new. Have we not already seen this everywhere already? The example at the top of the article (in a completely different field, no less) just goes to show humans had this particular sin nailed well before AI came along. Bloated so
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Is there some way to quantify the effects of these prompt modifications versus not including them? How do we know the models are producing better output?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Additional details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Hell_Gate_rocks
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Have we invited Wormwood to counsel us? To speak misdirected or even malignant advice that we readily absorb?
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
std::map uses a tree as an implementation detail to achieve certain performance guarantees. It is not a tree from the user’s perspective, however. That is, there are no parent/child relationships between the elements in a std::map.
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by MontagFTB 1y ago
Sean Parent developed ‘forest’ for C++ that automatically maintains the invariant that its structure is always a hierarchy. It includes full-order iteration through its default iterator: https://stlab.cc/2020/12/01
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing, I cannot recommend the cryptopals crypto challenges enough. They are a series of project that take you from XOR up through breaking AES and beyond: https://cryptopals.com/
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
This is the SerenityOS browser split off into its own project. I have respect for Andreas and hope this browser continues to mature.
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by MontagFTB 2y ago
The API is the contract boundary. As long as it is well documented and satisfies its postconditions, it can be implemented in anything. Computing thrives on layers of abstraction like this.

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