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by ahefner 3y ago
Oh, I don't know. How well does it have to work? If anything I'm suddenly very curious what kind of results you'd get from converting line art to distance fields, averaging/interpolating, and converting back. Maybe I&#x2
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by ahefner 3y ago
Use distance fields.
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by ahefner 3y ago
Not even the last time they did something that. Just in the past six months, I noticed I was no longer able to link against certain C++ libraries being installed via Homebrew, because some change in the ObjC runtime meant that whatever I wa
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by ahefner 3y ago
I got a copy of KEE with my Symbolics when I bought it in 2001 or so, but never had any idea what it was for or how to use it.
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by ahefner 3y ago
I always thought using e-mail in this would be good for systems that occasionally need a human in the loop. Normally one service processes and mails results to the next, occasionally something is forwarded to a human, who can make some deci
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by ahefner 3y ago
What's the Waffle House equivalent of the Super Bird?
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by ahefner 3y ago
Were you limited by GPU capacity, would you intentionally downplay the potential benefit to further scaling the model so as to discourage competitors (e.g., Google) who would be less GPU-limited from pursuing such a direction themselves? I
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by ahefner 3y ago
Neat. Funny enough I've recently considered writing sort of the exact opposite of this - a FUSE FS that maps every package and symbol of a running lisp image into the filesystem, so that the value of variables could be read/writte
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by ahefner 3y ago
Interesting. Seems like a hassle to store efficiently.
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by ahefner 3y ago
I'm very excited by the recent CADR revival, but the original MIT system does feel primitive compared to the later Symbolics releases.
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by ahefner 3y ago
Same here, pretty much. I didn't even write it. I asked GPT-4 for the code from the API playground, and it just worked.
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by ahefner 3y ago
It's a funny thing that you remind me of just now - I seem to recall, quite some time ago - 10+ years ago, probably - an exasperated article on Ars Technica arguing against ad blockers, when literally within the past few weeks I'd
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by ahefner 3y ago
Touch is the worst song on RAM. Instant cringe.
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by ahefner 3y ago
Thank you for your article. I had difficulty understanding the "Binary search implementation" section of the original article for various reasons, despite knowing what binary search is, being familiar with the 2k/2k+1 encodin
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by ahefner 3y ago
What's really frightening about the "Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Act of 2023" is the longstanding pattern of basically every major piece of legislation passed by the U.S. government aiming to ac
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by ahefner 3y ago
Simon Whistler.
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by ahefner 3y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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by ahefner 4y ago
Sometimes you have to NIH to understand why things the way they are. Granted, it's hard to justify on the company dime. From the perspective that 99% of software is awful and writing more is making things worse, I'm sympathetic to
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by ahefner 4y ago
Red vs Koka?
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by ahefner 4y ago
In Factor the stack effects are static and annotated.
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by ahefner 4y ago
I used to use ECL a bit, and in hindsight I really wish it emitted C++ rather C, even if the generated code was only using C features.
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by ahefner 4y ago
...and it did take decades .
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by ahefner 4y ago
I'm willing to die on this hill with you provided we also take up arms against the phrase "flavor profile".
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by ahefner 4y ago
Perhaps, while slowly learning, the machine will cry.
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by ahefner 4y ago
Sometime around 1998/1999 (Q3A-era) I recall John Carmack commenting, probably either in a .plan entry or at Quakecon, that you could calculate arbitrary RenderMan shaders using ye old 1.1-ish fixed-function OpenGL given enough renderi
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by ahefner 4y ago
Seems unlikely. The performance ratio of native code vs. Python is hundreds of times. The original game targeted roughly 100 MHz CPUs. Computers have gotten faster since 1998, but not that much faster in terms of single-threaded performance
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by ahefner 4y ago
That's funny, my fantasy superyacht / submarine mashup lately has been of a submarine from which I could torpedo all the superyachts as they slink from port to port with their AIS transponders off.
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by ahefner 4y ago
If we're going to raise the cows anyway, I think what you're telling me is that I need to try harder to eat more beef.
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by ahefner 4y ago
I agree your example is a Lovecraftian horror, but you test it by running it on every platform. How else would you test it?
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by ahefner 4y ago
Yeah, I suppose the "run it local and on a budget" crowd isn't that big, but maybe they do have some free time to improve the software ecosystem.

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