fsiefken

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by fsiefken 7d ago
I don't know, good question. They had my passport data and name - but not my contact data.
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by fsiefken 7d ago
Thank you, I just went to a tibetan-buddhist retreat so I saw it as meditation-in-action
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by fsiefken 7d ago
The 2024 screenshots I had forgotten about involved A) an X by Denys Davidov - a youtuber commenting on the Ukranian-Russian war - where commented on IS suicide bombers B) an infographic on the Israel-Iran war with a map with explosions C)
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by fsiefken 7d ago
I could go to the consulate in my country to ask if I could go to the US in the future.
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by fsiefken 8d ago
This happened to me last month in Halifax Canada, I wanted to board a transfer flight to Amsterdam, going through Boston. I was stopped as I had salts with me from a buddhist relic I couldn't exactly identify. The machine said it conta
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by fsiefken 16d ago
This I read yesterday on LinkedIn, so a whole lot is already possible. --- Markus J. Buehler McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT; Co-Founder & CTO at Unreasonable Labs; AI-Driven Scientific Discovery Astra is an incredible world buil
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by fsiefken 1mo ago
Yes so regular human and agentic evaluation of the coding agent output, scoring it on specific criteria? https://github.com/harness/harness-evals
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by fsiefken 1mo ago
decades later there are fuzix and elks running on 8085 or 8086 respectively: https://www.fuzix.org/downloads/0.4/ https://github.com/ghaerr/elks
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by fsiefken 2mo ago
what do you think of peter f. hamilton? i like the prose, but i am not sure about character development. “The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky gr
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by fsiefken 2mo ago
There is still Linux and/or OpenJDK to run on intel or powerpc macs
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by fsiefken 3mo ago
conventional algorithms https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
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by fsiefken 3mo ago
Perhaps you mean stereographs, if so they work because you get a separate photo for each eye up close, with a seperator, with or without lenses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy https://www.vam.ac.u
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by fsiefken 3mo ago
hi initramfs, i responded to robottoaster who referenced patent encumbered mp4, as alternatives there are vp9 and av1. image formats are more backward compatible, but at some point one has to ask, how low do you want to go? vp9 plays on iph
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by fsiefken 3mo ago
there are vp9 and av1 as well
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by fsiefken 3mo ago
Perhaps humans can one day regrow their teeth for better food ingestion when elderly and cognitive function.
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by fsiefken 4mo ago
It can with: KRVR - https://krvr.app/ ALVR - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alvr/id6479728026
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by fsiefken 4mo ago
This dopamine phracking reminds me of neal stephenson's "snow crash". "[.] a counter-virus (known as the nam-shub of Enki), which, when delivered, stopped the Sumerian language from being processed by the brain and led t
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by fsiefken 5mo ago
Yes! It's similar to people sharing a simple url within a QR code only. I find it insulting and inconvenient - i can remember or jot down and type in a url - i don't need a smartphone to do that. In theory you could put a small ht
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by fsiefken 5mo ago
Games I currently play: - Race for the Galaxy A fast paced SF card game. Players build galactic civilizations by simultaneously selecting roles (like Explore, Develop, or Settle), which dictates the phases that occur that round. - New Front
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by fsiefken 5mo ago
For example: ASUS ROG Phone 9 Pro, Nubia RedMagic 10 Pro, OnePlus 13, Realme GT 5
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by fsiefken 5mo ago
Cool, I'm having all kinds of ideas about the use cases. Would using Loglish (Ben Goertzel's english adaptation) be practical? https://www.goertzel.org/new_research/Loglish.htm I'm using that to communi
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by fsiefken 5mo ago
That doesn't answer the question, I'm curious too. I think there's a speed and battery advantage on the A19 Pro chip compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, but to know for sure one has to run the same model used in th
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by fsiefken 5mo ago
Qwen3.5-9b and Qwen3.5-27b are pretty coherent on my 24G android phone
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by fsiefken 6mo ago
dear apple, please bring back the wedge shaped design of the macbook air m1 https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/04/after-14-years-ap...
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by fsiefken 6mo ago
* playing shortlarps * using short boardgames to measure cognitive performance on various metrics * creating simple 3d boardgames with raylib kolibri_engine * dancing and studying vajra dance and the vajra song from namkai norbu * reading a
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by fsiefken 6mo ago
Seirawan Chess, Euroshogi, Fischer Random/chess960 (or chess18) or Crazyhouse are other ways to make chess more interesting or less predictable. In this video Fischer briefly and enthusiastically talks about this topic. He talks about
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by fsiefken 7mo ago
I am working on ways to measure cognitive performance throughout the day and the impact of supplements or activities that supposedly help
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by fsiefken 7mo ago
I'd be ok with it if it's possible to use all the insights and software from after that, we'd just be constrained by the hardware - the Amiga 4000, Apple Mac Quadra 840av 128 MB or a Pentium 66 MHz or the 486 DX2-66 with 64 M
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by fsiefken 7mo ago
yes, but there would be dbase, berkeley db, borland database engine and mdb though - good enough
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by fsiefken 7mo ago
I loved the deoxy site, it was one of my favorites :-) Next to the site and writings of the esoteric Brother Blue, who was he? It eventually caused me to go in a reality tunnel for a few years. It was a fascinating and puzzling experience

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