holliplex

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by holliplex 3mo ago
Actually, yes! Not Mythos, but a team did use LLMs with genetic algorithms to get a best-performing warrior: https://pub.sakana.ai/drq/
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Dmars – A modern Core Wars toolchain(dmars.drpz.xyz)
13 points by holliplex 3mo ago|4 comments
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by holliplex 3mo ago
Core Wars is a programming game from the 1980s that is close to my heart. So I wrote a modern parser and runtime for it, aiming for maximal compatibility with pMARS, the canonical implementation. It compiles to webassembly, and you can play
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by holliplex 5mo ago
I made this. Getting the morph mechanic to feel "right" and not create horrible artifacting was an interesting mix of relatively principled math and a lot of hacky tuning based on rough feel.
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Show HN: Face Lift, a memory game about faces(facelift.drpz.xyz)
3 points by holliplex 5mo ago|4 comments
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by holliplex 7mo ago
Yes, I thought that was probably the case, but it stuck out to me. Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as chiding you; I think the basic point about who is and isn't "allowed" to think of themselves as a computer-person
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by holliplex 7mo ago
It's an interesting slip, given the premise of the article, that this hypothetical child is assumed to be a boy.
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by holliplex 7mo ago
I think it's mostly just that we are very good at picking up on patterns, and it's extremely noticeable that half the internet has started writing in the same voice with the same tics. If Claude were quietly posting away in 2017 I
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by holliplex 7mo ago
I would describe myself as pretty AI-positive in software engineering, and even in technical writing, but something about seeing diagrams that are clearly generated by Nano Banana Pro immediately makes me stop reading. Weird!
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Reflections on the End of Software(drpz.xyz)
2 points by holliplex 8mo ago|2 comments
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by holliplex 2y ago
I understand the frustration. But if I were looking for a job, I simply would not publicly announce to the world that I am this much of a dick.
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by holliplex 3y ago
This makes sense to me -- I find that if I ask it to generate more than, say, a paragraph of code at a time[1], I'd be much better off just writing it myself. That said, I have issues with RSI, so every saved keystroke is extremely use
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Self-adjusting computation in 100 lines of TypeScript(drpz.xyz)
3 points by holliplex 3y ago|0 comments
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by holliplex 3y ago
Is this supposed to be so dim in light mode? It looks like it's covered in an invisible modal's backdrop.