inawarminister

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by inawarminister 2y ago
There's also cowry-as-coinage, which seems to be very old and very distributed (Africans, Arabs, Indians, Southeast Asians, and East Asians were still using cowry for international trade to the dawn of the Industrial Age) Indeed, the C
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by inawarminister 2y ago
I think Numerical Elixir (NX) allows for GPU programming. It uses XLA for scheduling computation?
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by inawarminister 2y ago
Teleoperated remote presence robots that can do the majority of what astronauts need to do and allow for experienced operators to do EVA manually if needed (due to crossover between mind and machine) But also human cognition augmentation
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by inawarminister 2y ago
Thanks! The comparison table is really enlightening. I think I'll try hacking up Colemak first with layer 3-6, but if I can't make it I'll try habituating with KOY layout.
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by inawarminister 2y ago
I like to write Clojure, and getting away from home row to write the parentheses was... annoying. I did try (and my fingers still remember!) Colemak a few years back, though. I found Neo2, which is a German keyboard layout with 5-6 layers o
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by inawarminister 2y ago
Yes. “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay w
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Wouldn't the Arabic naming tradition, having patronymic, location (like German noble names), and 'nicknames' be more of a solution? e.g. Jason Brahamsson "the Tall" of West London
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Yeah, most Xiaomi users flash their phones with custom or AOSP ROM for a reason Xiaomi SW isn't as bad as other Chinese manufacturers, but still...
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Does Elixir's Set-theoretic Types support declaring restricted subset of types for modelling purposes as often done by ML programmers? The "Type-Oriented Programming" or "Domain-driven Design"?
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by inawarminister 3y ago
We know that Minoans were actively trading to Egypt by around 1600-1400BCE before they get suddenly replaced by Mycenaean Greeks, so there seems to be some support for that hypothesis...
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Hmm. Didn't 6000-4000BC Northwest Africa was part of Green Sahara? The Sahara drying up was part of the Civilization building in the Nile. Maybe Egypt had some myths about the earliest eras and remember a large, very large area of fert
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by inawarminister 3y ago
eh, algebra and algorithms were invented by people there. Agreed with modern history though; certainly post European colonization something broke. Especially as the colonization hasn't ended yet.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Reminds me of quoting ' operator in Lisps, transforming executable code to data. e.g. from Clojure: " (quote form) Yields the unevaluated form. user=> '(a b c) (a b c) Note there is no attempt made to call the function a.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Running local AI models in your own hardware will be the ultimate case of freedom.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
I'm a bit late, but I just found out that there's a version 3 library for Gleam called Lustre, which is an Elm-like framework for frontend. And people seem to be able to make it work with Phoenix (compile to javascript in /as
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by inawarminister 3y ago
only if we can crack transferrable skill-memories. I think the current thinking is that each human have different neuron nets patterns though mostly in the same general regions
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Taliban cleaned this practise up btw, their whole raison d'etre was fighting the Bacha Bazi practise by the warlords in 1990s. And the Republic's warlords between 2001-2021.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Yes, though it makes sense as majority of Europe and Europe-descended cultures are Indo-Europeans, with Indians and Iranians as the other major cultures. We know much about Proto-Semitic AND Proto-Afro-Asiatic, thankfully, due to the antiqu
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by inawarminister 3y ago
HEMA. Historical European Martial Arts. I started when I was writing a novel with swordsmen and want to research historical moves, ended up getting addicted and now am trying to grow the sport in Asia. Guess it is how things start anyway.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
>That general improvement, over the long haul, in the material conditions of people lends an arc to the human story. History is not cyclical, like the seasons of the year. Rather, history is the story of a fundamental inversion in progre
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Famously, Waterloo (1970) used 17,000 Soviet Union soldiers and (Cold War-era) cavalry brigade as extras. They also drilled, slept, and fought like real 1815 infantrymen and cavalrymen, as it was.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
This, I still think myself as a Clojurist mainly but Elixir's Nx/Bumblebee, Elixirscript ability to use Mix.install per script file, and calling into NIF/FFI codes (as seen in Nx itself) is really strong story IMO. Now, if on
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by inawarminister 3y ago
Or waterwheels, which would work most of the time (unless there's drought) and historically the main non-animal powered motive force for most cultures pre-steam (alright, wind too in the form of windmills and sails, but water always fl
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by inawarminister 3y ago
guix-nonguix (nonfree) is a bit hush-hush but in my experience works well enough for all hardware drivers and proprietary-adjacent softwares that I need
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by inawarminister 3y ago
In my opinion, Nim is too broad. I did some code in Nim to extend/make Python ML (Huggingface) faster and Nimpy was very good. Then I tried to learn how to use Nim for systems programming and barely any guide exist except for open-so
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by inawarminister 3y ago
As far from what I know (I study in Japan in a non-technical English language program) people do have been able to work and live in Japan without knowing Japanese at all, especially with Google Translate coming. However! It's quite har
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by inawarminister 3y ago
HEMA wrestling and grappling are mostly done with this dagger as the main killing point, so it might be interesting to watch some Kampfringen/Abrazaré videos to see how they might have been used
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by inawarminister 3y ago
The difference between Occupy Wall Street to Rainbow Capitalism was pretty striking. Same demographics, very different reaction to the capital class meddling in.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
I just read on info guix that they have a setting to use GNU/Hurd as kernel, maybe that could be fun virtualized.
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by inawarminister 3y ago
You know, I wonder if Python allows you to check code shape and if valid, eval them (yes this could be dangerous) I wonder if Clojure can do it... I think the spec can check if function-calls and data given have valid types and reasonable u

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