kybernetikos

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by kybernetikos 9mo ago
I was not particularly a fan of them - the plot seemed to find overly easy solutions to all the actual messiness that comes when dealing with others very unlike yourself, which given the rest of the stories, feels like it undercuts the enti
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by kybernetikos 9mo ago
Z-library mirror maybe.
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by kybernetikos 9mo ago
As you say 'social media' is not a good category, we should specify exactly the things that are concerning. Here are the ones where I'm concerned about their effect on young people: 1. a user is shown new content based on ex
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by kybernetikos 9mo ago
I suspect the reasoning was similar to the reason Tesla bought Solar City or X.ai acquired the site previously known as twitter. Pure unvarnished investor value.
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by kybernetikos 9mo ago
AI approaches can churn code more than a human would. Lines of code has always been a questionable metric of velocity, and AI makes that more true than ever.
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by kybernetikos 10mo ago
I think the cycle is because people forget how destructive war is for all sides, how much human wealth is thrown away in order to achieve enormous human misery. If it's happened in recent memory, people are reluctant to let those who
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by kybernetikos 10mo ago
While you're not wrong that JS has come a long way in that time, it's not the case that it was an extremely unusual choice at the time - Ryan Dahl chose it for node in 2009.
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by kybernetikos 10mo ago
Every implementation of "the lmax disrupter" I've come across uses this trick.
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by kybernetikos 10mo ago
I think a better approach might be to require that any algorithm used to suggest content to users must be made open source so that people whose world views are being shaped by the content you're feeding them can analyse how you're
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
Knockout js worked something like that. There are complexities with the observable approach though, especially around batched updates and avoiding update loops.
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
I assume that this app is not a mailing app, its an app to control your fastmail service, which includes email, file storage, webhosting, various dns controls, notes, contacts, billing etc. They already contributed JMAP. It would be impossi
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
My aphantasia mainly feels like a super power, that I process at the conceptual level rather than the visual level. I feel like it helps me focus on the important things and ignore the extraneous. It's strange to read it described as
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
It took 100 million to get to falcon 1, and the company was probably not viable until NASA gave space X the crs1 contract for >1billion... And where did that initial money come from? Musks sale of PayPal shares, which he got when PayPal
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
I think that often theres a difference in ability to put capital to work between the US and europe. Lots of innovative work has happened in Europe, but it often gets bought by US or Asian capital, or gets outcompeted by vastly more resourc
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
Are you saying this with an awareness that both DeepMind and ARM were founded in the UK?
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
Arithmetic coding looks like an extremely interesting approach, given that you can use the model at each step to give you the probabilities of each token.
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
I used exponential golomb coding, so the rank 0 logit is encoded with a single bit, ranks 1 and 2 are encoded with three bits, ranks 3-6 are encoded with 5 bits, etc. In terms of performance, I've not done any serious testing, but e.g.
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
Do we know if this violence is politically motivated yet? (Other common motivations are mental health issues, paranoia, revenge, desire for fame etc). Of course it seems likely, but it also seems premature to jump to trying to use this as p
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
You start your comment saying we should avoid making apocalyptic statements and end it by saying "the cycle is going to destroy our society". My conclusion is that you don't mind making apocalyptic statements about actions yo
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
For fun over the last few days, I've built a compressor / decompressor that uses the logits from an LLM, for each token in the input, then takes the ranks and exponential goolomb encodes them. Then you work in reverse to regenera
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
I'm not saying it's not simple to write, I'm saying it's ugly and contingent and you can't really avoid that. It's exactly this reason that has led to a proliferation of MV* patterns, including the one you des
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
I've become convinced that the real problem is probably impossible to get away from. Ultimately we want a nice set of reusable UI components that can be used in many different situations. We also want a nice set of business logic comp
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
I've been using a boox note air for many years and you definitely can zoom on that. Android is great for this use case because it lets me syncthing notes and use sheet music apps and use both kindle and kobo and calibre library and off
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
This is associating the self with the thing that decides how best to achieve goals (the earring / the part of your brain that works out how to achieve a goal), while I'm saying that I think I would associate the self much more wit
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
The wrongness is germane to someone who is doing their physics homework (the example given here). It's actually difficult for me to imagine a situation where someone would ask ChatGPT 5 for information about this and it not be germane
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
So I worry that you think that the equal transit time thing is true, but is just one effect among others. This is not the case. There are a number of different effects, including bernoulli and coanda and newtons third law that all contri
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
"air over the top has to travel farther in the same amount of time" is just wrong, it doesn't have to, and in fact it doesn't. It's called the "equal transit-time fallacy" if you want to look it up, or fol
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
Pressure differential is absolutely one of the main components of lift (although I believe conservation of momentum is another - the coanda effect changes the direction of the airflows and there's 2nd law stuff happening on the bottom
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
ChatGPT5 in this demo: > For an airplane wing (airfoil), the top surface is curved and the bottom is flatter. When the wing moves forward: > * Air over the top has to travel farther in the same amount of time -> it moves faster -&g
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by kybernetikos 1y ago
I'm not actually sure how horrifying this is. It sounds like it's just a better executive planner to achieve your goals. As long as they are still your goals, surely you'd want the best executive planner available. I would s

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