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by openrisk 2y ago
We need a tech hype that is not terminally tainted as an anti-human abomination. Is it too much to ask for? Surely those gazillions of GPUs can be deployed to do something actually useful ? Are we beyond redemption?
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by openrisk 2y ago
Meaningful communication between real people, a interesting mix of experts and learners. This should be so much easier with all the fancy digital tools we have now available. Yet HN is nowhere near the norm but rather a rare exception. Lets
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by openrisk 2y ago
Wikis seem to be particularly vulnerable with all their public "what connects here" pages and revision history. The internet is now a hostile environment, a rapacious land grab with no restraint whatsoever.
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by openrisk 2y ago
There is no "typical" search engine use case. The fallacy that there is such a thing is a big part of the problem. The enshittification and decline of the digital window to the internet is so complete that even basic information m
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by openrisk 2y ago
This is probably anecdotal evidence that the field is maturing rather rapidly. Phd hires will continue ofcourse, its the volume and selection criteria that get adjusted. When a technical domain gets standardized its natural that the ratio o
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by openrisk 2y ago
Next project: spin harmonics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinor_spherical_harmonics
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by openrisk 2y ago
They must live and die by their choices but I am defending the category as a whole. Both limitations can be lifted without altering the essence of a distraction free reading flow.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Writing evolved after visual imagery to solve the poor ability of visuals to express abstractions. It too is based on imagery, thats what script is after all, but leverages the emergent social pattern of literacy to convey highly encode
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by openrisk 2y ago
The original Web was the work of genious, but everything since is either adtech enshittification or cumbersome hacks. The "simplest" requirement - decentralized discovery of what is out there, is essentially still unsolved. That i
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by openrisk 2y ago
Hopefully a sign of things to come. There can be incredible leverage in the public sector funding open source projects that have explicit public good character. The amounts involved are really ridiculous compared to pretty much any public s
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by openrisk 2y ago
Very high quality work, its a pity that distill.pub did not find a sustainable way forward [1]. On GNN's, the lack of datasets [2] might be a reason they are not as talked about. This is something that has affected also the semantic we
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by openrisk 2y ago
> The task is to pick sets of those twelve tones to serve some aesthetic purpose Aesthetic in the musical or visual sense? The visual aspect is based on the Z12 symmetry and it is pleasant - like all symmetries. The question is what does
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by openrisk 2y ago
Besides geometry there is not a lot of music either, in the sense that even this simple symmetry is kinda fake, effectively a forced resolution of an essentially unsolvable "problem": hammering the intervals into place to inject s
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by openrisk 2y ago
People talk about software "technologies" and it is true, there is some technology underlying them, but its mostly economics. The nature of software with its multiple abstraction layers means that when the economics is "rig
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by openrisk 2y ago
> It seems that the real purpose of the verification process is to prevent online travel agencies from setting up accounts to buy and subsequently re-sell Ryanair flights on their websites. You'd think a lighter touch verification w
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its the forbidding look of well typeset equations and tables, not to mention the amazing tikz package :-)
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by openrisk 2y ago
I agree about the recognizable look and its subtle second-order effects, but using LaTex as the typical in-group/out-group example is problematic when its use is a precondition for achieving a workable outcome. Its like saying that car
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by openrisk 2y ago
At least some (sections of) legal documents are incomprehensible because they refuse (probably for legal reasons mind you :-) to use mathematical notation. In a sense the need to keep them accessible to a generally but not mathematically li
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by openrisk 2y ago
TeX/LaTex has revolutionized technical publishing, enabling the easy (and free) typesetting of very complex documents. Its strange to cast it as "jargon and style canon" and does not help the rest of your argument.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its sneakier than that because there are so many ways you can draw the same thing in svg, its also some sort of orchestration and coherence test
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its good to see all those "why is X in Y?" type comments. Remember that feeling when deploying algorithms, especially when those affect people (which hopefully in not the case with this nice project. A mechanism to explain how spe
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by openrisk 2y ago
Whatsapp is the only app (or any piece of software for that matter) you will actually see embedded in the physical world, in the form of street signs for neighborhood watch groups. Very unfortunate given its now part of an adtech conglomera
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by openrisk 2y ago
aah, this is nailing it. It helps to differentiate from game-like experiences and special purpose apps. Another interesting term from the wiki link is "active essays": > The related term "active essays" was used by Al
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by openrisk 2y ago
Multimedia is fairly general, so it includes this but also much more. Including video in particular tends to highjack the experience (you switch mode), whereas interactive elements that you explore as you keep reading feel more integrated.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Is there a specific name for the art and craft of presenting a topic online (as a web page) using a flow of text interspersed with interactive activities? Whatever the name of this approach, quantamagazine is definitely good at it!
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by openrisk 2y ago
A great essay, worthy of detailed reading as it contains so many interesting connections and associations from the past to explain the present and maybe forecast the future. Just one example among the many: > Making family-sized dwelling
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by openrisk 2y ago
Last time I checked economics is also a social science... If you have a headache cutting your head is not the optimal remedy.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its a law in human network communications theory [1] that any channel will degrade to the point of being usable if there are no penalties to pay when abusing it. There are downsides to indiscriminately mailing, posting etc. peoples inboxes
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by openrisk 2y ago
From cloudflare 2024 stats bluesky traffic shot up during the US election but is now back below (aggregrate across all servers) mastodon traffic [1] But its true that mastodon did not have a major breakthrough as of late and bluesky will li
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by openrisk 2y ago
Anything streamed could also be delived as physical media at marginal extra cost, indeed for those that want it and can afford these few extra bucks. Actually on a lifetime basis and taking into account multiple viewings within family etc.

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