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by pona-a 1y ago
Here's one in Guile Scheme. https://wingolog.org/archives/2008/07/31/introducing-griddy
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by pona-a 1y ago
Fun fact: the first version of Erlang interpreter was written in Prolog.
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by pona-a 1y ago
English desktop link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar
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by pona-a 1y ago
But it's still more of obfuscation. You're effectively reducing the pool of researchers to those most likely to turn to the dark market. There's an entire zero-day industry privately developing exploits, and the public sees n
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by pona-a 1y ago
There are many, many "educators" that will tell you to not dare think about a wheel more than it takes to mount a new one in.
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by pona-a 1y ago
It's an interesting observation that "vibe coders" — accusing everyone from artists to programmers of elitism because they suggest you pick up a pencil or a book — seem to make up entire pseudo-religions out of prompt-whisper
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by pona-a 1y ago
Can't you just say "sina toki ike suli a." (you are speaking very bad <exclamation>)? Just because it doesn't have official swearwords like most natural languages doesn't mean you can only express "positi
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by pona-a 1y ago
I understand what you mean, but let's be honest: this is a rare kind of tool that's more useful to feign competence, deceive yourself and others, and produce industrial volumes of slop than it is to do better work. IntelliSense is
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by pona-a 1y ago
We're actually quite certain what this new paradigm is, because some poor souls are already practicing it: slop coding. You prompt-whisper poorly-defined changes to make, and if the machine chokes on its own vomit along the way, you de
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by pona-a 1y ago
I'm reminded of what happened in the later years of Cyc. They found their logical framework didn't address certain common problems, so they kept adding specialized hard-coded solutions in Lisp. LLMs are headed for AI autumn.
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by pona-a 1y ago
Previously on HN: Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting 325 points | 35 days ago | 155 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43705632
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by pona-a 1y ago
KDE has seen plenty of activity related to the Steam Desk, I heard. Valve regularly contribute to Wine, which is used for desktop Windows software. If the entire stack is consistent between the two, how wouldn't it translate to better
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by pona-a 1y ago
But it's not CRUD data visualization, it's a custom animation. Why use a heavy library if the browser draws circles just fine?
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by pona-a 1y ago
There also was this one controversy they had with F-Droid. To be on F-Droid, you have to let them build the binaries, because otherwise they'd be shipping untrusted blobs. They demanded an exemption and got promptly denied, so there&#x
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by pona-a 1y ago
Really? I recall installing it 3 years ago, and aside from some oddities with popups, it worked just fine. I think it was this script [0]. I don't know if they broke it, I switched to OpenSCAD, which meets my needs. [0] https:/&#
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by pona-a 1y ago
What kinds of automation are possible with having a scripting language inside your WM, rather than Sway-style IPC? I heard the new Windows WMs were where most pure workflow advances happen, so I wonder if they can be replicated on Linux.
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by pona-a 1y ago
I think something similar can be done on the world-wide scale with MTUS (Multinational Time Use Study) data [0], with some creative interpolation. From what I gathered, OP's simulation is more of a live Fermi estimate, so it would be i
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by pona-a 1y ago
Did we survive these entities? By current projections, between 13.9% and 27.6% of all species would be likely to be extinct by 2070 [0]. The USA suffers an estimated 200,000 annual deaths associated with lacking health insurance [1]. Thanks
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by pona-a 1y ago
Same happens for YouTube and Google, which sometimes switch to Russian or Ukrainian despite my preference for English.
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by pona-a 1y ago
When I was in Romania for my IELTS, I could not use Google Maps. Despite my Google account specifying my preferred languages as English, Ukrainian, Russian in that order and my Accept Language header set only to English, that was not enough
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by pona-a 1y ago
You might be interested in reading the literature on Knowledge Tracing, which is a superset of spaced repetition, aiming to predict what the student knows from their answers. The simplest approach is Bayesian Knowledge Tracing [0], which is
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by pona-a 1y ago
I think it would be better to link to the original study [0] instead of a blog post about it. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05092
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by pona-a 1y ago
I don't have a list, but another popular one was this [0]. They trained a one layer attention-only transformer and could extract its weights as bigrams and skip-trigrams ("A… B C"). [0] https://transformer-circuits
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by pona-a 1y ago
Not quite. The paper uses its own N-gram rules with positive/negative/invariant weights as a rudimentary attention, and these rules are distilled from the model itself. This, as I found out from this repo [0] linked in the Twitter
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by pona-a 1y ago
I wonder if these N-gram reduced models, augmented with confidence measures, can act as a very fast speculative decoder. Or maybe the sheer number of explicit rules unfolded from the compressed latent representation will make it impractical
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Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics(arxiv.org)
139 points by pona-a 1y ago|16 comments
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by pona-a 1y ago
Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 6.2353*10^8 km of printed circuit in wafer-thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nÅ of those hundr
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by pona-a 1y ago
Did people make this exchange or did __the market__? I feel like we're assigning a lot of intention to a self-accelerating process. You add a new layer of indirection to fix that one problem on the previous layer, and repeat it ad infi
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by pona-a 1y ago
By conducting a throughout literature review over possible methods, consulting the experts, and checking if your proposed method is within laws of physics?
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by pona-a 1y ago
"Feels" and "is" are quite different in these domains. Self-driving feels like it's 5 years away for 10 years straight, and biology is infinitely more complex than automation. See this comment from this thread [0].

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