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by tlack 7y ago
What about documentation? Often times its easier to improve the docs than to improve the code. And let's face it - most open source projects have awful documentation! If you don't want to interact with open source project maintain
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by tlack 7y ago
Python is definitely on an undeniable upswing, but you might find your mind more tingly taking a look at Elixir [0] with Phoenix-LiveView [1]. Here's a video that introduces the framework (April 2019): https://www.youtube.c
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by tlack 7y ago
Another option in this very interesting space is GNES[1], which attempts to do the encoding/decoding on its own, rather than just working with feature/embedding vectors. [1] https://gnes.ai/
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by tlack 7y ago
For the record, I'm more open to this style now so I'd like permission to take a few steps back from that statement in 2009 (and probably most of my others that year!). Coding in a terse style really does have some benefits. You c
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by tlack 7y ago
From what I understand there are two networks in a GAN like this one. One (the discriminator) is trained with a bunch of images showing what beetles can look like. It detects a real or fake image of a beetle. The other (the generator) is ju
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by tlack 7y ago
It's really easy. In the chat context menu, go to Export Chat History. You can then pick what kind of media to export (aside from just the messages themselves). It produces semantically tagged HTML (mostly divs with .date, .from_name,
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by tlack 7y ago
I'd love to check it out. I've wanted to write something similar. In the past I played with exporting the log and then drawing a word cloud (by week) with Mathematica. It gives you some interesting insights into whats going on in
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by tlack 7y ago
I've taken the odd approach of messaging myself in chat software.. in my case, I have "conversations" with myself in Telegram. I feel like I journal more when it's just text and unstructured, rather than, for instance, a
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by tlack 7y ago
Even worse - it's an encoder, not a parser. I really need to rethink these docs and basically start from scratch. What programming language docs do you really like?
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by tlack 7y ago
In my humble defense, the latter half of that example (from "'test is { ... }") is the "JSON" encoder being tested / used! But this example could definitely use some work if its going to be featured prominently
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by tlack 7y ago
XXL is array oriented. All values are arrays, even what are usually considered scalar values. Verbs decide how they should behave with single item array arguments. Verbs like the math functions automatically apply themselves to the entire a
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by tlack 7y ago
That's true. It's off-putting and looks ugly to most people. One of the quirky things about the vector language community is that many of us like to write "wide" code that uses the whole line. The goal is to have as much
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by tlack 7y ago
I've been thinking about making a language since 2004 or so but never actually made a serious attempt. I worked on XXL by myself for about four months with the support of my employer. I'm kind of an idiot so I had to learn a lot o
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by tlack 7y ago
I think it was Consolas and the Lucius vim theme.
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by tlack 7y ago
Author here! Sadly the implementation is pretty slow and very memory leaky but I still like a lot of the ideas that XXL explored. I hope to have some kind of spontaneous mental breakthrough in the future and jump back into it. Previously o
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by tlack 7y ago
That's a great point actually - that jumbled user agent string is a great jumping off point for tracking iMessage shares.
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by tlack 7y ago
Wishful thinking :) Solo project with very tiny seed. I've just been pondering the issue for a long time.
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by tlack 7y ago
Disclaimer: Startup in this space, highly biased, shameless pluggery. I think about this subject a lot. Three key innovations we'll see in the "next wave" of search engines that flood in to replace stinky incumbents (won&#x27
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by tlack 7y ago
Off the top of my head: You'll need a way to talk to your bot. I think the Telegram bot API is the easiest to use and it has bot-drawn UI buttons to simplify drudgery. Look into a connector for your language of choice. The bot will nee
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by tlack 7y ago
Does work-in-progress count? I have two with cameras I am attempting to rig up as a frontend/backup camera in my Humvee (very necessary!), hopefully w/ UI on iPhone
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by tlack 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I see a few interesting results on the page that seem relevant to the query (like the jsreport.io link). What did you hope to see that you didn't?
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by tlack 7y ago
I'm trying that, and upvoting, on my little search engine project: https://glorp.co
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by tlack 7y ago
I didn't mean to attempt understanding the whole thing - just to understand one tiny part of it for your improvement, and by that route, come to understand how it's all interconnected. It would be impossible to "read" an
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by tlack 7y ago
You say you can't code and can't focus. But what specifically stops you? How far have you gotten? Without knowing, here are some general ideas: 1. Stop expecting to understand the program at the "macro level" and the &qu
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by tlack 7y ago
I've been working on a search engine as well. It's screen shot based. That's how frustrated I am using Goog! Very buggy and can't take much load, but check it out: https://glorp.co/Search/Hacker%20Ne
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by tlack 7y ago
I try to use Telegram groups first for most things, since a lot of my friends and co-conspirators are on it. But I've yet to find many good organizational bots. I have pondered writing one that would keep track of #hashtags used in th
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by tlack 7y ago
It has built in RSA key stuff, common hash algorithms, and the ability to encode/decode Bitcoin addresses. Perhaps other stuff too[1]. [1] https://k7contrib.gitlab.io/docs/#shakti-python
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by tlack 8y ago
See also the quasi-illegal adventure of Rail Riding, where you bring your own tiny rail car and ride on abandoned track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsSY3Ktqss
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by tlack 8y ago
He just released a new product a few weeks ago: http://shakti.com Downloadable now: https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/b1l5hi/shakti_trial_... Didn't get much attention on HN: http
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by tlack 8y ago
Sounds interesting. I found some of his other work which seems related: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/707088...

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