water_badger

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by water_badger 6mo ago
(although: 1. not really 2. kind of a nightmare 3. conservatives and liberals are two sides of the whig hegelian dialect 4. plz make it stop 5. can we all just be normal)
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by water_badger 6mo ago
thats fair, it's dark but it is kind of funny
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by water_badger 6mo ago
100,000 people joined the catholic church in america this week. At this point I don't think anything other than the church retains the ability to present a coherent moral or metaphysical intellectual framework to people who care about
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by water_badger 6mo ago
well, ~21% of americans are catholic
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Popular Mechanics Magazine – March 1911(archive.org)
2 points by water_badger 7mo ago|0 comments
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by water_badger 7mo ago
yeah, making a whole language is way more impressive! anecdotally it is also interesting to use with ai because apparently it is "harder to be on autopilot" based on a huge pre-existing corpus of code when you write it in a differ
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by water_badger 7mo ago
fun fact, you can easily write c in any language you want through the power of macros https://github.com/farant/rhubarb/blob/main/include/latina.h edit: oh, maybe you can’t do full unicode. that’s
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by water_badger 7mo ago
So somewhere here there is a 2x2 or something based on these factors: 1. Programmers viewing programming through career and job security lens 2. Programmers who love the experience of writing code themselves 3. People who love making stuff
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by water_badger 7mo ago
step one: have you ever heard of a guy named Aristotle
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Soviet Life – Cinema of the People (March 2026)(claude.ai)
2 points by water_badger 7mo ago|0 comments
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Every Knot Admits a Construction Word – A Proof from Rational Density(claude.ai)
3 points by water_badger 7mo ago|0 comments
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Animated Visualizer from Circles and Lines(claude.ai)
1 points by water_badger 7mo ago|1 comments
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by water_badger 7mo ago
Sorry it is a little buggy sometimes! You can see the first step of the idea here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/eec07cc4-e8fa-4350-a496-a... And the second step here: https://claude.ai/public
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by water_badger 7mo ago
don't forget VRML there are dozens of us
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by water_badger 9mo ago
I think we underestimate the creative downside of forcing responsive design on everything
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by water_badger 10mo ago
I am slowly learning bits of latin doing this. And Claude does say that it makes it read the code less on “autopilot” because it has to stop and translate the code. Don’t know how big a difference that is though!
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by water_badger 10mo ago
Wow! That sounds amazing. I did experiment with using non latin characters for conventions like mu but I think I ran into some suprising rough edges working with claude that made me abandon it, forget what exactly they were though. Working
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by water_badger 10mo ago
I started aquinas first, that was a very interesting learning experience! Not as hard to get stuff on the screen targeting an emulator as your “machine” as I would have thought.
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by water_badger 10mo ago
I am experimenting with show bible as an “advanced vibe coding technique” for documenting modules, maybe an episode per module? Claude seems to respond positively! You can always clone the repo, run the /hello-world slash command in cl
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by water_badger 10mo ago
I think talking to AI in XML is very promising! It is kind of like moving from a 1d semantic plane to a 2d semantic plane. I think it could be a cool way to work around some of the limitations of GAN for text as a training technique.
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by water_badger 10mo ago
Relax is a “conlang” I invented to prime conversations with Claude. Working with its alignment training is sometimes like talking to someone who is very polite and you both know what they are not supposed to talk about. I am kind of a troll
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by water_badger 10mo ago
Well, it's still AI slop but it's fun to make! I wouldn't necessarily recommend the latin part to everyone but I think writing your own standard libraries in C is a lot more accessible these days and owning your whole stack i
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Show HN: Rhubarb – C89 Libraries in Latin(github.com)
10 points by water_badger 10mo ago|14 comments
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by water_badger 1y ago
Yeah, figuring out a good structure really helped! The basic insight is that you can iterate like this without losing coherence and starting to generate artifacts from feedback loops and overfitting. I also figured out you get much better r
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Conversation with Claude Opus using "melody" technique(franarant.com)
3 points by water_badger 1y ago|2 comments
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by water_badger 5y ago
The conspiracy theory idea I've heard is that at some point there is an intention to fake an "alien attack" in order to extend governmental power, etc.
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by water_badger 9y ago
Not trying to disagree with you overall, but the thing that always bothers me about the tulip bulb analogy specifically (or beanie babies, comic books in the 90s, etc.) is that tulip bulbs and beanie babies did have underlying value. A lo
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by water_badger 9y ago
I think something that created a graph of assertions and logical dependencies between them would be really cool! Crowdsource assertions and assumptions (dependencies on other assertions) for each article. For example: "Russia hacked th
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by water_badger 11y ago
What do you think it means if the pilot of the plane reappears? http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/taiwan-mh370-pilot-mysteriou...