flancian

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Wait, did I get this right that the answer after all the investigation that showed they had set up a goblin-reinforcing loop during fine tuning was... to ask it to not mention goblins so much in the system prompt?!

flancian

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

"Not dead. Not retiring. Not moving on to start a blockchain company. He was quitting — because of a fight over two characters"

Time to AI tell: 20 seconds? Still, interesting account of how Guido stepped down.

Also, what happened afterwards, which I wasn't aware of:

  > Guido’s departure left Python without a governance model for the first time in its history. What followed was genuinely impressive: the core developer community proposed, debated, and voted on no fewer than seven different governance PEPs (PEP 8010 through PEP 8016).
  > In December 2018, PEP 8016 — “The Steering Council Model” — won. Authored by Nathaniel J. Smith and Donald Stufft, it established a five-person steering council elected by core developers. The design philosophy was explicit: “Be boring. We’re not experts in governance, and we don’t think Python is a good place to experiment with new and untried governance models.”

flancian

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Very cool, thank you! Both the visualization tool and the description of Miller-Rabin.

I didn't know an algorithm with these properties existed!

Furthermore, your tool gave me a more intuitive feel of the rate at which primes "thin out" than every treatment of the topic I read previously.

flancian

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

It's federated as in ActivityPub.

flancian

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

I was first exposed to Popper in my first year in university, in an introductory course to epistemology, and I liked him right away. I've carried Refutability and the Paradox of Tolerance with me ever since.

By the way David Deutsch could be reasonably said to be Popper's biggest fan. If you're interested in Deutsch and Popper you could do worse than picking up "The Beginning of Infinity" to get acquainted with both, it's a great book.

flancian

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

I'd like to buck the apparent trend of reacting to your project with shock and horror and instead say I believe it's a great idea, and I appreciate what you are doing! People have been trained to believe (very long) copyright terms are almost a natural law that can't be broken or challenged (if you are an individual; other rules might apply to corporations...) but I think we are better off continuing to challenge this assumption.

I could imagine adding support for further rules that determine when Levin actively runs -- i.e. only run if the country or connection you are in makes this 'safe' according to some crowdsourced criteria? This would also serve to communicate the relative dangers of running this tool in different jurisdictions.

flancian

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Found this archive link:

https://archive.is/2026.02.02-090119/https://www.wired.com/s...

flancian

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

File under "unexpectedly interesting and cool". I'd never seen such good visualizations of magnetic fields before, or of the magnetization process.

flancian

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

  I had downloaded the final Aldus TIFF specifications document, hoping to find the author’s name. However, the name is seemingly written in white text on white paper - making it invisible. What?

Is there an explanation for this that I missed? Was it an Easter Egg left by the author?

flancian

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I believe this is likely true and will become evident in time to most, but not all, carbon based systems.

flancian

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Immich is supposed to solve this nowadays: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

flancian

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I know Star Control II relatively well, even though I have not played it yet, thanks to the CRPG Addict:

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2019/03/game-321-star-control...

I can highly recommend this blog for detailed, quality writing on computer RPGs from all ages. It is one of those internet works of love that keep on giving.

I'm happy to see this open source version come up!

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