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atrilumenon Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning

Thanks!

atrilumenon Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning

How "ready" is Flux, for building something like Rasa?

atrilumenon 500 Google employees pen letter saying the firm should move ahead with Dragonfly

Where is this letter?

Oh okay, it links to https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/28/google-dragonfly-letter, which says that a source within Google provided it to them, and they print it "in full", but sans signatures.

atrilumenon Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

Fuck players who operate like that. Slater Systems will always protect its users at all cost.

atrilumenon Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

But then you must also plan for what happens when that encryption is broken. So I think you also need to control and protect your storage in order to make that a safe strategy.

The more I think about these things, the more I distrust cloud providers, and want my own hardware.

Do you really trust these companies enough to hand them the keys to all your data? Is there really any way to provide secrets to your app without trusting the hosting provider?

atrilumenon Microsoft Releases Guidelines for Developers of Conversational AI

Guidelines PDF: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/1...

atrilumenon Ask HN: Which plants can be planted indoors and easily maintained?

    Blue Dream
    Green Crack
    GG4
    Dutch Treat
    Cinex

atrilumenon Gig-Economy Workers Are the Modern Proletariat

I'm building magic software that will require humans to operate and train. I really want them all in house for security, so I'm going to start hiring locally here in Colombia, and fill houses as necessary.

But anyway, I am hoping to make this role of teaching and babysitting AI as fun and rewarding as possible. Like a fun video game, along with a sacred duty to take care of users and protect their privacy.

I will also ship some form of this to end users eventually, so that it can run entirely offline, or at least without our services.

I'm thinking that systems trained with interactive learning might create an entirely new category of job, operating AI. Sure, trained domains will require less babysitting over time, but that just frees up the labor force to expand to more domains.

atrilumenon Ask HN: Do you do drugs while coding?

I like your honesty.

A little seems to help, especially when you're getting older and it's getting more painful to stare at text all day.

Too much though, and you might as well take a nap and then get some coffee. (But if you're an obsessive retard like me, you skip the nap and double the coffee. The battle waits for no one. To war!)

I do like to brainstorm super high, though. The best ideas seem to repeatedly emerge from the fog, while dead ends drift away.

But yeah, for getting things done, better to go easy on it.

I say use it if it helps you, but don't fool yourself. Keep it real.

atrilumenon Show HN: Trigonoparty – JavaScript trigonometry visualization

Hey, may I suggest calling it Trig Party? (trig.party is available as of this comment.)

atrilumenon E-Ink Monitors: Ready for Prime Time?

I've been using these schemes in my terminal and editor for years now:

    base16-grayscale-dark
    base16-grayscale-light

atrilumenon New Standard Deal

Let me stay in Medellin, and you're on.

atrilumenon Ask HN: What's the mission of your company and why does it matter?

Magic software.

Because we can, and you will be happier. I promise.

atrilumenon Hayabusa2 Now

Thanks :)

I'm using Polly for the moment, and it provides word and viseme boundaries. Enough to animate face poses. I'm not taking full advantage of the visemes here: it's only affecting the saturation of the waveform color. Too subtle to notice, with the way things kind of flicker with this one.

I have other ideas I want to play with, but don't really have time, and I may just have to drop that line of thinking, because I plan to move to one of the wavenet implementations, which don't provide speech marks data.

atrilumenon Hayabusa2 Now

I'll watch in a minute, because I luuuuurv fantasy interfaces... but nope. I'm not really imitating anything here; just keeping it minimal.

I'll probably throw away the waveform. I'm just looking for ways to use the audio to pace the text output, and also to tie the speech and text together as much as possible, so there's never a gap between them for your focus to jump between.

atrilumenon Hayabusa2 Now

I'm not really ready to show people, but my 'modern' (conversation-driven) GUI is rocking the monochrome.

( edit: oh, with dark and light themes! )

Fuck it. Slater is magic software...

and it's interface is like a tiling 'window manager' for any number of screens (anything with a browser), for threads of interaction, that are modeled as a story, like a conversation... but composes natural language with rich controls, forms, and stateful widgets. and super monochrome... but also controls your browser and TV and stuff...

I'm really inspired by the design work on the LightPhone 2, btw.

Super lame, early video: https://youtu.be/_m1zEbQieYQ

atrilumenon Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-video translation

Wouldn't that be some kind of horrific emotional uncanny valley?

atrilumenon Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

The video looks a bit in the future, but even a crude attempt at this kind of attack with what's available right now, would be terrifying.

atrilumenon Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS

This looks really great, thank you!

I might play with it this morning, with Choo!

https://github.com/choojs/choo

atrilumenon Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

Yeah, wow; it's just an application of existing tech. very scary.

atrilumenon Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

https://youtu.be/EsCAspi3Cc8?t=2m47s

atrilumenon Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]

So glad birds don't make that kinda noise.

atrilumenon Tyler Cowen launches fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas

Applied!

Slater Systems LLC

Wish us luck (Slater and me)

atrilumenon Tyler Cowen launches fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas

Thanks!

atrilumenon Tyler Cowen launches fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas

This part of the application is making me nervous because I feel like I'm missing something:

> what is one mainstream or "consensus" view that you absolutely agree with? (This is our version of a “trick” question, reversing the now-fashionable contrarianism.)

I searched Google for variations on the contrarian inverse of the question, but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant.

Can you help me?

atrilumenon Lumen: A Lisp for Lua and JavaScript

Blogs are cool. I think they have them on the internet.

atrilumenon What I've learned since quitting Elm

Fair point. I'm just saying, maybe don't get too hung up on it. Just use ports and move on. I don't see why this is ever a big deal with Elm.

atrilumenon The Elm Architecture

I've lost touch with Elm to be honest, (been using Choo)... but hey: wouldn't it be easier (and probably better) to upgrade and use ports?

atrilumenon What I've learned since quitting Elm

I say keep Elm weird, and simple. Just use socket.io with ports and chill.

atrilumenon F Natural – Putting the fn back in functional

I never get it when I see things like this (Reason, etc). I love the ML flavored syntaxes. Elm really seems the nicest to me.