elijahwright

Private repo. Hugged to death?

Specificity of communication is very important. Words - and shades of meaning - matter. Can you explain what it is that should reasonably be built? Do you know how to recognize a bullshit decision with negative benefits, and specify the way around it to get the model to steer into the tracks that you want it to follow?

What, hire another person to do that work so they can fire them just like the last one who didn’t agree with them about what they’re doing??

Mmhmm. A talented cataloger in a research library understands where the 'fuzz' in these systems is - where the margins intersect - and they have a process for helping systematize those classifications in a way that they can socialize with other librarians across the world. (If nobody has ever cataloged a particular book before... your record is probably going into OCLC WorldCat and other people will borrow the output of your thinking process later... making things more and more definitive.)

Start with the library of congress classification system. It'll get you 90 percent of the way there for 10% of the effort.

(Classification systems are very much an information science topic... and they're pretty damn important. Along those same lines - you'll want to think carefully and critically about what is seen as canonical knowledge, and what's "in" those fields, versus what is perceived as "utter crackpot bullshit" that nobody takes seriously. The fields you've mentioned ALL have a significant amount of bleed at the edges - where does math become mathematical physics and then 'really physics' ... it's just not that easy.)

Fanboy comment: just google Eugene Garfield. Have fun!

Porn link.

I guess we aren’t gonna get a link today…

Maybe, but why? Got a link?

And so Vannevar Bush’s legacy slips away from us all…

Can Spamassassin do this? I can’t remeber anymore. I think I used primal with it last, but I bet you could vibe code up a harness…. Also I think it’s not an LLM in any way, but markov.

Aaaand unfortunately, you don't seem to have linked it.

This looks great, thanks!

This looks like an interesting tool… if it had helm charts for all of the components I think it would be easier to deploy…

The guy if you care about systems performance, in a detailed way, for sure!

Someone ask him how many OS kernel bugs he’s found now? He finds the weirdest things… a tally would be “interesting”.

Is there a github repo for this? Free to use isn't the same as source-freely-available...

(And now I’m off to search for Backpacker on board game geek…)

This actually amused me for a few minutes - I played Carmen Sandiego last in the very early 90s and I got a nice nostalgia hit from this. OIDC logins and a backend where you can store progress and achievements would be a nice addition. Heck, even storing the data in my local browser’s store would be okay. :-)

My favorite places as a kid were libraries - they provided the opportunity for exposure and enrichment that I would have otherwise lacked. They are so much oh-holy-shit important, especially if you want to advance beyond the means of whatever dinky little town you happen to live in. I am significantly different and better because I had access to lots of materials to read - not money, just access. I owe very much to a school librarian and a town librarian in Wilkes county NC - they absolutely changed my life for the better. If I thought they might still be living I would love to tell them so. (Each of them would be over 100 years old now…)

Conflation is probably wrong. But librarianship is one of the most hacker-adjacent places I’ve ever worked. I fought pretty damn hard to keep UNIX tooling very directly in the information science curriculum at Indiana - circa 2005 or so. It was in serious danger of getting removed - I was just a graduate student but I got my butt on the right committee where I could articulate the need for tools and textual technologies to stay on the map there. Taking them away from the students would have been doing them a massive disservice.

You think people understand corruption? If they did, would they find anything remotely wrong with it?

Folks are pretty dishonest about their motivations, overall. I don’t even think it’s a partisan issue anymore.

My local bbs scene had a ton of qmodem fans; mostly older guys who had been around a while. It was the late 286 and early 386 days for us, and I was in late middle school and early high school.

Heh, I bet this is actually what killed my dad - glyphosate is what’s in agent orange. He had alzheimers-like symptoms at the end of his life… from what he told me, the air base at da nang was practically bathed in the stuff. It was just everywhere.

We should nationalize OpenAI as punishment for the flagrant copyright violation they've taken part in. Either give every aggrieved author points in the company, or fine them for something like the GDP of the entire planet (round up - to maybe fifty trillion dollars?) and establish a fund that pays for global education and the production of new works.

They literally are thieves of the world's entire intellectual output. "For training the model", they say.

Yeah, there's a lot of bullshit going around.

Where is Max Bruning these days?

Sometimes you can get farther with something like a summary statistics table of the different motifs that show up in a dataset.

Hairballs are not interesting, but the shapes that show up in a graph once you make a few cuts can be fascinating.

Indirect cost, how I loathe thee…

It's very useful - I'm using it to send notifications of google form submissions to discord - but the 'free' plan is fairly limited.

Massive overreach - these are companies that dont deserve to continue to exist. Make some new stuff that we want to pay you for, guys… it’ll look a lot more like a fair trade.

Adjunct mostly just means "collaborating with us", it's not a term of derision.

If he got a fancier title they'd probably have to commit to more interaction, and heavier obligations, as would he. (And not a single soul at 80 years old is likely to want to take on some committee service for a university program...)

I reported this scam to them this afternoon- I’m sure others did too.