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horacemorace··on Open source 160 sound visualization experiments
None of these help me understand what the sound is like because they’re all time-domain which runs way too fast for humans to intuit. Visualizations in the frequency domain are a lot more natural.
horacemorace··on Mistral Large 4
It just so happens that helping open source is the result. Image how far behind we’d (the hackers, not the moneymen) be as a sharing community be without them.
horacemorace··on Procedural Graphs: Self-Evolving Execution Structures for LLM Agents
I also believe that, but also can’t follow LLM copy.
horacemorace··on Peter Cullen has died
“Strong enough to be gentle” is the epitome of manhood.
horacemorace··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
Say that again when your children are starving.
horacemorace··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Humans simply choose whatever is comfortable and conforming. If their tribal mantra is solar panels, they’ll do that just like they’ll do anything else.
horacemorace··on Qwen 3.8 27B
They’ll certainly try to stymie people by colluding with manufacturers until we get nvidia level hardware or LLM ASICs from the East.
horacemorace··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
The mechanism would have to be peer-to-peer somehow. Blacklist hosters are always destroyed by lawfare and bots.
horacemorace··on Qwen3.8-2.4T
Which coincidentally helps average people far more than the already rich investors in a few western mega corps. If it weren’t for these big Chinese model releases the western companies wouldn’t release anything at all. The field would be advancing at a snail’s pace.
horacemorace··on Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout
I’ve switched to D2 from mermaid after they removed ELK from the base. Dagre just doesn’t work for me. I wish there were better options.
horacemorace··on CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
“Assumption of regularity” isn’t. Under this plutocratic corrupt regime
horacemorace··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Excepting the turbo fascism, that is. People must be able feel agency while parenting or they can’t parent well.
horacemorace··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Fingers crossed this inspires a Chinese lab to release some weights so people can benefit.
horacemorace··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Perhaps to moneymen the difference between “ChatGPT” and the technology behind it isnt’t obvious. I’ve been very surprised at how few otherwise smart people are completely in the dark about how capable current models are.

As soon as manufacturing starts building this stuff more, it will commoditize. The hardware prices won’t be terribly larger than the original. We’ll have a “Bambu labs” style company to make the AI OS, whatever that is.

horacemorace··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.
horacemorace··on Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas
With a name like Galena it’s no wonder they found lead there! /ducks
horacemorace··on Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model
Where is the model?
horacemorace··on Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model
Once prices settle down it doesn’t seem unreasonable that everyone who wants modern conveniences plops down $3k for a home computer. It’s still cheaper than during the “home computer revolution” 80s/90s when normies were buying these at Sears and Radio Shack.
horacemorace··on A global workspace in language models
If this kind of thing holds true for humans we now may understand synesthesia, perhaps we find ourselves with a large enough study pool to map out clever tricks to influence each other.
horacemorace··on Wireless LAN SD
I deployed many of those things successfully a decade ago. Worked great!
horacemorace··on Running local models is good now
A million times this. There is “private” as a corporate-legality licensing perspective. There is “private” as a human concept. The two are seemingly opposite, yet as all the money is focused on the former there’s no airtime left for the latter.
horacemorace··on Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation
Right. But at their core they are math formulas devised by a process designed to produce mimicry of task completion. The math formulas themselves aren’t fully effable. We’re sure studying the heck out of how they complete the tasks! Bet they converged on how we do it, since it’s our language, but who knows.
horacemorace··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Lots of folks don’t consider it a problem because it relies on ridiculous assumptions.
horacemorace··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
This doesn’t make sense at all.
horacemorace··on News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
This future is here already, policy makers have it locked up. Any person who remembers what microfiche is understands the magnitude of this problem of not having a trustworthy public record. If we extended public policy from the library era, the library of congress itself would be the Internet Archive.
horacemorace··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
Sounds also like Daniel Dennett.
horacemorace··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
From an internal perspective, thoughts are both the witness and the witnessed. The problem only comes when trying to apply our language which is firmly rooted in this artificial dualism.
horacemorace··on NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address
They’re avoiding editorializing. PBS news has the same dry “facts only” flavor. Legitimate reporting takes the high road; corpo-media too often take the low road. Unfortunately human information consumers tend to gravitate toward sources of maximum opinion.
horacemorace··on Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
Check out Don Lancaster’s tinaja archive, if it’s still around. He was quite enamored with NeXT style universal postscript and wrote at length about it.
horacemorace··on EFF is leaving X
My neighbor blares Fox in their kitchen every day. I view them with the same flavor of suspicion as someone who posts there.
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