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lacunary··on Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006)
I'm curious what you want to model; what's an example phenomenon you'd like to be able to demonstrate?
lacunary··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
yes it's called "actually having democratic elections"
lacunary··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
also for ones fully into AI
lacunary··on A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools
too new, trinoo, ping -f, synflood, teardrop!
lacunary··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
If only we had some way of signing messages
lacunary··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
delays between increasing capacity to produce and bringing production to market naturally lead to cycles of over and under production. https://thesystemsthinker.com/balancing-loops-with-delays/
lacunary··on LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
where's a good irc chat these days?
lacunary··on Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
The develop-test-refine feedback loop for this kind of attack is so long (or expensive) that it seems likely to limit its real world use. Poison training data, wait months? a year? for the model to come out, see how well it worked, refine... or do you see a faster way to iterate?
lacunary··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
if you don't know much math, it's easy to confuse the two
lacunary··on OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
"what you see is all there is." it's generally much easier to verify something you've been made aware of than it is to know of it in the first place (and still verify it.)
lacunary··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
did cursor do model training? I thought it used models built by other companies
lacunary··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
I'm having fun building elaborate software that meets my needs precisely and nobody else's. I mean, maybe it would meet other's needs but that production would take away from the fun and learning I have building it, and would also reduce its utility for me personally.
lacunary··on GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Flair Driven Development. What do you think about a project that only has 15 pieces of flair?
lacunary··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
but claude -p is still Claude Code
lacunary··on OpenAI Demand Sinks on Secondary Market as Anthropic Runs Hot
ostrich, meet sand. I mean, have you tried CC? It's fun to build stuff with it. I think developers that don't use it (or something like it) will be out of a job, yes (unless they're very niche).
lacunary··on Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction
The Obscene Bird of Night by Donoso
lacunary··on Goodbye to Sora
that's because they - and their ancestors - experience physics all the time, not because they saw physics on TV
lacunary··on Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction
Going back to the late 90s I've been able to consistently buy books I want from my local B&N. I got most of the programming books I used to build my skills that led to my career there. My young adult kids buy books there now. They keep great hours and it's a pleasant experience. I recently went on a whim, at 8pm on a weekday, and found the best novel I've read in years. What am I missing?
lacunary··on Goodbye to Sora
if it worked this way, we could get good at golf by watching TV, writing songs by listening to the radio, or doing math by watching 3b1b. but it doesn't - we don't learn that way, for better or worse.
lacunary··on LLMs Predict My Coffee
probably dominated by the cup as the ambient temperature initially and then as air/the counter top as the ambient temperature on the longer time scale, once the cup and the liquid near equilibrium
lacunary··on MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
"In this phase 2b, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 4 dose levels of MM120 that included 198 adults with generalized anxiety disorder, the primary outcome of a dose-response relationship for change in Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale score at week 4 was statistically significant."
lacunary··on Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
Great to see someone else who loves those three. The first two I learned from my dad, although he only listened to one album from each of them, on repeat! Tool I learned from friends. That was the real recommendation system back in the day - close friends and family who you shared car rides with.
lacunary··on Put the zip code first
same thing happened to me last year, except at a brush drop-off rather than a library; analog binder and all!
lacunary··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
what does "secure environment" mean?
lacunary··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
does your workplace allow recording coworkers without their permission?
lacunary··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
but that takes more tokens and time. if you just save the raw log, you can always do that later if you want to consume it. plus, having the full log allows asking many different questions later.
lacunary··on Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition
What's the difference between comprehending and understanding in this context?
lacunary··on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
I've heard that what have to in the past been called spammers create large numbers of fake accounts and then sit on them for years, just to bypass these types of schemes. I guess you could augment with checking for some level of human-like activity before that date.
lacunary··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
not quite as pathetic as us reading about people talking about people attempting to reason about an AI
lacunary··on The Day the Telnet Died
telnet + shijack = good times
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