mnky9800n

we should talk. i sent you an email.

This is why I made Zork bench. Zork, the text adventure game, is in the training data for LLMs. It’s also deterministic. Therefore it should be easy for an LLM to play and complete. Yet they don’t. Understanding why is the goal of Zork bench.

https://github.com/mnky9800n/zork-bench

They have been emerging from the gate for the last twenty years though

Anyone can cherry pick examples to support that science is incremental (or not). The current structure of academic science struggles to reward creative thinking, struggles to support eccentric thinking, and struggles to move outside of their ivory domain based towers. It’s both a bureaucratic issue and one of hierarchy and power within science itself. I have seen far too many physicists resist changing how they teach because they have already figured out how to educate how dare you question them. I have seen far too many seismologists refuse to use non acoustic data sets because why wouldnt seismic data be enough? These are often even young people who refuse to step outside of their domains point of view perhaps from fear that they will never secure a faculty position. Additionally it is often times driven by university politics and finances. For example, Most R1 universities large revenue source is grant overheads, and yet most faculty have little say on how those overheads are spent because university democracies and leadership have been replaced with administrators building bureaucracies. I say this as a scientist for 15 years whose published over 30 papers, won grants, advised phds and postdocs, etc. the system would do well to change if only to give more time back to scientists to do science they find interesting instead of what can be keyworded in to grant applications.

I would rather watch a bad movie than an ai generated one

Have any of the carbon sequestration companies sequestered enough carbon to matter? Have any of the carbon capture companies captured enough carbon to matter? So far it seems like no they have not.

I have lived in Germany, Norway, and now the Netherlands. I think they all have socialism as Americans talk about it while also having capitalism. And none of those seem terribly corrupt.

Essentially anything can be anti capitalism. Advocating for a free market instead of a crony market that countries like America has could be anti capitalism. Getting rid of the citizens united decision could be anti capitalism. Voting against corporate subsidy could be considered anti capitalism. Worker strikes could be anti capitalism. This list continues…

Would a self hosted model also not be protected? Like because it’s classified as “ai” can those logs be read without a warrant?

Well I started it as a project to learn react but recently Claude got so good that coding agents did most of the work. I wanted it to be completely client side so it can run as a static page and be hosted on GitHub pages. All of the art is ai generated from prompting the open ai image gen through the api. Except for the whales they are just wireframes.

This was all part of a project I did while at the recurse center.

I think you are overfitting to temperature as a variable in this decision making equation.

Grad students are hopefully semi autonomous and don’t need close supervision.

Another thought, I think ai enabled science is something of a panacea for the publication crisis of too many bullshit boring papers. That’s because no longer is that effort time consuming enough to suggest you need to write a paper. You could do it in two weeks. So now reviewers could just reject work for it doing enough on the assumption a coding agent could have done the work in a couple weeks. I have rejected grants I have reviewed recently on this principle. Why not papers?

It’s somewhat impossible to me to determine if a sense of self is an emergent phenomenon or an illusion without Descartes.

Why does the class stop in the 1970s right when you get the film school generation of directors?

Make it mobile friendly. Like it opens with the news scroller. But then you don’t see the map. Maybe instead of a pop up it can drag up from the bottom?

It’s like the old days when you opened up Kazaa and downloaded smooth_criminial_alien_ant_farm.mp3.exe

I think it’s strange to dislike vibe coded things. I’ve seen a lot of cool stuff that’s mostly vibe coded. fomo.nyc for example. The problem is mostly the intention. I think a lot of vibe coded stuff isn’t solving a problem someone has its someone trying to seek profit. It’s no different from when smartphones first came out and people wanted to make a for everything when most of them didn’t solve any problems. The difference is nobody is wowed anymore by anything so your app that turns your phone into a beer kind of thing doesn’t exist in the vibe coded world.

In high school we had a g3 Mac that we got Final Cut Pro on. It took forever to render a minute or two of video. But having a nonlinear editing system that took forever to do anything was way better than not having anything at all.

Edit: for true self embarrassment purposes you can see some of the films we made here:

https://youtu.be/FRQv7VUauWs?t=447&si=lCu3rp28XfKWN5ch

And also here:

https://youtu.be/ytKIG802baw?t=615&si=FJI8Cm9yYaXKMZdS

I put the start times at my movies. But there are others as well. lol.

vibe hiring.

this makes it even better. haha.

i called and was able to listen to recordings of random people talking.

i called and it was some woman talking about her cat and how she smokes to become productive but then can never go to sleep with some guy agreeing with everything she said.

rainy-city.com! rainy-city.com is an ambient rain sound generator that is also a kind of city simulation. it is my recurse center project. it's suppose to be more of an ambient experience than a city simulator. it's a total work in progress, I've implemented buildings but haven't made a PR yet because they don't really work the way I want them to, and so I had to rebuild the tiling for them. So right now, there is no city. lol. just rain. but eventually it will have all this stuff you would expect. there are whales.

https://rainy-city.com/

What does your app do

> "I compare it to Covid," says Harold Scruby, the chairman of the Pedestrian Council of Australia. "It starts here and if they don't put a stop to it…" he trails off as he contemplates the apparently inexorable spread of teenagers on illegal fatbikes.

Most modern news writing needs more flourish such as this.

Some people seem think that self promotion is wrong and work should stand on its own merits. I don’t think this way. It’s important to think about engaging and attracting eyes to your ideas. If you don’t why bother sharing them?

This is awesome I’m currently sitting across from the RCade. Yay!

Something tells me that this was all predetermined prior to hegseth throwing a fit. That was just bullshit theatre to justify government handouts I’m to OpenAI. I dunno. I don’t make the decisions.

this all seems like to me as a trumped up (lol) excuse for a government bailout of openai assuming openai steps in and fills anthropics shoes.

it returns 404.