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nyoomboomon Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots

I love this, I have a friend who has a 3d printer and we started looking at the repo for this project to print the mechanical shift register and play with a physical toy representation of storing a bit of data: https://github.com/mattmoses/MechanicalComputingSystems

Edit: I love that other people are thinking about this around now

nyoomboomon VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

Thank you for this - it dissolved an assumption I had about vscode ssh - that it was similar to Tramp

nyoomboomon Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

Remembering Aaron Swartz in this moment

nyoomboomon S1: A $6 R1 competitor?

I think a skill here is learning a bias for experimentation and accepting the results one finds. Also the book "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" showcases the kind of open ended play that results in people discovering stuff like this.

nyoomboomon DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model

The reasoning steps look reasonable and the interface is simple and beautiful, though Deepthought-8b fails to disambiguate the term "the ruliad" as the technical concept from Wolfram physics, from this company's name Ruliad. Maybe that isn't in the training data, because it misunderstood the problem when asked "what is the simplest rule of the ruliad?" and went on to reason about the company's core principles. Cool release, waiting for the next update.

nyoomboomon Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

Must not know who ASAP Rocky is because it didn't deal with him

nyoomboomon The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group

Thank you

nyoomboomon The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group

Horg of death

nyoomboomon Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

Seems like if you add more "a"s to W[a..]t you slide a scale from disgusted to awed to comical.

nyoomboomon Google Quantum AI

What's old is new again: The Return of the Turbo-encabulator!

nyoomboomon Antimatter Propulsion [pdf]

https://bananas.space/

nyoomboomon Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI

Archive itself has issues for me

nyoomboomon Foldmation: Interactive Origami Folding

Really cool! Did you go through Robert Lang's Origami Design Secrets? Lots of neat algorithms there. Also his free and open source desktop application TreeMaker for automating origami folds just like you have here.

nyoomboomon A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]

Surprised they don't use Jaccard looms

nyoomboomon Human mind control of rat cyborg's movement via brain-to-brain interface (2019)

We got the cyberpunk future, and we also got... Animorphs.

nyoomboomon Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone

It is currently 80% of the way towards becoming the Microsoft of AI now

nyoomboomon From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

This year's Deep Learning Indaba had a tutorial on diffusion models in Jax: https://github.com/deep-learning-indaba/indaba-pracs-2022/tr...

nyoomboomon I had a dream

I had a dream like this many years ago, but it was Beyonce yelling at me to leave the house quickly to avoid getting late for work. When I woke up I only had time to leave the house.

nyoomboomon Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

Gris is my go-to favourite for a relaxing, non-violent adventure

nyoomboomon Rustaceans at the border

How does cargo prevent reproducible builds?

nyoomboomon Analog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years [video]

https://youtu.be/vHlbC74RJGU

I watched this talk, which describes the current von Neumann computer architecture as "analog communication with digital computing". This consumes more energy than digital communication with analog computing. Projects like Neurogrid, Intel's Loihi chip and pretty much any system that can efficiently run spiking neural networks.

Neuromorphic computing is where this is going.