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Also, one of the session videos illustrated the content with an app for keeping track of one's fleet of paper airplanes.

So they’re taking advantage of the marketing push behind Disclosure Day hitting theaters to make a stupid “aliens” pun about immigration. What a bunch of dimwit fascist tools.

I overshot their requirements as well. I wanted them to have a clear view.

When one is talking about two things gradually diverging, isn't "drift" a natural, descriptive verb to reach for? I've heard it often when discussing an implementation diverging from a specification, for example.

People do delete their own comments after they've had a moment to consider what they've written. It's an honorable thing to do, IMO.

Great clip. Where was he going with the bit about physics? I didn’t quite follow.

Don't miss that you can click through to aperiodictable.com to see it live.

Also: when did everyone stop calling this quasiperiodic and start calling it aperiodic? I feel like the almost-but-not-quite translational symmetry was a useful distinction. Has it fallen out of favor?

[Gut Flora Summit banner]

“But what if it’s a big hoax and we create solid stools for nothing?”

There’s probably never going to be one answer. The most fascinating thing about this quest for memory is that it’s a Rorschach test. Exploring the myriad attempts to implement memory shows that everyone has a slightly different itch they’re trying to scratch, but we talk about it like we all want the same thing.

This doesn't seem surprising, given the straight translation that they prompted.

Couldn't a case be made that it's better to get Bun to the to the language with the stronger type system first and, once there, use that stronger type system as leverage for these kinds of improvements as a follow-on effort? It seems preferable to requiring perfection on the very first step.

Well, humans specify the tests. The AI can probably write them better, too.

Probably more boring still, though.

...but also resistance in the context of authoritarian capture.

My son and I both lost interest in KSP 2 even before its demise for exactly this reason.

Launder your personal journal through an LLM, folks. That way the sentiments can't be provably your own.

The paper shows that it can. Take note this seems to be someone’s experiment. If it’s not working for you that’s probably because it’s not a polished product.

You know how OpenCode can be prompted to modify itself when you want to improve it in some way? This just automates that kind of thing.

Using kittens is a master stroke. If done right, the internet will reward them.

Part of me wanted to object to those two examples, which I’ve used frequently since the reaching adulthood in the 80s. Another part of me has been triggered by an apparent uptick in the word “crisp”, which my gut takes as an coding-LLM tell.

could be because, at the end of the day, it's just predicting the next likely token

One nice development recently was ollama's support for MLX optimization on Mac hardware. It's not obvious how to know you're using a model that works with it, yet, so it's rough around the edges.

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx

Similarly, none of our comments actually exist as language on Hacker News—just numerical values from the ASCII table. We're deluding each other into thinking we're using language.

Sounds like you're betting that the performance users experience today will be the same as the performance they'll expect tomorrow. I wouldn't take that bet.

I suspect that the touch bar served its likely real purpose: to ship an ARM CPU with a secure enclave in the machines so that we could have Touch ID without needing to wait for Apple Silicon. Everything other than that was gravy, an interesting experiment.

I’d rather hear from someone suggesting, counterfactually, that they would have done worse had they not capitulated. What’s that argument like?

I think you're ignoring subcontractors and other suppliers. It's probably more like a thousand or so companies.

Ever? You would not want to accumulate any useful context at all?

Why to "put him down"? You seem to be making a tacit assumption that the work driving a truck is something one should look down upon.

You should be able to do pinch zoom support for laptops with a trackpad, too. I think it would be

window.addEventListener('wheel', ... )

Fantastic work!

At the very least, it’s uncanny how every “stupid” thing he does suddenly makes sense through that lens.

Same. I guess I'll have to try it.