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pyinstallwoes

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Intelligence is compressing information into irreducible representation.

> the transformation of energy into meaning == consciousness

> the transformation of energy into information == computation

> the transformation of energy == physics

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Perhaps we should go by what sentience means. To feel. A being that feels. To feel is to respond to a vibration in some way. That is to say, anything that has a signal is sentient in some way.

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pyinstallwoes··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
Get outta here with rationale.
pyinstallwoes··on Threlte 8
Looks bad without it updated
pyinstallwoes··on Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?
What’d you learn to make you more certain that was the cases?
pyinstallwoes··on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
“…so which is it then? Is it really robots that are wired to kill people, or the humans wiring them?”
pyinstallwoes··on Discord has ongoing major outage
What?
pyinstallwoes··on Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices
Does it work for remote audio like Ableton ?
pyinstallwoes··on Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?
Yes, please. I always wanted a peer to peer version of it in a way. :P
pyinstallwoes··on We're bringing Pebble back
That’s awesome - I worked at the pebble office a bit at one time helping with some launches. :). Good luck Eric!
pyinstallwoes··on Threlte 8
Threlte is a 3D framework for Svelte. © 2023

Year? :)

pyinstallwoes··on A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator
How is it different than a window, rolling window?
pyinstallwoes··on Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?
What’s the first and penultimate?
pyinstallwoes··on Differential Growth Addon for Blender
Anyone know if it’s possible to do what touchdesigner does with point grids but in blender or any other open source way? I really want to create those point cloud 3d audio reactive experiences but I’m struggling to gain traction.
pyinstallwoes··on Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file
I like urls as source of truth. It’s beautifully deterministic
pyinstallwoes··on Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application
I dream of a file system that I never have to organize. I just say what I want.
pyinstallwoes··on They see your photos
Most people don’t even know what machine learning even means or is.
pyinstallwoes··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
This is all quite very strange. I’ve been down multiple decision trees. Especially since this has been going on for weeks in NJ and then months in the greater vicinity.
pyinstallwoes··on Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language
Looks like Sumerian cuneiform to me, cool.
pyinstallwoes··on Show HN: I made tool for slicing up samples to Ableton Move presets
can haz discount?
pyinstallwoes··on Werckmeister Temperment
What’s special about it?
pyinstallwoes··on Time is a dimension, but not like space
The ontological dissonance in that title is spectacularly simulacrum level 4.
pyinstallwoes··on Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing
from PIE dai-mon- "divider, provider" (of fortunes or destinies), from root da- "to divide."

to divide power, compute.

pyinstallwoes··on The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
What percentage of UGC do you think is human?
pyinstallwoes··on Washington's 'forgotten giant' volcano stirs
Are the volcanoes in Washington worry worthy in any way? What’s your risk assessment personally?
pyinstallwoes··on A mountain? Multistorey car park? Both? Inside Shanghai's £225M summit
Sshhhh, you'll out the inner earth people.
pyinstallwoes··on Modded-NanoGPT: NanoGPT (124M) quality in 3.25B tokens
That is literally intelligence.
pyinstallwoes··on Conway's Gradient of Life
Any thoughts on Helmholtz machines or wild more fringe models of computation but might be interesting to explore if you had more time?
pyinstallwoes··on On the Nature of Time
> I'm not sure why experience requires the arrow of time or location.

Because experience _is_ the arrow of time

pyinstallwoes··on Conway's Gradient of Life
I've been really interesting in simulated annealing abstractions for ways to handle various parameters over time. Thanks for sharing!
pyinstallwoes··on In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)
If anyone has had their teeth whitened and felt the zaps in their teeth… it’s like that but in your brain.

Fucking sucked.

pyinstallwoes··on Conway's Gradient of Life
What do you think might be the path / solution but needs playful experiments ? Ideas to seed others?
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