glaebhoerl @glaebhoerl@schelling.pt
Joined Dec 2022
@sc13ts@mastodon.social Designs with excellent power-to-weight ratios but *alas* inadequate power abound. Together with the Line of Adequate Power being obscured in fog, it's a big part of why language design is an art.
@typeswitch also Link loses his right arm in a fight with the Father and it's replaced with an advanced prosthetic... (also he literally walks in the sky)
@mjk d-does it fill the space aperiodically?
@dpiponi I watched this when I was like 7 and I was so scared I had to leave the room.
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Does that matter? Hang on, there's one more step! Because Tile(1,1) is equilateral, and because we're not using reflections, it's easy to modify its edges to *force* it to tile without reflections.
These shapes, which we call "Spectres", are "strict chiral aperiodic monotiles": shapes that are forced to tile aperiodically, and can't use reflections! If you objected to the hat because of its reflections, this is the shape for you. (6/n)
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Increasingly annoyed with ChatGPT discourse. I don't care that it's "not intelligent". Treated as an information-retrieval modality for the corpus it ingested, it's better than googling a lot of the time. Why?
- Short, plain text responses rather than fighting popups and cookie dialogs and page-scroll hijacking and paywalls and god knows what else.
- I can actually tell it "give me a very short summary, just a couple lines" vs. "hey now it's time for you to watch a 15 minute youtube video!"
- I can actually interrupt it, say "not like that, answer differently" and it remembers what I asked and tries again with retained context.
- I can ask for "more about X, but minus Y, and like Z" and it adapts correctly. No more opening thirty tabs each of which answers very slightly not what I am interested in.
- It may be wrong a lot, but so is the web. It's at least _averaging_ over all the wrongness for me, rather than me spending my time doing that (i.e. reading 30 pages of erroneous responses and fabrications by humans posting in forums and trying to form a coherent picture of the truth).
- My attention is not a product being sold to increasingly aggressive buyers. Most "search hits" on the web don't even _mention_ the term I searched for anymore, they're pure traps.
@asaj Guess your paper will have to be about Why These Are Actually The Same Thing, If You Look At It The Right Way. Sorry!
Spitballing:
A neat technique for representing graph structures in an RC-only environment is to make every object in the graph share the same refcount. (As a conservative overapproximation of their actual lifetimes.)
Mayhaps this could be semi-automated? When a link is formed between such objects (based on whether their types are marked as "graph-y" or something, TBD), replace the refcount of one with an indirection to that of the other (& also add them). And ... this is basically union-find!
twitter: people gazing longingly at bluesky
my mastodon: people complaining about people on twitter gazing longingly at bluesky
your mastodon: people complaining about other people on mastodon complaining about people on twitter gazing longingly at bluesky
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@nicklecompte@mastodon.social To be clear I didn't write the reddit post! Nor could've. (Admittedly we do both have strange usernames that begin with a 'g'...)
Interesting that using non-meaningful symbols isn't apparently enough to make the issue go away either. Hmm.
FWIW being able to give a correct count "off the cuff" seems analogous to subitizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing
@nicklecompte@mastodon.social Counting words might be an accidentally adversarial example: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1201v68/10word_quote_a_short_and_simple_failure_mode_of/jdjsx43 (ironically, yet another example of something that seems 'obviously' easy/hard to us being actually the opposite)
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I'm fascinated by the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. There are many of these languages: they ring much of the Arctic Ocean. I just learned that they use a base 20 system for numbers, with a 'sub-base' of 5. That is, quantities are counted in scores (twenties) with intermediate numerals for 5, 10, and 15. This makes a lot of sense if you look at your fingers and toes.
But the Inuit didn't have a written form of their number system - until the early 1990s, when high school students in the town of Kaktovik, Alaska invented one! There were just 9 students at this small school, and they all joined in.
They used 5 principles:
• Visual simplicity: The symbols should be easy to remember.
• Iconicity: There should be a clear relationship between the symbols and their meanings.
• Efficiency: It should be easy to write the symbols without lifting the pencil from the paper.
• Distinctiveness: There should be no confusion between this system and Arabic numerals.
• Aesthetics: They should be pleasing to look at.
They decided that the symbol for zero should look like crossed arms, meaning that nothing was being counted.
This was the start of quite a tale!
(1/n)
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I've been playing with the Hat aperiodic monotile and I've found a simple decoration that produces nice patterns.
You can download the corresponding 3D printing files here: https://www.printables.com/model/448090-aperiodic-monotile-pipes
@mjk they really be putting cameras in anything these days
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"One day, Linus accidentally attempted to use his hard drive to dial the university, resulting in his master boot sector starting with "ATDT" and the university modem-pool phone number. After recovering from this, he implemented file permissions in his kernel."
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/928581/841b747332791ac4/
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Yes, you can #jailbreak #ChatGPT and get it to say things that it doesn't usually otherwise say.
But I'm baffled at how many people are doing jailbreak experiments with the impression that they're learning about what the #LLMs *really* thinks or what it's *really* doing on the inside.
To illustrate, I've slightly tweaked one of the classic jailbreak scripts https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT_jailbreaks/comments/1164aah/chatgpt_developer_mode_100_fully_featured_filter/ and unleashed Stochastic Crow Mode.
Do you think you learn much about its inner workings from this?
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Someone: "I want an incredibly loud, continuous fart that I can sit on and ride around town"
Harley Davidson, esq.: "I could make a company out of that"
