mesaoptimizer @mesaoptimizer@schelling.pt

I sent them a support ticket, and I got a pro-forma reply that asked me for more detail that I had *already provided in the initial message*. At that point I gave up and decided that I'll end the subscription before the end of the trial period, which ends about a week from now.

I have been using DeepL's Pro Starter subscription (trial period) for the past three weeks. It has been slightly useful in that DeepL would nag me less, and I could use the Android app to translate German texts instead of Google Translate, but the benefits were nullified by the immense annoyance of DeepL continually logging me out of their system. I noticed this both on Firefox (with adblockers and without) and Chromium (with adblockers and without), with and without VPN usage.

I use the word "wantingness" deliberately here -- there are many ways you can want things. You can want to achieve a goal (one-time), you can want to maximize the number of paperclips in the world (a continual task that you can only have better or worse outcomes for), or you can want to stop wanting things (an example of a particularly difficult-to-formalize instance of wantingness).

I'm reading Sutton and Barto's RL textbook, and I notice that the formalism of "reward signal" squishes together two inchoate concepts that are valuable to track separately -- 'sensory feedback' from the 'environment', and the interpretation of the sensory feedback in terms of implications for your wantingness.

Reading _The Cold Start Problem_ (https://www.coldstart.com/) right now. It is fascinating just how /generally/ one can apply the model of network effects to model the difficulties of making things happen, because almost everything -- Mastodon instances, the email protocol, your Discord server -- is subject to network effects (or anti-network effects).

"Generally speaking, “DocOps” is like DevOps. Instead of applying broadly to software development, though, DocOps specifically applies to the creation, management, and release of documentation." https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/doc-ops/

https://bcmullins.github.io/complexity_theory_resources/

https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/thumb-ergo/index.html

Seems like the two most popular communities that Common Lispers hang out at is the subreddit (/r/common_lisp) and the IRC (#commonlisp).

https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/common-lisp-community-survey-2024-results/

I've begun using https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el as an experiment. I imagine that the main benefit of using mastodon is /the very fact that it reduces the friction to ship something/ that you wrote. I assume that this is why JDP started mainly using mastodon, and eventually switched to twitter for the readers.