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I just realized that vibe coding looks exactly like how movies have depicted hacking since the 90's
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Similarly, when i have something sensitive still on the clipboard i can feel it viscerally until i replace it
somatically aware computer usage, phenomenon #1:
when i have copied something and haven't pasted it yet, i can sense that in my body
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This white-noise sounding signal with a flat spectrum is the pseudo-random bit sequence used to pre-train the adaptive equalizer that cleans up the mushy analog signal into clean bits.
It's basically a linear classifier trained with least square, a direct descendent of Bernie Widrow's Adaline (competitor of the Perceptron).
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for(float e,i,a,w,x,g,h;i++<90.;o+=.01-.02/exp(max(s,e)*3e3)/h){vec3 p=vec3((FC.xy-.5*r)/r.y*g+2.,g);p.zy*=rotate2D(.5);e=p.y;h=e+p.x*.3;p.z+=t;for(a=.6;a>.001;a*=.7)p.xz*=rotate2D(5.),x=(p.x+p.z)/a+t+t,e-=w=exp(sin(x)-3.)*a,h+=abs(dot(sin(p.xz/a*.3)*a,r/r));g+=e=min(e,h*.5-1.);}
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this is literally what my coach was just talking about with how stimming is a regulation practice because fight–flight type energy simply needs some way to dissipate constantly
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Inspired by a long tradition of impossible objects, this 'impossible portal' created by coded loop artist @jn3008 challanges your mind leaning toward you or away from you according to the point of the portal you focus on
[site: jn3008.com]
"Dreams give us clues that we can build on to solve complex problems."
There's another way to solve complex problems? 😆
The number of times I've woken up in the morning with a solution for a problem that'd been bugging me for hours...
LLM Hallucinations Can Help Make New Scientific Discoveries.
Since hallucinations are a feature, not a bug - You can get LLMs to dream up possible solutions to complex problems.
You basically ask the LLM to start dreaming and then throw out the dreams that aren't plausible.
FunSearch (short for searching a function space) generates possible solutions, and then an evaluator will score each.
You can then use an evolutionary approach to nudge the hallucinations towards a more correct solution.
By generating a few million suggestions and iterating on the process a few times, the LLM found an important, though somewhat esoteric, problem in mathematics called the cap set problem.
The high-level point is that LLMs can be used to generate multiple code suggestions that are then scored and fed back into the LLM so that it can improve its generation, leading finally to the right solution.
Dreaming up solutions can help us make some significant scientific discoveries. Famously, Kekule discovered the benzene molecule's ring shape after dreaming of a snake seizing its own tail. Dreams give us clues that we can build on to solve complex problems.
I suspect we have only scratched the surface regarding using LLM hallucinations to make scientific progress, especially in fields like math and theoretical physics.
ALT https://medium.com/syncedreview/new-language-model-breakthrough-on-nature-funsearch-addresses-a-longstanding-mathematics-challenge-f3260dda05da
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Electric power really gives us wings. Having an electric powered bycicle or a kick-bike changes everything. Just the other day i did a 7km scoot from a station to my home on an electrically assisted kickbike. Trivial. Barely more than a transit walk.
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"OpenAI are training on every piece of data they see, even when they say they aren't" is the new "Facebook are showing you ads based on overhearing everything you say through your phone's microphone"
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Some final pics that didn’t make the thread (AI is fun!)
LNG is gas super chilled to -260F. At that temperature, the gas is condensed to 1/600th. And apparently anything colder than that makes you go on an acid trip
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I have discovered a fundamental harmful error in the temporal ontology presented by systems like "Google Calendar" which I believe is a significant source of suffering and confusion especially for neurodivergent phenotypes like myself or at least an opportunity for improvement
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Programmers, accountants, and lawyers. It turns out that professions where people practice extreme attention to minute detail attracts people with particular skills that most other people would rather avoid even if they could do it if pressed.
Since apparently large embedded vendors can't be bothered to release code that works... here's how to do an ST/Link firmware upgrade on current macOS.
Download from st.com/en/development-tools/…, then...
ALT Code will follow in subsequent tweets, but it's shell commands to remove the quarantine flags and code sign the ST/Link firmware updater. % pwd /Users/josh/Downloads/stsw-link007/AllPlatforms % find . | xargs xattr -d com.apple.quarantine % codesign -s - native/mac_x64/libSTLinkUSBDriver.dylib % codesign -s - native/mac_x64/libusb-1.0.0.dylib % /Applications/STM32CubeMX.app/Contents/Resources/jre/Contents/Home/bin/java -jar STLinkUpgrade.jar
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`find . | xargs xattr -d com.apple.quarantine`
removes the quarantine flags on the download.
The `codesign -s -` for each dylib adhoc code-signs the ST/Link and libusb native libraries.
Final line: thankfully STM provide a Java runtime you can use to run it.
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