Posts by vruba@everything.happens.horse
(DIR) Post #ASUJKQrojZ8LaPPXSi by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2023-02-09T00:05:26Z
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🌊 🔋 💨 https://hachyderm.io/@itamarst/109831444046773659
(DIR) Post #ASUJKRN0ra5T9A0S5Q by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2023-02-09T00:11:26Z
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Typing this with one hand as I flush old AAs down the toilet one by one because dot-product similarity on word embeddings with sine-encoded distance told me to and I believe in progress and saving the planet.
(DIR) Post #AStQb6eUplJqZay264 by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2023-02-21T02:26:01Z
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Got that feeling I got when I saw the video of the first trucks full of covid vaccine heading for the highway. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(23)00026-9/fulltext
(DIR) Post #AVBeXdc9JPdwBA1KEK by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2023-04-30T17:51:53Z
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@glennf Just camping out in the replies here to make friends with other people affronted by “sound fairly boring”.
(DIR) Post #AaVdRDdKyfUQB9vGBk by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2023-10-06T20:10:57Z
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Dear software people,Unicode is older now than ASCII was when Unicode was introduced. It’s not a weird new fad.It’s complicated but so is the domain it represents. We recognize that we have to think about time zones and leap days and seconds, for instance. And it’s a cleaner abstraction when you aren’t halfhearted about it.Sincerely,Charlie
(DIR) Post #AbfjDIvj9TT3kltVJo by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2023-11-10T16:14:12Z
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“The present IP system can be abused by actors powerful enough to abuse all of our legal systems, therefore we need a much more restrictive IP system” really isn’t clicking for me.
(DIR) Post #AbfjDJvPS8o8q4klSi by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2023-11-10T16:31:52Z
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I continue to feel that:1. The “AI” companies’ PR is based in creating sense of inevitability, and people who don’t like what they’re doing feel bulldozed.2. This bulldozed feeling is a goal of the PR strategy, because it manifests as anti-“AI” people pitching mostly poorly thought-out and easily dismissed arguments in desperation.I say some version of this every six weeks and every six weeks I get three polite faves and that’s it, so discount as you see fit.
(DIR) Post #Ahsx7NSPHXCOkQ9jiC by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2024-05-14T14:59:46Z
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@futurebird I think you have reasoned out the basic weakness here: there is nothing that is reliably all of (1) predictable to the sender, so they can set it up, (2) unpredictable to the receiver, so they can’t anticipate or interfere, and (3) not requiring some human-managed mechanism like a trusted vault opening. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping is not the same but has some related ideas.
(DIR) Post #AisNLENLXBc9HE1GNs by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2024-06-12T18:48:28Z
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[Looking at a society where decision-making power is strongly inversely correlated with exposure to the consequences of one’s decisions:] Now hang on, why are there so many bad decisions?
(DIR) Post #AjZYM4DBB706jAaZ8a by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2024-07-04T02:06:34Z
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@futurebird To this I would only add: European agrarian life was already in a kind of crisis (intimately linked to colonization) – the Inclosure Acts, the Holznot, etc. This was not just a thing out of place but a broken thing out of place.
(DIR) Post #B3EeN6d8x0U74N7Xvs by vruba@everything.happens.horse
2026-02-11T18:25:08Z
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Allow me to recommend the Soviet production of Sherlock Holmes on YouTube. As an index of its vibe, this is how it depicts a man who has just arrived from Canada.