Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 22

* divide-by-power-of-2 fastpath routine
* rounding with logic to determine whether to increment
* multiply-by-power-of-2 fastpath routine
* Addition's fairly involved too
* Multiply/divide is more straightforward handing off near directly to MPN

2.5/2.5 Fin for today! Tomorrow: MPN!

* Cloning a number flagging it as negative
* Stringifying
* Some of these operators wraps MPN routines
* Others wrap iterations over the digits, or combines the 2
* Some of them get fairly convoluted with different fastpaths for different cases
* Swap fields between 2 MPF structs
* There's tests on the fields
* Parsing
* Conversion back to floats
* Some headerfiles implementing templates to base other routines on
* Comparing fields for equality or more
* Subtraction is involved

2/3!

GNU MultiPrecision includes a "MPF" sublibrary", which I'll summarize today.

This operates upon an `mpf_t` structure with the following utilities:
* Accessors (possibly involving validation or bittwiddling/adds/subtracts/absolutes)
* Wrappers around math operators adding data conversions, some optionally reimplementing the operator.
* Including a few for random-numbers
* Accessors for globals
* Subtract-then-divide with fastpath for 0, a "relative diff"
* Optimized repeated multiplication

1/?

The climate cost of the AI revolution - Wim Vanderbauwhede: https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/climate-cost-of-ai-revolution/

In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video, we have #Meta creating a Twitter clone that would use the ActivityPub standard and integrate with the #Fediverse, a roadmap for #Flathub for the coming year, and #DuckDuckGo launching their own AI assisted search features, based on #ChatGPT

https://youtu.be/CEYcDSBq_UU

Synthe Size Me - Matthias Ott: https://matthiasott.com/notes/synthe-size-me

In my conversations here I find screenreader users have differing tastes, some will love this & some will hate it. Give them choice!

As for my question: Would I have tweakable knobs to adjust the tone of voice & get the most out of this medium? Can we crack that nut & do away with the dichotomy I'm seeing?

Some of this tech will be incredibly useful for audio editting, record fewer takes!

The Exploited Labor Behind AI - A. Williams, M. Miceli, & T. Gebru @ Noema: https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/

Startup Experimented on Suicidal Teens on Social Media With Chatbot - Chloe Xiang @ Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9m3a/horribly-unethical-startup-experimented-on-suicidal-teens-on-facebook-tumblr-with-chatbot

More links & commentary by Baldur Bjarnasson: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/keeping-up-with-ai-research/

Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns - Thomas M. Semmler "hello, yes": https://helloyes.dev/blog/2023/craft-vs-industry/

Briefly, my concern with ChatGPT - Daniel Zollinger: https://dznz.substack.com/p/briefly-my-concern-with-chatgpt (Substack)
I'm very concerned too...

I tested how well ChatGPT can pull data out of messy PDFs (and here’s a script so you can too) - Brandon Roberts @ Source: https://source.opennews.org/articles/testing-pdf-data-extraction-chatgpt/

The long shadow of GPT - Gary Marcus: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-long-shadow-of-gpt

Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough - Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan @ AI Snake Oil: https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/artists-can-now-opt-out-of-generative (Substack)

Startup Winter is Coming - Amy Hoy "Stacking the Bricks": https://stackingthebricks.com/startup-winter-is-coming-and-it-can-fuck-up-bootstrappers/

Wrote an implementation of the pretty Hilbert curve fractal. Since it relies on a sort of value swapping scheme, it lends itself pretty well to stack machines assembly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve

All data is health data - Heather Burns: https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/03/13/all-data-is-health-data/

@jcs At least CSS has graceful degradation built-in! Unless you're running Dillo pages using CSS your browser doesn't support isn't a huge deal...

The ternary operator in JavaScript - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/the-ternary-operator-in-javascript/

I've now released Balkon 0.1 on behalf of my collaborator Jaro: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/balkon

Handles laying out individual paragraphs, very similar to what Pango does!

Tomorrow hopefully I'll see how well this works... Might publish a few minor versions of other libraries too fixing breakages...

@aral @EU_Commission At least they fund NLnet... Lots of interesting work there!

But yeah I do find non-technologists lack imagination about how things could be better... I'm reminded about some quips I had about the UX failure modes when you put developers, visual designers, business-people, OR marketters in charge...

Took a fair bit of effort to get the initial stages of my pipeline to build against Text v2, which the final stages will rely upon... Main real difficulty is I hadn't my lesson regarding import-hygiene yet & Text adding an `elem` function trips up my compilations...

Seems I'll have some minor versions to release shortly! But first dinner, & release Balkon!

Didn't get as far as I wanted to today...

#ArgonautStack

It appears I should've better abstracted hurl-xml, but I've started pulling all my pieces together to give a demo program!

I'm hoping tomorrow I'll have something halfway ready to be demoed at LibrePlanet on my Monday!

Couple more pieces to hook up now..., but I've had practice...

Reminder as Hollywood pats themselves on the back, with enough digging (LLMs aren't helping here...) you can find better entertainment Brought To You By The Internet!

My absolute favourite shows today are The Magnus Archives, Zero Hour, Magus Elgar, The Red Panda Adventures, & Wolf359!

Or if you have weird tastes, you won't find anything more absurd than Welcome to Night Vale!

Here's my list: https://adrian.geek.nz/movies
Ofcourse I'm not talking about the best of this, I can't judge all of them...

@ajroach42 When you're as wealthy as Marcus Vansten you don't need to show anyone that you care about anyone or anything else because you so obviously do. Look at all your money!

@dan That's quite an argument to dig through... Though there is some theory suggesting that audio has special performance considerations, which *might* give this argument some credence.

On the otherhand I don't trust internet arguments!