Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 25

Flashing IP Camera with full OpenIPC binary firmware from SD card - Paul Philippov: https://paulphilippov.com/articles/flashing-ip-camera-with-full-openipc-binary-firmware-from-sd-card

The unusual bootstrap drivers inside the 8086 microprocessor chip - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2022/11/the-unusual-bootstrap-drivers-inside.html

Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp - Simon Willison: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2
Summarised on his main blog: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/running-llama-7b-on-a-64gb-m2-macbook-pro-with-llamacpp/

When Will I Open “Run Your Own Mail Server” sponsorships? - Michael Lucas: https://mwl.io/archives/22649

@devinprater @SingingNala @nellie_m @JesseF8693 That would likely work yes, I imagine that's how some people say the directives, hash include etc. Pound is equally as short sound wise, but you're far more likely to encounter the word pound than the word hash, and even if you deal with fields where the term hash is common it would be easily distinguishable based on the context. Also would prevent conflicts with the pounds sign as used by the British currency. If it could somehow be made to de-stress it so the thing after it would receive the stress that would be best.

I got inline text layout integrated into CatTrap's core. Still have to integrate it into it's inputs & outputs, but this feels like it for today!

It's nice that I can see what I'm doing now...

#ArgonautStack

@vortex_egg @jonny I've heard this discrepancy as "dataism" vs "sciencism".

Though "dataists" generally consider themselves "scientists".

I keep seeing academics very excited for some bright and shiny #AI future where like all information self assembles and you can know anything instantly and you write papers by just gesturing at a thought with a couple of sentences and I have no idea how they don't see a) that playing out as them getting further trapped onto extractive platforms, b) not actually going to work even remotely like that and c) that sounds pretty bleak to me even if it did work 100% as intended

Got the test program working! I give it a style tree as XML & it renders a colourful version of the CSS Box Model!

I might see an issue with borders to debug (why didn't my unittests catch that?), but I think I'll now integrate text-layout into CatTrap!

There, got something rendering!

Now to refine it to be what I'm looking for...

OpenGL is a bit of a fiddly API to work, lots of extraneous detail for me to specify...

@jwildeboer For more on why this is read Manu Sporny's blogposts on the topic

this one especially, "Rebalancing how the web is built":
https://web.archive.org/web/20200120154851/http://manu.sporny.org/2016/rebalancing/
and a bit more focused on a specific case with what happened to the Web Payments group (it was shocking for me to see):
https://web.archive.org/web/20200115004913/http://manu.sporny.org/2017/w3c-web-payments/

@alcinnz Maybe you calready came across these things, but I'll post it just in case you hadn't.

There's the book from Hillis that you can borrow for a little bit (I have a physical copy of this):

https://archive.org/details/connectionmachin0000hill

https://archive.org/details/connectionmachin00hill

There's also this paper on the architecture:

https://archive.org/details/06Kahle001177

@faho I used to use stars since they were there. But now I find I'm much happier without them! Having moved elsewhere.

@cstanhope Looking into them!

This was requested by @lain_7

His description is better than anything I can write, with how little I know about this: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cm-1-2-5.html

I was going to discuss the Connection Machine tomorrow, but quick searches aren't turning up anything in-depth for me to summarise.

Here's a link though: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cm-1-2-5.html
If you have more info, I'll boost!

What I will say is that it sounds like it was essentially a modern GPU built from 1980s hardware.

Computers were nowhere near as powerful back then, CG for movies required supercomputers who's computational power was dwarfed by home computers by the 2000s.

If those axis-aligned bounding boxes crop their children, UI toolkits immediately know which branch to dispatch the input down. Or for more complex cases you can use the GPU to offscreen-render a lookuptable.

There's several different layout formulas, but they all boil down to geometry.

Ofcourse UI toolkits also respond to keyboard or mouse button presses. Whilst defining a shared language with users.

A "mainloop" puts users in charge of controlflow by repeatedly asking them what to do.

4/4

In either of those cases the device usually has dedicated (signal) processors to preprocess the more verbose data into *more* usable input for the CPU. Linux & LibInput still has plenty of processing to do!

Linux informs your X11 or Wayland window manager of any new devices & their input to determine which application to forward onto. Whether it's your window manager or UI toolkit computers typically represent UIs as a hierarchy of bounding boxes. Making hittesting & layout cheap!

3/4!