Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 4

I'll start publishing my GNU Multiprecision threads tomorrow, then alternate finishing off my FreeType studies & studying other GNU math libraries.

Didn't find the time this morning, & it might take me a few days to dig up all those threads & publish them...

Kernel panic achieved :thinkhappy:

yeah looks like that was the case for all the other cards as well - the differences are in the input, not in the output

@dave
@alcinnz Personally I was highly inspired by a talk from someone of the https://frameworkless.js.org/ movement.

The other day I described my concept of "feats of skill" (e.g. Everything Everywhere All At Once) & "feats of budget" (e.g. Avatar franchise).

I'm much more interested in feats of skill, which explains why I can't bring myself to care about GPTs (which is all based on "how much data can we feed into these neuralnets?"). No matter how much it feels like I'm expected to!

New policy: You try to evangalize GPT to me, I'll evangalize Haskell to you. That actually addresses the bottlenecks I face!

(This might be kind of vague so this is the kind of thing I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging A shocking number of problems of this type that make me immediately respond with "why do you think this is a difficult problem?" seem to wind up mentioning Eliezer Yudkowsky when you look into why people are talking about them.)

@dave

Well, you can write spaghetti code with or without a framework.
I totally blame CodePen for this as it does not allow me to organise code in the way I prefer.

I tried to mimic the structure to React.

But chasing async code (change event listeners from input elements) is confusing if you are not used to it.

Old-school memoisation was a trick he didn't knew.
Luckily functions are objects ^.^

@alcinnz

Does it still count as a tool? - Opinionated Guides: https://opguides.info/posts/ai2/

I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney over night. - Sternsafari @ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_everything_that_made_me_love_my_job/
Simon Willison's summary: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/lost-everything/

This is a great interview with @geomblog by Sharon Goldman

"This is a deliberate design choice, by ChatGPT in particular...ChatGPT puts little three dots [as if it’s] “thinking” just like your text message does. ChatGPT puts out words one at a time as if it’s typing. The system is designed to make it look like there’s a person at the other end of it. That is deceptive. And that is not right, frankly."

https://venturebeat.com/ai/sen-murphys-tweets-on-chatgpt-spark-backlash-from-former-white-house-ai-policy-advisor/

@joeyh Ah yes, I see...

Yeah, even Haskell can't overcome all the issues here! I'm curious to hear more?

@joeyh Concurrency isn't so much of an issue in Haskell...

Unitek Y-247A
vs
uGo UKD-1086
vs
Creative SB Play 3

each card was tested by connecting its input to its output with a janky cable and running

play -n synth 6 sin 20-20000

while recording with audacity.

This is a somewhat flawed, since I'm including each card's input path in the comparison, but at least both input and output run on the same clock, and only one USB card is in use at a time.

The First Website in the United States Was Made for Physicists - Jay Hoffmann "The History of the Web": https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-first-website-in-the-united-states-was-made-for-physicists/

Regulating AI (plus links & notes) - Baldur Bjarnason: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/regulating-ai/

I'll checkout these links tomorrow... But I do like this commentary!

WebKit Features in Safari 16.4 - WebKit: https://webkit.org/blog/13966/webkit-features-in-safari-16-4/

Lots of new features, I won't go into my thoughts on each of them...

Have you heard? Wikimedia has a Sound Logo - Rae Adimer, Tas Elias, Mathoto Matsetela Hartmann, Mehrdad Pourzaki, & Lena Traer @ Wikimedia: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/28/have-you-heard-wikimedia-has-a-sound-logo/