I read the url as: ever t-pot, as a reference to 418.
Turns out it's the author's actual name.
Readit NewsAriedK commented on Series of posts on HTTP status codes (2018) evertpot.com/http/... · Posted by u/antonalekseev
AriedK commented on Precious Plastic is in trouble preciousplastic.com//news... · Posted by u/diggan
I was super excited about Precious Plastic when I discovered them 8 years ago. But it didn't take long to realize that they didn't have a clue.
The machines are all FAR too small and fancy/expensive to really make much sense. I've seen some more practical offshoots from PP that design larger machines with recycled materials etc, and consequently they have sustainable businesses around the world.
So, most of all, as is clear from the post, they never really even tried - in over a decade - to make it a viable, self-sustaining enterprise, of any sort.
Also, what's conspicuously missing from the post is their Portugal-based Precious Plastic Camp boondoggle, which always struck me as a hipster commune more than anything.
They also suddenly deleted the original forums, which contained lots of fantastic info.
So, I don't have much faith that throwing more good money after bad would help at all. I'm grateful for the inspiration and excitement that they brought into the world, but it's time for them to be recycled.
And, yet, I expect they'll con someone into helping revive them for version 5, 6 and beyond. That's the way of the non-profit world.
That's a bit of a cynical take in my opinion.
For a community focused initiative, I'd say they deserve a bit more slack in terms of expectations of professionality, scale and sustainability. They now leave it up to the community to decide to pursue that or abandon altogether. Fair thing to do I'd say.
Also: the original forums aren't suddenly deleted: https://davehakkens.nl/community/forums/index.html He explains the process of migrating into 'One Army': https://davehakkens.nl/index.html
AriedK commented on Cuss: Map of profane words to a rating of sureness github.com/words/cuss... · Posted by u/tosh
Helpful tool for car makers.
Would have probably saved them from the Mitsibishi Pajero, Ford Pinto, Mazda Laputa
Downside is, it doesn’t analyze phonetics afaict. The hebrew Volkswagen Beetle (Hipushit) would have passed as fine.
AriedK commented on The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021) ethanhein.com/wp/2021/the... · Posted by u/xeonmc
I fell in love with this piece hearing Michael Winograd play it on clarinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTsQ-TbQReI
Ah yes, Vulfmon!
Jack Stratton seems to love his Fugues.
In case you haven't already: check out Vulfpeck /// Bach Vision Test; a really nice visualization of Contrapunctus IX a 4 alla duodecima.
AriedK commented on Google is burying the web alive nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/doener
So how long do we have until companies can pay to be in the system prompt to be recommended for certain queries?
This is neat. The send buffers and live display give it a nice edge over something like Tera Term. One nitpick: I couldn't find the option to disable autoscroll on incoming serial streams. Like 'Auto scroll only in bottom line' in Tera Term. Thanks!
AriedK commented on Slugs on a Cube: An Interactive Animation blog.gingerbeardman.com/2... · Posted by u/msephton
That’s a fun coincidence. I was at a museum recently that featured work of Sema Bekirovic. One of her works was that of 3 snails crawling over a grid cube so from then on they were the artists.
https://www.semabekirovic.nl/grid/
AriedK commented on More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD theguardian.com/media/202... · Posted by u/uxhacker
At first glance you may have a point. Thing is they’re often recruited with very promising job titles and descriptions, training on mild cases. Once they fully realize what they got themselves into the damage has been done. If they’re unlucky, quitting also means losing their house.
This may help empathize a bit with their side of this argument.
AriedK commented on Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models research.google/blog/unlo... · Posted by u/alach11
It kind of feels criminal to do time-series analysis with multimodel models and not use any traditional numerical models to provide a baseline result. It's an interesting result though.
They mention using a IMU dataset that is collected using an APDM Opal.
https://www.apdm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Opal-Publica...
This publication mentions a paper on p. 5839 (p 13 of the pdf) where a single sensor on the waist (as used in the Google research) would lead to an f1 score of 0.77 if I did my math correctly. In other words, pretty close to a >1 shot plot analysis of gpt4o and gemini pro1.5.
I would also be interested how the llm's would hold up to the free-fall interrupt that's built in to some consumer grade IMU's (BMA253 for instance), anyone here with experience in this usecase?
More info here: https://www.icij.org/
As an aside, I would also ask this question: why not democratize this and make billions using the same loopholes so that everyone gains access or they are forced to fix it? Surely it’s a good startup opportunity.
The Town That Took On The Tax Man https://youtu.be/ipV_GU7YaQg
It’s about a Welsh town that set out to do just this. Recommended watch.