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bob88jg commented on Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization   github.com/altera-al/proj... · Posted by u/talms
Philpax · 10 months ago
They were assigned roles to examine the spread of information and behaviour. The agents pay tax into a chest, as decreed by the (dynamic) rules. There are agents assigned to the roles of pro- and anti-tax influencers; agents in proximity to these influencers would change their own behaviour appropriately, including voting for changes in the tax.

So yes, they didn't take on these roles organically, but no, they weren't aiming to do so: they were examining behavioral influence and community dynamics with that particular experiment.

I'd recommend skimming over the paper; it's a pretty quick read and they aren't making any truly outrageous claims IMO.

bob88jg · 10 months ago
So it's a plain vanilla ABM with lots of human crafted interaction logic? So they are making outrageous claims - since they are making it sound like it's all spontaneously arising from the interaction of LLMs...
bob88jg commented on Greppability is an underrated code metric   morizbuesing.com/blog/gre... · Posted by u/thunderbong
TeMPOraL · a year ago
The article advocates making code harder to understand for the sake of better search. It's like forcing a city to conform to a nice, clean, readable map: it'll make exploring easier for you, at the cost of making the city stop working.
bob88jg · a year ago
Which of his suggestions would "make the city stop working"?
bob88jg commented on Greppability is an underrated code metric   morizbuesing.com/blog/gre... · Posted by u/thunderbong
TeMPOraL · a year ago
Which is ironic, given that the article is about making it easier to use grep in order to avoid having to understand anything.
bob88jg · a year ago
Nah, you've got it backwards. The article isn't about dodging understanding - it's about making it way easier to spot patterns in your code. And that's exactly how you start to really get what's going on under the hood. Better searching = faster learning. It's like having a good map when you're exploring a new city
bob88jg commented on Show HN: CeLLama – Single cell annotation with local LLMs   github.com/CelVoxes/ceLLa... · Posted by u/celltalk
bob88jg · a year ago
Can anyone explain how an LLM is useful here? The clustering is done traditionally right? Then the llm is given the centroids and asked to give a label? Assumption being that the llm corpus already contained some mapping from gene up/down regulations to clusters of differentiation?
bob88jg commented on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free   nbcnews.com/politics/just... · Posted by u/amima
kybernetikos · a year ago
He's also got a background as a human rights lawyer. He probably has a lot of personal interest in cases like this.
bob88jg · a year ago
He literally started the UK side of the persecution - starmer is a cop, always has been always will be....
bob88jg commented on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?    · Posted by u/nishithfolly
Tabular-Iceberg · a year ago
In the UK they're called Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. It's what's at the very heart of the 15 minute city controversy.

Why would people complain about being able to walk to where they need to go? It's obviously being cut off from the places that they aren't able to walk to that people have a problem with. Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith.

bob88jg · a year ago
Nobody is being cut off from anywhere - their route is being made longer in order to avoid residential areas - their journeys would be quicker if they walked they just don't want to...and that is the point highly polluting journeys are being disincentivised...if you absolutely must drive then you need to set off earlier this isn't an attack on people's civil liberties you have no right to drive somewhere..
bob88jg commented on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?    · Posted by u/nishithfolly
dagw · a year ago
Low traffic neighbourhoods and 15 minute cities are entirely different concepts, trying to solve different problems and that have very little to do with each other. You can easily have one without the other.

Deflecting from one by pretending it's about the other is a clear sign of bad faith

You know I kind of agree with you about this.

bob88jg · a year ago
Exactly this! It all boils down to people being pissed that their car journey in London takes longer than it used to - nobody is actually being blocked from getting anywhere just their route is being changed - somehow this has been wrapped up in the 15 minute conspiracy...
bob88jg commented on Original Pirate Material   historytoday.com/miscella... · Posted by u/tintinnabula
echelon_musk · a year ago
Absolutely. This album is an inspired work.

Everything after it is quite frankly, terrible.

It helped get me through times when I was really low in spirit.

"Some men rise, some men fall, I hear your call, stand tall now".

"You might lose your job, it's when that happens that what I'm talking about will feel much more important..."

bob88jg · a year ago
Tbh I was not including the second one in the poo - I think the 1st and 2nd albums are both equally good in their own ways!
bob88jg commented on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?    · Posted by u/nishithfolly
dagw · a year ago
A 15-minute-city analyser using OSM data. You gave it a list of everything you wanted to be close to (ie a school, restaurant, doctors office, food store etc.) and it would show you which parts of a given city had all those things with an N minute walk.
bob88jg · a year ago
Fascist! How dare you suggest I shouldn't ever go further than 15 minutes to access necessary resources to live my life! It's my god given right to spend at least an hour in traffic to get to the doctors...

/s there is actually a whole movement of people in the UK that beleive the very idea of a 15 minute city is a conspiracy to limit their freedoms...

bob88jg commented on Original Pirate Material   historytoday.com/miscella... · Posted by u/tintinnabula
petecooper · a year ago
>Original Pirate Material

>You're listening to The Streets, lock down your aerial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22U2LLVRwtk

Radio version, censored lyrics - likely safe for work.

bob88jg · a year ago
This is what I clicked on this link for - a masterpiece shame later albums all got a bit poo

u/bob88jg

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