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insulanus commented on Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle   web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mic... · Posted by u/mortenjorck
sircastor · 2 years ago
I recall a few years ago there was something published where the MPAA basically said "We don't think we have enough public support to pull it off" I may be mixing my signals, but I think it was just a year or two after the whole SOPA/PIPA win.
insulanus · 2 years ago
Yes, that was the takeaway by the MPAA-aligned laywers at the time.
insulanus commented on Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic   arxiv.org/abs/2312.02799... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Dove · 2 years ago
My son (13) is extremely mathematically adept, and current research on cellular automata generally and Life specifically is one of his passions. When the final pattern was discovered earlier this year, he was extremely excited about it, and we all wanted to celebrate. So he put together on graph paper what he felt were the smallest/most iconic/best designs for each period, and I transferred those designs into a Teepublic appropriate digital format (using my obvious "Engineer Faking Things" designer skills. LOL.)

We then went wild buying shirts for the family, a sticker (stuck currently on the water filter in the living room), a mug which was supposed to be mine but which my son guards as a precious possession, and a giant wall tapestry to hang in my son's room. I actually wasn't sure all of those were going to come out, but even on the sticker, you can make out the individual cells in the more complex designs. Anyway - we enjoy these things on a daily basis.

We're kinda a bunch of math geeks. My husband and I both have masters degrees in the field, and our son, I guess, is a demonstration of what you can accomplish with selective breeding. ;) We have a lot of mathematical curiosities around the house, most of them homemade - penrose and hat tile fridge magnets, klein bottles, constant width solids, representations of projective tuning space. You know, the usual.

Other enthusiasts in the (very niche) space enjoy seeing the graphic. Since the time of creation, math has advanced, with these no longer being the smallest or best examples of some of these loops. This is exciting for all of us - the advance of mathematics is usually not this accessible. :)

insulanus · 2 years ago
Get a second mug printed from the same printer, and hide it safely away, in case the original ever breaks, and they are out of business.
insulanus commented on Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer   dogbolt.org/... · Posted by u/ingve
riffraff · 2 years ago
and for those who don't know it, that one is named after the author, Matt Godbolt.

I thought for a longtime it was some joke I wasn't getting related to deities smithing people.

insulanus · 2 years ago
> deities smithing people.

That's "deities smiting people.", but I really like the idea of deities smithing people :)

insulanus commented on Microsoft pulls OneDrive update that would quiz you before letting you quit   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/stalfosknight
insulanus · 2 years ago
PSA for those using windows at home: someone else has already done all the work removing spyware / unnecessary junk / mandatory login, etc.

https://github.com/topics/windows-11-debloat

I think I used this guide https://christitus.com/windows-11-perfect-install/

insulanus commented on Streamer in Japan Gets 2yrs Jail Time for Uploading Let’s Plays, Anime Spoilers   techdirt.com/2023/09/08/s... · Posted by u/rntn
birdyrooster · 2 years ago
I don’t see why another culture doing something differently is “absurd”, it’s clear the person understood their criminality and proceeded to harm society and then society held them to account. What is so crazy about that?
insulanus · 2 years ago
This is an effect of Japanese corporations lobbying for copyright legislation, not Japanese "society".

I agree that the word "society" can be used to convey social norms, whether imposed by the general public or a powerful minority, but here it's use is deceptive, because there is a connotation that society at large accepts this application of law as just, and had the practical power to influence copyright law.

insulanus commented on Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions   benchmarks.llmonitor.com... · Posted by u/vincelt
antman · 2 years ago
I have seen numerous posts of llm q&a and by the time people try to replicate them gpt4 is fixed. It either means that OpenAI is actively monitoring the Internet and fixes them or the Internet is actively conspiring to present falsified results for gpt4 to discredit OpenAI
insulanus · 2 years ago
It would be nice if the organizations would publish a hash of the code and the trained dataset.
insulanus commented on Come back, c2.com, we still need you   wiki.c2.com... · Posted by u/joshuanapoli
psnehanshu · 2 years ago
In the source:

   <noscript>
    <center>
      <b>notice</b>
      <p>javascript required to view this site</p>
      <b>why</b>
      <p>measured improvement in server performance</p>
      <p>awesome incremental search</p>
    </center>
  </noscript>

insulanus · 2 years ago
It would be great if there was a read-only version of the site that can be crawled.

Much easier to do that supporting both HTTP and JS for both read and write.

insulanus commented on Come back, c2.com, we still need you   wiki.c2.com... · Posted by u/joshuanapoli
dexen · 2 years ago
The C2 wiki was re-written and re-implemented as single page app, currently at http://fed.wiki.org/

It is an interesting change, to a more federated style.

I ended up doing a small project inspired by this change, at https://github.com/dexen/tlb

insulanus · 2 years ago
Sadly, I've had bad experiences with some Single Page Apps. Here are some problems I've had:

Linking to a specific topic.

Archiving the site.

insulanus commented on Basic SAT model of x86 instructions using Z3, autogenerated from Intel docs   github.com/zwegner/x86-sa... · Posted by u/djoldman
CamperBob2 · 2 years ago
As an extremely experienced dev with a ton of Intel assembly experience, I'll confess I have no earthly idea what this is, what it does, who needs it, or what inspired it. Any good pointers to tutorials or introductory material?
insulanus · 2 years ago
This type of thing can help you formally verify code.

So, if your proof is correct, and your description of the (language/CPU) is correct, you can prove the code does what you think it does.

Formal proof systems are still growing up, though, and they are still pretty hard to use. See Coq for an introduction: https://coq.inria.fr/

insulanus commented on Examples of floating point problems   jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/13/e... · Posted by u/grappler
inetknght · 3 years ago
> This means that NaNs propagate from the source of the original NaN to the final printed result.

An exception would be better. Then you immediately get at the first problem instead of having to track down the lifetime of the observed problem to find the first problem.

insulanus · 3 years ago
Definitely. Unfortunately, Language implementations that guaranteed exceptions were not in wide use at the time. Also, to have a chance at being implemented on more than one CPU, it had to work in C and assembly.

u/insulanus

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