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psychoslave commented on Everything is correlated (2014–23)   gwern.net/everything... · Posted by u/gmays
eru · 2 days ago
> Wouldnt you need the T_zero configuration of the universe for this to work?

Why? We learn about the past by looking at the present all the time. We also learn about the future by looking at the present.

> Also we are assuming there is no non-deterministic processed happening at all.

Depends on the kind of non-determinism. If there's randomness, you 'just' deal with probability distributions instead. Since you have measurement error anyway, you need to do that anyway.

There are other forms of non-determinism, of course.

psychoslave · 2 days ago
> We learn about the past by looking at the present all the time. We also learn about the future by looking at the present.

We infer about the past, based a bit on some material evidence we can subjectively partially get some acquaintance with. Through thick cultural biases. And the actual material suggestions should not come to far from our already integrated internal narrative, without what we will ignore it or actively fight it.

Future is pure fantasm, only bound by our imagination and what we take for unchallengeable fundamentals of what the world allows according to our inner model of it.

At least, that's one possible interpretation of the thoughts when an attention focus on present.

psychoslave commented on Everything is correlated (2014–23)   gwern.net/everything... · Posted by u/gmays
psychoslave · 2 days ago
Looks like an impressive thorough piece of investigation. Well done.

That said, holistic supposition can certainly be traced back as far as writting dawns. Here the focus on more modern/contemporary era is legitimate to keep the focus delimited on a more specific concern, but is a bit obfuscating this fact. Maybe it's already acknowledged in the document, I read it all yet.

psychoslave commented on Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz   treeform.github.io/devcom... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
psychoslave · 7 days ago
For making user interfaces, I believe in what is the most relevant depending on context. It could be a CLI, a physical red button, among many other things including the proposed set.

An other question had the option about optimizing for collaboration, and I think apart for purely personal stuff that your write like private poetry, that should always be criteria number one.

psychoslave commented on Recto – A Truly 2D Language   masatohagiwara.net/recto.... · Posted by u/mhagiwara
psychoslave · 8 days ago
>Virtually all the languages we humans use—spoken, written, or artificial (such as programming languages)—are fundamentally one-dimensional.

Anyone having a look at a musical score can conclude this is wrong.

Even when it comes to spoken language, intonation is conveying a lot, even in languages which are not classified as tonal.

All that said, that's nice to see an exploration of exotic expression form. It doesn't need to down other approach to make shine its own.

psychoslave commented on Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)   paulgraham.com/ds.html... · Posted by u/bschne
OtherShrezzing · 9 days ago
>Scale things that don’t do
psychoslave · 9 days ago
I rarely do comments just to say thank you for the great laugh, but when I do, I do it on HN.
psychoslave commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation   theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
nwsm · 12 days ago
I think you may have been under a rock for the last 5-10 years
psychoslave · 12 days ago
Far more than that, so tell me, are my association of Russia and United-States to imperialist behaviors actually outdated, or are some cultural traits unfortunately still persisting through time?
psychoslave commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation   theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
Sharlin · 12 days ago
> This "Microsoft are good guys" is a bizarre recurring comment that has appeared on HN for quite a while now

Well, yes, that's called generational change. A lot of people have never experienced the bad old Microsoft, only the pretty cool guy Microsoft.

psychoslave · 12 days ago
Are pretty cool guys in command and firmly desiring to keep up with their ethos, or mere disposable shiny pawns that are one giant layoff away whatever good the profit are?
psychoslave commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace   instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
andylizf · 15 days ago
This is fantastic work. The focus on a local, sandboxed execution layer is a huge piece of the puzzle for a private AI workspace. The `coderunner` tool looks incredibly useful.

A complementary challenge is the knowledge layer: making the AI aware of your personal data (emails, notes, files) via RAG. As soon as you try this on a large scale, storage becomes a massive bottleneck. A vector database for years of emails can easily exceed 50GB.

(Full disclosure: I'm part of the team at Berkeley that tackled this). We built LEANN, a vector index that cuts storage by ~97% by not storing the embeddings at all. It makes indexing your entire digital life locally actually feasible.

Combining a local execution engine like this with a hyper-efficient knowledge index like LEANN feels like the real path to a true "local Jarvis."

Code: https://github.com/yichuan-w/LEANN Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08051

psychoslave · 15 days ago
Why is that considred relevant to get a RAG of people digital traces burdening them in every single interactions they have with a computer?

Having locally distributed similar grounds is one thing. Push everyone to much in its own information bubble, is an other orthogonal topic.

When someone mind recall about that email from years before, having the option to find it again in a few instants can interesting. But when the device is starting to funnel you through past traces, then it doesn't matter much whether it the solution is in local or remote: the spontaneous thought flow is hijacked.

In mindset dystopia, the device prompts you.

psychoslave commented on Ask HN: Is true democracy possible in online tech communities?    · Posted by u/ff12wq111
p_ing · 22 days ago
Unless the community is a political one, it is fundamentally different operating by different social rules and standards.
psychoslave · 22 days ago
How something operating under any set of social rules and standard be supposed to be void of political beliefs and consequences?

Look at where they tell "we don't make politics here" and see where the political power is actually being enforced at its outmost practical level.

Some people seem to think that going to toilet is not political, ignoring the fact that having the underlying infrastructure to have toilets require a while city and political organization to keep it operational.

u/psychoslave

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