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slickytail commented on The terminal of the future   jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-t... · Posted by u/miguelraz
spudlyo · a month ago
Emacs also has Org-mode and org-babel, which can work a lot like a Jupyter notebook, and can even talk to jupyter kernels. I do a lot in Emacs, especially now that I'm comfortable with GPTel.

I open a poorly aligned, pixelated PDF scan of a 100+ year old Latin textbook in Emacs, mark a start page, end page, and Emacs lisp code shells out to qpdf to create a new smaller pdf from my page range to /tmp, and then adds the resulting PDF to my LLM context. Then my code calls gptel-request with a custom prompt and I get an async elisp callback with the OCR'd PDF now in Emacs' org-mode format, complete with italics, bold, nicely formatted tables, and with all the right macrons over the vowels, which I toss into a scratch buffer. Now that the chapter from my textbook in a markup format, I can select a word, immediately pop up a Latin-to-English dictionary entry or select a whole sentence to hand to an LLM to analyze with a full grammatical breakdown while I'm doing my homework exercises. This 1970s vintage text editor is also a futuristic language learning platform, it blows my mind.

slickytail · a month ago
As a non Emacs user, I would be really interested in a full writeup of how this works.

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slickytail commented on Do not accept terms and conditions   termsandconditions.game/... · Posted by u/halflife
dylan604 · 2 months ago
what happens at the end of the countdown?
slickytail · 2 months ago
The site has a little game where you click to dismiss as many cookie-consent popups as possible, in 30 seconds. I suppose if you can't see the cookie consent popups, then at the end of the timer you just have zero points.

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slickytail commented on The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive   divisbyzero.com/2025/10/0... · Posted by u/JohnHammersley
brap · 2 months ago
Whenever I encounter this sort of abstract math (at least “abstract” for me) I start wondering what’s even “real”. Like, what is some foundational truth of reality vs. stuff we just made up and keep exploring.

Are these knots real? Are prime numbers real? Multiplication? Addition? Are natural numbers really “natural”?

For example, one thing that always seemed bizarre to me for as long as I can remember is Pi. If circles are natural and numbers are natural, then why does their relationship seem so unnatural and arbitrary?

You could imagine some advanced alien civilization, maybe in a completely different universe, that isn’t even aware of these concepts. But does it make them any less real?

Sorry for rambling off topic like a meth addict, just hoping someone can enlighten me.

slickytail · 2 months ago
In the words of Kronecker: "God created the integers, all else is the work of man."

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