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Comment · 2 months ago
But agents don't _know_ why they gave an answer. They can only give "reasoning" that links to something in their context, and even then, you would have to parse out their response with some heuristics to try to match against something upstream of that turn.

I could see it being done, and if you're fond of the "models all the way down" mode of thinking, you could use a smaller model to identify it, but it could just as well be a "load-bearing seam" (ha) for something else in the conversation.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
Listen to the video again, he clarifies early on that this is supporting multiple racks. A megawatt is 1000kW. If you took 5 B300 systems (10 rack units each), you'd still only be at 75kW, which if you're doing redundancy properly, means you have wired 150kW to the rack, but you're not generating a megawatt of heat.
Comment · 11 months ago
I think the sentiment is usually paired with discussion about those products as long-lasting, revenue-generating things. Many of those ended up feeding back into Search and Ads. As an exercise, out of the list you described, how many of those are meaningfully-revenue-generating, without ads?

A phrasing I've heard is "Google regularly kills billion-dollar businesses because that doesn't move the needle compared to an extra 1% of revenue on ads."

And, to be super pedantic about it, Android and YouTube were not products that Google built but acquired.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think I can see some of where this could be utilized, but I think I'm still missing a step and I'm hopeful someone can fill me in.

There's a comparison against Argo Workflows, but with the description here and in other comments, Koreo seems to be aiming more for what I would use Argo CD for - managing the entire state of the cluster, the controllers, configuration, etc. Because of it tying into repos, you can then define the entire state of your cluster in code, and Argo CD has tools for doing some of the interpolation of variables into your YAML.

The project looks cool, and I don't think that the world suffers from having multiple ways of doing something, I just want to understand it better.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing! I was thinking how this is a good example of the kinds of things that you can do with a game engine that already exists, as opposed to having to write everything yourself.

Also a nice mention of octrees' use outside of voxels.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks, as I said, easy to fool yourself into thinking you're wrong when esolangs are involved.

The CLI tool is fantastic. I never thought that I'd see an esolang where "ergonomics of using it" was something the author would work on. I'll play around with that some more later, thanks again!

Comment · 1 year ago
This is beautiful, genuinely (the SVGs are lovely bits of artwork) and it's a fun puzzle to read, and I've shared with friends that like esolangs, including your book (good luck on publishing!).

In the "Data Strands" -> "Value Strands" section, you describe it as "Value strands (and other data strands), begin with a hook that points up (as in the third strand below) or to the left (as in the first two)" for the following example:

  1 ╵╰──╮╭──╯╶╮
  2    ─┘└─   └─╮
  3               
  5              ╷
but the way I was parsing it was that the hook is '╰' or '╯', in which case both of those are hooks pointing up? It looks like a fairly innocuous typo, but I'm never sure with an esolang so wanted to ask.
Comment · 2 years ago
For anyone else coming along reading this thread, in searching for Brexit's impact, I see mention that while a sharp recession and many of the doom-and-gloom style predictions didn't happen, it _absolutely_ has had a negative impact on the economy, and that it's expected that the effects are long-term and will continue.

I do think it's potentially fair to say that some of those effects aren't relevant for this particular article or discussion, due to the recency. The movement around it didn't arise out of nothing, after all.

Comment · 2 years ago
Positives upfront:

I appreciate that the article is trying to describe a complex topic, and many of the issues described are shared by us here in the US. It does cite different statistics of other nations as comparisons, and calls out that access to jobs, ease of movement, and housing are all things that help make countries wealthy.

Now for the downsides.

I feel like this article maintains a tone throughout that I might describe as "dismissive nationalism." The comparison against France is preceded by a paragraph that, due to the framing, is presented as ludicrous, proceeds to describe all of the things France does better, and then somehow still makes the claim that Britain has "many advantages." Perhaps that's intended in a vacuum, but with how hard it's pushing for private investment (to the extent that it touts all that earlier infrastructure in Britain as "built by a total of 1,116 private companies" and that it describes the State's role as functionally just exercising eminent domain), it's hard to overlook.

And while the underlying paper is discussing foundational, long-term effects, that there isn't a single mention of Brexit in the article feels stark in contrast to the conclusory statement by the paper's authors of "it is vital that Britain should once more have the strength and self-belief of 1939 with which to play its part in the leadership of the free world."

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I'm not an expert in economics (as my critique above might have clued you in), but I do think it's important to be careful in which experts you choose to listen to. I also don't know the biases that this particular publication or the underlying paper subscribe to.

I may try read the Foundations paper (https://ukfoundations.co/ - it's not that long), but if this article is summarizing well and is all, then it feels "too shallow." What's the underlying mechanism that got them to that state? If the proposed solution is "allowing more private investment," then what about all of the social shifts that happened in the meantime? NIMBYism is brought up as "logical" given the incentives at one point, but I'd argue it's fundamentally a social issue, related to a perceived quality of life and a lack of perception of a larger group as being part of "your community."

I digress.

Thanks for sharing the link, and I hope others with more of an economic / politics background might have more fruitful critique.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Echoing a similar sentiment, so supporting legacy retro video game sprites are very important to ensure are in and never change, but including flags is not okay? I re-read the justification for it recently and it still doesn't hold water, because it felt like it boiled down to "It's hard."

I was thinking about how Minecraft has a system of components and layers that let you compose various flags on their banners. Obviously that's far, far simpler than country (and autonomous region, and county, and province, and and and) flags that can include text, symbols, and practically entire images. But I did wonder if there was some way that could be represented. Unfortunately, I'm not nearly well-versed enough in code points and their ilk to propose anything useful.

But, I am torn. Archival projects are important, too, and language evolves. These decisions will live for potentially hundreds or thousands (Linear A) of years, and interoperability in computing is important.

Comment · 2 years ago
Cool project! Graphics programming is _hard_ and anything to make it easier is welcome.

Maybe a dumb question, but why not Dear ImGui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui). "It's way too big and complex" is a completely reasonable answer, but I found it fantastic for debug menus, and there are a few applications that have used it as their _main_ GUI (Ship of Harkinian as an example).

(Edit for fixing the name of the project)

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Bad form to recommend something else...

But I had some of the same issues that people have described about synchronizing across multiple devices with notifications and all that jazz, and ended up landing on Amazing Marvin (https://amazingmarvin.com/).

It is the single, closest thing I've found to the same paradigm of Task Warrior's prioritization systems, and incredibly customizable, which is lovely to see as a web app. No connection to it, other than it being something I love.

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