Micoloth

I found this comment very insightful - and it's interesting to see that it is downvoted even if there are zero replies trying to make some counter arguments..

It’s a great question. As soneone who has been fascinated by Wolfram Aplha for a loong time (and might or might not have thought about cloning it), i think that growing up i ended up realizing that Mathematica in the real world just doesn’t… Do much?

Maybe i’m just missing something. But it looks like nobody is really using it except for some very specific math research which has grown from within that ecosystem from the beginning.

I think one of the basic problems is that the core language is just not very performant on modern cpus, so not the best tool for real-world applications.

Again- maybe i’m missing something?

Suuper cool! I agree with the other commenter that having more scientific fields would be very interesting as well. Maybe you could filter them by topic

I mean.. Does window have it now?

Debatable at best..

That’s what i though as well

> Why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why we aren’t all quietly drifting into space every time we sneeze.

Newton didnt really explain the why.. Einstein added something much later, but it might be that really we still don’t have a clue.

All we can do is measure how fast it happens, very precisely

Interesting!

How would you say your project compares to Arroyo?

What do you think of the Burn framework? (Honest question, I have no clue what I’m talking about)

To be fair-

I was agreeing very much with both parent comment and yours, until your edit.

I loved Euphoria.

> graphicness - Was it graphic at all? > how big everybody's feelings are - Were their feeling that big? > It seemed so obviously.. - Maybe obvious to you? This might say more about you..

I found it brilliant and at times ironic and self aware and very explicit about what its target is (I think it's very much for teenagers)

So i don't know if it is a good example of this trend at all.

Just to say how nuanced these things can be, i guess...

Ha. What an amazing collection!

It hits so many right sposts. Thanks for sharing it

A difficult quest indeed, but not impossible. Sometimes teams like this do exist.

You know the ones. They founded the trillion-dollar companies you hear about and became billionaires themselves

I have a few questions - Is this inspired/based on the Blender node editor package?

Some stylistic choices look very much taken from there, even if some other details (eg font) look much more primitive

- If it’s not based on that, why?

Blander has an Excellent Python-based cross-platform ui which is completely open source. I’ve always thought it’s a crying shame that’s not available as a package to build desktop apps. And I think it would be very good to take things from there, like their very mature graph editor

I think what you are referring to is the concept of “finetuning”. You use a pretrained network and add a (relatively) small set of new input-output pairs to steer it in a new direction.

It's widely used, you can look it up.

A more challenging idea is whether it is possible to reuse the pretrained weights when training a network with a different architecture (maybe a bigger transformer with more heads, or something).

AFAIK this is not common practice, if you change the architecture you have to retrain from scratch. But given the cost of these trainings, I wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI&co had developed some technique to do this, eg across GPT versions..

Right? I don’t know about this post (and comments) discussing this quote from the western point of view only, ignoring the fact that this is the whole basis of- and arguably explored much richly in- the entire western philosophy