maxbendick

What a bizarre README. From the top:

> 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses!

Ok, it's a framework. That can mean many things. Let's look at the "Key Features."

> ~3,500 lines of code: We treat simplicity as the first principle.

???

Marx builds on Smith. Would you agree then that Adam Smith is disproven even more and responsible for far more starvation? That would be ridiculous.

Can't argue with that! And what a prologue it is.

You've found the right market. There's an awful lot of tech folk who don't read but want to feel like they do.

I gotta rep my favorite though, even if it's typical. "Call me Ishmael." It's not the narrator's actual name - he just feels like an outcast. It sets the pace for the mythic and worldly talk throughout the book. A high bar with complete follow-through. I'm a total sucker for it.

Careful you don't fuck up your hearing with an fx chain mistake.

As a long-time web/app developer getting into game dev, it feels like I'm entering "the big leagues" of software engineering. Tougher problems, more problems, more _interesting_ problems, and problems without prebuilt solutions. Much more fun than making yet another dashboard.

Combining player control, multiplayer, non-player control, and physics is one of the tougher problems. I got it handled (enough) for my project, but I'd be very interested to read the source if Easel's physics engine gets open-sourced.

Theory and practice are both important. A few analogues:

- fundamentals on an instrument vs performance

- low-level graphics programming vs using a game engine

- comp sci vs software engineering

The theory side here gets to the root of things, is valid for any sort of DAW/DSP software, and has the benefit of being easier to teach. Practice is obviously more important though, especially in the arts. It's better to grope in the dark than do nothing.

Living in LA, the LAPD helicopter noise really is incessant.

It's hilarious to hear flying cops try to be intimidating through when dispersing illegal concerts or singling individuals out in non-violent crowds. It's impotent posturing and an obvious waste of money. They really don't need to send 5 squad cars and a helicopter for noise complaints.

I will say though that the loudspeaker on those things are surprisingly clear, even through the buzzing of a helicopter.

Ah gotcha. My bad, didn't know it was a joke. But I'll still take it as an excuse to post RFK being a fool hahaha.

You really ought to never trust the output of LLMs. It's not just an unsolved problem but a fundamental property of LLMs that they are manipulatable. I understand where you're coming from, but prompting is unacceptable as a security layer for anything important. It's as insecure as unsanitized SQL or hiding a button with CSS.

EDIT: I'm reminded of the hubris of web3 companies promising products which were fundamentally impossible to build (like housing deeds on blockchain). Some of us are engineers, you know, and we can tell when you're selling something impossible!

Love this article. If you'd like a book that works deeply through the topic of commodified humanity, Minima Moralia by Adorno is painfully pertinent here.

Thanks so much for replying. I didn't think it was your intention at all.