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Comment · 11 months ago
No, it's not, unless you can argue that the bot would have thought of asking the same question I did, which is unlikely.
Comment · 1 year ago
like this idea. Add "tech trees": path dependence can be arbitrary. What if we kept going with vacuum tubes/no transistors?
Comment · 1 year ago
"Well paid geologists"
Comment · 1 year ago
Codexes Factory: algorithmic tools to create, operate, distribute, and market entire publishing imprints. This week I am launching my first imprint, Xynapse Traces, with 66 books in the Korean pilsa (筆寫) style. Later in October, Nimble Ultra, devoted to the history and practice of intelligence and espionage. Last week I built a giant collection of 575 imprints that are a shadow superset of the ~540 imprints operated by the Big Five publishing houses (Penguin Random House, the largest has ~300). Teeny weeny tip of the iceberg at NimbleBooks.com.
Comment · 1 year ago
Pilsa is a form of journalling popular in Korea that should be popular everywhere.
Comment · 1 year ago
AI Safety Event: DOGE is analyzing the entire Code of Federal Regulations this month with the goal of reducing it by 50% by Jan 20, 2026. [WaPo 7/26/25].

--This is an actual AI governance crisis that is happening today.--

Mitigation: Enable OSS analysis of CFR by all parties using same data with different goals.

https://github.com/fredzannarbor/altDOGE/tree/mainhttps://op...

First results:

As a proof of concept, ran altDOGE v0.2 against 485 regulations for the Community Living Administration using DOGE-like prompts, identified likely areas for cuts. Appears to work as intended.

To continue this mitigation effort, the following is needed:

-- policy participants with agency-specific expertise to carry out real validation.

-- LLM analysis experts

-- inference resources

Comment · 1 year ago
I see no privacy advantage to working with Ollama, which can sell your data or have it subpoenaed just like anyone else.
Comment · 1 year ago
Per the Washington Post, DOGE is running LLM analysis against the Code of Federal Regulations (5B tokens) *this month* (August) with the goal of generating revision texts that will eliminate 50% of US regulations. This is a governance cataclysm that is happening right now. My proposal is that there should be many teams analyzing the same data and making recommendations.
Comment · 1 year ago
A lot of vibrant color, which is a nice change from muted and flat pastels.
Comment · 1 year ago
Error: yek: SHA256 mismatch Expected: 34896ad65e8ae7c5e93d90e87f15656b67ed5b7596492863d1da80e548ba7301 Actual: 353f4f7467af25b5bceb66bb29d9591ffe8d620d17bf40f6e0e4ec16cd4bd7e7 File: /Users/... Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/0308e13c088cb787ece0e33a518cd211773daab9b427649303d79e27bf723e0d--yek-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

Removed & tried again this was the result. Is the SHA256 mismatch a security concern?

Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't there a Python library that abstracts most of it away with a couple of gigantic classes with incompatible dependencies?

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