skndr
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Comment · 1 year ago
It's definitely possible (I'm part of a new tech worker cooperative). Cooperatives can be many legal structures, though you need your bylaws to reflect cooperative principles (one member one vote, etc). Here's a list of tech coops if you'd like to know some others: https://github.com/hng/tech-coops
I'm happy to share more - I'll send you an email.
Comment · 1 year ago
Congrats on the launch! Looks like you can only play one game as a guest before getting stuck in a loop when hitting "play now" between "forgot to buy items?" and "you must be logged in to buy". I also wasn't sure which one was the base to defend once I'd wandered off.
Comment · 2 years ago
I recommend:
- Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer
- Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
Comment · 2 years ago
The cool thing is that you can, with the BEAM, connect your shell[0] to a running server and use something like recon_trace[1] to watch functions as they’re getting called. The same principle is used for libraries like this distributed profiler so you can watch the aggregate performance of your application[2].
[0] https://hexdocs.pm/iex/1.12/IEx.html#module-remote-shells (the remsh flag)
Comment · 3 years ago
I've been finding Livebook (https://livebook.dev/) really useful for iterating on a script or manipulating some data in a reproducible way. I'll often try out one solution and if that doesn't work, create a new section and collapse the old one to be able to go in a different direction.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's also defining a module and then `import`ing it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I tried averaging embeddings at first but a GPT-3 prompt gave more interesting results!
Comment · 3 years ago
Must have come from the Möbius strip dimension.
Comment · 3 years ago
Go for it! Really enjoying it :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.
Comment · 3 years ago
This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash (https://ash-hq.org/) and is deployed on Fly.io.
Some fun ones:
- imagination and vacation -> fantasize
- enthusiasm and zeal -> fervor
- angry and hungry -> famished
- spoon and fork -> spork
Comment · 6 years ago
The point of the control room in CyberSyn wasn't to make second-by-second or minute-by-minute decisions but rather on longer timescales like days or weeks. In Brain of the Firm, Beer argues specifically against overloading it with numbers and that it should be a "thinking room".
Comment · 7 years ago
Alternatively: “For what reason did you not choose...”