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LukeB42··on Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
That headline's as psyoppy as "schizophrenia".
LukeB42··on The case for MUDs in modern times
I three MUDs in one as a channel mode for my IRCD the other month: https://github.com/float64co/psyrcd/blob/master/plugins/mud....
LukeB42··on Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]
Both of these things. The timbres can be explained through evolutionary biology. The same brain centers used for processing movement in 3d space also start firing up to start predicting where any given piece of music will go.

An interesting note has a fundamental and harmonics and allows analogies to be drawn in RF engineering and quantum mechanics: https://www.google.com/search?q=any+good+parallels+between+i...

LukeB42··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
law.py — A Distributed Legislature: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/float64co/deb887691f13dee...
LukeB42··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
In the past couple of months I've

Built a Cythonized Icecast2 implementation I've wanted for years: https://github.com/lukeb42/cycast

Built a p2p Kanban board that fits in a single .html file and uses only the Python stdlib for LAN discovery https://github.com/lukeb42/kanban_p2p

Developed a p2p legislature that scales from a small team of 3 users to countries of tens of millions of people: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LukeB42/deb887691f13dee9c...

Developed a small SPA framework inspired by React, Ractive-Load and hn.js: https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Updated a news archival service for Python 3.x: https://github.com/lukeb42/harvest

Made a scriptable IRC client inspired by irssi and mIRC: https://github.com/lukeb42/scroll

and worked on a couple of my company's products.

LukeB42··on Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework
Thanks for this. I stopped writing JS for awhile just as ES6 was coming around the corner / coming into use. This will be in 0.0.2.
LukeB42··on Show HN: OpenGraviton – Run 500B+ parameter models on a consumer Mac Mini
Had to fix hardware detection myself only to find engine.generate()'s not implemented and yields "".

Maybe the author could get a large param model to help him get this done though.

LukeB42··on Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework
Would you prefer to see ESM or neither?
LukeB42··on Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework
Thanks for the valuable feedback. I've added a mediaquery for your use case. This should be more legible now: https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Send me a screenshot via https://catbox.moe if it's unreadable and I'll get this done and dusted before leaving the thread. Thanks.

LukeB42··on Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework
React components might eventually be removed in favor of making the templating system as fast and as elegant as possible but for the time being they provide flexibility.

You can read https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-interop.html for more info.

LukeB42··on Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework
Thank you but the predominant monitor's probably a smartphone. The average professional is probably using a 4k monitor at the moment.

Everything in the free documentation I've provided you out of my own time and money that you're referring to exists in relation to the other elements in that page, so to get the experience you're after simply ctrl+scroll and change the CSS zoom level like the riot at parties that you could be or catch up with circa 2013-2014 and invest in a 4k display please.

LukeB42··on Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework
9kb (minifier+brotli)

We could remove 3kb by removing the router but that's not gonna happen. You're more than welcome to minify+brotli it yourself if you use vertex.js in production.

LukeB42··on Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework
Beauty /is/ in the eye of the beholder. The rationale /here/ is that the more text in a page the more code you'll fit in your head the more you'll get done, the more confidence you'll have and again the more you'll achieve.
LukeB42··on Why does Britain feel so poor?
Agitation by community-based agents leading to honest people dropping out and wicked people doubling down.
LukeB42··on SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML
>you'd need a pretty custom toolchain

Just port/extend pytorch to make it easy to utilize fused ops.

LukeB42··on Helplessness is not learned (2022)
Everything in an organism is learned.

If you think it isn't then you're not observing the right timescale.

LukeB42··on A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
Is this because you don't know how to implement the weight updates in NumPy yourself?
LukeB42··on A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
Terrible joke and COMPLETELY missing the point.
LukeB42··on A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
Can you explain like I'm 5 why this matters distinctly from how transformers are normally trained with autodiff and what its possible applications are?
LukeB42··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
The value of its atoms and the electrons orbiting those atoms (give or take labour costs for transforming those atoms) in joules or watts.
LukeB42··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
Again more bankster handwaving.

What need do banks have for that capability where the capability shouldn't clearly be criminalised?

LukeB42··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
Number of joules that can be extracted from the atoms composing the molecules composing the steel wire it's made of.

...How can you not see this?

LukeB42··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
>Stars don’t model their fusion output.

The sum total positive energy contained in the universe can be calculated and predicted.

>Interbank funds aren’t a finite commodity.

This statement is obviously false and can run into brick walls in practice.

The comparison isn't silly in the slightest. Currencies must be coupled to a finite resource to function; Lest agent A buy all of agent B's gold using practically nothing but chutzpah.

That you think the comparison is "silly" shows limited/magical thinking on the subject.

LukeB42··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
There is a finite amount of energy in this universe and yet here we are at "Practically all prices are determined on the fly".

This is mere bankster handwaving in lieu of calculating physically intrinsic value for a sufficient number of commodities.

LukeB42··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
How is the interbank interest rate being defined on the fly in-mente relevant to our understanding of some large central banks determining their total credit supply by punching some numbers into a computer ex nihilo?

Seems similar enough to me. That's how.

LukeB42··on The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?
Oh yeah for sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor
LukeB42··on Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
"I guess that without outside criticism we’d all be driving cars that run on cold fusion, cancer would already have been cured 100 times over, etc."

LeCun invented the convnet and may well have been writing scientific research papers since before the author of that sentence was even born lmfao

LukeB42··on CIA doctor hit by Havana syndrome
Yeah it's supposed to be non-ionising. Curious claim. Excuse me while I read about what happened to Tesla's research on my wirelessly charged phone.
LukeB42··on CIA doctor hit by Havana syndrome
You can pay people to do that and also to pretend it matters.

I took this photo myself the other day. Look at this contrail starting and stopping: https://ibb.co/t2k8fKd

LukeB42··on CIA doctor hit by Havana syndrome
They're spies. They just stop transmitting when the signal strength meter person's present. It's not rocket science.
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