The author made a video explaining the concept, at around 8:20 he writes a new "microprogram". It looks to me like he's replaced the idea of writing functions with writing keywords that extend language grammar. So eventually you'll compose all of your new keywords and be able to reason at higher levels of abstraction.
It seems web-centric? He was using it as a kind of templating engine, and that would explain why it can execute JavaScript inside of a microprogram. If a microprogram can execute other languages or wrap native programs he might be on to something interesting.
Coffee seems to be healthy today, unhealthy tomorrow, and healthy again next week. Though if there's any truth in these kinds of studies I've gotta be damn near invulnerable
I'd wondered why the patches could contain unmodified game code, thanks for the explanation. I know a decent chunk of the ROM hacking community has moved to UPS patches but it seems that was done for efficiency and overcoming size limitations. According to this guy, xdelta does what you describe.
I don't understand how anyone is shocked by businesses trying to integrate "the next big thing" into their offerings. Objectively, there are new things we can do with the recent advancements in AI. Experimentation is natural, even if those in charge are not intimately familiar with the technology. Some experiments will be useful and some less so.
How does seeing "generate image" on WordPress make you fume? Why would they implement the option to disable it? It's a perfectly sound idea. Instead of finding some stock image to use, allow users to generate one without leaving the platform. Regardless of any qualms with the technology itself and its implications, it now exists as a commercial offering. Businesses are going to try and use it to improve user experience and make more money.
I've recently started using an LLM to choose the best release of shows using data scraped from several trackers. I give it hard requirements and flexible preferences. It's not that I couldn't do this, it's that I don't want to do this on the scale of multiple thousand shows. The "magic" here is that releases don't all follow the same naming conventions, they're an unstructured dump of details. The LLM is simultaneously extracting the important details, and flexibly deciding the closest match to my request. The prompt is maybe two paragraphs and took me an hour to hone.
I work for a subsidiary of a large industrial equipment manufacturing company, ladder logic is ubiquitous. At least across our partners and the plants we operate within. It's usually written by former electricians called "controls engineers", not software engineers, because it mimics relay diagrams. Controls engineers tend to live completely within the software ecosystem. I've known few who were comfortable with even "structured text" routines. One of the major advantages my company has is that they hire software engineers to produce custom featured HMIs for customers, and train on ladder logic.
This was exactly what I was thinking. This may be a useful tool for human researchers to drive if it turns out it can generate anything valuable. I can't understand the papers it wrote, much less determine if they make any contributions. I don't think the self-evaluation is going to be too fruitful. Thanks for sharing
I'm using a Pixel 4a, it does everything I need well. I upgraded from the Pixel 2 only when it started malfunctioning. I plan to buy a newer pixel when I can no longer use this one, but I'm concerned they're not being made to last through a few of Google's frequent release cycles. Seems to be a problem with most manufacturers. I just want something durable and stable
It's disingenuous to say discussion about election fraud isn't political in nature, what else could it be? I dismissed the 2020 US election fraud claims without looking into them, but I've seen it brought up a few times in this thread and people on HN usually hold reasonable views. After some research I've found nothing remotely convincing.
Could you point me towards something like the data presented in this article? That's not to say that this is definitive evidence, but it's an order of magnitude more convincing than anything I've found about the 2020 US election.
I disagree, learning how to compile a program is a prime example of something you'd want in a book about reverse engineering "for everyone". A book which focuses only on specific methods of changing software behavior would be useful only to those who know how to understand said software. In fact the term "reverse engineering" itself does not imply modification at all.
I don't disagree with many of his points, but to call him over-dramatic would be an understatement. The article doesn't seem to make any attempt at justifying the hook besides "the internet is already over because all things will end". And it's presented as some sort of revelation, written in the most pretentious possible way, and ends with a statement of how different his writing is from "the internet". Some kind of boogeyman compilation of everything wrong with life in a digital world.
I've thought the same for some time now, it would do very well I think. The balance between the stages in Spore was way off. You could get all the way to space in like 4 hours, but I never could beat the final stage.
Agreed, actually I'd say the practical value of learning to code for the average person has been declining for some time. It is easier than it ever has been to get computers to do what you want. I think it will continue to get easier. The whole idea that programming is a life skill may have had some merit years ago, but I don't see it anymore.
ImHex has been my primary hex editor for around a year and a half, nothing bad to say about it. By far the most advanced open-source hex editor. Kind of renders 010 Editor obsolete. The dev is exceptionally active as well. I was asking about a bug in his discord once and he patched it as we spoke.
This is like a cornerstone of American culture, the belief that hard work will be rewarded is ingrained in us. I think it's a great attitude, but hard to keep up when you realize it's often not true
That is very unnerving to think about. If video evidence could currently be flawlessly faked it'd give some legitimacy to those claims. If we do reach this point the value of a source will shift from "I can prove it" to "you can trust me", and I do not think that will be for the better. I'm not yet ready to live in a completely subjective world, where truth and falsity have equal weight.
Blogs used to be good for product reviews, now most I see are infected with affiliate links. I think YouTube video reviews and Reddit reviews are the as close to being "trustworthy" as you can get online these days. I prefer video reviews because it's easier to spot any embellishing when it's right in front of you.
This kind of thing permeates through our society. We can all see it, we all know it's absurd, but we can't change it. That requires the people with the money and power on board. I don't need to tell you how they got that money and power. It's not only the buildings that have owners
Clean code was the first book I found when looking for books about writing clean code, go figure, and back then I found it very helpful. It's easy to criticize now that I'm so far removed from then (in both time and skill). Before this point I really had never even thought about the code's design, only its functionality. I wouldn't recommend it now, but this book played its role in my life
I am certain I could, in fact I'd bet a lot on it. I'd have a hard time distinguishing AI generated images at this point, but earlier on there were major indicators. This tech is still primitive. The lyrics are dead giveaways, the tracks all sound blended together. A 5 second snippet of a song seems coherent, but the songs never go anywhere. If you listen to a lot of music, and have a decent pair of headphones, it's immediately obvious. Someone who makes music would be able to identify the specific flaws better than me.
NYT writer discovers the term 'slop' days after NYT source leaks on 4chan. Specifically on a board where this is a common phrase. Cites 4chan. I'm connecting the dots