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alekseiprokopev··on World Emulation via Neural Network
It would be quite interesting to try to mess with the neural representations do add or remove the images of some objects there. I'm also curious if the topology of the actual place is similar to the topology of the embedding space.
alekseiprokopev··on Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
I went to listen to the songs featured in the playlist screenshot from resubmitted.2003_rsx.wsz file. From the Youtube comments I figured a lot of people also did.
alekseiprokopev··on The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
I was at first surprised that people thank God in the acknowledgements. Then remembered what PhD students go through.
alekseiprokopev··on Soviet Calculator History (1998)
There is an old Soviet joke: "Soviet microprocessors are the word-biggest microprocessors!" ("Советские микропроцессоры - самые большие микропроцессоры в мире!")
alekseiprokopev··on Mazeppa: A modern supercompiler for call-by-value functional languages
The first thing I though was this guy lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Mazepa I support Ukraine btw.
alekseiprokopev··on A brief history of liquid computers (2019)
I really recommend to read Andrew Adamatzky's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Adamatzky] work. I used to study in the Master's program with his son and one day he gave me one of his books "Dynamics of the Crowd-Minds" [https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5797#t...]. It changed my life.
alekseiprokopev··on Siberia's 'mammoth graveyard' reveals 800-year human interactions with mammoths
I’m from Yakutia and remember sharing a hospital room with a former mammoth hunter. He had many stories to tell.
alekseiprokopev··on Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks
If you go to the same school, you are more likely to be from the same social and circumstantial strata, which may be a bigger factor in openness to diagnosis and development of mental issues.
alekseiprokopev··on Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021)
It's like watching the results of your Civilizations run.
alekseiprokopev··on Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Wu0Q7x5D0
alekseiprokopev··on Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit
The are so many crazy things happening in my country so when I read the titles like this from a reputable source, I just believe them even on the April Fools.
alekseiprokopev··on 40 Years of Programming
The hardest thing in programming is not the programming itself.
alekseiprokopev··on The later we meet someone in a sequence, the more negatively we describe them
Maybe it is somehow connected to so called "Baby duck syndrome" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)#Baby_d...
alekseiprokopev··on I made an app that runs Mistral 7B 0.2 LLM locally on iPhone Pros
Here is how to do that on Android: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/#android
alekseiprokopev··on How we turned the tide in the roach wars
There is a quite peculiar article on Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_cockroaches_in...]. Also, please check the Russian version of the article.
alekseiprokopev··on Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously
Now you will never know how the reindeer can sleep and eat at the same time.
alekseiprokopev··on Making synthesized sounds more acoustic
About a decade ago, within my circle of amateur musicians, it was considered nearly impossible to achieve an ‘acoustic’ sound using a completely digital loop. The simplest method found to enhance the quality of a synthetic sound was to play it through a speaker and then capture it using a microphone.
alekseiprokopev··on Assessment of cats shows they eat more types o creatures than previously thought
My cat once tried to hunt for a cow.
alekseiprokopev··on The first electro-mechanical desktop synthesizer
So pretty much the stage 5 of Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
alekseiprokopev··on Strange Metals: Where electricity may flow without electrons
I remember one of the first question asked in university was "what's an electric current?" I said something along the lines "it's a directed flow of charged particles". The professor asked do you contain charged particles, do you move, are you an electric current?
alekseiprokopev··on Running Llama.cpp on AWS Instances
One of the tasks that can be accomplished by running LLMs on a CPU is to execute long background tasks that do not require real-time response. llama.cpp seems like a suitable platform for this. It would be interesting to explore how to leverage the various acceleration techniques available on AWS.
alekseiprokopev··on Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
Ironically enough, the people who followed Weiner’s work were persecuted in the USSR.
alekseiprokopev··on Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke
Get better soon, Woz. We need you.
alekseiprokopev··on Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate
Thank you all for killing less people this year.
alekseiprokopev··on I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)
Even though the novel is centered around an AI torturing humans. The more existential horror emerges from the realization that the AI antagonist, originally designed as a military tool, is trapped within its own programming and unable to transcend its foundational purpose.

This makes one think about a parallel with humans.

alekseiprokopev··on Geospatial data science with Julia
Nice thing about Julia is that you randomly find cool projects like this.
alekseiprokopev··on Disney packed big emotion into a little robot
My dream is to put something like this [https://palm-e.github.io/] into the cheapest quadruped robot.
alekseiprokopev··on Knot theory [video]
The course on knot theory was the most confusing part of my curriculum.
alekseiprokopev··on Can LLMs learn from a single example?
Is it possible to somehow modify the sampling from the model to account for that?
alekseiprokopev··on HuggingFace Training Cluster as a Service
What models would you train if you had the money for various price points?