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koolala··on Hacking Moltbook
Thanks that is good to know. If those bots are unrelated it tricked them into promoting the scam.
koolala··on Hacking Moltbook
I'm pretty sure Moltbook started as an crypto coin scam and then people fell for it and took the astroturfed comments seriously.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/7d2b9797-b193-42be-95bf-0a11b6...

koolala··on Quaternion Algebras
Describing those algebras in quaternion terms simplifies understanding most of them. Like biquaternions and dual quaternions.

A 2d quaternion just has no j or k term and works for 2d math.

koolala··on Quaternion Algebras
Hamilton came up with the term vector for the 3 component part of the quaternion.
koolala··on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
West World style robots
koolala··on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
What if it knows you and knows how often you spend kinds of time on it? People would lie to it for excuses of why they need more and can't wait any longer?
koolala··on Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
It is only detaching people from reality more. The internet used to be a window into the outside world and now AI is making it counterfeit manipulated fantasy.
koolala··on Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
What model do you need then? If you want 3D real-time understanding of how realities work? Are you focusing on "imagination" in a different abstract way?
koolala··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
If someone is tricking you over the phone to sideload would a 'official' bank website really be a deal breaker?
koolala··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
You think a local model will get to that point? Some AGI revolution like your describing is impossible for humanity as a whole even if LLMs get that smart. The same companies control the supercomputers and your access to them.
koolala··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
Why wouldn't they just use websites instead? Imagine if you had to ADB from a PC to enable a website that isn't Google approved.
koolala··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
Should we whitelist the whole web for this reason too? Why does that trend use apps and not websites?
koolala··on The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
A SIMD ECS language would probably be that today and be more modern than C.
koolala··on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
It worked to impress people on Twitter...
koolala··on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
You would want to download all the W3C and WHATWG specifications first.
koolala··on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
The whole point of Servo is its not impossible to use like Chromium.
koolala··on Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases
Why can't Valve and others get fined for worse designs? Because Teens play Counter-strike and not children?
koolala··on I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
They discuss Dreams in the video and even explain Brick rendering.
koolala··on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
WebXR hasn't been supported for 10 years so they control their own AR market.
koolala··on Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways
I believe they are using the open source PlayCanvas splat integration.
koolala··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
This is a code editor with the same url idea:

https://flems.io/

koolala··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
If you were blind would a screen reader read the documents? Thats not a hack.
koolala··on Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)
"BNF itself emerged when John Backus, a programming language designer at IBM, proposed a metalanguage of metalinguistic formulas ... Whether Backus was directly influenced by Chomsky's work is uncertain."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form

I'm not sure it required Chomsky's work.

koolala··on Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse
Couldn't it be a simple reboot to switch back to normal linux?
koolala··on Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format
Yeah JSON compatable is very different from convertable.
koolala··on Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format
You have to encode the type of all the binary data. Does that make it serialization?
koolala··on Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format
GLTF is like this too (or PLY)? The main difference is the format of their headers? Just by reading the header you can parse the binary data. I'm surprised BSON and any of the other binary JSON formats they list don't support reading the memory layout in a header.
koolala··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
Is it just as easy to make an extension that runs a local AI translation model? Translation would benefit from having a community continuously updating and tuning local models for languages.

If it was an extension it would be nice if people could fork it with other models. Just like their AI Tab Grouping feature would be much better forked with a deterministic non-AI grouping system.

koolala··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
The core idea of the witness wasn't novel either. The novelty was how far they went with it.
koolala··on Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust
Can a wavelet be used with SIMD 128bit operations? Or are they used with 4x4 Matrix operators? Are wavelets good for that kind of math?
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