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Struts 1, right? None of this Struts 2 nonsense :')

What's this about automated cars on rails?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway

Haven't read the article, because the website is broken for me (video popups, then redirect to page with lack of content).

But, can someone please tell me if "faltering" here just means "slowed growth"?

If so...

Analysts talking about "slowing growth" as if it's a bad thing does my head in. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, doesn't it?

Step 1: analysts cry wolf and say growth is slowing. Step 2: them asses withdraw their investment. Step 3: growth now slows so much that it flips and goes the other way (negative growth / shrinkage)

> People vote for the ANC in SA because there isn't an alternative party.

I'd say that there is not a _viable_ alternative party, due to fragmentation.

The DA has good representation in the Western Cape:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in...

I was looking for this comment as it's the first thing I thought.

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My grandad had a tape measure which he regularly oiled and took very good care off.

On the flip side of that, today's tradesmen usually just leave their tape measures out in the rain and mud. Seen it twice now just in my own garden (garden office built in January, and home extensions now in July). Disposable culture!

Hallelujah. I take very good care of my phones, and 4 years in, I have to put a very pristine phone in the drawer, because it can't hold a charge any more.

Related: Potemkin village. The wiki article links (via "see also") to "disneyfication".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

Just to pitch in with a Clojurescript/Quill example, where the game loop takes a function that takes game state, modifies it, and returns it for the next iteration of the game loop.

https://github.com/opyate/minild72/blob/master/src/pong/core...

I commented yesterday, but came back to say this. Just found it, and it's really good. I like reading descriptions better than watching videos of them, so this is great.

I thoroughly recommend Sebastian's newsletter "Ahead Of AI". Link on his website:

https://sebastianraschka.com/

My wife and I have a whole pile of ordnance survey maps [0] for hiking. Nothing will replace it. She was a Brownie [1] and we're doing similar stuff with our daughters (Geocaching is the big thing right now).

0. https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/maps/

1. https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/brownies/

We fine-tuned bison with input set to doc content, and output as JSON, but the generation keeps getting prefixed with some of the input. Waiting to hear back from Google about what we might be doing wrongly. The JSON itself looks great, though.

Edit: sorry, that was a different experiment. The one that worked well was an address splitter, trained off Google Address Validator output, funnily enough. Still, the output JSON got prefixed with some of the address input.

Haxe has CastleDB [0], which I've used once, and it's great (it only powers your game assets statically, and isn't written to during gameplay, or used by the running game itself (I think)). (On Godot now, so mostly using Resources, which can be structured data on steroids.)

0. https://github.com/ncannasse/castle

TOOL album artwork? :-D

High is the number of freelance gigs I've foregone, because they asked me to estimate the work ahead of time on my own dime.

> if you’re on MacOS to auto-use your per-project venv.

Just chuck the venv name into a .python-version file then pyenv will do that for you, on any OS.

In the same breath, there's no free lunch. There's always a trade-off. Sure, the model might now fit in your VRAM, but it might be less accurate for your specific task.

For the OP:

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to nilsbakker.nl. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

And:

$ curl https://nilsbakker.nl/portfolio/3d-tiles/ curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self-signed certificate More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above. (hf-course-3.9.13)

> I think the reason, plain and simple, is that most developers aren't really in it for the passion anymore, but rather the money.

Anecdata:

I had a job recently that paid competitively, but the boss soon replaced interesting work with boring work (for me: writing boilerplate that's already been solved a thousand times over, or any FE work), so my passion petered out, which was quite obvious to everyone involved, so the relationship ended.

However, I'm with a client now, and we're building something really cool (using LLMs; I get access to H100 soon; etc) and I'm working every spare minute I can get away with, without being paid for overtime.

I feel like a "hacker" again with this role, learning new things, stretching the capabilities of the system given various constraints, and every second link I open in my browser is arxiv.

(That said, I grew up in South Africa, where cyber laws lagged behind the world's for a good few years, so we knew every trick in the book, yet were untouchable, haha!)

Kind of like "tree shaking" for weights? Like dead code elimination.

If you observe toddlers, at the early stages of their development you can see the "inner voice" at play, their lips moving as they reason through scenarios whilst playing with toys (and deaf/mute children similarly signing with their hands under the table).

The same work is being done now with LLMs, where you can prompt-engineer models to reason about its generated text.

See https://youtu.be/wVzuvf9D9BU

This video captures some of the state-of-the-art currently. (E.g. see the video description links)

So, decoders are getting their own little inner voices. A small little step towards AGI, for sure.

I would love if you could elaborate on this, or point me to resources where this is applied:

> Also you can still batch it through but it'll be slower.

Thanks!

This recently via DataMachina substack:

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2023/05/04/langchain-mini.html

As a web dev / game dev, I do like the idea, but just playing devil's advocate:

Wouldn't players just mine ore via a cron job and forget about the game? It seems like a "make numbers go up" type of game without any immersion.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.bloo...

The trick is always making games fun, otherwise folks won't care. This might be a challenge. Nice idea, though!

> I don’t make any money doing it, so if that’s your goal then this piece probably won’t be that useful to you.

Hobbyists unite!

In the Silicon Valley TV show, Richard also gets the Hooli board to sign a document, which Gavin (Hooli CEO) has 2 hours to object to, but he's off doing a triathlon.

My daughters are 10 and 7 this year. The 10-year-old loves making treasure hunts (and has for a while). She scatters clues on little pieces of paper all over the house and garden. Some clues are ambiguous, so the wrong locations will also contain surprises, e.g. a note under the apple tree saying "Nearly! But where else would you find apples?" (fruit drawer in fridge). I'd love to get her started on Escape Rooms soon. The little one loves twisting existing games. Like connect-4: you can play two tokens on your turn. Or Chess: making up new movement rules for the pieces. They're learning to be rule breakers and outside-the-box thinkers.