Good to hear thanks. And proton has worked well for 6? (Steamdeck i assume is using proton not native linux?). We still play V, when they broke mac/windows crossplay I had to install bootcamp to continue playing with my friends. But the family iMac I did that on definitely won’t run 7, so was looking into building a linux tower I could use instead and would strongly prefer not to deal with windows.

Any confirmation of linux/windows crossplay?

Oh get out skeleton man

Re thumb-key do you have recommended tutorials for getting comfortable with it? I found trying to do touch typing tutorials didn’t really help, both because they are generally made for desktop environments and they are geared towards qwerty layout (e.g., get comfortable with home row first etc). I tried forcing myself to use it for a full 24 hours as the concept makes a ton of sense to me, but got very frustrated with myself and then dug into the world of which layout to choose, got overwhelmed, and switched back to whatever this qwerty layout that samsung one ui provides on galaxys.

I think that is overly simplistic. Embeddings used for LLMs do definitely include a concept of what things mean and the relationship of things to other things.

E.g., compare the embeddings of Paris, Athens, and London to other cities and they will have small cosine distance between them. Compare France, Greece, and England and same. Then very interestingly, look at Paris - France, Athens - Greece, London - England and you’ll find the resulting vectors all align (fundamentally the vector operation seems to account for the relationship “is the capital of”). Then go a step further, compare those vector to Paris - US, Athens - US, London - Canada. You’ll see the previous set are not aligned with these nearly as much but these are aligned with each other (relationship being something like “is a smaller city in this countrry, named after a famous city in some other country”)

The way attention works there is a whole bunch of semantic meaning baked into embeddings, and by comparing embeddings you can get to pragmatic meaning as well.

Sorry missed these comments before but I’d HIGHLY recommend reading The Human Condition, great work that goes into the different types of human activity (labor, work, and action)

It’s funny how people always cite Einstein on this letter but not Hannah Arendt. Given the subject matter I’d think of her as a way more relevant expert. Probably more about overall pop culture fame than sexism but interesting nonetheless.

the human race as a whole isn’t a distinct intelligence

I don’t know it’s quite that simple, (some) cognitive scientists and Marvin Minsky might disagree too. Pedantic asshattery aside, AGI might be an intelligence that’s so fundamentally different from our own ego/narrative/1-person perspective intelligence that we have trouble recognizing it as such.

That scares me. I also have family members who got it decades back and for the most part they all still have to use glasses.

I have ridiculously bad vision (-9.5 contact prescription) and bad astigmatism already, thankfully every optometrist ever has told me I’m a horrible candidate for it so I’ve never even had the possibility in my mind.

Balmer Peak

Hahaha this guy/gal Santa Cruzes

lakrits korv

https://github.com/Feneric/Minima

Berkeley’s minimum wage is $18.07

Thankee sai is a fun one because either they are Dark Tower fans or they think you have something tremendously wrong with you.

bay area list (started as just punk and hard-core now has most everything)

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NWA was 87-91, over 30 years ago at this point. The gap between I feel like I’m fixing to die by Country Joe and Fuck the Police by NWA is smaller than the gap between Fuck the Police and today

Reads like Douglas Adams

Many (14?) years back I attended a conference (now I can’t remember what it was for, I think a complex systems department at some DC area university) and saw a lady give a talk about using agent based modeling to do computational sociology planning around federal (mostly navy/army) development in Hawaii. Essentially a sim city type of thing but purpose built to help aid in public planning decisions. Now imagine that but the agents aren’t just sets of weighted heuristics but instead weighted heuristic/prompt driven LLMs with higher level executive prompts to bring them together.