Blog
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Microblog
Short-form observations.
I suddenly feel nostalgic for these old Cube World things. Apparently nobody has reverse-engineered the things significantly. A shame. I think one of my friends has some somewhere so I might look into it.
ImageBind can apparently embed audio (and also thermal camera output, depth sensor output and IMU traces...?) into the same embedding space as Meme Search Engine's CLIP model. I could plausibly add a search-by-audio option.
Did you know? According to some leaks, GPT-4 has as many parameters* as there are molecules in 3.6*10^-14kg of water.
- ish
@theking@mathstodon.xyz Well, they don't seem to have actually done this yet.
Twitter is apparently now hilariously broken. I do wonder what's going to replace it, if anything. No offense intended toward the designers and implementers of ActivityPub, but the Fediverse is more technical than most users are likely willing to put up with or comprehend. Bluesky is apparently also vaguely unusable.
If you've ever wondered what I was referring to when I alluded to Minoteaur and its history of being rewritten a lot, I finally wrote it up: https://osmarks.net/minoteaur/
Experiments
Various web projects I have put together over many years. Made with at least four different JS frameworks. Some of them are bad.
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This new paper is going to annoy a lot of people, but I think that's fine. Its author, Arash Sadri, has undertaken an extensive review of the origins of all approved small-molecule drugs (1144 of them). His claim is that only 123 of them were discover…
via AAAS: Keyword search for query 21/09/2023Thank you to Carl Reinemann for writing in and sharing with us that the Meteor M2 LRPT decoder by Oleg (Robonuka) was recently updated. The Russian Meteor M2-3 weather satellite was launched in June of this year and is currently the only operational Mete…
via rtl-sdr.com 18/09/2023Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful gra…
via Drew DeVault's blog 17/09/2023Just a couple of quick announcements while I finish scribbling argumentative notes in the margins of Eric Hoel’s book on consciousness. First, there’s this guy called Guy d’Andigné, runs sfss: a classy, minimalist little site that reprints science fiction…
via No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons 07/09/2023One of the things we struggle with on woof.group is un-actionable reports. For various reasons, most of the reports we handle are for posts that are either appropriately content-warned or don’t require a content warning under our content policy–things lik…
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