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almusdives

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About almusdives

By day: academic at intersection of molecular genetics and evolutionary biology. By night: build programming languages inspired by cellular metabolism.

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    The lost "work" is two years of ChatGPT logs. Sounds like AI systems had concrete benefits to this researcher in a number of applications, but I'm not sure how I feel that their di…

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    Comment #46706847

    Is there anyway to try this without logging in?

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    Comment #46704104

    Funny how in a world of AI, human curation is becoming more important.

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    Comment #46694012

    I appreciate that this figure is showing that the relative scarcity of gold compared to oil increasing, but I'm not sure what it's saying, or is interesting beyond that? Is this re…

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    Comment #46693787

    Definitely says something, but I'm not sure what. How are you interpreting this?

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    Comment #46615002

    Just wanted to say this post has caused a huge spike in traffic to my language's website: a dizzying ~40 visitors per day up from ~0 haha!

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    Comment #44375113

    As a scientific researcher, I use LLMs all the time. Mainly in place of Google search, to help write code and maybe summarize a paper here and there etc. But I definitely don't use…

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    Comment #44098936

    I get why this is problematic for industries that depend on high traffic for ad revenue etc, but is bad for websites who are actually trying to market services that provide tangibl…

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    Comment #43579980

    Over the last few years, I’ve been working on Zyme, an esoteric language for genetic programming: creating computer programs by means of natural selection. I’ve started seeing prom…

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    Comment #42908569

    > We actually know exactly which gene sequence is responsible for real intelligence. We don't at all know this.

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    Comment #42172226

    You're right - a disassembler would be incredibly valuable; and while I haven’t gotten around to implementing one yet, it’s definitely on my radar. But even the idea of even having…

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    Comment #42164633

    Thanks! Since the language is still in its early stages of being able to evolve programs, I don't have many examples to share yet. I didn’t realize when I began but developing the …

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    Comment #42164249

    Sadly not. When I was developing Zyme, I was thinking a lot about the molecular components of a cell and how one might translate them into a virtual machine. I was particularly ins…

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    Show HN: Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language

    Zyme is an esoteric language for genetic programming: creating computer programs by means of natural selection.