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wow it is great to see that there is still life in distributed programming languages. I would like to know what are the differences to MPI programming, chapel and PGAS languages li…

There is a free emulator here: https://www.fullbucket.de/music/fb3300.html The PS-3300 is a 3 layer synth with 49 voices where each voice has its own VCO/VCF/VCA. So you end up wit…

I think the battery life of a smart watch cannopt be underestimated. I have all the old pebbles which I love darely but then I got a Amazfit Bip and I stayed with it until today. O…

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People talk about a Butlerian Jihad against AI as if you could just ban LLMs and be done. I bet some govermenst would like to do that for ordinary people. They can ban visible prod…

One thing to consider: The (well-known) Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (if dont know it, look it uop) is often invoked for natural languages, but there’s a pretty direct analogue for progr…

You can of course use any language but here is my advice: you should use the language that you know best to make your life as uncomplicated as possible when you want to understand …

In the long run there is no alternative to really reading your codebase and understanding what is going on. You can leave the nitty gritty details to the LLM but you have to be in …

God I miss openstep and CDE. It needs 16MB RAM (yes MB!) and together with a lighweight firefox clone you get everything you need. Eye candy is nice to have but not at that cost.

A claw is an orchestrator for agents with its own memory, multiprocessing, job queue and access to instant messengers.

He also talks about picoclaw (a IoT solution) and nanoclaw (running on your phone in termux) and has a tiny code base.

He also talks about picoclaw which even runs on $10 hardware and is a fork by sipeed, a chinese company who does IoT. https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw another chinese coompany m5…

TOTP is also just password + some computation. So where is the difference? There is a lot of security theatre around TOTP with the QR code and then need of an app but you can write…

WebAssembly in the browser does feel great when you look at things like Pyodide/Pyolite, JupyterLite, xeus, webR and even small tools like texlyre – you get a full language/runtime…

MCP is just a small, boring protocol that lets agents call tools in a standard way, nothing more. You can run a single MCP server next to your app, expose a few scripts or APIs, an…

Get money from donors. Wikipedia shows how that can be done. Or get money from the EU. Mozilla is a strawman for google that they can claim there exists another browser that is not…

Does it run on M5Stack Tab5 or the CARDPUTER? Did anyone try?

I see it at our place that seniors get more productive but also that juniors get faster on track and more easily learn the basics that are needed and to do basic tasks like doument…

In my experience AI is wikipedia/stackoverflow on steroids when I need to know something about a field I dont know much about. It has nice explanations and you can ask for examples…

I agree, you need to know the "language" and the keywords of the topics that you want to work with. If you are a complete newcomer to a field then AI wont help you much. You have t…

Also AI cannot draw conclusions like "from A and B follows C". You really have to point its nose into the result that you want and then it finally understands. This is especially h…

Learning == Compression of information. It can be a description by a shorter bit length. Think Shannon Entropy and the measure of information content. The information is still in t…

How good can you recreate an image that is described by words? Obviously not bit by bit and pixel by pixel. You get something that resembles the original but not an exact copy.

It is at least as lossy as jpeg compression. Details get lost and artifacts are generated.