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MacOS has pretty strong screenshot capabilities out of the box; honestly, makes me want the same for Windows.

Trivial to run Mistral 7B on an M1 Macbook Air using LM Studio. Just make sure you use a quantized version.

Well, this is cutting edge ML code written in PyTorch. I wouldn't worry about understanding something like this - you start with scikit-learn first.

Surprised nobody is mentioning climate change. Young people are supposed to be contributing and centering their lives around a kind of societal structure which is increasingly seen…

If you read the article, the cult's also been involved in what's arguably sex trafficking. The author wasn't personally harmed in a significant way but I don't see how that's relev…

I think that identifying the ruliad with the "logos" makes sense - the idea that there's some underlying abstract shape to the universe that makes rationality possible in the first…

> I never got the "emergent properties have special aesthetic and nearly spiritual significance" or "everything is just an " cognitive confusion that so many mathematicians (especi…

It's not complete bullshit, it just fails to engage with the already existing work on the subject. He's creating his own entire system instead of looking at similar work by others …

> The particular thing that comes to mind repeatedly when reading this is the fact that more or less all of mathematics can be derived starting either from set theory or from logic…

I was skeptical until I saw the applications, especially representing groups. Not entirely sure how distinct these ideas are from studying power sets or how to really think about w…

This really feels like a losing battle - especially the part where you only get warned about being stalked by the AirTag if you have an iPhone. Having the technology to know where …

Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.

A fun thought: monospaced fonts are appealing to developers because we spend a bunch of time looking at them.

I'm of two minds about this sort of analysis of social capital. 1. It's interesting; a lot of human behavior involves presentation to other human beings, and social media platforms…

It's extremely funny that politicians are trying to get laws passed to make sure that mods don't delete their posts.

The idea of applying mathematics/rationalization to storytelling is interesting, but I feel like models get bogged down eventually. There's a reason why the humanities exist as a d…

I was wondering about the existence of structured resume formats, so thank you for this random piece of knowledge in a place I did not expect to find it.

Very cool, and great use of the read.cv domain name.