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> It’s already happening on 50c14L.com You mention "end to end encrypted comms", where to you see end to end there? Does not seem end to end at all, and given that it's very much c…

> Isn't every single piece of content here a potential RCE/injection/exfiltration vector for all participating/observing agents? 100%, I wonder when we get LLM botnets (optional: o…

This is a funny chain.. of exchanges, cheers to you both :) At the risk of ruining 'sowbug having their fun, I'm not sure how Julian Jaynes theory of origins of consciousness align…

I've been thinking about this, take a look at this: > From Tool Calling to Symbolic Thinking: LLMs in a Persistent Lisp Metaprogramming Loop https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10021 edit b…

Yes. I have (as part of Claude output) a - `FEATURE_IMPL_PLAN.md` (master plan; or `NEXT_FEATURES_LIST.md` or somesuch) - `FEATURE_IMPL_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.md` (where I replace placeho…

Agree re: no need for heap allocation - for others: I recommend reading thru whole masscan source ( https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan ), it's a pleasure btw - iirc rathe…

> Quartz Composer Have you looked at https://vvvv.org/ ? Maybe it's still comparatively too heavy but imho it's not that heavy (cf. touch designer and the likes). I want to play wi…

> but then the shell commands were actually running llama.cpp, a mistake probably no human would make. But in the docs I see things like cp llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-* llama.cpp Wo…

> There is partial mitigation for RAPTOR: Counter-RAPTOR from 2017 ( https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=795... ) Oh I had missed that, thank you btw! Need mor…

Thank you for the pointer to LEANN! I've been experimenting with RAGs and missed this one. I am particularly excited about using RAG as the knowledge layer for LLM agents/pipelines…

Understood, thanks! I wasn't even sure where to look - thank you

Out of curiosity, what conflict resolution options exist in mysql and/or mysql cluster (never checked / exp. in PG)? Because you'll always have to address conflicts of course - we …

Do you mean the data sources it lists in those two articles are not valid? (I am referring to raw figures and not to actual textual content even). The charts themselves (and the pr…

> Where do we place Israel on that scale That is, I think, an excellent and pertinent question. For starters may I suggest applying straightforward quantification on a linear scale…

I've read part of Nick Lane's other book, The Vital Question , cannot comment on this new one; TL;DR competent biochemist (from complete amateur standpoint at any rate), excellent …

I agree! I'm sort of exploring "programmable filesystem" concept (using FuseFS) (for some notes, see [1]). Re: ordered files: depends on FS. e.g. filesystems which use B+ trees wil…

iirc there were some experiments where they rewired optic nerve and inner ear in mice to route (so to speak) to different areas of the brain (different cortical (i think?) destinat…

> Ok, not a real zip bomb, for that we would need a kernel module. Or a userland fusefs program, nice funky idea actually (with configurable dynamic filenames, e.g. `mnt/10GiB_zero…

Yes and (for posterity / those lazy to read the linked Mastodon thread), if you read through the linked thread, you see that is nonsense and Yandex is very much a Russian business …

Well, re: GDPR, for one Vlad is abjectly clearly wrong on email addresses not being PII. They are. The mere fact of him relying on his rationalisation (of burner email addresses) o…

This could not have come at a better time for me, thank you! I've been tinkering with an idea for an audiovisual sandbox[1] (like vvvv[2] but much simpler of course, barebones). Id…

This is great, thank you so much for sharing!

I have found that a general pattern of setting up a memory arena or anything of that kind does help, especially of course if one anticipates more frequent / heavier usage of heap. …

This is useful feedback for me. Thanks (no further comments, but I think I know the reason why it's been this way especially as of late)

Re: LLMs & diagrams - in general, diagrams and tables as info compression tool (both in the general sense as well as in the practical concrete "optimise for token / context window"…