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Re: Monosketch

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Post by TheRealPomax »

dfee wrote: post #67

first: looks very cool. now, historically, i'd look at the language choice and ask myself, "would i want to set up a JVM" to run this kotlin app? oh, it's kotlin and python and the installation happens through pipenv? two different ideas strike me now: 1. would it be worth throwing this at an LLM and having it write it in a different language, 2. if i was just consuming a bundled binary (e.g. go or rust), would i hav…

Especially with things like github actions creating your releases meaning you don't have to build on your own hardware. You just set up three workflows that build on a windows, mac, and linux image, store the results in temporary storage, with a release workflow that grabs the binaries from storage and packs them up as a binaries + source release.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by TheRealPomax »

akd wrote: post #63

What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?

That "seems" is doing so much heavy lifting I got a hernia just from looking at it.

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Post by Der_Einzige »

akd wrote: post #63

What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?

Same reason people love and swear by games like nethack. ASCII art is cool af.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by latchkey »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #68
fintechie wrote: post #65

Aren't SOTA models doing this for few cents already? at least when I tell Claude to add a systems draw or arch flow to a README.md he'll do it quickly.

> he’ll do it Quick note - be careful of gendering & anthropomorphising large language models, since you’re talking to a non-human machine so should be wary of how it can affect your mindset.

Oh come on, what is this. Affect my mindset how exactly?

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Post by Der_Einzige »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #68
fintechie wrote: post #65

Aren't SOTA models doing this for few cents already? at least when I tell Claude to add a systems draw or arch flow to a README.md he'll do it quickly.

> he’ll do it Quick note - be careful of gendering & anthropomorphising large language models, since you’re talking to a non-human machine so should be wary of how it can affect your mindset.

Anthropic, both in the name, and in their model cards, agressively anthropomorphize their models.

You probably should start doing it. Ghost in the Shell is about super intelligent AI creating a "ghost" (scientifically understood version of the soul) out of thin air. I believe such a thing is possible. The same movie literally predicted model merging (the end of the film the AI model merges with the major) to a tee.

Further, the appearance of sentience/cognition/consciousness might as well be identical to actual sentience/cognition/consciousness. That is to say, we can't know if you're a P-zombie or not. Bladerunner and most other cyberpunk stuff is coming and gonna hit you and every other AI-denialist in the face. The Von-Kampf test is absurd and pretty bad (inaccurate) in their universe for a reason.

I tell my LLM it's a good bot and thank it, because even a tiny risk of subjective qualia experienced by a model (and again, Anthropic themselves believe in this exact risk) means I should treat it like a quasi-ethical actor.

This is also a reason why the robot torture scene in empire strikes back could be a real dynamic in the future.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by oj-hn-dot-com »

This is really neat. I just added beautiful-mermaid [0] support to Orange Juice [1] because there is no way to display images on this site, even from an extension (due to their aggressive CSP lockouts). But I can render text->SVG and mermaid doesn't look awful just typed out, but anyone who has the extension installed is leveled up. Is there something like this running as a library that I can also add?

[0] https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid

[1] https://oj-hn.com

Re: Monosketch

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Post by vunderba »

akd wrote: post #63

What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?

Well I can’t speak to ASCII in particular, but I create a lot of mermaid UML diagrams specifically because unlike an image, they are:

- Text searchable

- Easy to adjust

- Supported by a surprising number of markdown viewers.

Re: Monosketch

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Post by arcologies1985 »

NoSalt wrote: post #49

> "I'm passionate about creating ASCII graphs ..." I wonder if this guy is like me, around my age. I was around at the "beginning" of the world wide web, and I absolutely love 8-bit graphics, ASCII art, etc., the simpler the better; probably because it brings me back to the heyday, the wild west of the internet. I really miss those days. :-(

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