Maxime Chevalier

NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music pointersgonewild.com/2021/12/05/noi…

@pyginapithon @wholemars In theory you could have them around parks and areas where humans hang out. There's no way you could ever eradicate mosquitos this way, but yeah I think that even then, the noise would be annoying and the maintenance would be expensive. No way this runs long without a human.

@wholemars I think it’s cool, but… isn’t this just the equivalent of spending tens of millions on missiles to shoot down a $10,000 drone? The economics simply don’t work.

What could go wrong?

@zooko Depends. What you don't want random programs to have the ability to install a keylogger script or read all your home directory. However, a VM function that opens a file selector dialog is not insecure because the user is choosing files to open. It's also ergononic.

@Love2Code When I hear "sandboxed", I think it's probably an unergonomic and non-extensible system that users will never be able to rely on for getting real work done, while remaining safe. I could be wrong! But that's what the word means to me.

@zooko The whole program is sandboxed, so if you download and run an insecure program, it has limited access to your system. Programs have to ask for permission. Similar to mobile. It's not foolproof but it prevents things like random software installing a keylogger.

@Love2Code Can I write a program that when it runs in UVM, imports and executes a logging library, and that library contains a supply-chain attack, and yet my program is still safe? web.archive.org/web/2026042507…

@Peter87257618 Quake had a QuakeC interpreter for similar reasons, so people could script gameplay for mods in a portable way.

@Love2Code A fun fact: Unreal Engine's blueprint system was placing functions into individual VMs at the compiler stage for this sole purpose - cross platform compatibility

@sven_karlsson3 @EskilSteenberg I think the challenge with that is that it creates a bit of fragmentation in the WASM ecosystem (you need to use my specific WASM flavor), and at the same time I need to keep my WASM runtime compatible with future WASM extensions. pointersgonewild.com/2024/04/20/the…

@Love2Code @EskilSteenberg Yes, I assumed a sort of standard set of extensions.

@sven_karlsson3 @EskilSteenberg I go over that in the post, but the issue is that WASM is not really "batteries included". WASM on the web is not the same as WASM on non-browser runtimes. I could make another WASM runtime with extensions, but that would make it a non-standard not-quite-wasm.

@EskilSteenberg @Love2Code WASM currently does some of these things right? I mean, it has problems, but it can be made essentially cross-platform can't it?

@jfbastien Sounds achievable. Tho you may want to keep that license and registration somewhere in the car as well.

Lifegoals: ‣ bottle opener in every kitchen drawer ‣ only gloves in car’s glove compartment

@kevalshah01 @JunyaoShi The not so funny part is they might know their data is worthless and still be trying to sell it to you 🤦‍♀️

@JunyaoShi the funny part is when they don’t know and then send you samples 😂

Unpopular fact: 90% of data companies collecting robotics data are doing it wrong. And most don’t even know it.

@filpizlo Code snippets or it didn't happen!

@filpizlo Wat

so LibreOffice converts pointers to integers, then puts them in strings later decodes the pointers from the strings and uses them

@GaryMarcus @ylecun @geoffreyhinton Every successful deployment of deep learning has a lot of software engineering scaffolding around it. Even tokenization is kind of a weird hand-engineered scheme.

For almost two decades people like @YLeCun and @geoffreyhinton dumped on me for saying we need symbols in addition to deep learning. But that’s exactly what loop engineering is: adding symbols to deep learning. Astonishing how wrong some people’s heroes can be, and hostile they were to people trying to point to a better path.

@wholemars Don't really understand how people who have never needed to work a day in their life could have burned out 🤔

Bill Gates daughter and her co-founder have a podcast btw

@filpizlo Autonomously porting?

T800+GLM-5.2 spent the week porting LibreOffice to Fil-C. Current status: it flashes a splash screen or something and then dies with a Fil-C panic and an epic stack trace. T800+GLM-5.2 have more work to do...

@Thomas_ensc @unixpickle I feel the same way. It seems weird that deep learning people go "you haven't accepted the bitter lesson", but then they hand-engineer some baroque tokenization scheme.

@unixpickle Tokenization is my biggest personal dislike in the current architecture. So many headaches and magic number params in it!

My biggest worry about these token-level interpretability works is that they still operate on the level of tokens. What about words or concepts that are split into multiple tokens?

@valigo @glcst Maybe both are wrong 🤷‍♀️. We shouldn't put up with so much narcissism and assholery. Whatever point you want to make, you can do it without insults.

@glcst There is a difference between "your code is retarded" and "you are a retard". LKML was of the first kind, and even harshest of insults don't look that personal.

Counterpoint: I am very well acquainted with the Linux mailing list and this blog is nuts.

@wholemars But are you running a rack full of mac minis with your own agents off of it?

you need to be solarmaxxing I now generate solar energy in my own backyard and store it in these batteries. I then use stored sunlight to power all my devices is this actually saving me money? no, not much. most of my electricity usage is air conditioning and charging my cars, and this won't help with that. But I can power my devices, like my phone, laptop, watch, game controller, etc with 100% pure sunlight. I don't know why it feels so cool but it does. I set these panels outside and let the sunlight hit them. Photons, exploding out of the sun 93 million miles away, travel 8 minutes through the vacuum of space before finally landing in my backyard, on my panel, bombarding it. I'm able to catch these photons and use their energy to move electrons around in a circuit, charging my battery. I can them move some of this energy into my laptop battery, and then inference a local model with Ollama. How badass is that? Catching the sunlight, picking out the photons, and making them dance through this maze to emerge as intelligence. It's cool to know that I can do all that and hold the entire process to produce the energy required in my hand. if everything goes to shit, if the world falls apart, if the apocalypse hits, I can just go out and collect some sunlight and power my laptop, which has a distillation of all human knowledge perfectly preserved on its hard drive. tl;dr get a little solar and battery system like this one. It's super cool. Jackery, EcoFlow, and Anker all have great products in this space. Some amazon referral links below.

@dvnxmvl_hdf5 I think some people have a hard time accepting that we're "just machines". It's also kind of sad but some people seem to love dropping quantum physics into conversations because they think it makes them sound smart.

With the last 10 years of deep learning performance, why wouldn’t the brain function similarly? Even if weakly equivalent.

@KeyTryer Some people don't want to accept that humans are machines. People also tend to cling to simple explanations. The reality is the human brain is complex and self-awareness likely emerges from many components working together. Consciousness is not explained by "one weird trick".

Mfs will make up every weird theory of consciousness like quantum microtubules or EM fields rather than accept computationalism

@JKoukourakis Would it be crazy to suggest experimenting with software rendering? On a modern multicore machine you can probably do a lot. It wouldn't look at flashy but you can probably easily render ~60K-100K polygons at 1080p, and you'd get all the freedom you want.

Spot on. Modern graphics APIs raised the barrier to entry so high that it killed off the indie engine scene and partly led to the creation of the current game engine monopoly plague. Indies lack a simple and easily accessible graphics API.

@binarybits Not sure how anyone can defend DJT at this point. Everything that man does reeks of gross narcissism.

This got me blocked by Mike. 🙃