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Thanks for the blast from the past. SED led me to AWK, which led me to Perl, which lead me to Python. An interesting chain that brought me back to the interpreted languages like BASIC that I programmed in when I was a kid. Even though my formal training in college was Pascal and C.

Are there any attempts to start geo-engineering to fix this? I'm assuming there will be no attempt to stop dumping carbon into the atmosphere, can we at least do something to take it back out? Can we use solar or renewables to possibly do that at scale?

Have you tried asking one of your peers who claims to get good results to run a test with you? Where you both try to create the same project, and share your results?

What I like about Forth is that it can be expressed at the lowest level of computation, and that it can be used to bridge that to the highest level of computation. For example, Forth only requires about 12 opcodes to run, which can be implemented in a few dozen chips. But now that you have that, since it's Turing-complete, you can now pull across a lisp or C compiler, and build a working operating system from there. Granted, that would be a lot of work, but it's relatively straightforward work, and that's always impressed me.

We could just leave them up there and add more stations nearby. It may even be possible to use tethering lines to travel from one to another.

ML on Apple ][+ 10 months ago

An Aeon ago in 1984, I wrote a perceptron on the Apple II. It was amazingly slow (20 minutes to complete a recognition pass), but what most impressed me at the time was that it did work. Since that time as a kid I always wondered just how far linear optimization techniques could take us. If I could just tell myself then what I know now...

Gemini Robotics 1 year ago

Man, we shared our knowledge via books long before the internet. And a lot of those AI models train off of thousands of books as a base before they try to incorporate less accurate knowledge from the wild internet. The cat was out of the bag on that long ago.

Solarpunk 1 year ago

I can't contribute that much yet. I'm working on a set of real estate investments to hopefully start the chain within 5-6 years. One of the things that would help for now is to experiment with small projects and hopefully identify something(s) that could make a good long term investment engine.

Solarpunk 1 year ago

I really wish there was a finance group for solarpunk stuff. It's a constant problem, and when I join any of the many groups online, no-one seems to acknowledge it. If there was some sort of fund that we could contribute to that handled the financing, and looked strictly for long term investments, I'm sure that it would make money, that could then be put back into more long-term solarpunk investments, for the good of all. I don't know how to set such a thing up, or I'd do it myself!

And then you run into problems on the corporate side: fake job listings to build up resume databases for comparison shopping of applicants. Regulations in this area should have to cut both ways.

I'm designing a new PC and I'd like to be able to run local models. It's not clear to me from posts online what the specs should be. Do I need 128gb of RAM? Or would a 16gb RTX 4060 be better? Or should I get a 4070 ti? If anyone could pint me toward some good guidelines I'd greatly appreciate it.