joelignaatius

So there was this German scientist that went about decoding how bees communicate where pollen sources are. I believe he won a noble prize for it. He had to individually hand paint bees. I can't remember the details and I'm too lazy to look it up.

The point here is that if you want to know what birds are saying you'd probably have to record the flapping of wings (especially with the more colorful birds) and then the bird song - their eyesight is particularly acute due to needing to eat fresh berries so body posture is most likely important in communication. A high def camera and microphone and an LLM should be able to do the job if the data is good enough on a particular species. From there you should be able to extrapolate to multiple species.

The language would probably be along the lines of a few set phrases

- wanna mate? - where's food? Here's food! - stay away - fly together south?

Stuff like that.

The homeless and others are also doing "mime stalking" which is as stupid as it sounds. They'll monitor what I'm doing online and then follow me around acting intentionally stupid with body language and clothing until I say or do something irrational and then they get a payoff.

It's stupid and they're awful. At this point I'm just repeatedly looking up all the ways they've attempted to have me poisoned in the shelter system in San Francisco. I have headaches all the time and my health is poor. All this from not drinking smoking or doing drugs. They're just poisonous sociopaths. Please don't come to this city. They're broken people.

Anyway every time it happens from now on I'll make a post on hacker news and that way I'll be able to narrow down the cause and timing. The homeless are awful. I should write that everyone in San Francisco is awful given the enormous amount of stalking gaslighting and typical assholery. It's like it's Spanish for disappointment.

Oh and the black guy that was in hackers was ton tin in the crow. So what he "learned" was essentially bird flu. And milk makes you sick because birds don't drink milk. Did I mention there are swarms of crowd flying all over the city. Also someone put a rusty spring in the bathroom and so now I'm wondering if the headaches are caused by iron filings in my food that respond to radiation that end up in my brain.

Anyway. I'll keep writing this all out because A) based on this stupid fucking movie there may or may not be bird flu in San Francisco B) I don't like being poisoned and stalked across the city by idiots re enacting every type of media they can think of (oh look this "crow"/phylactery is the way you kill people good fucking job) C) it encourages people to stay the fuck out of San Francisco which is a dangerous hell hole D) no one is helping me and everyone actively is attempting to harm me F) it's the right fucking thing to do and if I can encourage as many people as I possibly can not to come here I will E) yes they did in fact say alphabetical order when they killed tin tin. Did I mention there a stupid fucking wizard of Oz play and security company?

I just don't want to be sick. I'm going to write all this shit out so long as I'm ill and hurting.

So. Bird flu. Fucking wonderful. It's probably nothing, the hundreds of crows on the embarcadero are just there for no reason. Is someone going to give me rabies? Are my kidneys going to fail now? When I write shit people don't like do they hack the free phone I have to fuck with the iron filings in my head?

I'm sick and I hurt. 555 Beule street San Francisco.

Also the crow. Yes the stupid movie. Stalking with idiots quoting the movie or acting out parts of it. Neat. You're assholes. I already knew that and now I can't enjoy this movie. Gee whiz you're so fucking sophisticated. What a waste of talent. You could have been doing literally anything else. Ugh.

This would also explain making me repeatedly sick and then seeing if you can field test a cure on me and use that as a pay off not to have me murdered. Like tin tin from the movie. Wonderful. Am I going to be made sick and hurt to every death of a character in every film ever until I die?

This is what they're doing rather than make buildings that don't fall over. slow clap.

And the water at 555 Beule street in San Francisco has been making me sick so I've been drinking large amounts of milk and now I wonder if it has morphine in it. I'm in physical pain all the time. These people are just so fucking evil and shitty. If I had a billion dollars I'd just put it in front of the ferry building and burn it out of spite.

They're probably just having sick homeless cough on my things when I'm not looking. They're a walking public health hazard. The best part is when idiots will cough on each other, throw a mask on so no one coughs on them, and then cough on someone else on the other side of the city. It's just so fucking sad.

I'd be interested to know if code visualization were more useful for certain languages than others, specifically functional languages like elixir that specifically target data immutability.

Chills and weakness. I've had a hard time shitting and I think there's something wrong with my stomach.

As with any highly used language you end up running into what I call the COBOL problem. It will work for the vast majority of cases except where there's a system that forces an update and all of a sudden a traffic control system doesn't work or a plane falls out of the sky.

You'd have to have some way of testing all previous code in the compilation (pardon my ignorance if this is somehow obvious) to make sure this macro isn't already used. You also risk forking the language with any kind of breaking changes like this. How difficult it would be to test if a previous code base uses a charbit macro and whether it can be updated to the new compiler sounds non obvious. What libraries would then be considered breaking? Would interacting with other compiled code (possibly stupid question) that used charbit also cause problems? Just off the top of my head.

I agree that it sounds nonintuitive. I'd suggest creating a conversion tool first and demonstrating it was safe to use even in extreme cases and then make the conversion. But that's just my unenlightened opinion.

Yours is the sort of project where if I had a boatload of money I'd just find it no strings attached through your project forecast. This would be such an excellent tool for artists with light pen integration.

Serious question out of curiosity. Has anyone solved the lifting gas volatility problem (is the lighter the gas the more volatile)? That's the main deal breaker with all zeppelin proposals.

Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839095#41861186

Reminds me of cloud city in Star Wars (also mothership by Led Zeppelin - pun possibly intended). A safe zeppelin is still the shangrila of air travel.

Consider a cargo airship operated remotely. The propulsion would be based on solar powered fans. Even if it took weeks to cross the ocean it would need essentially no cost to operate (or incredibly little) compared to operating a ship. If one blows up (hydrogen is volatile) you'd dump all the cargo on the ocean but you wouldn't be dumping tons of diesel fuel and the frame of the the ship is smaller than a ship. If you can do it without a crew you've essentially made shipping almost free except for loading and unloading at ports. AND you can put ports in areas that don't have access to inlets to the oceans or good shorelines. The most difficult part is the volatility of the lifting gas. You might have to load and unload cargo on platforms away from the coastline to prevent explosions. As for the hydrogen itself, the balloon can create it's own lifting gas by separating hydrogen from the atmosphere with an onboard chemical electric apparatus (presumably) if it ends up leaking hydrogen on its voyage. Lifting gas volatility has always been the biggest problem.

What is the minimum set of grammar for which all other grammar in a language can be constructed? So if Turkish has a gossip tense then we know we can construct that tense from English right? I'm thinking in terms of conlangs but not just binary.

At what point do the economics and the scaling laws make AI no longer economically feasible? Like "in order to justify our capitalization we need to consume all the power in the universe territory"?

It would seem the next logical step would be to come up with a series of examples where the conjecture fails and then extrapolate from there what new rules you come up with. And then possibly attempt to draw an isomorphism from another field. At some point mathematics will turn into an LLM problem (I know hype cycle). I'm interested in knowing if there are branches of mathematics which are near inaccessible to non computational methods of proof. And then there would be levels of mathematics where the proof itself would be true, but it would be much like me asking you for the intuition except it would be man versus the computer. If you do this level of mathematics and you put it in a box you have some real world result the operations of which are non comprehensible but demonstrably have an analogy to something understandable. Schrodinger's AI.

I may be missing something. If theres edges u1 to v1 and symmetrical graph u2 to v2 then any post has to be between u1 to u2 for any u. Which means traversing a post would essentially be adding an edge to the graph (no matter the probability). It seems intuitively obvious (which is stated here as incorrect) that going through a post would be more expensive.

I don't get it.

What's the smallest commercially available electronic and can it be inserted into the brain?

Why am I having headaches?