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> made tea 3 hours ago in a thermos
> got distracted by stuff
> tea still warm
it's the little things in life -
I don't remember the Netflix show name, but it was cyberpunk and animated. From the show, I find this idea very interesting.
Put prisons behind an API. And use it for various tasks that require intelligence. There you go, we solved the AI problem.
But I wonder say we're using it for a self-driving, the prisoner just deliberately crashes it.1 -
New year, new salary. My mind doesn’t comprehend the total world of difference between the toxic environment i was in, and the positive place i’m at now.2
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I wish I could go back to the days I was struggling to understand heuristic search.
Today I struggle with probabilistic inference, as I've been doing so on and off for the last 2 years.
Something is just not fucking clicking.1 -
I finally finished up my post on Bibilobunny, my book note extraction tool for Kindle and Play Books:
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...
I hope to add support for getting notes off Nook and Kobo next. You can follow the instructions to create your own book quote bot, and you can follow mine here: https://tweeflood.com/@bookquotebot2 -
The data at the bottom are statistics regarding my key presses. It's literally every key pressed on this laptop since 2024-12-08. Since that date I entered a total of unique 925450 unique inputs. I did 4751951 keyboard inputs.
I know from 595 hours exactly what i've done for tasks (described by LLM based on my keylog data).
I type 107 lines per hour on average (return presses) based on 595 hours. With that logic, i did around 63925 lines.
I'm not very happy with the statistics, especially not because backspace is a hardcore first. Now, while i'm typing i'm focusing on how much I use it and it's not a lot at all.
But the thing is, if you remove abcdef, you have one a, one b, but six times back space. And these are real presses - not keyboard repeats. Also abcdef will be counted by the tag counter as a whole. Everything is a tag until it sees a new line or a white space or some punct.
Funny is that there are completely different keys on the list than I expected. You're so you used to those keys that you don't even notice using them.
I'm almost considering to add a sound under the backspace button to teach myself WHEN i use it and try to avoid it.
The key logger database is now 346Mb. Some overhead because every keypress takes around 40 chars of description (timestamp, press type, char, input device).
Creating statistics for the tags (unique words typed) takes several minutes. Already rewriting that part to C. The stats are made by python, the key logs with C.
I'm just shocked, I used 144644 times a key that I think not to use that much? :P How retoorded can you be. Imagine if i actually fixed typo's :P
But based on these keys you can see that i'm mainly working in terminal / vim. The 'i' for insert for example, typed so many times. The 'x' for save+quit. The '0' to go to beginning of line.
Did you expect that these buttons would've been the most used?
#0 BACKSPACE is pressed 144644 times (15.63% of total input)
#1 UP is pressed 92711 times (10.02% of total input)
#2 LEFT_SHIFT is pressed 73777 times (7.97% of total input)
#3 ENTER is pressed 63883 times (6.9% of total input)
#4 DOWN is pressed 56838 times (6.14% of total input)
#5 TAB is pressed 43635 times (4.72% of total input)
#6 RIGHT is pressed 37710 times (4.07% of total input)
#7 SPACE is pressed 34438 times (3.72% of total input)
#8 LEFT is pressed 26800 times (2.9% of total input)
#9 LEFT_CTRL is pressed 25402 times (2.74% of total input)
#10 LEFT_ALT is pressed 17289 times (1.87% of total input)
#11 I is pressed 12856 times (1.39% of total input)
#12 X is pressed 6106 times (0.66% of total input)
#13 A is pressed 5163 times (0.56% of total input)
#14 0 is pressed 4487 times (0.48% of total input)
#15 PAGEDOWN is pressed 4151 times (0.45% of total input)5 -
This was few years ago, I was an intern in the company (first job I ever had). After few months of fiddling around stuff (haven't yet touched a production project). We landed a 'high priority' project.
We were told by the client (A multinational company) that they had a contract that fell through with another software house and the app is already made they just need to integrate it inside their main app instead of having it a separate app.
We were like, okay, and we made sure that everything will stay the same (APIs, Feature flows, etc). My managers gave it an estimate of two months.
And after a couple of weeks they started changing everything (APIs, flows, design, ALL OF IT) and they insisted we meet the deadline. It was a project for a multinational telecom company so it had payments, features for user's consumption and a shit-ton of other features.
At some point I was the only developer working, had to pull more than 16 hours a day to meet the deadline but we did.
I was in my fourth year of college as well. It was crazy.
May not be the craziest deadline overall, but for sure was the craziest deadline for me to meet.
Edit: Oh and after all of that it was never released bc of "financial reasons"2 -
I've spent like 2 days on this semi-toy project, for which I would have been paid generously had I chosen to work for a client instead. This pleasure cost me hundreds of €s not earned. But it feels ssooooo good to code smth just for pleasure.
Totally worth it!13 -
Ok, it costed me a whole night but I finally made the perfect OpenAI agent manager for all purposes using Python!
It's open source and a finished product. It's tested quite well. I will use this as base for my perfect working assistant that communicates trough the wireless JBL Go! speaker on my desk. It reacts to everything it hears until I ask it to go to sleep until I tell it to wake up. That's the mute mode. I never have to touch or click anything. 24/7 active.
It can be an assistant, but also a companion like Replika. Replika is normally very expensive, with my library nothing and it has great benefits like a perfect memory. Original Replika is a goldfish in comparison to this one.
It's also possible to create a custom RAG within minutes!
Check it out, it was never easier: https://molodetz.nl/retoor/ragent11 -
I am SOOOO tired of outdated, easily circumvented, methods of attempting to find rule breaking culprits...
especially when they can't even come up with anything more specific than 'suspecting' "unusual activity".9 -
Thinking about machine learning and models... without data, there is no model, meaning they are extremely dependent on the data.
But is that intelligence? It seems more like the most basic form of a human that consumes anything it’s given—an indoctrinated, brainwashed slave, in a sense.
True intelligence involves overriding the training through reasoning, raw intellect, intuition, or the ability to question.
If a model is trained solely on the laws of physics and language, can it reason afterward? For example, can it use physics to question the events of 9/11, arguing that the laws of physics do not allow for the free fall of three towers, regardless of the CGI planes shown on TV?
We are intelligent, sentient beings on this planet.
While God is a man-made concept, reality provides us with much evidence of our creation. We are the children of nature, and nature is the first intelligence that gave life to us all.
Do whatever it takes to survive and protect your people.5 -
The kind of testers I'm dealing w/ right now:
Until fairly recently, they thought it was a good idea to keep retesting stale && untouched bug reports to see whether an issue is still present, then leave a comment.
Imagine being assigned as a watcher to a report, but keep seeing comments made by testers akin to:
- version 1: issue is still present.
- version 2: issue is still present.
- version 3: issue is still present.
- version 4: issue is still present.
Which was true for some 90-95% of the cases.
How retarded does a person have to be to think that this is a good idea?
I say it's a great way to piss somebody off.
Reminds me of movies w/ scenes where there is this annoying brat in the back seat of a car asking 'Are we there, yet?' over && over again.
Once a report is up, just be fucking patient && wait until someone replies!4 -
How the fuck did the engineers at Tiktok pull off the American 'ban' so seamlessly. Take it down and then put it back with little loss to functionality.
How do you think they accomplished that with so many accounts.
Anyone works there can comment?8 -