novelty @d6e.io · 22/08/2026NT also overshare/infodump it's just about their friends/family instead of systems/concepts/things 042
novelty @d6e.io · 15/09/2025I really wish #nix had algebraic data types... Doing logic on strings is rough and it's really hard to know what values are accepted or not without building the derivation 110
novelty @d6e.io · 02/04/2025Why do we call it "computer science" and "cybersecurity", why not "cyberscience"? 030
Reposted by noveltyDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025More from Judge Reyes 30939252
novelty @d6e.io · 29/11/2024What evidence do we have that intelligence actually scales exponentially and not logarithmically? 230
novelty @d6e.io · 29/11/2024Bullying on social media seems to be a big problem. A small number of users seem to enjoy bullying. It would be neat if there was a labeler that did sentiment analysis on the last X replies a person made and measured how inflammatory they are. Then people could choose to auto block or hide them. 230
novelty @d6e.io · 29/11/2024From my experience in Tokyo, if a location on Google Maps has more than 50 reviews, and the total number of reviews with less than 5 stars is less than 10% of the 5-star reviews, it’s likely that the reviews are manipulated or fake. 030
novelty @d6e.io · 27/11/2024So like one cool thing we can do now: if there’s a class of statistical errors that occur in scientific papers, we can have bots that test for that. Prompt: “you are a p-hacking detection bot, read the following paper and assign a percentage score for p-hacking likelihood” 130
novelty @d6e.io · 26/11/2024Recursively self-improving intelligence was based on the assumption that we lived in the Chomskian universe where AI is a very clever rule based algorithm. So far it seems we actually live in the Norvig universe where AI is a statistical model consisting of obscene quantities of compute and data 130
novelty @d6e.io · 24/11/2024It would be really cool if there was a bluesky feed generator that used an embedding to generate feeds and you could specify a vector and get a custom feed of content close to that vector. 120
novelty @d6e.io · 23/11/2024I thought this was insightful youtu.be/d8PndpFPL8g?...youtu.bePopulism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible MomentYouTube video by vlogbrothers 000
novelty @d6e.io · 23/11/2024One of my big pain points with shell scripting is how it much it is implicitly dependent on the state of the file system and environment variables. The industry really needs some sort of static analysis tool which can predict the state of the file system and warn if a state mismatch would occur 000
Reposted by noveltyItai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 22/11/2024This is the best theory of Musk I have seen 5704
novelty @d6e.io · 19/11/2024One of the magical things about Japanese cities is that you can be in an area for days before noticing that there’s an entire supermarket beneath your feet 020
novelty @d6e.io · 19/11/2024When Ai was starting out, we expected an intelligence explosion because technological development tends to be exponential. But what we’ve found in practice is that it takes exponential resources to get linear improvements in capabilities. This does not seem like intelligence explosion. 030
novelty @d6e.io · 19/11/2024I actually wonder if mind uploading might be a flying car technology. An idea that is exciting for people but ultimately not practical and kind of bad in implementation. 120
novelty @d6e.io · 13/11/2024I’m sitting in a cafe in #japan #tokyo waiting for my order and a guy came up to the clerk carrying a duplicate of the cafe’s custom doormat. The clerk gave him some money and then he swapped the old mat with a clean mat and left. Is this some sort of specialized custom mat service?? 130
novelty @d6e.io · 04/11/2024Gleam looks really cool! The lack of a strong type system in erlang/elixir always bothered me. I hope it becomes a viable alternative to async rust for web dev gleam.rungleam.runGleam LanguageThe Gleam programming language 270
novelty @d6e.io · 21/10/2024I’m in Japan right now and I really love how easy it is now to do OCR. Looking up a kanji used to take me several minutes, now i can just take a picture with my phone and copypaste the characters right out of the image into my dictionary or into an LLM for contextual understanding 020
novelty @d6e.io · 28/09/2024The memes from before 2016 were about situations. The memes now are about dunking. The internet has become a more hostile place. 030
novelty @d6e.io · 26/07/2023Everyone thinks the Cold War was about the escalation of two egregores. Really, it was about the budgetary infighting of the military branches as each tried to come up with new uses for nuclear weapons so they could get a bigger slice of the pie. www.dwarkeshpatel.com/podcast 110
novelty @d6e.io · 29/05/2023@tess.bsky.social Didn't you talk about doing drone laser tag? www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IWOsLJLL8 120
