What are you doing this weekend?
7 points by caius
7 points by caius
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback.
Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!
Just finished writing a blog post about how I found a bug in TAOCP and Knuth named the theorem after me after fixing it. Spent the day counting page views, so I’m going to disconnect this weekend, go to the mountains and visit a festival.
Going to Latvia and Lithuania on vacation, and meditating a lot on what it actually means to be sentient. Sentience is becoming a very interesting question to me as it seems like a continuous experience hsppening over time. Can an LLM which has discrete steps be sentient?
I've never thought of sentience as it would relate to continuous vs. discrete experiences. That's very interesting.
My (very Hofstadter-ey) take has always been that sentience requires some form of self reference or modification. I believe an LLM cannot be sentient because our current architectures are all feed-forward.
That said I think an LLM can appear sentient, because as we scale the number of parameters its lower level of thought can approximate a higher level of thought. To me this feels like regular grammars vs. context free grammars. No DFA can match an infinite number of nested parentheses. But you could construct a sufficiently large DFA that it could match every string of nested parentheses a human could possibly type. That doesn't mean it's context free! Just a DFA that appears to be context free.
Sitting in a weird transitional space in life. Relationship is over, but neither of us has acknowledged as much as yet. Nobody did anything wrong, it's just kinda fallen apart. I'm not angry, would be so much easier if I was, just fed up and exhausted with the situation. Gonna be a mess, sorting out living arrangements and finances. So I'm just sitting with it for a bit.
Idk, there's that, and also watching pretentious video essays on youtube I guess.
Currently on the ferry to Isle of Man for a long weekend with a friend in the Z4. Was supposed to be taking part in a road rally event, but that was cancelled. Already had ferry/hotels booked so we're going to explore anyway, just at a more relaxed pace. Second time I've been there, looking forward to visiting again.
I'm going through the corrections my student made to his PhD thesis after the examiners' feedback. It's the culmination of four years of hard work on his part.
Last weekend, after months of slowly grinding, I got YEdit to run as a 16 bit program under OS/2 and render a file...only to crash as soon as a key is pressed.
This weekend will be the most exciting part of making it truly work.
It's currently 150Kb so has to be mindful of the 16 bit segmented memory model for both code and data, which has been an interesting exploration. And factoring code so that each part can be built in 640Kb with a 127 character command line has been an interesting challenge too.
Ultimately I'll get this to run on DOS 4, which is now MIT licensed with a bundled compiler/linker, and desperately needs a bundled text editor.
I'm going to make some homemade dairy-free yogurt. Basically I make homemade soy milk. Add 1 cup of cashews blend in my blender for about a minute or two. Add some agar agar which I've bloomed in water. Pour it into jars. Let it cool to 110 Fahrenheit. Then I run it 110 in my sous vide water bath for 12 hours. But before that I put in my Thermopolis bacteria. So is it like Greek yogurt more or less.
Junction Jam! it's a game jam in the MidWest USA where participants build a game while on a train to and from the hub in Chicago! I haven't taken many trains so I'm looking forward to it. This will be my 3rd game jam.
I don't know. I've had a stressful few days at work while the boss was away and tomorrow's a national holiday so everything's gonna be closed. My partner's on vacation. I might just sit at home and watch a horror movie or two, build an orc army in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, and work on whichever of my project catches my eye after I've recovered from the work-related stress.
I have been getting into learning binary exploitation lately, and since everyone is saying the 90s and 00s were the golden age of that, I have spun up a VM with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to try to recreate some old vulnerabilities.