A space exploration game with spaceships programmable in Tal. I follow the development but don't play. Looks cool.

2-dimensional string painter.

My philosophy is that (nearly) everyone can and should host their own microblog, but I’m less convinced that’s true for a link site.

My philosophy is totally different.

Main instance:

• https://azorius.net

Гришаев рассказывает, что хорошего и плохого в хтмх и аналогах. Самое крутое, что с ним на динамическом фронтенде пропадает состояние.

Когда автор писал это, он явно забыл про существование нединамических сайтов, которые решают большинство проблем.

Goroutines are not coroutines! I thought it was a nice pun! It's not!

Russ walks us over the concept of coroutines in other languages and then implements them in Go using goroutines.

Gotta read more thoroughly. I don't really see why we need them.

P. S. Loving how coroutine is shortened to coro. It's how the Francophones shorten laboratorie or whatever to just labo. Adolescent becomes ado. Cool French style!

Needed this to make my graphic tablet work on my Macbook.

DiskerNet empowers you to be the master archivist of your own internet browsing. As a robust, lightweight tool, DiskerNet seamlessly connects to your browser, saving and organizing your online discoveries in real-time. With an option to archive everything or only bookmark-worthy content, DiskerNet places you in full control of your browsing history. No special plugins or extensions required.

Коллекция ссылок про архивирование веба.

This is an extension to clip websites and download them into a readable markdown file. Please keep in mind that it is not guaranteed to work on all websites.

A program by Mozilla that powers the Reader mode in FF and many other programs. Something I like.

В 2016 году океанологи впервые обнаружили и записали то, как кашалоты общаются друг с другом, используя своеобразную ультразвуковую речь из коротких и длинных ритмично повторяющихся щелчков (кодов), напоминающих сигналы азбуки Морзе. Им удалось обнаружить, что кашалоты общаются друг с другом тэт-а-тэт, в формате диалога между двумя особями. До этого биологи считали, что эти киты используют групповые формы общения, что «диалекты» их языка различаются по группам, и одинаковые для их членов. Но оказалось, что каждый кит общается с товарищами на собственном «сленге». Учёные планируют использовать машинное обучение, чтобы попытаться расшифровать то, что эти животные «говорят» друг другу. Если люди когда-либо расшифруют язык китов или даже определят, обладают ли киты тем, что мы действительно можем назвать языком, нам нужно будет наделить их щелчки контекстом. Результатом расшифровки общения китов будет знание того, кем являются эти одни из самых загадочных существ Земли.

Крутая статья про то, как используют рыб для sustainable и low-tech переработки человеческих отходов.

Башкирский ярус (Bashkirian) соответствует башкирскому веку среднего карбона (и нижней пенсильванской эпохе согласно международной стратиграфической шкале). Башкирский век начался 318.1 ± 1.3 и закончился 311.7 ± 1.1 млн. лет назад.

Я из Башкортостана!!

Животные, обнаруженные под льдами Антарктиды, ведут оседлый образ жизни, они не способны передвигаться с места на место. Обычно чтобы такие создания смогли жить глубоко на океанском дне, им нужны стабильные запасы пищи в виде «морского снега». Все живые существа, плавающие в километрах воды наверху, однажды умирают, и со временем тонут. Их частицы, которые не достались никому более прожорливому, со временем добираются до дна.

Interspecies Internet is a think-tank to accelerate our understanding of interspecies communication.

Не очень понятно, что они сделали уже, надо разобраться. Тема интересная.

This project is meant to run as a standalone service to deliver posts from your own website to ActivityPub followers. You can run your own website at your own domain, and this service can handle the ActivityPub-specific pieces needed to let people follow your own website from Mastodon or other compatible services.

A site generator using the file system as the interface.

Сайт разработчика OutWiker.

This may seem a strange heading for someone whose career is in computers, yet I feel that this article has been a lifetime in the making. It is the product of intuitive observations and things that have stood out to me, even as a child, who even then could sense the sinister side of the most banal of technologies.

A specific someone in disguise says that accepting help to your software projects often leads to destruction.

One can use gzip to classify data.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often used for text classification due to their high accuracy. However, DNNs can be computationally intensive, requiring millions of parameters and large amounts of labeled data, which can make them expensive to use, to optimize, and to transfer to out-of-distribution (OOD) cases in practice. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric alternative to DNNs that’s easy, lightweight, and universal in text classification: a combination of a simple compressor like gzip with a k-nearest-neighbor classifier. Without any training parameters, our method achieves results that are competitive with non-pretrained deep learning methods on six in-distribution datasets.It even outperforms BERT on all five OOD datasets, including four low-resource languages. Our method also excels in the few-shot setting, where labeled data are too scarce to train DNNs effectively.

Our method is a simple, lightweight, and uni- versal alternative to DNNs. It’s simple because it doesn’t require any preprocessing or training. It’s lightweight in that it classifies without the need for parameters or GPU resources. It’s universal as com- pressors are data-type agnostic, and non-parametric methods do not bring underlying assumptions.

Without any pre-training or fine-tuning, our method outperforms both BERT and mBERT on all five datasets.

Questioned:

• https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/

For some reason it took me some time to find it. Saving here so it is easier next time.

Paying human pollinators is cheaper than renting bees in areas with no bees.

1994. The language is nicely designed. Nice to see the original goroutines here, as this is a Go predecessor. The rodent theme is old, as it seems. The mice in the title are the computer mice.

Oh, that's how I should refactor Mycomarkup. Perfect.

Weblite attempts to provide simplified specifications for HTML, CSS, XML for the simpler web. In idea, if you stick to these specs, your site will work like in every browser, including the small ones.

Adriane, the Gemini browser for Android, and the Gempub format, were made in this digital lab.

It's fun and easy to express state machines in Rust, as this article clearly shows. Wouldn't be that much fun in Go, innit?

Using type system for ensuring correctness of the state machines is a good idea. I should do that...

This article has two sequels.

Save birdsite threads to PDF:s. I wonder if it still works.

Куча бесплатных и свободных SVG иконок. Надо будет что-нибудь для Бетулы взять.

Почему на них так тесно и красно.

Overfitting is bad. The best example in the article is the school system. Tests were introduced to measure students effectively. They were a good measure for that! Then schools started focusing on tests. You know what happened. Поколение ЕГЭ, cramming, etc.

A Python library for handling microformats2. It parses Betula well.

Our favorite dodecahedron says that learning to play an instrument is not worth it. They are not as good at it as they wanted. They also invite to focus more on composing, and leave performing to robots.

Два аёс-разработчика говорят, что если можно сделать продукт, не поднимая сервер, лучше так и сделать, особенно учитывая какие прекрасные возможности для программиста дают современные яблочные устройства. Синхронизация через яклаўд, производительность до дурного высокая и всё такое.

Я, конечно, не аёс-разработчик, но могу обратить внимание на то, что у меня ваще всё с сервером. А ведь Бетулу можно было бы и без него! Но на самом деле получилось бы хуже, ведь мне не один айфон поддерживать, а как минимум андроид и мак, которыми я пользуюсь.

Подкаст можете не слушать, я за вас послушал.

via https://ilyabirman.ru/meanwhile/all/listening-65/

Если делать дизайн только из красного света, то глаза не будут терять ночное видение, потому что ночные палочки не замечают красный свет. Так-то толку от этого мало, но в некоторых случаях супер-полезно. Например, морякам и астрономам.

A fun read.

One of NetHack4 developers playtested several NetHack variants and told their findings and thoughts on balance in great design.

I've never got to Sokoban in NetHack. I basically don't know how to play. Despite that, I enjoyed this ridiculously long article.

Also, it was the first article in 6 years in the blog. Luckily, RSS catches everything.

Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.

Stories like this make me want to get a GBA SP, but the prices for screenmodded GBA:s make me unwant.

Красиво! Надо себе выбрать завяз нормальный, а то я как-то плохо шнурки завязываю. Меня Б. как-то учил крутому узлу, но я забыл.

Христофор приплывает на землю счастливых людей и сразу думает о том, как его отнять. Чем всё закончилось, знаем.

... we are heading to the world where 10% of population would be able to produce all the goods needed.

... How is the 90% going to make their living?

They are not. If nothing changes they are going to die of hunger. And even worse, once that happens there will be only 10% of the population left, so the market shrinks to one tenth of its original size. At that point only only one tenth of the survivors — 1% of the orginal population — will be needed to produce all the goods. Thus, 9% will be left with no work to do and will also die of hunger. Now, of course, the demand plummets to 1% of what it used to be in the past and, given the improved efficiency, only 0.1% is needed to satisfy it. 0.9% is left with no work, is starved to death etc. Vicious circle perpetuates until the last human being dies of hunger.

All in all, there are three possible solutions:

1. Decrease efficiency

2. Work less

3. Consume more

I think the initial problem is wrong. We still need at least some millions of people to sustain the world. We can't go to one person in the limit who will manage a farm, a factory and an internet server all by themselves.

The author says the proposed three solution won't solve the problem long term. Yeah, they won't. They aren't solving it now. Says a universal basic income might help, but says it's a topic for another day.

See also /408

Take the cost of introducing new abstractions to your code in consideration.

A fish in the water doesn’t know what water is, a fish would also be a horrible swimming instructor.

The subjective experiencer definitely knows something that the observer doesn’t, but there are probably things that the observer can understand that they can’t and they might not be able to ever grasp it.