20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-02-10

1758.

NESFab

pubby.games/nesfab.html

A programming language that is compiled for NES. Has a built-in map editor and a bank switching. Sometimes I think how it would've been cool to make a game for NES. Maybe this could be a good tool for that.

2024-12-31

1670.

ActivityPub - one protocol to rule them all? - Dennis Schubert

overengineer.dev/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all

Diaspora*'s developer's thoughts on ActivityPub soon after it was released. It's like he foresaw every issue there is, without even implementing the protocol. Such insight. He foresaw that C2S won't get much use, he foresaw reply forwarding problems, he foresaw everything!

2024-12-13

1626.

2024-12-13 Archiving homepages

alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-12-13-archiving-homepages

2024-09-27

1532.

nkanaev/yarr: yet another rss reader

github.com/nkanaev/yarr

yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both
as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.

The app is a single binary with an embedded database (SQLite).

2024-08-29

Reposted 1475.

There can't be only one

www.b-list.org/weblog/2024/aug/27/highlander-problem

There's a concept that I've heard called by a lot of different names, but my favorite name for it is …

2024-06-04

1286.

The Ladybird browser project

ladybird.dev

Ladybird is an ongoing project to build a truly independent web browser from scratch.

2024-01-26

1076.

I discovered a tiny frog that lives its whole life inside one plant

www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/25/tiny-frog-lives-whole-life-inside-one-plant-brazilian-mountain-aoe

Everyone told me there is no water on top of this Brazilian mountain, there won’t be any frogs. Now I’ve dedicated my life to preserving this incredible species

2023-12-06

960.

Project CETI

www.projectceti.org

CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

2023-10-22

806.

Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem

marp.app

2023-10-08

684.

Kinopio’s Design Principles

pketh.org/design-principles.html

I love Kinopio visuals...

2023-08-26

594.

Simple Appropriate Technologies

www.omick.net/index.html

2023-08-09

547.

The World’s Writing Systems

www.worldswritingsystems.org

The scripts.

2023-07-30

527.

Backing Up Your Data against Geomagnetic Storms and EMPs

briantomasik.com/backing-data-geomagnetic-storms-emps

It might be worth to prepare your data for a big electric spark. The spark is unlikely, but still. Your safest bets are discs and paper, the two optical storage media.

2023-07-25

511.

Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or IPFS or any static file hoster) - phiresky's blog

phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages

It is possible to host read-only SQLite databases on static file hosters. Might be useful in some cases.

2023-07-23

495.

Docker — Abyss

abyss.j3s.sh/hypha/docker

An honest opinion on Docker. J3s thinks that Docker is useful when the application is too complex to install properly, and that developers should make the installation part simple instead of relying on Docker. Yeah, I agree.

2023-07-21

483.

doldrusidus - Forgotten Wreckage

wreckage.duckdns.org/doldrusidus.html

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

2023-07-14

448.

“Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors

aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426

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:

2023-06-10

307.

Postmill

postmill.xyz

Postmill is a link aggregator that you can install on your own server: it is a
ready-to-use solution to bootstrap your community, including all the features
that you've come to expect.

2023-03-19

92.

The One Week Command Line Challenge

cheapskatesguide.org/articles/cmdline-challenge.html

Cheapskate installs an outdated OS on an outdated computer with laughable capabilities, yet somehow manages to use it.

2023-01-27

18.

How to Use the rock phone

unreasonablefarm.org/phone_manual.html

A description of a fantasy device.

The rock phone accepts various types of input: speech, morse code tap/hold, written characters, bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth headsets. The rock phone produces various types of output: speech, morse code beeps, bluetooth serial console, console avilable by wifi, remote screen available via wifi. The rock phone has a bone conduction speaker inside so you can place the rock phone on your temple or behind your ear to privately hear rock phone speech output/sounds, phone calls, music, or any other sound the rock phone might make.