Imagine if all the money and effort going to train LLM was used for developing better solar technology and to create tools that were more energy efficient #Imagine
It is technological in the sense that if we abruptly try to move to zero carbon agriculture about a third of the people alive are going to starve to death.
There's no easy answer to the situation, going back to the 1870s as far as emissions means mass starvation and probably WW3.
@hugoestr absolutely. we've been saying for a while now, while we can't reconstruct the past because it no longer makes sense in a modern context, we can pay attention to what was good about it and bring those things forward, find ways to make them work today
in our view, the core thing to cherish is the idea that computers are tools to expand the human potential for creation, discovery, and connection
@hugoestr everyone should have the opportunity to learn how computers work, if they choose to, for the same reason that everyone should have the opportunity to learn how to fix their own car
it's empowering, it helps you chart your own path and not be adrift in a sea of unpredictability
PHP is a remarkable language. The DSL for web pages. The little template language that could. It is the web version of AWK: a language crafted for its task, making them easier than using a general programming language.
Also great documentation. I am grateful to those who made PHP so learnable
@hugoestr@foldr I would still highly suggest going through most of the sections and just seeing what is there. You can probably skip huge chunks most of the time (I've never done anything with Oracle or LDAP for example), but if you know that it can extract a set of items out of an array with a single method (with https://www.php.net/array_column) or decoding a uuencoded string (https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.convert-uudecode.php) - or so many other things - you won't need to write any of that code yourself.
Another gratitude post. Thanks for sharing your ideas and opinions. Functional Cafe has been this place where have learned so many things. My life has become better because of it. Thank you
Using #biwascheme to write a slot machine video game. I love it so much. It has been a lot of fun. ano build step; no npm dependency jenga. If I need to try something out I can fire up Racket, fiddle there for a bit, and then do a quick translation.
I wish we had gotten scheme rather than JavaScript in the browser. Still, biwascheme fulfills a great niche
#FreeWriting
Wrote a micro fiction. My eldest child said it was cliché, but I don't care. The obsession with originality has killed so many writers who never mature aa writers because they obsessed too much on "originality."
@deborahh The room became darker and colder. The candles flickered with the wind coming from the star drawn on the floor. Morey couldn't contain his smile as he kept chanting the prayer in Latin. Luminescent fog spewed from the center of the pentagram. The fog filled the room. Slowly, a tall figure materialized.
"Lucifer, by the power of prayer, the cross, and these sacred symbols, submit to me!" said Morey.
"Why would words and drawings stop supernatural beings?" said Lucifer
Thinking of doing namowrimo. I need write out the plot before November starts. I may need to start early since for about four days I won't be able to write. No story yet
@loke I started working through your tutorial. So far, it is pretty good. There is a minor detail that can be improved so far, which is saying how to type the negative character. I can do the edit if you are open to pull requests.
Again, very pleasant. I have been burnt out from learning programming this year due to the AWS dev cert, and your tutorial has been a delight to work through
@hugoestr Thanks for the advice. I've updated the tutorial to mention how to type a symbol every time a new symbol is introduced (well, most of the times).
I will continue working on the tutorial, but today I was sidetracked having to fix a bug in the inner product operator which had remarkably managed to avoid getting caught by my testcases, even though it was a pretty big bug.