robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
small web
There are service websites like this (e.g. you can't buy railway tickets in Poland between IIRC 1am and 2am), and _those_ are just annoying.
On the other hand, there are websites that run on unreliable power sources and are sometimes simply unavailable. Those _are_ charming: see for example https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
@delroth Aah. I didn't associate them that way for some reason; probably because there's too many of them.
In a world without popular support for the concept of IP (with everything else being left equal) people would be incentivized to rely on secrecy. This situation sounds like one that would be more common in a world where secrecy is used more often. (Obviously, there are possible worlds without IP where that problem doesn't exist and maybe even it's hard to get a world with IP where it doesn't exist, but I'm think of quite literal ceteris paribus.)
@delroth I wonder if I see something and don't realize the implications or if I don't see it. What is the thing that looks similar to cel shading here?
How popular is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework?
I've learned about it a few days ago and I realized that the boundaries it describes are very often by people without explicit references to it, and the correlations it implies (e.g. that need for reasoning from first principles is strongly correlated with problems that are not precisely specified). Now I wonder if everyone learnt about it and uses it (and I just didn't get the memo) or if there's a different source for these ideas.
The reason I noticed that is that I find some of the consequences of that view of the world weird and/or suboptimal for good modeling of the world. In particular, I like well-specified problems where you need to reason from first principles. Also, I see a tendency in the environments that deal with things that Cynefin marks as "complicated" to _not_ make it easy to reason from first principles (by not caring about making the relevant first principles easy to specify).
#cynefin #crypto (-adjacent, because cryptography is the area that seems to straddle complicated and complex) #ethics (well, if not that then what is the branch of philosophy that does the same to motivation that epistemology does to knowledge?)
@peterdrake The fellow who was TAing my group in abstract algebra (http://slawomir-cynk.u.matinf.uj.edu.pl/) always gave the impression of just randomly following digressions, but we always ended up traversing through the relevant and important topics. To this day I don't know how much planning he did.
@matthew_d_green WDYM by a "server"? A machine, a VM, a process, or anything that is "physically" present on some concrete machine (as opposed to the request being handled by ~whoever is able to do so in the vicinity?), or something else?
@LunaFoxgirlVT@vt.social It would be nice if there was a way to subscribe to a blocklist (so that its changes actually affect you ~immediately). @ariadne
@delroth Something like UUIDs of "same" users in the new and old install differed?
@zyk@mastodon.nz What about "someone on your instance viewed a thread that should contain/contains the toot"?
@cafkafk Also, wave at CCTV cameras, in case some bored security guard is forced to watch the video stream.
@grzgrz Czy wiesz czy istnieje wersja tekstowa?
@grzgrz Najśmieszniejszy który widziałem (disclaimer: dotyczył instancji na której jestem) to "blokujemy, bo oni nie blokują X".
@AubreyDeLosDestinos Ale to nieprawda. Co _najmniej_ istnieje wymaganie respektowania życzenia zaprzestania prób komunikacji z kimś (i też pewna wersja "do not spread hate", ale to jest bardzo ocenne, więc nie mogę wiele twierdzić na temat tego, jak bardzo znaczenie będzie się pokrywać z tym, jak ktoś inny by to rozumiał). @grzgrz
@lcamtuf Note that instances that have people that follow you will generally fetch media too. "Remote" media is treated as a cache, and various instances have various approaches to how long they cache it for etc. I would hope that they drop it when they receive a deletion event for the associated post, but (a) it's hope (b) that notice might never arrive if something broke their mutual federation in the meantime (e.g. one blocked the other; iirc in either direction).
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
