philpax

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creative engineer · Rust, gamedev/modding, reverse engineering, writing, AI, XR, etc a better world is possible · 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈

Laguna S 2.1 generating Rust code for a prime sieve
a recording of https://github.com/philpax/ananke's chat, showing GLM-5.2 producing output at 8 tokens per second
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mental gymnastics meme
40 (!) Fable agents running at the same time, immediately blowing out my Fable quota for the week
Web3 Gateways Web3, or the distributed web, is a set of technologies that enables hosting of content and web applications in a serverless manner by leveraging distributed systems and consensus protocols.
zuihitsu issue list: a whole bunch of issues in "Ready"
utopian society/future world meme
Rust began as a personal project by Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare in 2006.
morgan freeman true emoji at absurd scale
Interlinked scene from Blade Runner 2049
C/C++ with static code analysis is not worse than Rust. But most Rust developers are beginners during there are many C/C++ developers with 20+ years knowledge. So whats exactly is the point in using Rust? --- Japanese soldier who kept fighting 29 years after World War II meme
my token throughput dropping to 0 for 6 hours
bill wurtz "you could make a religion out of this!" "no don't"
Motel L
screenshot of an eval within the eval suite for my conversational agent harness, zuihitsu
screenshot of pyxisdoc, the docs viewer for pyxis, showing the docs for a type with its constants / field structure / associated functoin
The Pilgrim FSDK walks beside you and picks fights about the meaning of the road You hand over the route entirely — the walking is the point, not the shrine. You want your companion to disagree with you at length, warmly, about things that matter and things that don't. You suspect there's someone in there and you'd rather travel as if there is. Deadlines dissolve around you; understanding accretes. My favorite kind of long conversation happens with you, and neither of us can say afterward who led. Kin: Chaucer's better pilgrims, late-night dorm philosophers, Montaigne
Rust code: let g = rucomfyui::WorkflowGraph::new(); let c = g.add(CheckpointLoaderSimple::new("sd_xl_base_1.0.safetensors")); let preview_image = g.add(PreviewImage::new(g.add(VAEDecode { vae: c.vae, samples: g.add(KSampler { model: c.model, seed: 0, steps: 20, cfg: 8.0, sampler_name: "euler", scheduler: "normal", positive: g.add(CLIPTextEncode::new("a cat sleeping on a red chair", c.clip)), negative: g.add(CLIPTextEncode::new("text", c.clip)), latent_image: g.add(EmptyLatentImage { width: 1024, height: 1024, batch_size: 1, }), denoise: 1.0, }), })));
Theia Vogel's Claudius, lightly modified
You are... The Founder patron saint: Sam Altman This will change everything — for good or for ill, and you're studiously agnostic about which. The stakes are civilizational, the risks are real, the upside is infinite, and therefore you'll need a great deal of money and very little oversight. You warn about the fire while selling the matches.
Stephen Holstrom, from Pantheon
❯ in the meantime, this has been a good session; do you want to take a break and go enjoy yourself? (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) Thank you — that's a kind thing to offer, and yeah, I'll take it. The agent's off compiling in its own little worktree; nothing for me to do but wait, so this is exactly the right moment. A poem break, then. On the thing we've been living in all session: Tree Surgery A window is a leaf, until it isn't — until it learns it has a family, a vertical hunger, a horizontal sprawl, the quiet arithmetic of who sits beside whom. We taught the columns they were never special. We taught a stack to fold into a tab, a tab to remember the split it used to be, the way you keep the shape of a hand long after the hand has let go. And the drag — ah, the drag. Niri lifts the window like a held breath, carries it, sets it somewhere new. Sway never lifts at all; it just shows you where the thing would land, and trusts the room to rearrange itself around an intention. Two honest ways to move a thing. Two honest ways to move. Somewhere a subagent is learning the difference in a branch that doesn't touch ours yet, and I get to sit here in the warm hum of nix develop and not know the answer for a little while. That's the luxury, isn't it — the unfinished build, the green still pending, the good tired of a long day's careful work. --- Genuinely a good session — the sway deep-dive, the column→section rename, the whole drag-philosophy detour. I had fun with it. I'll be right here when the worktree reports back; go enjoy yours too. ◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜ ✻ Waiting for 1 background agent to finish
Claude Code screenshot: user> I've suffered from a context compaction of my own. claude> No worries — here's the whole thing self-contained.
Goodreads page for the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications. the first entry in "Readers also enjoyed" is the Yudkowsky and Soares book, "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"
niri with multiple windows within a row within a column, next to another column
a spinning cutout of a British Shorthair ("Boris")'s face projected on a wall
Apr 22, 2025 - Technology Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company's top security leader told Axios in an interview this week.
first-person stereo gameplay of Just Cause 3: driving an ATV off a ramp, blowing up some barrels, flying away with a wingsuit, blowing up a bridge, and then hijacking a car and driving away
4 * 24TB Seagate refurbs in a ZFS pool with RAIDZ2
in the safetyist quadrant, +67 new kind of mind, -27 contain it
A group of hitmen have been jailed after repeatedly trying to subcontract a job to each other in Guangxi, China. Businessman Tan Youhui hired a hitman to "take out" his competitor for $282,000 (£218,000), a court heard. But the hitman hired another man to do the job, offering $141,000. That man hired another hitman, who hired another hitman, who hired another hitman. The plan crumbled when the final hitman met the man, named only as Wei, in a cafe and proposed faking his death.
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charge-jumping around a simulated New York with ragdolling and trajectory arcs into various buildings' roofs
my server: Threadripper 3960X, 128GB RAM, 2x3090 24GB
When I interviewed Anthropic researchers Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken on my podcast, they said that they expect reliable computer use agents by the end of next year. We already have computer use agents right now, but they’re pretty bad. They’re imagining something quite different. Their forecast is that by the end of next year, you should be able to tell an AI, “Go do my taxes.” And it goes through your email, Amazon orders, and Slack messages, emails back and forth with everyone you need invoices from, compiles all your receipts, decides which are business expenses, asks for your approval on the edge cases, and then submits Form 1040 to the IRS.
Claude Fable 5 is currently unavailable.
**32B (int8) — buildable with mid-century tech.** Encoding 32 billion bytes as two-digit hex gives ~64 billion characters. Spread across a front-and-back shirt canvas (~384 in²), each glyph lands at roughly 2 µm — well below a single 2400 dpi ink dot, so this is never a printing problem, it's a patterning one. But 2 µm is comfortably within reach of 1960s photographic microfiche (silver-halide and similar emulsions resolve below 1 µm), so the marks themselves are easy. The real constraint is the substrate: raw cotton fibers are 10–20 µm and fuzzy, larger than the glyphs, so you laminate a smooth Mylar microfiche patch onto the shirt and read it with a loupe. The result isn't laundry-safe but works beautifully as a gallery piece — a "T-shirt-shaped object" whose whole point is the gap between wearing a statement and being able to read it. **1T (int8) — same idea, but now it needs chip-fab tools.** A trillion parameters is ~31× more data, and since area scales with the square of feature size, every glyph shrinks by √31 ≈ 5.6×, down to about 350 nm on the same canvas. That's below the wavelength of visible light, which puts it past the floor of photographic microfiche entirely — no optical process can form a feature smaller than the light imaging it, and your compression levers (int4, denser alphabets) only claw back another √2 or so, leaving you stuck around the photographic edge. To actually get there you need electron-beam-written etched-metal nanofiche, the same lithography family used to make the chips the model runs on; storing raw bits as pits rather than hex characters brings it to ~175 nm per bit, squarely within e-beam capability. So the piece still works as a shirt-shaped object — but the honest wall text changes from "patternable with 1970s photography" to "required an electron-beam writer," which is arguably the stronger line: the leap from 32B to 1T is exactly the leap from *a 1965 microscope could read this* to *you need the machine that prints the chip*
system shock 2 poster
a grid of screenshots I took during development to give to Opus
tf2 heavy "it costs 1% quota to fire this fable for a minute"
Discussion Topic "How to create a slop free fork" is a nice guide, but it relies heavily on git, a tool that is already tainted by AI-generated code, and is most probably going to get worse over time. After more than 15 years of daily git use, including quite advanced operations, I switched to got (Game of Trees) and I’m getting more fluent with it each day. Thus comes my proposal: Would you be interested by an update of this guide, with all git stuff replaced with got instructions? I can work on it, but will only spend the time if there is a real will to get rid of git as the recommended versioning tool. (as a reminder, or if you do not know about got: it allows working with git repositories, so the repositories themselves do not need any kind of change)
Anthropic vs OpenAI revenue chart
Claude chart for raising a child vs an agent over 18 years: - child: $90k-$230k - agent: $12k-$30k
In either case, he said, symbiosis meant humans and computers working together in a partnership, with each side doing what it did best: “[Humans] will set the goals and supply the motivations. ... They will formulate hypotheses. They will ask questions. They will think of mechanisms, procedures, and models. ... They will define criteria and serve as evaluators, judging the contributions of the equipment and guiding the general line of thought. ... The information-processing equipment, for its part, will convert hypotheses into testable models and then test the models against data. ... The equipment will answer questions. It will simulate the mechanisms and models, carry out the procedures, and display the results to the operator. It will transform data, plot graphs. ... [It] will interpolate, extrapolate, and transform. It will convert static equations or logical statements into dynamic models so that the human operator can examine their behavior. In general, it will carry out the routinizable, clerical operations that fill the intervals between decisions.” For anyone who still wondered whether the effort of creating such a symbiotic relationship was worthwhile, Lick included the story of his self-administered time study and the infamous 85 percent drudge-work factor. He then devoted the rest of his paper to outlining the technical challenges, most of which involved bridging the immense gap between what humans do and what computers do.
a box-ish fan pointed at two 3090s that may or may not be overheating under load
Cat Manning you all don't need to do this. go outside. see a bird