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It is 2024 and we still don't have colorized English syntax to speed scanning text.

(Not for lack of an implementation, there is at least one JS one out there somewhere)

Fast forward to 2075 "Google's 2075 Pixel phone charger's AI has more parameters than the GPT4 LLM

Smaller models developed depression after six to eight months, so the upgrade is a welcome one."

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/11/21133119/usb-c-anker-charger-apollo-11-moon-landing-guidance-computer-more-powerful

So 4 years later, we think #running with covid is okay, especially if you were a runner before. Maybe. Anyhow I'm not going to take a 10 to 79 day break.

I have a deal with my body. All parts serve at the pleasure of the heart and brain. Any subcomponent that doesn't want to get with the program can get with the program or f*k off and die.

In other words, no coddling of the lungs or muscles if it costs cardiovascular fitness.

https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/health/a42304085/running-after-covid/

Programming for a stupid bot is different from programming for smart bots. Stupid bots take so much hand holding
- perfect prompts
- objective checks on the bots progress
- lots and lots of watching what the bot does

I'm still working my way up to swarms of bots, but I bet stupid bots need to work in swarms, where as smart bots just sort of get what you want the first time and do the thing in one shot.

Writing code for bots a mixture of code (.py files) and natural language text. Putting large block of text into strings, even `"""` multiline strings is awful. Bad tooling, bad formatting. So I find myself writing a lot of ad hoc string resource management. Surely there is a better way to do this.

#python
demo bots:

https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/ai_shell/tree/main/ai_shell/demo_bots

#dalle is just one "content policy violation" warning after another. I predict that image generation is going to be local only in 12 months.

Bad ideas that can't stop spreading:

"You have a problem you never realized and it is far worse than you realize and you must take radical action, fighting with friends, family and neighbors because of the rage this makes you feel, become a human pirana and then you will be happy"

You'll be alone & alienate everyone, but you will be so happy in your justified rage.

The universe is my monorepo. I shall store my app source code and dependencies in the entire universe. Spreading it across multiple universes would be silly.

If you don't check in the entirety of #pypi into git, do you really have a #monorepo?

German is concise. Instead of "made my automobile pass gas", they say "Fahrt"

One thing that doesn't work on social media is people using the same hashtag for talking about things they hate & things they like. When people post, "I hate foo!" they want to hear sympathy, and they've thrown their message in the bottle into the pool the Foo Fans for Life club.

re: housing is expensive
Well, the only solution is never build anything anywhere because someone might get rich from it or some rich person could move it that house.

We can't do anything for the poor because we hate the rich, nevermind that the communist revolution is not on the way. Far better to remain ideologically pure than to do something about the high cost of housing.

Also doesn't help that any price drop in housing wrecks everyone's retirement, so who knows who has honest objections.

Update... it wasn't black it was `pformat`. pformat will break strings up until it is a mess.

Old thought: Black trashes large nested dicts with lots of text (pretty sure it is black, I don't use other formatters)

#python

https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/ai_shell/blob/2445dee921167358d33fee0998c302a41443c8b6/ai_shell/openai_schemas.py

!#$@!$# infinite loops. I bet Newton could write code with infinite loops, as long as the loops got smaller each time.

@frozencanuck It came from all of the training sources all at once. We know some of their sources (common crawl, wikipedia) but they've gotten more reluctant to say where their training data comes from.

Do you see to what lenght people will go to avoid using spell check?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/search?qs=lenght

@jemal@jemal.contact More like a book series now

Me: "Hey, ChatGPT, write me some unit tests. I have given you some tools so you don't attempt to just do anything with bash."

ChatGPT:
```
def test_fish_tank_main_execution():
os.system('python fish_tank/__main__.py')
```
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This is like giving an octopus a chainsaw.

I'm trying out griffe and the public interface for a simple python package is
- large
- brittle
- full of surprises
It is amazing the ecosystem doesn't see more breaks than it does
https://pypi.org/project/griffe/

If the state pays families $8,500 per kid to "home school" then poor families will yank all their kids for the cash. What a disaster.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/28/homeschooling-regulation-esa-school-choice/

We could have walkable cities if we put entire neighborhoods on tractors so that the neighborhood could drive to the grocery store, central business district and so on.

IDEA: Cryptocurrency where you get coin for posting on social media jokes that make fun of cryptocurrencies until they're all worthless.

@schwa 10 trips and they let you keep the car

@ebooksyearn The sign was honest.

The nostalgia for blogs forgets what it is like
- to get nonstop spam, so much spam & it is your job be an anti spam engineer, or delete spam all day
- to get comments from the worst people because you were not in an ecosystem that does something to discourage the worst people

Also, blogs at peak were maybe 1% if the interaction I get here and I'm a tiny social media account.

Why do we only have chat in the javascript console on one website and only on Christmas? Everyone should just enable this on all websites, so you can chat with everyone else on the website in the js console.

https://isitchristmas.com/

Shingles have been kicked off the roofs and there is reindeer poop everywhere.

@assaf I feel like I'd rather read the book than program or shave a yak.

#pylint has reviewed social media and reports

too-many-arguments

@krusynth @timbray Quantum manipulation. All particles in presents could be anywhere. If Santa manipulates all the probabilities of the particles, they probably will be in a volume smaller than a tiny aperture. Then, later, as luck would have it, the particles go back to being where they probably should be.

"I'm sorry, you have consented to the cookies, but the cookies have thought it over and do not consent to having anything to do with you."

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Matt's Travel Advice:
- Travel to the beach in winter & it is 1/2 to 2/3 cheaper.
- Get a hotel with a kitchen, the slightly higher prices is offset by less dining out.
- As for Hilton points, sometimes cash + a free fourth day is cheaper than an combination of points and cash.
- If you got kids, the resort with daily activities is worth it.

ChaatGPT wants to talk to you about Indian street food.

@weirdwriter @leanpub The tool gita will let your do a variety of actions to a collection of repos, including push.

https://github.com/nosarthur/gita

Good time to try out #buttondown from what I hear.

https://buttondown.email/comparisons/substack

This bot code just writes itself.

Not even a dad joke. More of dad observation.

Is the `ls` command a good UX experience for a bot? No! It keeps trying to query folders that don't exist and it gets an error message. It then wastes tokens trying to guess the folders that exist. `ls` for a bot needs to say, "That doesn't exist, here is what does exist" And then the bot can continue with the task.

UX for bots is like taking something that had bad UX to start with and imagining it will also be good for octopus.

#ChatGPT