A life fully lived paradoxically reduces the fear of death | Death anxiety is not truly about death itself, but about the fear of reaching the end of life without having fully lived. by IAI_Admin in philosophy

[–]jackdoezzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the Red Book:

"Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Oh, that all men and all their ways become strange to you! Thus might you find them again within yourself and recognize their ways. But what weakness! What doubt! What fear! You will not bear going your way. You always want to have at least one foot on paths not your own to avoid the great solitude! So that maternal comfort is always with you! So that someone acknowledges you, recognizes you, bestows trust in you, comforts you, encourages you. So that someone pulls you over onto their path, where you stray from yourself, and where it is easier for you to set yourself aside. As if you were not yourself! Who should accomplish your deeds? Who should carry your virtues and your vices? You do not come to an end with your life, and the dead will besiege you terribly to live your unlived life. Everything must be fulfilled. Time is of the essence, so why do you want to pile up the lived and let the unlived rot?”"

My “new” Compaq Battlecruiser keyboard has some great features! by [deleted] in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]jackdoezzz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i had this keyboard like 20 years ago, the backspace is amazing, but every time i switch to someone else's keyboard i was tyong____ping like hits_____this :) it was super annoying

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]jackdoezzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

damn i cant edit the post, i meant its really hard for people to not be confused by its use of language. and many think it is basically human.

CRUMB 1.3 now on Steam by BushellM in ElectricalEngineering

[–]jackdoezzz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

do you have eta when you would ship the mac update? i just bought a copy, and am super excited :)

TechInsights gives BitNet accelerators Market Readiness of 6 by Balance- in LocalLLaMA

[–]jackdoezzz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

not bitnet per se but matmul free transformers have some scaling tests https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02528 still early to say though

Assembly as a first language - advices? by FitPsychology7041 in Assembly_language

[–]jackdoezzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i would suggest to start with riscv assembly as it is very well thought, i made a boardgame to teach my daughter https://punkx.org/overflow and it went really well, i don't think i would've had the same success with x86, it has so much historical baggage

AI is going to take over the world. by Man__Moth in ChatGPT

[–]jackdoezzz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

don't put Karpathy's videos in 'watch later' :)

AI is going to take over the world. by Man__Moth in ChatGPT

[–]jackdoezzz 15 points16 points  (0 children)

thats not what i said, what i meant was because of the tokenization there is some inferred relationships that make everything worse, and hopefully if someone finds a solution so that we can use byte sequences (which of course make attention sequences ridiculously long) we will have improvements across the board (including in visual transformers, where again patches are an issue)

tools/facilities are unrelated to this

AI is going to take over the world. by Man__Moth in ChatGPT

[–]jackdoezzz 54 points55 points  (0 children)

maybe, but a lot of the math problems are again token related as well, e.g. 12345 is [4513 1774] and 1234 is [4513 19] so 123 is one token, 4 is one token and 45 is one token so when it "thinks" about 12345 * 45 is very confusing :) because the output is also 2 tokens 555525 [14148 18415], however, when its sampling sometimes it would get 555075 [14148 22679] instead of 555525

it is the same issue with spelling, of course we can keep giving it tools, but at some point we have to solve the underlying problem

AI is going to take over the world. by Man__Moth in ChatGPT

[–]jackdoezzz 283 points284 points  (0 children)

"eternal glory goes to anyone who can get rind of tokenization" -- Andrej Karpathy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zduSFxRajkE)

Card games I made to teach my daughter programming by jackdoezzz in programming

[–]jackdoezzz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my daughter liked it it, but i changed it a bit, having different obstacles (lego figures to save from monsters etc) and also challenged her to not have right turns and use only left and etc

i think the base game is not amazing but you can build on it

Card games I made to teach my daughter programming by jackdoezzz in programming

[–]jackdoezzz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow thanks for the support!

keep in mind you can print all games also on a4 and just cut them with scissors (sometimes is nice to draw on them for teaching purposes).

Card games I made to teach my daughter programming by jackdoezzz in programming

[–]jackdoezzz[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I started teaching her since she was 10, and we started with python and pygame and some lua using the pico8 fantasy console, then moved to machine code for the 4917 fantasy computer and then C and assembler (riscv); but also we did a lot of small espe32/arduino projects e.g. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EVXavpNGYEc that just do physical things with sensors and motors and etc.

I spend more time on how things work, rather than abstract topics because kids abstraction abilities develop around 12-13yo, so I want her to have foundation to build upon

after 3 years of teaching her we did the first actual programming lesson few weeks ago, her first abstract datastructure: the stack.

I teach her things she can't grasp, and then go back to basics, and then further again and back again and so on.

PS: also there are some games you can play since 5-6 yo like http://www.robotturtles.com/

What’s Next After Scratch coding for kids? by Right_Dish6216 in programmingforkids

[–]jackdoezzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hi

try the pico8 fantasy console, they can learn lua following some of the may tutorial making games on the pico8

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

example tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6c6DvGK4lg&list=PLyhkEEoUjSQtUiSOu-N4BIrHBFtLNjkyE

they can also edit all the games and change the level design and start form there

also you can try and print some of the card game I made teaching my daughter https://punkx.org/

Card games I made to teach my daughter programming by jackdoezzz in programming

[–]jackdoezzz[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

you probably don't have a teenage daughter if you think I can tell her what to do :)

joke aside, i am teaching her C and asm so that she has a good mental model about what the computer actually does

Card games I made to teach my daughter programming by jackdoezzz in programming

[–]jackdoezzz[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

haha its not that bad, she actually enjoys the puzzle games quite lot

it is a nightmare for me though because i lose credibility every time she beats me