Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

This is really useful with for example IPLD Schemas where you can have "representations" of data use more compact encodings like tuples where you can omit any property names, but have the schema "wrap" over the underlying data to add properties. Then you can "unwrap" the schema'd data to get the "substrate" to encode back into bytes and link to.

IPLD lenses are really underappreciated.

At it's core, IPLD gives you a way to turn data in memory into determenistic encodings in bytes, and then convert that to a Content IDentifier which you can use as links from other IPLD data.

However, on top of that is the concept of "lenses" where you can wrap an IPLD tree in some sort of code that transforms how it looks to code, while still having the same substrate.

Been reading Gideon the Ninth and it's spooky fun

One of the interesting things (derogatory) about chatgpt is that a lot of people don't seem to get that it's function is to predict text tokens. Often they end up assuming it has some sort of rich reality that it inhabits when you're not asking it things.

E.g. a lot of folks in the comments of this thread are having trouble grasping that it's making up the HTTP responses based on training data and assuming that it's actually making requests.

https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

One thing that irks me about how a lot of tech uses infinitely scrolling "timelines" and the such is that most apps don't keep track of your progress if you navigate away.

If I'm viewing something I probably want to keep going from where I left off unless I explicitly want to go to the top.

RSS readers, Google's podcast thing, Mastodon Web (twitter in general), etc.

At least browsers sometimes preserve the scroll for me if it's a full page navigation. 🤷

The fastest computations are the ones you don't need to make.

I decided to become a cheese wizard with a minor in insectology

Most important decision of my life. 😨

Eeee, very excited to play the new kingdom of loathing game!

My hot take is that web3 / blockchain stuff was never decentralized. Right from the start it's been centrally managed servers, but with the ability to federate. The amount of effort it takes to run the infra means only a few orgs actually could 🤷

Should I shitpost on main or make a shitposting alt? 🤔🤔🤔

Are there any open frameworks out there to train gpt bots based on your social media posts and chat logs?

Could be a cool way to do async communication in VR. Infodump a bunch of your thoughts into a prompt, then attach it to an avatar and send it over to someone as a message.