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John Carlos Baez

If our civilization collapses, extraterrestrial archeologists can look at this and be impressed. Three satellites following the Earth in an equilateral triangle, each 2.5 million kilometers from the other two. Each contains two gold cubes in free-fall. The satellites accelerate just enough so they don't get blown off course by the solar wind. The gold cubes inside feel nothing but gravity.

Lasers bounce between each cube and its partner in another satellite, measuring the distance between them to an accuracy of 20 picometers: less than the diameter of a helium atom! This lets the satellites detect gravitational waves — ripples in the curvature of spacetime — with very long wavelengths, and correspondingly low frequencies.

It should see so many binary white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes in the Milky Way that these will be nothing but foreground noise. More excitingly, it should see mergers of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies as far as... the dawn of time, or whenever such black holes were first formed. (The farther you look, the older things you see.)

It may even be able to see the "gravitational background radiation": the thrumming vibrations in the fabric of spacetime left over from the Big Bang. These gravitational waves were created before the hot gas in the Universe cooled down enough to become transparent to light. So they're older than the microwave background radiation, which is the oldest thing we see now.

It's called LISA - the Laser Interferometric Satellite Antenna. And we're in luck: ESA has just decided to launch it in 2035.

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Sonny

Dear #Fediverse

We are funding accessibility infrastructure on Linux.

We are focusing on issues and regressions related to Wayland and Flatpak.

Please share your feedback and ideas, even if you're not sure if it's in scope.

#Linux #desktop #accessibility #Wayland #Flatpak #FOSS #GNOME #KDE #freedesktop #a11y

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I'm considering getting myself a new computer to replace my .
It seems the GPD Win 4 finally has decent support via and I saw someone on Reddit got the GSM module working so I could potentially replace my phone with it. The smaller form factor wouls be great for when I'm walking around witg my head mounted display.

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I think my biggest takeaway from the LLM tinkering I've been doing is that text search and filtering through datasets is key for reasoning about data.

I find it key as a human navigating information systems, but I think it's even more key for LLM driven systems.

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Language models are both more dumb and less dumb than I expect. 😭

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Dee (authentic and legitimate) :heart_nb:

@selfisekai

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josef

whether it’s true or not that “90% of everything is crap”, the tech giants are investing heavily in a hot new technology that promises to boost that figure up to an impressively reliable “five-nines” percentage

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feels kinda satisfying to prolapse this function to return an iterator instead of its heavy for loop.

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Hmm, after testing the raw Phi 2 within LM Studio instead of the examples provided by HuggingFace candle, I think it's actually pretty decent after all.

Specifically I got phi 2 Q4_K_S gguf working from TheBloke.

Can't get that model running with candle since it can't seem to load the model weight.

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Having tested a bunch of projects, I gotta say that OpenHermes 2.5 is the most helpful out of the ones I can run locally.

I recently wasted a bunch of time getting Phi-2 to do some summarization work, and it just couldn't stay focused for more than a sentence or two.

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Woot, I have finally written enough code to be unable to avoid the lifetime specifications / borrow checker stuff.

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heapwolf

I love this post-mortem from a former #p2p enthusiast... 🧵

"DHTs were not reliable or performant. We were way too optimistic about device discovery and NAT traversal."

He's absolutely right. If you're using a DHT, you're doing it wrong. It might have been the right primitive in 2003, but not today.

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nano!ナノ
holy shit mozilla has a new issue tracker documenting all of the ways that apple, google, and microsoft purposefully put third party browsers at a disadvantage and is calling for action https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/
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K. I swallowed my pride and gave up on trying to run all my build tools as "close to the metal" as possible. I'm now going to pretend I'm in an Ubuntu environment via distrobox :P

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Ugh C++ dependencies bring me so much pain. I'd take a hundred weird react-native version mismatches over rustc being unable to find OpenSSL for a library I didn't think would even need rustc in the first place. This is not an invitation to help because my setup is far far away from the happy path of debugging.

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I think I'd enjoy living in a wizard tower.

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The dowbside with lrimarily interacting with folks I regularly see in meatspace is that they are in my tinezone but aren't night owls

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alcinnz

You know, I reckon it might help reverse Firefox's declining marketshare at very little effort for Mozilla to implement a feedreader into Firefox, & run an advertising blitz advocating how much calmer this "new" way of reading the web is!

They'd get some eyerolls, & some may find it suspicious how broadly supported it'd be out of the gate...

But since they're rightly concerned about their declining marketshare, this'd be a cheap & hugely beneficial thing to try!

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I love it when I get to talk to folks that have more knowledge than me on a subject I am interested in. It's tough because it doesn't happen as often as I'd like due to being the domain expert for the subject in a lot of groups I interact with.

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Agregore Browser

Hey folks! We have a new round of tutorials and example apps out as well as updated `hyper://` docs. Read more on our blog: agregore.mauve.moe/blog/2023/1

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