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ian

@klatz.co

jazz hacker 日本語も bsky user 58 projects at https://klatz.co I'm on Germ DM 🔑 https://ger.mx/A6fQvPTRSyE6l3p8ZgoS2OcejuqPetgKij7QZcuY8xC4#did:plc:o2hywbrivbyxugiukoexum57

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protip: set ` { "cleanupPeriodDays": 3650 }` in `~/.claude/settings.json` and thank me later

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i'm back in europe and once again, WHY do cookie notices exist WHAT does this solve

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more broadly, why this constant memeing about how europe can achieve basically nothing other than performative soda bottle plastic cap shaped initiatives? is it at all accurate? does europe accomplish anything globally useful in a productive or research capacity?

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logging in with google oauth, means that if i have grown discontent with google as an organization, i can't really migrate my accounts. self-custody of keys is tricky. it has a lot of UX challenges. it is a little unfortunate that we do strings of a particular entropy to limit who can log in.

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i like the bsky model here. under the hood there is a private key. you can run your own PDS if you want. you can grab the protocol and run it yourself if you REALLY want. it's a good balance between the UX and user-first design.

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quantum key generation is interesting, shoot random 1s and 0s over lasers with certain polarizations, and then declare (publicly) over the channel, after the fact, which of the polarizations you shot, and then collapse/combined/discard the info you collected from your other party, and shared secret

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something finally clicked for me w.r.t Math - proofs are programs, and LEAN is basically a gcc for math it's wild to think that the practice of math is effectively oral tradition and apprenticeship, and that people just publish papers and then talk to each other

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TIL the erdos problems are ~1100, ~half of which are unsolved, are problems that erdős..... selected?

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ans: runpod (cheap, no docker) modal (2-4x cost)

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what's the least terrible "rent a gpu" provider? i want to run a container 5 times a day

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what's the least terrible "rent a gpu" provider? i want to run a container 5 times a day

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inasmuch as i do think realtime translation is like, now largely a thing (and may even been good enough for like, fast enough to do comedic timing), i think there's probably still tremendous benefit to languages in understanding how to parse sentence order and phonemes intuitively

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i also think that thinking in a particular language allows you to feel certain kinds of feelings. words in languages feel certain ways to say, and this is a bit like music - the buildup matters

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@klatz.co

all in all: it's worth learning languages. and LLM-intermediated communication is worth exploring

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in my humble opinion とても should always be translated as "totally" in the sense of "duuude"

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the 12yos have informed me that the jp minecraft youtubers have anime closing sequences involving rigged 3d models of their characters

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東京で来週、面白いプログラミングエベントありますか？atprotoやleanやセキュリティ興味があるんだけどtechnical日本語聞きたいだけ

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wonder what it would take to do an atproto shopify/woocommerce-like.... plugin ecosystem seems the killer part

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condor's photo for sf appears to predate the salesforce tower, which kicks off some interesting thoughts

ian
@klatz.co

inasmuch as i do think realtime translation is like, now largely a thing (and may even been good enough for like, fast enough to do comedic timing), i think there's probably still tremendous benefit to languages in understanding how to parse sentence order and phonemes intuitively

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being highly multilingual means having fewer mis-transmits - e.g. brazilian-japanese friend in tokyo once asked me "do you want to probe this food" and my brain quickly did "probe -> probar -> try", which enabled conversation floww

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tore down an old bot i used to search my twitter locked account (copied all the tweets into sqlite and used text stemming extension to enable keyword search, then used this to enable me to recall basically any tweet ~instantly)

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(also of benefit: could stumble across old tweets i'd forgotten about that matched a keyword)

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"flagging likely fraud is the purpose of most global empires, and they charge a percent" - from my notes

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saving seems to be some thing of "this will be useful later" that our bodies think, and filing things away and bookmarking is a good way to stay in the flow state of whatever thing we're doing