Why not talk about it publicly🤨?
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Because it’s a talk not a walk
Talking about future goals secretes dopamine and trick your brain into believing you achieved the goal already
Also, because whenever I see laserins post it sounds exactly like “start up “ that never get to working prototype
Because she doesn't realize I'm not the client dev. There are 8 people working on the project. It is, as far as I know, now the largest Nostr project team, and it's actually three main projects (Alexandria, Aedile, and GitRepublic) and some additional supporting projects and libraries.
Can you explain Aedile a bit🤔? I've been focusing more on Alexandria updates.
Sure! I'm in charge of marketing, documentation, and customer support, so feel free to pepper me with questions, like an LLM. Lots of lurkers are reading, and they're often also interested in the answers.
Aedile is a SDK (software development kit) for Nostr. A programming library, with which you can build Nostr clients. We originally built Alexandria with the SDK that many other projects are using (called the "NDK"), but we're going back and writing our own, in a programming language called C++. Some of our lower-level libraries (such as noscrypt) are written in straight C, which is as low-level as you can get, without delving into Assembler.
The next version of Alexandria will have some of the NDK stuff swapped out for Aedile stuff. That won't be visible, on the outside, but it will stabilize everything and make it a bit faster. It also allows us to quickly and independently implement our new event types.
Awesome! Thank you!
New event "types"?
The e-books in Alexandria are kind 30040/30041. Then there is kind 1987, for vector embeddings (we need those the LLM implementation and the Visualization development). We have some additional kinds coming up in the Euler edition, focusing on source references.
Ok! I think I get it, for the most part. Can you explain kind 1987 a bit further, though?
It's a way of measuring the similarity between objects, such as two long-form articles, by converting the content into numbers and then plotting them on a diagram. Closer objects are more-similar than objects that are further apart.
Vector embeddings are lists of those calculated numbers.
To add to what nostr:nprofile1qqs06gywary09qmcp2249ztwfq3ue8wxhl2yyp3c39thzp55plvj0sgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a6xsetrd96xzer9dshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgmwaehxw309amksetpwshxsctswpuhgctkv4exutnrduhsw0qlr4 said, Aedile is intended to be a fast, efficient, and stable set of code that other developers can use to bootstrap Nostr apps.
There are a few things every Nostr clients needs to do, like connect to relays, handle user login, sign events, publish them, and search. We aim to make Aedile the best at all of those so it can be a firm foundation for future Nostr apps.
So... is there a version of this being planned for people who aren't devs? Like a simplistic version for everyday people to use to make their own client?
We've thought about it. It's a rather tricky problem to solve; it's hard to make build-your-own software without the end user knowing how to write some code.
We may try something like that for Nostr, but it's beyond the foreseeable future for our team, at the moment.
Are the other 7 people talking about the projects?
A few things I've noticed. You can't come up with any justifiable reasons to dislike their project. That is clear as day. You definitely hopped on the Primal dev indoctrination train that taught you to dislike anything she's involved in, which is OK. You do you! 🙄they are a start-up, and I doubt they'll be stuck in that stage forever. Progress takes time. 🤣I have no idea why you believe secreting dopamine is, at all, relevant to the topic at hand. This just further proves my first point. Perhaps, the comment I made earlier can grant you some much-needed perspective, because I feel as if you're using nostr for a counterproductive purpose.
I love the project. And I am looking forward to use it. I hate. Actually despise laserins attitude about nostr and devs. It makes me loose any trust in (at least her) ability to deliver. I will stand proved wrong once I get to use it
You should read this. You've been barking up the wrong tree.
Also, for a record, first time I interacted with laserin is at least a year ago, she has not responded to my good faith questions without acting as if i’m attacking her, so yes, I started attacking her. I use primal but I think it’s pathetically underdeveloped for being the best funded project