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Ross
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Interested in open data, machine learning, and distributed systems.

Do you like to think of the relationship as potential or actualized? How can we determine when that relationship materializes?

As an npub maximalist, I long for Nostr (the collective network) to help solve key delegation and rotation. Having my entire online existence tied to something that's one inadvertent copy/paste away from disintegration makes me clench my butt cheeks every time I need to use it.

As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about rhythms, patterns, and synchronization at the local level, how these things create conscious individuals and their machine counterparts, the idea of a non clock based global synchronization simulator occupies the other end of the spectrum. It’s the goal, the final destination.

There are going to be people who complain about the accuracy or precision of the data, but what I love most is the creator did what one must do, and that’s start with some sort of model, the simpler the better.

People who use sleep trackers for example, the global sleep count is like a strange attractor to calibrate against. Again, crazy to the point of impossible in terms of size/scope but directionally it’s the right path to pursue. Even if we don’t see it completed in our lifetime.

WHAT THE HELL ARE PPL DOING?

Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics & simulated day/night cycles

https://humans.maxcomperatore.com/

Was wondering something similar. If nostr:npub130mznv74rxs032peqym6g3wqavh472623mt3z5w73xq9r6qqdufs7ql29s opens up a marketplace, can we find ways to validate not just the provider, but the actual models?

If someone claims they are serving llama-7-foobar could we find ways to have a signature scheme on the responses and who is the trusted validator?

I get that at some point you have to trust something, but I’ve been bothered by the idea that people are just claiming “here’s a model endpoint” and they could inject whatever the hell they want.

How do I verify my agent that depends on llama-7-foobar and your agent that relies on the same will be in agreement (nefarious or not doesn’t matter).

Desperate to make it work. 😂

Alphabet Inc being the exception.

Yes, I profile people based on the tld they’ve selected.

It’s moving from expertise to accessibility. 100 years ago taking a photo required so much specialized knowledge it was a profession. Now anyone can take virtually unlimited photos and “better” is based on post processing algorithms which few see or understand. Up the stack we go.

I suspect people’s assignment of value to a craft is more a reflection of the time they personally have invested in learning it. Photographers, developers, writers, lawyers, etc etc

Assuming you are Android… you have options like

https://symfonium.app/

For desktop, this guy wrote a really nice app. For some reason then started over, but left the old version up. I would use this one:

https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd

The original Subsonic was written in Java and has pretty much been abandoned. The API, while not exactly great, became the least worst standard and now there are compatible servers/clients for every platform.

https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

https://github.com/spl0k/supysonic

What are the boundaries of non-streaming for you? Straight up one machine or local network?

Subsonic ecosystem + Tailscale is a match made in heaven for me to share NAS library across desktop, laptop, and car.

Exactly. AI is just an accelerant for the economics of entertainment which has been occurring for decades. The speed is what is making people think it’s something new.

“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” -Joan Didion (1966)

Ha, yeah, fair enough… but I do believe people need to adjust their mindset to focus on leveraging whatever the models are doing rather than being subsumed by them. Learning to put their output to productive use is a future proof strategy.

You can just do things (which the machines can’t)

The LLMs… man they never get tired. It's like social media with yourself, and it can be exhausting. Here I find myself wishing I could just not know things.

While it would be considered silly to travel the world untethered, I miss the feeling of navigating unknown space. I don't want to disappear, I simply want to feel lost again.

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Me fail unit tests? That’s unpossible!