JP Posma @JanPaul123 Twitter profile

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

6 years

I got an idea and just couldn't resist. #ar #piano 🎹

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

9 months

@natfriedman WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

⭐️ Personal announcement: I’m raising for my new startup! 🤖 In the interest of transparency, here are the slides for our seed round. 🌱🙌🏻

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

"Figma for video editing" is a hot space now! I came across 10+ 🤯 recently so I made a 🧵

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@JanPaul123

2 years

BREAKING: activist projects on twitter building right after the “hardcore” deadline. (I filmed this like 5mins ago)

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@JanPaul123

2 years

@Gia_Vang The activist is holding an interview:

JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

BREAKING: activist projects on twitter building right after the “hardcore” deadline. (I filmed this like 5mins ago)

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

9 months

📜🌋👀 FOLKS — WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to all of your hard work and late nights, the Vesuvius Challenge actually worked!!!!!! Huge congrats to the winners and runner ups, and to everyone who has participated in one way or another.

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

9 months

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

6 months

The best Bret Victor talk you’ve never seen.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

I can announce it now: @natfriedman hired me to help solve a crazy archeological puzzle! 🧩 We’re still looking for a web designer for a few days. Know anyone? 🙂

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

2 years

Tech lead hired! 💪 Now looking for a web designer to help for a couple days. Drop me an email if interested: puzzle @nat .org

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

9 months

Based Nat

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

1 year

Look at this picture. You are now one of the first people in 2000 years to see this writing.

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

1 year

But there's more: a few days ago, @Youssef_M_Nader , working with new segmentations from the Vesuvius Challenge segmentation team, was able to generate this image of stunning clarity and size: This is the revolution in digital papyrology that Dr. Seales has created. Nothing like

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 months

MAKE REAL WITH BACKEND

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

11 months

Vesuvius Challenge will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation with an equivalent number of ancient scroll passages

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

1 year

Thanks @natfriedman it's very nice

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 months

Val Town's Townie is now incredible at creating fullstack apps for you in minutes – even if you don't know how to code. I built the original prototypes over a couple weeks. Here's the full story ✍️

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

"Backends" in the web stack are a weird accident of history. GUIs used to talk directly to databases; this is why most SQL dbs have logins, access control, stored procedures, triggers, even testing frameworks.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

7 years

My first version of @remix + @humantransit -inspired isochrone simulation at @Dynamicland1 ! This tech is amazing. Literally 3 hours to build.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by making note-taking apps

Steve Krouse

@stevekrouse

2 years

i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by making programming languages

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

⭐ I’m exploring what to do next in life, and am open to ideas and opportunities! Quick about me: I've been programming for 20+ years; twice founder; led small teams; expertise across many fields. (RTs appreciated 🙂)

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Excited to unveil what I've been working on for the last few months. What a crazy project, and so much fun!!! It's been such a dream working with @natfriedman + Dr Seales and his team. I hope you'll join us and try to win some prizes!! 😄

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

2 years

We're using a particle accelerator and AI to read a lost library from a dead empire. People have been trying to read the Herculaneum Papyri for 275 years. With your help, we'll do it in 2023. Thrilled to announce the Vesuvius Challenge:

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

11 months

"the developer of the proposed high-rise near the San Francisco Zoo [has] made it clear that they intend to exercise the “builder’s remedy”" This would be so friggin based.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

1 year

When we started @scrollprize i made this very bad trailer for it.. this moment finally feels epic enough to post it 🌋 (…voiced by yours truly 😂)

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

8 months

In a world of inefficiency, the Vesuvius Challenge was a highly efficient deployment of capital

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

⭐️ Anyone know of a great 3d illustrator / animator who can help over the next ~2 weeks to create a bunch (~10?) of short (3-8 sec) educational technical animations for our secret project ()? Think @3blue1brown or @worrydream vibes

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Got a Paper Programs setup working again. I want to play with this some more. Hit me up if you want to hack with me on this (in SF)

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Biology is the most incredible reverse engineering effort, of the most incredible computer programs ever written. But I didn’t see it that way until later in life. This article really resonates with me (via @bert_hu_bert )

jsomers.net | I should have loved biology

In biology class, biology wasn't presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing.

jsomers.net

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

1 year

📜 New particle accelerator scans of Herculaneum Papyri at insane resolutions. 2 scrolls, 2 fragments at 3.24/7.91µm voxel size, and incident energies of 53/70/88/105 keV. First volume: 4.1TB. 36 volumes total. ⚛️ We're gonna read these scrolls. 😌

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

For those who've been asking what I've been up to. I realized something crazy: as a kid/student you get to have weeks and weeks of summer break each year, but that totally goes away as an adult. So I'm making up for a decade of missed summer breaks. Catch you on the other side!

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

I’d love to meet more people who’re into building ⚡️FAST⚡️ apps (web/native). DM me if you are / know someone. RT for visibility appreciated!! Keywords: webassembly, C++/Rust/Swift/.., GUI, cross-platform, WebGL/WebGPU/Vulkan/Metal/DirectX, game dev, Electron, high perf, …! ⚡️

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

1 year

Xerox PARC Jorodowsky's Dune Dynamicland General Magic … anything else with these vibes??

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Kinda weak sauce activism tbh but I’m just happy with my scoop and I wanted to say BREAKING 😂

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

6 months

Update: I'm not going to work at Val Town after all.

Tom MacWright (https://mastodon.social/@tmcw)

@tmcw

7 months

in the next version of val town: you can mix and match double and single quotes and it just works

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@JanPaul123

2 years

🎥 by @maxvwolff "For the very first time, this makes a whole new range of applications possible in the areas of design, media production, animation and many more. We want to be the first to seize that opportunity."

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

8 months

🤩 Starstruck meeting so many cool folks finally in person: prize winners ( @JuliSchillij , Lou+ @sherafatia , @SQMah , @elianrafaeldp + @LeonardoScabini +team, @CJHandmer , Wayne, "Chuck Khartes"), segmentation team ( @ben_kyles , @davidsjosey , Konrad), papyrologists, collaborators, etc

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

7 months

"Slow is fake" — @natfriedman 😂

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

1 year

We're going to excavate that entire villa, so help me god

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

5 months

ARC prize is an incredible nerd snipe because the puzzles are SO EASY (for humans)

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

5 months

ARC has been one of the most durable benchmarks; I'm curious to see how much progress this contest generates, and how closely it tracks improvement in general intelligence.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

🎥 @runwayml "We are taking recent advancements in computer graphics and machine learning to push the boundaries of creativity"

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

7 months

Still pretty bullish on this tech, sad that we couldn't figure out how to make it work as a company ⚡️ Zero latency UI (in a browser! but also native win/mac/linux) really is quite magical.

JP Posma

@JanPaul123

7 months

@yacineMTB @FlohOfWoe If you need inspiration for doing fun stuff (incl shared JS/Rust interop w/ multithreading on both sides, shared mem, 2d/3d rendering and eventing, layouting, live shaders, 60fps) cross platform to wasm/win/macos/linux check out my old project

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

11 months

work-life balance AKA meaningless work for a meaningless life

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

Busy day at the office! ⚡️

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

@azlenelza 10 hour loop, felt necessary

Computer history by Balenciaga (Azlen) — 10 hour loop

This felt necessary. Original: https://twitter.com/azlenelza/status/1644789222082244613

www.youtube.com

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

6 years

Now that I'm a permanent resident, I can donate to political campaigns! Join me in supporting @SFyimby candidates: @josefow @trevormcneil @theoellingtonSF and of course @SonjaTrauss ! 💰🌇🏙🌆🌃💰 #LegalizeHousing

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

✨ Pure joy captured on stream! Thanks for an inspirational project to apply Zaplib to @rperry_ @dmi3f

JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

I'll do some live coding on Zaplib in ~10mins! Will probably keep going for 1-2 hours. We'll be trying to recreate a flamegraph viewer like @PyroscopeIO in Zaplib.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Many modern "tools for thought" could have been made decades ago, if you look purely at technical requirements (CPU speed, memory, storage, etc). But many weren't. Why? I'm curious what the progress studies people think. ( @calvinfo )

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

9 months

I'm never leaving this website

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 months

Tbh I'm pretty baffled by the unbridled enthusiasm of some people I looked up to, towards someone who actually attempted a coup. Like, I'd understand "lesser of two evils" vibes, but "LFG"?

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Holy shit I got ChatGPT to literally torture someone [NSFW/trigger warning: intense]

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Organised fireworks shows are SOCIALISM. This is the true CAPITALIST way of fireworks. Uncoordinated, messy, fun, complete freedom, and someone will lose an arm.

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@JanPaul123

1 year

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

I wrote an article on a crazy idea I had: "Typescript as fast as Rust: Typescript++"

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

7 years

⭐️ Paper Programs — run Javascript on pieces of paper.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

5 years

11 November 2013, when I was a Top Hacker on @Hacker0x01 😅

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

4 months

Built in 1 day: "VALL-E". LLM website generator, but with ❇️html energy❇️

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Photoshop didn't kill painting as an art. Synthesizers didn't kill violins as an instrument. Both widened the range of art, and perhaps led to *more* art, *more* creativity. AI art will be the same.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

9 months

:')

JP Posma

@JanPaul123

1 year

When we started @scrollprize i made this very bad trailer for it.. this moment finally feels epic enough to post it 🌋 (…voiced by yours truly 😂)

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

8 months

I hope to live a long life, but in case something happens, let the record reflect: I will have died satisfied and grateful. I’ve experienced everything I could wish for, and lived beyond my wildest dreams. I don’t need a single thing more. Anything from here on out is a bonus.

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@JanPaul123

2 years

@dvdsgl 🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇🖇

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 months

You too can make real with backend! 🆕 Fork: - VALL-E - VALL-E-DRAW

@janpaul123/VALLEDRAW

VALL-E-DRAW LLM code generation for vals, on a canvas! Make apps with a frontend, backend, and database. First you need a working version of VALL-E. Follow the steps here . Fork this val, and update...

www.val.town

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@JanPaul123

3 months

MAKE REAL WITH BACKEND

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

@rsms @jamiattenberg Man I get the feeling you'd enjoy paragliding a lot. I can intro you to some great teachers and pilots if you're interested!

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Is there something like the demoscene for AI, like making the most impressive models that fit in 100kb?

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

9 months

Huge shoutout to the 2023 donors: Alex Gerko, @JosephJacks_ , etc. Some personal notes: - @rauchg effectively believed in me twice, donating to us after investing in my failed startup. Thanks man!! I'm glad this time worked out better. 😅 - Gerko's is

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

9 months

On another note, after paying out these prizes, the Vesuvius Challenge is now poor, so any wealthy donors who want to step up and fund our master plan, please get in touch!

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

In personal news, I’m proudly announcing that I’m starting two startups at once. ✨ Attached is the slide deck for both of them.

Kevin Cannon

@multikev

2 years

The future of email with ChatGPT.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

🎥 @modfydotvideo They also have some open source stuff at

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

If I want to create a static website with markdown and github pages, what should I use nowadays? 😮 Like a docs site or a site with 10-20 pages, code snippets, maybe some interactive widgets here and there, mobile friendly. Jekyll??

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

1 year

Narrator: he did not.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

9 months

As posted on Discord

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@JanPaul123

3 months

. @tldraw keeps making me spit out my coffee* *no actual coffee was hurt, I don't do drugs

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@JanPaul123

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

10 months

BART is reasonably adding more secure fare gates at a station with presumably high fare evasion — and some people are labeling this as racist (see comments)?? Wut? Where I'm from (Netherlands) these gates are super standard and no one is calling them racist there?

august 🍂

@augustAP12

10 months

the fact that bart is opening the *first* of these anti-evasion fare gates at west oakland bart is sending a deeply problematic message. like they're not even trying to hide it here, and it's disgusting

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

Ideally all programming should look like this. (via @stevekrouse 's )

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@JanPaul123

4 months

Time for some @cgingold

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Programming things I learned becoming a machine shop junkie: * Everything runs on one of the oldest programming languages in the world, that you've never heard of: G-code * There's lots of specialized software, and everything sucks in their own ways ("get me out of this mode!")

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

8 years

I made a shirt with @remix 's isochrones starting at my house.

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@JanPaul123

2 years

Programming by example, @daningalls

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@JanPaul123

11 months

In an hour, we'll have released enough segments for 10 (double digits!) Grand Prize-sized passages. Only TWO WEEKS left for the $700,000 Grand Prize!!!!! 📜🌋🔥 @scrollprize Images courtesy of @davidsjosey from our incredible segmentation team.

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 years

I'm returning to Cruise to continue my R&D into high-performance GUI applications! 😃 Specifically, applied to Webviz. See my Youtube channel for more context Thanks @kvogt for believing in my vision and letting me give this a shot! 🙂

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@JanPaul123

8 months

Did SpaceX just manage to get first rocket in orbit larger than the Saturn V in 1973?!?!?!

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@JanPaul123

3 months

The inception continues. We now have: - VALL-E (my LLM val generator) - Which in an iframe made a meta-evaluator - Which in an iframe runs an evaluator tool - Which in an iframe runs VALL-E - Which in an iframe runs a generated example app (wrapped in a val that captures errors)

JP Posma

@JanPaul123

3 months

I built a VALL-E evaluator (E-VALL-uator?), using VALL-E. It runs VALL-E in an iframe and then tests if the output has any errors (that final output is like 3 levels of iframes deep now). It's okay, I'm getting hella confused too.

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@JanPaul123

9 months

Anyone wants to guess the geometric reason for the bumps at the top, and why they become shorter?

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@JanPaul123

3 years

Every so often I have to think about the wonderful world that is @Dynamicland1 . It’s weird—I can’t think of immediate commercial “use cases”, but I also find it hard to imagine that their vision will NOT be pervasive in our everyday lives..!

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@JanPaul123

2 years

Saw EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE for the second time in theaters and will have to go a third time next week. Incredible movie, and even better when you feel everyone in the audience experiencing the same rollercoaster as you. Watch it in theaters — opportunity of a lifetime.

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@JanPaul123

2 years

The water being hot is 70% of the joy of tea 🍵

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JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

Why do coworking spaces seem to have terrible ergonomics? How does this help with a digital nomad lifestyle; if I want back pain I can just work from my hotel room / airbnb?

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@JanPaul123

3 years

Interesting thread! There are some good things in here, but I also disagree with a bunch.. response 🧵 below

Jamie

@buildsghost

3 years

A lot of people have the misconception that writing their app in a lower level language (ex: Rust) that runs in WASM and renders in a <canvas> would be (if nothing else) good for performance This is… probably… mostly… not the case. Okay it’s not the case. It’ll be slower.

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@tmcw In an application that I worked on we had a /version endpoint that got called every minute or so, and refreshed the page when it changed (or like showed a button to refresh if it was recent, and after a day a forced hard refresh)

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@JanPaul123

2 years

How does a libertarian build a backend? Stateless

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@JanPaul123

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@yacineMTB @FlohOfWoe If you need inspiration for doing fun stuff (incl shared JS/Rust interop w/ multithreading on both sides, shared mem, 2d/3d rendering and eventing, layouting, live shaders, 60fps) cross platform to wasm/win/macos/linux check out my old project

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@JanPaul123

3 years

I'll do some live coding on Zaplib in ~10mins! Will probably keep going for 1-2 hours. We'll be trying to recreate a flamegraph viewer like @PyroscopeIO in Zaplib.

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@JanPaul123

2 years

Did you know that when St Petersburg was under siege during WWII, the staff at the world's largest seed vault let themselves starve to death, even though they could have saved themselves by eating the seeds?

Pavlovsk Experimental Station - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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@JanPaul123

2 years

It's live in production! Took about ~2.5 days of work to get v1 to production. Pretty happy with it. 🙂 (Use your own judgement on what kind of stuff to use this for; see the FAQ for how to think about the security model.)

JP Posma

@JanPaul123

2 years

💡 I have a bunch of stupid project ideas, so I figured I should write them up. This is the first one: "SSH now": 1. copy command 2. plug it into a place where you can execute scripts (e.g. CI) 3. get terminal in the browser Feedback (and roasts) welcome!

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@JanPaul123

2 years

@stevekrouse @_ali_taylor (via @jlfwong )

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@JanPaul123

7 months

Finished Miyazaki marathon (largely with @louispotok ). Can highly recommend!! Here’s my personal ranking. Best: - Porco Rosso - Kiki - Ponyo - Conan - Totoro Worst: - Nausicaä - Spirited Away - Princess Mononoke (though there are no “bad” Miyazaki’s, even these are fantastic)

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