Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

Using vertical doors in refrigeration devices is an act against the Nature of Cold Air. Understanding and cooperating with Nature rather than acting against it leads to much better efficiency.

The NetHack Challenge is a competition at NeurIPS 2021 in which teams will compete to build the best agents to play the game of NetHack, using the NetHack Learning Environment (NLE).

NetHack 5.0 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack, which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.6. ... A list of over 3100 fixes and changes can be found in the game's sources in the file doc/fixes5-0-0.txt. The text in there was written for the development team's own use and is provided "as is". Some entries might be considered "spoilers", particularly in the "new features" section.

Chapters 00:00:00 - Cold Open 00:02:06 - Introduction 00:05:11 - Part 1: Back End Harms 00:22:19 - Part 2: Front End Harms 00:34:52 - Patreon Ad 00:36:11 - Part 3: Shame, Reactance, and Harm Reduction 01:00:30 - Part 4: How to Act Collectively Against AI Harm 01:11:58 - Final Thoughts 01:20:33 - Credits + Responding to Comments

Some writing wants to be a website. Some wants to be a newsletter. Some wants to be a feed. Sourcefeed is for the third kind. RSS-only. No website, no inbox, no algorithm. Subscribers read it where they choose, in whatever reader they already trust.

I would love an RSS web feed for all those various tools and apps pages, each item with an “Install” button. (But install to where?) The lesson here is that when vibe-coding accelerates app development, apps become more personal, more situated, and more frequent. Shipping a tool or a micro-app is less like launching a website and more like posting on a blog.

So far, the "killer app" aspects of AI is helping me create/iterate/finish things I've wanted for many years, but couldn't find time or energy enough to do completely on my own.

When all the places I might socialize and share in are dominated by people who spend all day posting about how much they hate a technology and anyone who uses it, it's not really a place I want to be. Why would I want to be around people who are relentlessly and confidently wrong about things I've taken the time to understand?

Making constant architectural, big-picture decisions while overseeing the work of a cracked junior dev is fundamentally harder than executing standard programming tasks yourself.

Club Med eventually moved upmarket and away from experiments like this one. Atari eventually became something else entirely. But for thirteen weeks in the summer of 1983, on a beach in the Dominican Republic, you could sit down at an Atari 800 between windsurfing sessions and learn to program in BASIC, compose a piece of music, or weave a headband from a design you made yourself on a computer with 256 colors to choose from. Nobody made you. It was just there if you wanted it, which is very Club Med.

Well, I had this idea. A new bot that would post one bookmark per day to a Mastodon account.