@dougfort

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programmer.

Interested in augmentation

Ocaml
Haskell
Racket

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 8,1950
180 http req/sec. A *single botnet* has hit 1,052,380 distinct honeypot URLs in the last 24 hours. Source IPs from all over the globe.

Please consider these lines from my diary:

John Mastodon was tripping out in Waukee. A jogger questioned "Where does human existence begin, and where does it end?" John whispered: "Insanity."

I am #JohnMastodon, your sage advisor.

Got a little tap light from a free box at yard sales last weekend. Opened it up to find a spicy pillow. It actually charged and worked, but I’m guessing the standby time was compromised by the damaged cell. Dropped in another cell I had lying around, easy peasy.
Tap on, tap off.
Talk about Uxn opcodes, but you're not allowed to use natural language.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/uxn.napkin.txt
Alberto Alfarano, François Charton, Yongzheng Jia, Kristin Lauter, Cathy Li, Emily Wenger and I are launching a second challenge at SAIR, this time focused on seeing how efficiently neural networks can execute simple modular arithmetic operations : https://competition.sair.foundation/competitions/modular-arithmetic-challenge/overview . A more detailed blog post is at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/modular-arithmetic-challenge/
Modular Arithmetic Challenge | SAIR Foundation

The Modular Arithmetic Challenge asks a deceptively simple question — can a neural network learn to compute (a × b) mod p for integers hundreds of digits long...

SAIR Foundation