Newsletter 155: Call for Functions: Spell out the number!
Come and join us to create functions that spell out a number in your language! We currently have five such functions - in English, Ukrainian, Polish, German, and Croatian. How quickly can we build more?
https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2024-05-15
Results of a poll of the #nixos governance folks entitled "What do you want for the future of the Nix project governance?'" Although unauthenticated and publicly open, it was stealthy enough that I didn't know it was underway.
I'm seeing a lot of upheaval around #nixos about #projectGovernance and moderation.
Is there like a "gold standard" for open source project governance? Maybe there's overlap with volunteer organizations? What are the #sociologists up to? They're probably on top of this stuff, right?
Making an #LLM #benchmark that can't be gamed is an interesting problem. My favorite solution I've seen so far in my 5 minutes of knowing about the problem is the one where people just use multiple random LLMs at once, for anything, and select the best answer: https://chat.lmsys.org/?arena
There's high #silliness potential here if you up the number of LLMs from 2 to like 10 and allow them to see each others replies. Would probably somehow devolve into them trying to convince the user to choose them.
Crazy how old games still have active communities.
Someone beat #Tetris for the first time. The game gets weird at the higher levels.
The syntactic sugar that is in the RakuLang that would make me happier in the Python:
Wikifunctions
Chris McDonough ✅
Jake Hamilton
Mikhail Khorkov