This is super cool! I'd like to build this sort of thing myself, do you recommend any tutorials?

I didn’t follow one so can’t recommend. The tech is MoveNet from tensorflow.js and three.js so you can search it up online

If Python object methods returned `self` by default instead of `None` you could do this in Python too!

This is my biggest complaint about Python.

there are https://github.com/JulienPalard/Pipe and https://github.com/0101/pipetools

I care about the edge between "this value fails, one value over succeeds". I wish shrinking were fast enough to tell me if there are multiple edges between those values.

This sounds like graph reduction as done by https://haflang.github.io/ and that flavor of special purpose CPU.

The downside of reducing a large graph is the need for high bandwidth low latency memory.

The upside is that tiny CPUs attached directly to the memory could do reduction (execution).

I have this laptop, with 192 GB of RAM and an ADA 4000 GPU. I haven't tried LLMs but it's an amazingly powerful laptop.

This sounds like a useful way to mix in statistics and get useful approximations. I'm reading one of the survey links and it's approximately eye opening.

I love doing research on subjects that excite me, but I found that joining a PhD program would mean I would only get to work on what my advisor found exciting.

If you get lucky and find a PI that is interested in exactly the same thing, you're good. You might get lucky enough to find someone who is interested in something near what you want. Most likely, you will be assigned the thing you do for your PhD.

> joining a PhD program would mean I would only get to work on what my advisor found exciting.

No, it wouldn't.

> Most likely, you will be assigned the thing you do for your PhD.

Sometimes. Often not.

I tried to help with the Linux kernel once in 2001 or so. I decided my calm was worth more than dealing with abrasive kernel devs.

I'd play this tower defense game where I have to organize my city to resist zombies.

i can't understand how there hasn't been a single game for the CLI. RTS tower defense, rogue-like & dota, infocom games/caves of qud.

should run on old ThinkPads. uh, maybe you can makes it one of those Challenges @ lewd game weekend hacksaton or something!!! uuuuuh, exciting!

I tried helping with the Linux kernel once, in 2001. I haven't since. I don't need abrasive people in my life.