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Since "Lena" ("MMAcevedo") and "They're Made Out of Meat" from this subthread are on my "fiction recommendations" list, let me share the list: https://dbohdan.com/fiction-recs. I highly recommend "Basilisk collection" by Blackle Mori (https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/), a fascinating short story written as a fictional Wikipedia page, like "Lena". It is about a partial hash inversion anomaly. Really! I would call its genre "hard computer science fiction". It was a delight to stumble upon after I followed a link to https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/.

The fictional article https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/ is one the best written computer science/cryptography SCP like articles I've ever read. What I loved is that: $ echo -en 'basilisk:0000000000:ds26ovbJzDwkVWia1tINLJZ2WXEHBvItMZRxHmYhlQd0spuvPXb6cYFJorDKkqlA' | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl dgst -sha256 (stdin)= 0000000000000000000000161b9f84a187cc21b172bf68b3cb3b78684d8e9f17 actually works, but is a little sneaky. See https://www.metafilter.com/190463/so-who-is-there-left-to-trust Edit2: https://github.com/blackle/Basilisk-Hunter How the examples were generated.

Another impressive CSS creation -- CSS Puzzle Box: https://suricrasia.online/puzzlebox/

No we haven't, but it was largely inspired by https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

I think it's rather crude and inefficient to generate several translations with a prompt. Can't we just sample different "branches" of successive tokens with some mechanism for ensuring diversity like [1] did? This would allow the user to edit a handful of words/phrases/sentences and guide the LLM towards a more idiomatic translation. This may even give smaller local models a chance. [1] https://suricrasia.online/blog/making-amulets-with-llama/

On the projects page (https://suricrasia.online/projects/) it says "Make glitchy beats with randomly generated Opus protocol packets." So I guess it's random data fed into the opus decoder.

Self-plug, but demoscene on linux is very possible. I got into the scene around 2015 and submitted my first entry to an IRL demoparty in 2018. All of my prods are linux and open source. Most are 4k exegfx, which means they are still images, but "scalemark" is an animated 4k intro with music. https://suricrasia.online/demoscene/

https://icebergcharts.com/ - I'd like many people here create icebergs about technical and scientific topics The "Cursed Computer Iceberg" (https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/) is what inspired this site, and I think there are many more to be made.

Not exactly that but: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/

Sounds like the basilisk collection: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/

Font hinting is already turing complete[0]. (I learned about the in this[1] iceberg meme) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language [1] https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

There was another story on the same site [1] that involves thermodynamics and signal processing. I don't think I've seen such technical sci-fi before. Anybody else have more examples to share? [1]: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/CSC218-Software-Precognance.pdf

This website is incredibly good. Reminds me of qntm. https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/CSC218-Software-Precognance.pdf

With the Basilisk collection (https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/), this is the second time this month that I get fooled by a hoax! My disappointment is big every time

Ah, found it in search. It was this one: The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

From the cursed computer iceberg posted the other week, "font hinting is Turing complete". https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language

You might enjoy ‘Basilisk collection’. https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/

aside from the question of novelty, i think i can buy a pocket am/fm radio for us$6 today https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-917855935-radio-portatil-ditr… so building a radio from scratch doesn't have the same cachet it had in the 01950s when a radio was a major household appliance people would save up for you can definitely kit-build an am or fm radio from a kit without any understanding of the concepts, the radioshack '200-in-1' 'science fair' kit had wiring netlists for both am and fm radios, and didn't really explain the concepts. similarly you can solder together a microcontroller board and write circuitpython on it without any understanding of the concepts in any of these cases there are a shitload of concepts to learn i don't know much about chemistry but i think you have measurement error, valence electrons, vacuum filtration, density, oxidation states, precipitation, ph, solubility, activity, decantation, density, enthalpy, recrystallization, pressure, solubility product, never give an acid a drink, entropy, flasks bubbling over, gibbs free energy, hplc, equilibrium, distillation, the arrhenius law, sublimation, ligands, spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, ... in analog electronics you have measurement error, voltage, current, energy, capacitance, resistance, complex impedance, inductance, frequency, power, charge, parasitics, exponential decay, diffeqs, linear time-invariant systems, lti system…