It seems they didn’t take into account the use of brainlet organoids as a meta-level source of nonalgebraic computational processing. We do in fact live in a timeline where we might simulate the universe on a giant swarm of microbrains.
nice! does the export keep the overlay as a layer?
Hmmm, looking at Lojban in a bit more detail it sounds like the consensus is that the conative load of having to construct perfect logical specificity makes it suboptimal as a secondary intermediary language. If people are learning it as a second language it will be very hard to pick up.
This seems like a pretty solid option. I feel like this type of algorithmic language construction could be ripe for a big push forward, both in terms of constructing new languages and benchmarking them for use.
Person Singular Plural
1st me nus
And you lost me. Irregular pluralization at the very core of the language does not smack of a the ideal neutral language, whether it is shared by Germanic and Romance languages or not.
Startpage is still decent
Sidewalk construction.
Commercial carpet installation.
Toilet paper.
King’s Reign has been fun, deck builder Roguelike where you play soldier cards and they combo while marching left to right along a board with three lanes.
The best inventions do progress with backwards compatibility
MPE and MIDI 2.0 would like a word zir
Smiley Face, truly a stoner classic, basically no plot at all but also excellent.
Huh, we still almost always have SMS as a validation method for 2FA here, so any SMS to web method works.
ah, two factor authentication is the issue then?
For all of those following, I emailed Rob and he confirmed that the focus of the project to start is reverse engineering binary blobs on existing android devices, but he is currently only at the discovery phase of picking which phones to start with. He is first checking LineageOS compatible phones using his toolset here: https://codeberg.org/rsavoye/librephone/src/branch/main/doc/index.md
Huh, they still work for all my banks here in the US. Not sure how you’re supposed to access your bank account on your PC otherwise. Some banks you’ll have to use the “use Desktop version of the site” option in a mobile browser to get it to work, but it will still work.
That said, didn’t hird basically die because Linux gained critical mass faster and peeled off the core developers? It would be nice to imagine another bottom-up mobile OS emerging and stealing the thunder of this one, but it seems like the hope here is that Libre Phone will gravitate in some of the devs from the existing top-down open phone projects. Who knows if that will work.
One thing I wouldn’t count out right now though: China is very much in favor of getting software and hardware monopolies out from the control of US companies. Free/open(ish) LLMs are the big example, maybe they will jump on this to try and break Google’s stranglehold on the mobile market.
It isn’t encouraging that they “launched” the initiative bit have no dedicated webpage or git for it yet. Seems like going off half-cocked
The project just launched and is a software-first project. We won’t see a Libre Phone available for a while yet.
(the best) Local LLMs are FOSS though, if bias is introduced it can be detected and the user base can shift away to another version, unlike centralized cloud LLMs that are private silos.
I also don’t think LLMs of any kind will fully replace search engines, but I do think they will be one of a suite of ML tools that will enable running efficient local (or distributed) indexing and search of the web.
If you’re interested in learning more here is the github for the FinalSpark Neuroplatform: https://finalspark-np.github.io/np-docs/welcome.html
And their core publication on their “Wetware” approach: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2024.1376042/full
And here’s a pop-sci summary article with video: https://www.ericjkuhns.com/blog/startup-is-using-human-brain-cells-to-build-ai-yes-really