1. _ce5e Mar 17, 2025

   If you consider the photon (particle), a single photon does not go through both slits at once. It takes the path of least action. It's only when the experiment is repeated that the wave-like behavior emerges. The wave function is simply a probability approximation of the least action required for any set of start and end position.

   So the question in the title doesn't make much sense.

2. _ce5e Mar 17, 2025

   Honestly I just do any arbitrary uint64, it's good enough for a majority of usecases.

   Sometimes I like to have fun and encode a 1337-code easter egg in the hexadecimal representation

3. _ce5e Mar 17, 2025

   Fully agree! 3blue1brown is who have single-handedly thought me a majority of what I've needed to know about it.

   I actually started building my own neural network framework last week in C++! It's a great way to delve into the details of how they work. It currently supports only dense MLP's, but does so quite well, and work is underway for convolutional layers and pooling layers on a separate branch.

   https://github.com/perkele1989/prkl-ann

4. _ce5e Mar 17, 2025

   Not really sure if you're serious, but the night Trump was sworn in and took office, he talked for multiple hours straight, without a teleprompter (as always), with reason and a red thread through the entire thing. You may not agree with his policies, but to claim that his mental health is declining is ridiculous.

   OTOH, watching Biden spontaneously become a Roomba, walking away in arbitrary directions, always having his handlers with him, etc. is ultimately sad. I dont think people point it out to ridicule, I think it's a serious situation, especially given the fact that he was commander in chief for 4 years.

5. perkele1989 Mar 16, 2025

   I literally earn 4x more from my US clients than from my EU clients, living in EU. Economics is much too complex to be reduced down to "companies are paying too little". It all comes down to inflation and what influences inflation, like international trade policy, policies on things like farming and domestic trade, but also policies that trade financial wellbeing for attempting to prevent climate change.

   Mass-slaughter of chickens due to an unjustified fear of bird flu is one of very many small examples that lead to higher living costs.

6. perkele1989 Mar 16, 2025

   This week I started working on an educational C++ framework for building and training neural networks. It's gone quite well, and while I only have dense MLP's for now (convolutional/pooling layers still in the works), the fundamental architecture of the framework has become quite fleshed out and works really well for what it does.

   It supports multiple activation functions and evaluation modes/classifications, with softmax etc. It also features adaptive learning rate, automatic overfitting prevention, and early exit when training stops converging (based on either training loss, or evaluated success rate at each epoch).

   I've managed to build a model for the MNIST digits dataset, achieving a 98.55% success rate (on the eval set), but it can obviously be used to build any arbitrary dense MLP.

   If you're curious and like me want to learn more about how NN's actually work, I suggest you check it out! :)

7. 2 points Mar 16, 2025

   Prkl-ann: I've improved my C++ neural network framework to be generally useful

   1 comment perkele1989 github.com
8. perkele1989 Mar 13, 2025

   this is not progress. this is regression. who is going to maintain and further develop the software if not actual programmers? in the end the LLM's stop getting new information to be trained on, and it cant truly innovate (since its not an AGI)
9. perkele1989 Mar 13, 2025

   so youre saying they should be kept employed otherwise they might commit treason? if thats really your reasoning, thats just more reason to fire them
10. perkele1989 Mar 12, 2025

    government agencies aren't the ones building the knowledge, know how and world wide soft power of a country. it's the people and their businesses. a government is meant to govern the administrative tasks of everything imposed by the social contract of a country, nothing more. and given that the US is built on a foundation of liberty.

    how much more are american taxpayers expected to foot the bill for? a lot of them work two or three jobs and still cant make ends meet.

11. perkele1989 Mar 12, 2025

    Been a long time coming. They should've dismantled much earlier, no matter how good the intentions, it probably cost them, their clients, and their employees much more in the long-run to keep fighting the inevitable.

    Sad day.

12. perkele1989 Mar 12, 2025

    Good stuff! Single-file C application with zero dependencies, and well written at that, is impressive in itself. The fact that the website is super-polished too kind of threw me off guard. I kept looking for a "Pricing" tab but couldn't find one lol.

    A perfect 5/7!

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