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February 2024

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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 27 A Finn tells me that, for some reason, Finnish criminal records are erased for all nonagenarians. …are you thinking what i'm thinking… 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯’𝘴 90: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘩
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 26 This will, needless to say, be really good for classics studies in the long run. But not because new text will answer things (though it will)—successful academic communities produce questions, not answers.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 24 Apropos of an entirely unrelated project, did you know today is the 23rd anniversary of Claude Shannon's death? He only died in 2001. Hard to believe, given to what an extent we live in Shannon's world now, but computing is 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 young.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 23 I remember as a kid running into a cryptographic hash article for the first time, and staring. "Well, that sounds like a uselessly specific thing: it turns a file into a small random string of gibberish? What good is *that*...?" And increasingly 😬😬😬ing as I followed the logic.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 23 Hashs are an intellectual miracle. Almost useless-seeming, they turn out to do practically everything, from ultra-fast 'arrays' to search to public key cryptography (!). Yet, even Knuth can't find any intellectual forebears pre-1953! Seems out of nowhere.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 21 (What's really hilarious about all this is that even though we've spent a painful month on this, to a reader, this all looks 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 the same—images already displayed and could be popped up! PDFs & web pages already popped up! Videos already popped up! What's new here?)
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 21 (Also, LibreOffice by default always dumps the convert doc into ./... along with all files inside the document. Apparently they *used* to do the sensible thing of inlining them into the HTML, as I expected it to, but they changed, for unclear reasons. At least there's a option.)
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 21 A nightmare feature cross-cutting across all systems, while hitting a bunch of random bugs. 180MB HTML files. Linux Chromium PDF view ignores Adobe commands but only in iframes. LibreOffice crashes on one specific spreadsheet. No mobile PDF. Safari event bugs. Nitter error lies.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 21 We also finally fixed the <video> poster problems & made them clickable *and* lazy (believe it or not, they implemented posters without lazy image options); provide HTML versions of doc/docx/csv/xlsx to render in addition to PDF (but disabling PDF on mobile bc lol mobile); etc.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 21 eg is basically ~180MB of animated GIFs. This has 3 benefits: we can transclude the .html, which is usually <1MB, and the images/videos won't immediately download; no text encoding overhead (−18MB); & we can optimize the files eg w/gifsicle (−15MB?).
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 21 One side-effect of expanding file-transcludes to documents is that the HTML snapshots can be 182MB. A user should not download 200MB just by scrolling a little out of curiosity! So, we have a script to unpack SingleFile snapshots & make them lazy:
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 15 𝘔𝘢𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘹 3: 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘦 is our 𝘓𝘰𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘯. I am taking no questions on this fact.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 13 Another useful script: just asking GPT-4-V if an image would look better with some more whitespace margin: (I often upload copied figures or screenshots or generated graphs where they really need another 50px around the edges to look good.)
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Feb 13 That is, a LZMA compressor may not be good enough because it is still weak on small variations of boilerplate, while a LLM would be able to see through that and compress it all away, revealing the real redundancy due to poor design/language/ecosystem.
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