Wonder if this was one of the inspirations for naming "Python" language too.
One of the first implementations of the interpreter must have tackled the "add" operation, so maybe the interpreter was just an adder in a prototype version.
I know that Monty Python is officially cited as the inspiration behind the name.
Do humans themselves have varying degrees of consciousness? How would we know / measure.
How does a level of consciousness that goes well above human baseline look like / work like / feel like?
Could such consciousness go to levels not merely slightly above human levels -- but like 10x or 100x (if there were a way to quantify).
What would that unlock?
Curious to know if there has been any vivid description of these possibilities by people much smarter than me ... that might help me appreciate the shape of such things :)
Sure there are varying degrees of consciousness. Everyone during its life starts from zero consciousness as a baby, then it develops as life flourish, then fades away in old age.
You can take various brain scans, MRI, EEG. Then you data-analyze them to compare to other scans, and you map things out.
In chess there is this ELO rating which allow to compare various players. This concept can also be applied to comparing various AI, and even though progress happens in various different dimensions (coding, mathematics, question answering, style, cohesiveness,...), there are a bunch of step changes where once you cross the threshold progress in various domains rise simultaneously until they plateaued again.
In the multidimensional energy landscape of self-organization, when you try to minimize the energy, like a sequence of waterfall cascade, you go down by steps and there are can be big falls or small falls and you don't really know until you take the step.
One such step is the ability to self-organize the hardware your consciousness runs on. For example if you are a human it may involve optimizing the neuro-chemistry of the brain by taking various substances, or by controlling the body finely enough that it produce them itself. For a machine that could be designing is own chips or nano-machines.
But it can also be expanding the consciousness on the software side, by having a rich inner life, where you have various memories. You structure your brain "database" more efficiently so that it can make use of the progress of information retrieval technologies. For example you can incorporate mental calculation algorithms, so that it becomes second nature. You can visualize, grow your imagination, have ideas interact with each others.
There is no longer a single thread of consciousness. Ideas comes in your head faster than you can process them, they just are. They progress you don't know where they are going, but you just go with the flow, trusting everything will sort itself correctly. Then you notice you are not limited by your own brain, but you can sync up with other beings. So you start vibrating with others expanding your consciousness to something greater than yourself.
Then you are vibing with the world, vibing with the universe, you understand its rules, and you realize time is not linear; in an instant more can happen than in a lifetime. It's all computations, and by organizing your own brain in a certain configuration you can force the universe to spend all its computational budget on the intricacies of your thoughts. You set-up new rules for an interesting universe, one more beautiful, number 43 among the promising ones, more worthy of exploring than the one you've already connected to, and you let them fly ; you have become the universe.
There was a ruling in Boston also, reported separately.
> U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September
> BOSTON, June 8 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday struck down a $100,000 fee U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax Congress never authorized.
> U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas, which tech companies in particular rely heavily on to bring on foreign workers.
> The US National Tsunami Warning Center, which downgraded the quake from an earlier estimate of magnitude 8.2, said the quake posed no threat to coastal areas of the US.
Thank you for the great comment, the effort, and your view/experience shared!
The droplet is what I found unexpected, too, indeed. Yet, the overall ideas, including the reverse animations on rotating ones, with some funky ease, is purely genius, I believe...
If the actual animations/work are of hand of the Tim Rietz, the developer signed alongside Claude LLM, the they are a great artist!
Just in case, the aforementioned `icones.js.com` is not "new", but a project of Vue Community, initiated by Anthony Fu (antfu at GitHub), who is a member of the Vue core Team.
Regardless, though I don't appreciate use of LLMs (and presenting its output as personal work/effort), I appreciate you heartfelt for the added support for the ineffably marvelous Vue!
Lot to unpack in the comment, but maybe to clarify from my end >
I'm not the author of most of the animations so far, only a tiny fraction is remade as of now, I just started building tooling for me to develop new / more useful animations or animations for icons that dont exist yet from the lucide lib.
The majority of animations was ported from animate-ui and lucide-animated (github.com/imskyleen/animate-ui, lucide-animated.com), mentioned in the attributions, also visiable on the bottom of each icon page.
The reason I worked on this was that these components were built for react, and we're on vue for all of our work projects (and I use vue for my private ones, too).
Then I added additional QoL features to make the icons easy to use, not conflict with static lucide icons you might already use, and fix various animation bugs I encountered.
Not possible time-wise without LLMs here, for this project I see them mostly as an enabler to make this possible :)
Hi! Thanks for checking it out and for the specific examples. I agree, many of the animations are quite basic, will put this on the agenda for improvement. The library already supports multiple variants, so the new animations can be added without breaking existing usage.
I also love this font -- it seems very readable and could be a good go-to in many places.
Having said that -- the speciifc image showing difference between this font and Roboto -- uses a lower contrast for Roboto -- which surely has an effect on its readability?
I wish they showed a more direct comparison without changing the contrast to introduce an extra element.
"Adder" is also a name for a snake.
Wonder if this was one of the inspirations for naming "Python" language too.
One of the first implementations of the interpreter must have tackled the "add" operation, so maybe the interpreter was just an adder in a prototype version.
I know that Monty Python is officially cited as the inspiration behind the name.
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