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bashauma | 7 months ago | on: Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

these works are really gems, but this type code is very strange, and not useful for standard situation. AI devs will take more "normal and useful" code for learning their products than these "noisy and hard-reading" code.

bashauma | 1 year ago | on: Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)

Hiroshige is so great. 53 stations of Tokaido is comparable work to 36 views of my.Fuji (includes Great Wave).

And you like shin-hanga? You are a very enthusiast! Even in Japan, not many people know shin-hanga.

Check out Hiroshi Yoshida if you like. He is my favorite shin-hanga artist.

bashauma | 1 year ago | on: Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)

As a native Japanese, I can tell you that is true. There are many types of Japanese paintings, but the most popular is ukiyo-e. And I can't think of a more famous ukiyo-e work than "Great Wave". Therefore this is considered the most famous Japanese painting.

If asked to choose one ukiyo-e as an illustration for a banknote, almost all Japanese would choose this work. (Especially considering that the back of the banknote, i.e., a landscape, is required)

Although less famous than "Great Wave", however there are still works that are comparable to it. "Yakko Edobei" by Sharaku is one of them, and it's the most famous ukiyo-e portrait work.

bashauma | 1 year ago | on: Programming Beyond Paradigms

I more or less agree with the author that "programming paradigms are becoming practically the same as programming styles", but even so, some languages have core features that cannot be replicated by mainstream "multi-paradigm" languages, and then that I can call them as the Next Paradigm.

An example is dependent types. This is impossible in all the languages the author mentions in the article (yes, well, GHC Haskell comes close), but there is at least one "21st century general-purpose language" that uses it, called Idris.

bashauma | 2 years ago | on: Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission

The probe is expected to operate during lunar daylight, i.e., until 2/1. (Note the main mission of SLIM is a "pinpoint landing" and the observation by the probe is just a bonus.)

During the remaining three days, JAXA has announced that they will focus on optical observations of the surrounding environment (specifically, some rocks in the surrounding area). So it is hard to imagine they will do this hard schedule of risky additional operations to restore the attitude.

bashauma | 2 years ago | on: Should I open source my company? (2022)

> Now, if your product is something for which nobody needs support or consultancy, you risk having the MongoDB-Amazon issue.

...So, that is the problem isn't it?

Basically, well-written software and documentation are meant to reduce the amount of support and consulting needed by users. Assuming your point is true, then for a company that sells support and consultants, enriching documentation, etc. would be an action in direct conflict with its own interests, wouldn't it?

The MongoDB people are very passionate and have built a great software, documentation and user community... to the point where they no longer need to sell their own support. Therefore, it is my understanding that Amazon has decided to use their "support".

(If you're saying that it doesn't matter to the users if the company lives or dies when there is already functioning software and community, that may be true)

bashauma | 2 years ago | on: Medjed: From Ancient Egypt to Japanese Pop Culture (2017)

As always, Nico Nico Encyclopedia[0] and Pixiv Encyclopedia[1] are good entry points for Japanese pop/otaku culture (though they tend not to have as many excellent sources as this article does).

This entry in the Pixiv Encyclopedia is valuable because it mentions the two most popular Japanese IPs using god Medjed in them and not covered in the article, Fate/Grand Order and One Piece.

[0]: https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83... [1]: https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%89

bashauma | 2 years ago | on: Your Code Displays Japanese Wrong

>Even more so the argumet that people don’t report this because they are "not speakers of English!” is just an assumption. Not to mention that translation applications are more than good enough for such a task.

Frankly, people have learned helplessness[0] about these oddities and don't think to report them when they see them, so the inference that something isn't serious just because it's not pointed out is weak.

In the first place, the proportion of software users who raise issues on GitHub/other is small, and when devs are a group of people who communicate in characters that are not used in their daily life, the translation apps they have at hand is not very encouraging.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

(Disclosure: I'm CJK native)

bashauma | 2 years ago | on: Fine-tuning Mistral 7B on Magic the Gathering Draft

Some status (mana cost, stats) of MTG cards are numbers, but the most important part, the effect of the card, is defined in English text. So, in my opinion, this seems to be an area where LLM can work well.

MTGA and MO development team do a lot of work to put card effects into if-then rule, but unfortunately their work is not visible to the players :)

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