bitcrafter

Excellent! I got a bit concerned when my experimental infinite loop was able to run for over a minute. 😉

And the cool thing is: not only were you able to install this 6 years ago, you were able to install it 16 years as well!

In fairness, we wouldn't have had to do this if they had just put in monads like we had been calling for from the beginning!

Given that there are zillions of lisp variants out there, why would someone want to make serious use of this compared to something like Guile Scheme (or one of the other schemes)?

Having said that, the website and branding is really pretty!!! In particular, I absolutely love your usage of color gradients. Some minor feedback is that when the screen is wide, I think that would be nice if the "A small, lisp-inspired, functional scripting language / Get Started" element flowed to the middle relative vertically to the examples column rather than floating at the top. (I do like how it floats above the right column when the screen is narrow, though.)

Also, just to check, do you have a time limit set for the Playground so that people do not over-tax your system? (You might also look into WASM so that people run their scripts locally.)

I agree that is a legitimate concern, though I would hope that even in that case there would be less popular alternative models that people could use, just like how those of us who want to stay away from the big social networks can use Lemmy. This would not save us from AI chatbots subtly reprogramming the population just like how Facebook did with its algorithm, though...

Having done some cursory research (so I could be missing something), it doesn't look like you get any funding for being a federal depository library, just easier access to government documents, as well as formal recognition (so that people know you provide a local access point).

...no?

I think that you are indeed wrong.

First, it is worth noting that this designation was made by a Democrat Senator from California, not by anyone else (e.g., by someone in the Administration), and a better way of viewing this is that the Internet Archive is replacing the San Diego public library as a federal depository library because it was simply too burdensome a role for the latter as it ran out of space storing hard copies of everything and making it available.

Second, the people involved are excited about this because they want to leverage the Internet Archive's experience in preserving and expanding access to documents, and in particular, the Internet Archive wants this designation because it gets them easier access to these materials by being a formal part of the network.

So I think that this is overall a good thing, rather than something to be very concerned about.

This executive order only sets policy for AI use by the federal government, not for how AIs must behave for the entire country.

You could only become a Viking through conversion.

Supposedly the following is a real problem:

For example, one major AI model changed the race or sex of historical figures — including the Pope, the Founding Fathers, and Vikings — when prompted for images because it was trained to prioritize DEI requirements at the cost of accuracy.

Given the administration's immense reputation for veracity—the biggest we have ever seen—I see no reason to doubt this.

The title of the post, as opposed to the title of the executive order, is very misleading: this executive order only applies to the AIs that are allowed to be procured and used by the federal government, not to all AI in general.

(Having said that, the underlying motivation behind it is still nonsense, just as it has been for all of the other executive orders.)