npinsker
For me at least, the post is kinda confusing and feels a
bit overwrought ("there exists a raven such that the
vector of hours"?), and was hard to understand at first.
Sadly, in the wonderful year of 2026, I can't help myself
wondering if it was all written by an LLM, prompted by "be
mysterious" or similar - though I still wouldn't bet on
it.The project is cool! It's a simple visual graph layout
system for making your own clock.
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> rf15
the structure and cadence feels very organic to me -
it might not be generated.
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mnemonicsloth
I love this: a DSL that makes clocks out of birds and
math. Really, this is a glorious little project.The thing
I bounced off isn't the high-concept art, or the abstract
math. It's the combination of the two without enough
bridge between them. You have to infer too much about how
the poetic layer, the mathematical notation, and the
actual machinery relate.You can do mind-expansion by
induction in a math journal. This is not that venue. And
this project is too good to waste by letting people walk
away confused.I'd love a very plain "one clock, end to
end" walkthrough: primitives, composition, graph, rendered
result.
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bayesnet
I don't think I have ever seen ∋ used to mean "such
that" so I was very confused until I got to the
explanation (as it were; why CONTAINS AS MEMBER is being
used to mean "such that" is never explained).
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mparramon
For a moment I thought this was a nature-inspired
introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum
Information[1][1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computation_and_Quan
tu...
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OgsyedIE
Although the notation choice is tediously abstract (imo)
the set of available scalars (and vector components) here
is actually a relabeling of Q[e^i], the smallest field
containing the rationals and e^i.It was a fun three minute
proof, if any of you are like me in enjoying this kind of
thing.
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thunderbong
Reads a bit like the "Little Alchemy 2"
game!https://www.crazygames.com/game/little-alchemy-2
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IanCal
I'm a little lost though this seems like it could be fun,
on safari mobile whatever I build keeps losing some of the
connections as I tap on other things so it's hard to get
far with it.
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PufPufPuf
I keep hearing about the "Recurse center". I tried to
understand from their website what exactly is it, but only
thing I got was "a sabbatical where you work on random
stuff and talk with people doing the same" which still
doesn't really click. But clearly it leads to cool stuff
like this.
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> knuckleheads
I attended a decade ago and it was great, lots of
people working and exploring a lot of cool stuff! I
think what I would quibble with is that yes it is
"random" what people work on, but there's certainly
themes and some people have pretty clear directions
about what they are up to and want to learn. If you
want to focus on That One Open Source Project for a
couple months, that's cool and encouraged.
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> kqr
Which part of it doesn't click? Attending the Recurse
center means you commit to spending a few weeks on
spare time programming projects and you get to work on
these projects around other people who do the same.Do
the concepts of meetups or hackathons make sense for
you? Take that concept and stretch it out to a few
weeks.
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PhilipRoman
For a moment I thought this was another case of AI
psychosis, like the post from week ago about the
"content-addressed lattice heap" but this is actually
pretty neat.
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dist-epoch
The kind of exploration that would require a massive
one-month of full-time investment before LLMs. Now doable
in days.(I don't know on which side of this author was)
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