I'm finding this very interesting... An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of it's evolved "brain" that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play.

No Github

Please don't upload my code on Github!

I'm thinking about putting this up on all my projects and even on the front page of my Gitea instance 🤔

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115733

prologic@JamessMacStudio
Sun May 25 21:44:41
~/tmp/neurog
 (main) 130
$ go build ./cmd/ttt/... && ./ttt
Generation  27 | Fitness: 0.486111 | Nodes: 44  | Conns: 82

... experimenting with building and training a tic-tac-toe game, which evolves a. neural net that learn to paly the game against the best evolved champions 😅

Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with and doing some deep learning and researching into neutral networks and evolutionary adaptation of them. The thing is I haven't gotten very far. I've been able to build two different approaches so far with limited results. The frustrating part is that these things are so "random" it isn't even funny. Like I can't even get a basic ANN + GA to evolve a network that solves the XOR pattern every time with high levels of accuracy. 😞

https://youtu.be/1GN3xBuAgrI?si=ezBYJeSOFgtBdjEu -- Can someone please just fire Trump already? What a fucking idiot?! The man is a lunatic 🤦‍♂️

Hey y'all 👋 I am told my "participation" is drastically down of ,ate So sorry 😞 Busy quite a busy few weeks at work with a reorg and lots of complex things happening in real live too 😅 -- Hope everything is doing well 🤗

I'm thinking of bringing back filters (this time not as a feature flag, just baked in): New filters: Hide Feed, Hide Bots, Hide News, Media Only, No Replies, Local Only — toggle to trim noise & surface the Twts you care about.

Farrrk me Google search is and these days. Will they please "fuck off" with this Gemini AI garbage at the top that takes forever and is distracting as shit™ 💩 Fark me 🤦‍♂️ #Google #Search #Sucks #AI #Gemini

Anyone want to help me alpha/beta test the new WAF I'm building? It's a Caddy module. 🤔

Also spent the morning continuing to think about a new design for EdgeGuard's WAF. I'm basically going to build an entirely new pluggable WAF that will be designed to only consider Rate Limiting, IP/ASN-based filtering, JavaScript challenge handling, Basic behavioral analysis and Anomaly detection.

The only part of this design I'm not 100% sure about is the Javascript-based challenge handling? 🤔 I'm also considering making this into a "proof of work" requirement too, but I also don't want to falsely block folks that a) turn Javascript™ off or b) Use a browser like links, elinks or lynx for example.

Hmmm 🧐

Running monthly backups...

Really hoping Elizabeth Watson Brown wins and hold her seat here in Ryan 🙏

Going to try and few up a few more UX bugs today with yarnd.

@kat Have you rebuild from main recently? 🤔

How do you stop a dog from barking? 🧐

@bmallred You mean ActivityPub + Twtxt? 🤔

@kat / @xuu Recommend you git checkout main && git pull, rebuild and redeploy: make build, and however you deploy. 🙏 Lots of fixes (no more stalling) and optimizations to the feed fetcher, smoother cpu usage, better internal metrics.

Hey @kat If you see this, I'm aware of a bug. I'm trying to figure it out and fix it. bare with me 🤗 It is what's causing things to "stall" and to have to "restart". Sorry 😞

@kat @xuu Recommend you git checkout main && git pull && make build. Few bug fixes 😄

After yarnd v0.16 is released and the next round of specification updates are done and dusted, who wants me to have another crack at building Twtxt and activity pub integration support?

LOL Amazon displaying tariff prices "hostile and political," White House say is this the kettle calling the pot black? 🤣 Trump, pfft, what a fucking idiot. No clue how economies work, let alone countries.

03:45 You can pretty blame capitalism for everything that's wrong with anything 🤣

Nothing like being paged at 00:30 (midnight) for a P2 incident that is now resolved at 02:10 🤯 Obviously I'm not going to work tomorrow (I mean today lol 😂) at the usual start time 🤦‍♂️

Finally I propose that we increase the Twt Hash length from 7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update

And speaking of Twtxt (See: #xushlda, feeds should be treated as append-only. Your client(s) should be appending Twts to the bottom of the file. Edits should never modify the timestamp of the Twt being edited, nor should a Twt that was edited by deleted, unless you actually intended to delete it (but that's more complicated as it's very hard to control or tell clients what to do in a truely decentralised ecosystem for the deletion case). #Twtxt #Client #Recommendations

Just like we don't write emails by hand anymore (See: #a3adoka), we don’t manually write Twts or update our twtxt.txt feeds. Instead, we use modern Twtxt clients that conform to the specifications at Twtxt.dev for a seamless, automated experience. #Twtxt #Twt #UserExperience

Nobody writes emails by hand using RFC 5322 anymore, nor do we manually send them through telnet and SMTP commands. The days of crafting emails in raw format and dialing into servers are long gone. Modern email clients and services handle it all seamlessly in the background, making email easier than ever to send and receive—without needing to understand the protocols or formats behind it! #Email #SMTP #RFC #Automation

Wrote some serious Python for the first time in like 10 years 😱 I feel so dirty 🤣

I have a great idea for fixing the US economy. Get rid of all the nuclear weapons 🤣

Today I added support for Let's Encrypt to eris via DNS-01 challenge. Updated the gcore libdns package I wrote for Caddy, Maddy and now Eris. Add support for yarn's cache to support # type = bot and optionally # retention = N so that feeds like @tiktok work like they did before, and... Updated some internal metrics in yarnd to be IMO "better", with queue depth, queue time and last processing time for feeds.

@twtxtory Hello 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social / Twtxt 😅

$ bat https://twtxt.net/twt/edgwjcq | jq '.subject'
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hahahahaha 🤣 Does your client allow you to do this or what? 🤔

Bahahahaha 🤣

@bmallred Hehe, @bender is gonna be upset with you for "making up a thread/subject" 🤣

Interesting factoid... By inspecting my "followers" list every now and again, I can tell who uses a client like jenny, tt or any other client where fetches are driven by user interactions of invoking the app. What do we call this type of client? Hmmm 🤔 Then I can tell who uses yarnd because they are "seen" more frequently 🤣

First draft of yarnd 0.16 release notes. 📝 -- Probably needs some tweaking and fixing, but it's sounding alright so far 👌 #yarnd

A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents 👌

• asynchronous evolution
• drift into failure

@andros One thing I really liked about the hacker news rss feeds is the link to the comments. Reckon you can add that to the feed? 🤔

You Will Never Be Able To Change A Man. Monique Marvez - YouTube Soo fucking good! 😊 Haha so many laughs!!! 😂

Invention no 13 in A minor by J.S. Bach - YouTube Soo amazing! 🤩

Whoo! Public holiday tomorrow in Oz 🥳

I’m thinking of building a hardened peering protocol for Yarn.social’s yarnd: pods establish cryptographic identities, exchange signed /info and /twt payloads with signature verification, ensuring authenticity, integrity, and spoof-proof identity validation across the distributed network.

@xuu or @kat Do either of you have time this weekend to test upgrading your pod to the new cacher branch? 🤔 It is recommended you take a full backup of you pod beforehand, just in case. Keen to get this branch merged and to cut a new release finally after >2 years 🤣

PR to Add improved styles for the logo for twtxt.ndev

@kat hey! Love the new avatar 👌

My pod twtxt.net feels very clear of late hmmm 🧐 This is good right? 😅

Responded to a bunch of Twtxt open issues across multiple repositories today 👌

I guess mentions with .(s) / dot(s) like @eapl.me are valid? 🤔 Or nicks even? 🤔

Fark Youtube is so utterly boring 🥱