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So hear me out...


This idea is stupid. But on Star Trek (VOY, TNG, and DS9 at least), they measured their data as "quads". ( https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Quad ). This was never defined because it's just Sci-Fi and doesn't need a real definition. But... what if they're quad-floats aka 128bit floating point values. This would mean then that all the storage could be done as LLM or other neural network style models, and vector embeddings and such. Given what we've got today with transformer style models for doing translation, chat, etc. If you had ultrapowerful computers that could do these calculations with such gigantic precision then you'd be able to store very accurate data and transform it back and forth from vector embeddings and other fancy structures. It'd enable very powerful searches, and the kind of analysis we're trying to use LLMs for and see them use in the shows when talking to the computers. This would also explain a lot about the universal translators from ENG onward, and could even help make sense of Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. And then Voyager even has bio-neural circuitry for doing things faster, some kind of organic analog computing doing stuff "at the edge". Using weights and embeddings to do things with them and have them react by programming them with a machine learning model at each node could easily explain how that could work too.

This idea honestly feels too stupid to be real but it could explain so much.







Perl.social server upgrades


So if anyone noticed things being a bit unstable recently it looks like the server was hitting the OOM killer sometimes and caused some odd behavior. In response to this I've added more ram to the VPS running perl.social so this shouldn't happen anymore and it'll also probably mean things run faster now too since more things will sit in the caches.











perlbot and related status


to stave off any rumors, i just had a hardware failure in my main server of some kind (likely motherboard failure) and I can't fucking fix it right now. I'm about to go out of town and won't be back for a little more than a week. there is literally nothing i can do right now, perlbot and all the related stuff will be down for that time while i get back from vacation and then spend gobs of money fixing the thing.
in reply to Ryan Voots

@Paul Evans pinging you here so you see this too, sent the above on irc too.












Perl.social updates


I've done some updates to https://perl.social/ to get it up to date with the latest Friendica version, along with getting it to properly use Redis to cache data and sessions instead of the mysql database. This has lead to some improvement in performance but it's still not at the level I'd (or others I imagine) would like. I'll be trying to do some more updates over the next week as I'm finally getting around to setting up some automation pipelines for building and deploying the site so that I can do tests of everything before pushing out updates, and to make keeping things up to date a bit easier. I'll also be looking at getting things finally setup with those changes to make it easier for anyone else to try to help out with development of things too (Mostly I'll need help with theme editing and finally giving this place it's own look).



Webservice to connect to Onfido API

Changes for 0.006 - 2023-07-02T15:36:03+00:00

  • Add hook



Open a file for shared reading and/or writing

Changes for 4.05 - 2023-07-02

  • Fix tests with perl-5.38.0.


Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management

Changes for 0.59

  • Fix for Windows t/load.t failures





Get stock and mutual fund quotes from various exchanges

Changes for 1.57 - 2023-07-01T12:37:07-07:00

  • Correct set exchange in YahooJSON.pm - Issue #306
  • Added close, change and p_change to Tradegate, XETRA and Sinvestor Added optional parameter INST_ID to specify the institute id. Fixed bug in Tradegate, XETRA and Sinvestor for numbers equal or higher than 1.000 - PR #304
  • Added GoogleWeb Module
  • YahooWeb module added - PR #296
  • Added MarketWatch Module
  • Replaced cached file with IO::String object in IndiaMutual.pm
  • Fixed missing date in AEX.pm - Issue #298
  • Fixed Examples in POD Documentation in a few modules - PR #295
  • move use strict to be the first statement in TreasuryDirect.pm and TwelveData.pm #290
  • remove old perl version requirement statements from TreasuryDirect.pm and TwelveData.pm #290
  • removed Data:😁umper that caused another test to fail from TreasuryDirect.pm #290
  • Fixed Fool.pm and fool.t - PR #289
#298 #295 #290 #289 #296 #304 #306


A Perl module for handling webhooks sent by Stripe

Changes for 1.12

  • Modified tests to prevent failure when Test::Warn is not installed Added new author test for VERSION in module and POD


Synthesizer settings librarian

Changes for 0.0029 - 2023-07-01T11:39:38Z

  • Adjust make_setting() logic.
  • Improve the eg/mojo-ui.pl program.


Synthesizer settings librarian

Changes for 0.0028 - 2023-07-01T10:39:18Z

  • Improve the eg/mojo-ui.pl program.





Perl extension for the GNU Readline/History Library

Changes for 1.46 - 2023-07-01

  • Reproduce Term::ReadLine::Stub’s behavior for ornaments (#17)
  • let new() fail on multiple instantiation (#16)
  • suppress warning errors on clang
  • make clean removes `*.dSYM` for macOS
  • INSTALL.md: update content
#17 #16


Synthesizer settings librarian

Changes for 0.0027 - 2023-07-01T01:43:35Z

  • Improve the eg/mojo-ui.pl program.
  • Simplify the remove_model() method.
  • Improve documentation.



Synthesizer settings librarian

Changes for 0.0020 - 2023-06-30T15:08:23Z

  • Work around broken Mojo::SQLite behavior.
  • Add the recall_models() method.
  • Improve the eg/mojo-ui.pl program.


Encapsulate SQL queries and rows in simple perl objects

Changes for 1.77 - 2023-06-30

  • Change how DistinctQueryAndCount builds query to fix sorting


Synthesizer settings librarian

Changes for 0.0019 - 2023-06-30T13:45:17Z

  • Improve documentation.
  • Do not require a model.
  • Improve the eg/mojo-ui.pl program.


Sign a Certificate Signing Request in XS.

Changes for 0.05

  • Significant Changes since 0.04


Efficient buffered DBI inserter and fast INSERT SQL builder

Changes for 0.02 - 2023-06-30

  • Duplicates handling for hash inserts.