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Be careful!

I hear the old Microsoft Word save files used memory dumps, which became an undocumented nightmare of a file format.

You need total control over memory layout of the saved runtime state. No hidden fields. No pointers either - you want to be able to reload at another address. Sooner or later, you might want to add some state, and you'd need a place to put it.

That said, I have used mmap something like this, mostly so state (data) could be paged in on demand.


"the fish stinks from the head down"

I'm afraid trust and OpenAI are inconsistent.

After all, they're on a mission from Roko's Basilisk!


i think it's dark _energy_ that's used to explain accelerating expansion.

Did this all begin with SBF and Effective Altruism? Looks like here's a lot of overlap in the cast of characters.


"SBF and the Effective Altruists" could make a good punk band name


wait until you find about the Yana River people!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Rhinoceros_Horn_Site


see also their Most Unwanted Music (revised 2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWuRJOaltY

their Most Wanted Music is unlistenable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGOvA20kiBg


> I am a composer with a prolithic output

Rock music, you say?


many different genres. Ambient, Noise, Classical, Electronic, Lowercase, Piano, Jazz, Omnigenre, etc.


In the "Hollerith Tabulator/Sorter, 1890", the machine counts and chooses an output tray. The operator acts solely as card transport.


but, are they pear-shaped boffins?


> predicting the electronic ground-state energies of FLiBe molecular clusters

this looks like a problem for quantum annealing, rather than digital qbits. Maybe D-wave can help.


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