the words themselves have influence, regardless of who spoke them.

very cool

As a fellow iChing developer - this is nice! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! Always happy to meet a fellow developer in this niche.

Have you built a web app or a mobile app? I'd love to check out your work if you have a link!

Hey Jack, I built an I Ching tool earlier this year using arrow.js. I tried to stick with vanilla JS at first but it proved difficult to maintain. My tool uses a casting method that results in the same probabilities as when one uses the Yarrow Stalk method, but doesn't include a yarrow stalk simulation. I briefly considered creating a 3D simulation of the yarrow stalk casting method but never got around to it. I find it interesting that someone had a similar idea.

My I Ching tool is located at classicofchanges.com

Always happy to meet a fellow developer in this niche!

I checked out your site—having the full index on a single page is actually super handy for quick referencing.

And I totally relate to the 'Vanilla JS vs Framework' struggle. I ended up choosing Next.js precisely because managing the state for the complex probabilities (6/7/8/9) was giving me a headache. Respect for sticking to the raw math!

Hello there. I'm also an I-Ching developer.

https://neoching.com

Thanks for sharing neoching.com!

It is really cool to see how different developers interpret the same ancient text. I noticed your approach is very direct and efficient with the results.

Keep going!

good reminder that we all have to live with our actions, and we might not have the perspective to evaluate them until death comes a knockin'

Golden rule - treat others as you would like to be treated. Applies externally and internally - IMO. ie. "Treat yourself as you would treat others"

beautifully stated thank you

Less than it takes an LLM to infer

I think comparisons like these are fraught with issues, but are you sure? How much energy would you require to read and summarize 250k words?

You would still need to read and summarise the 250k words in order to validate the LLM.

Only because we've mastered caching

This hasn't been my experience. Pretty easy with AWS Bedrock

Ah yes, "self host" by using a fully Amazon-managed service on Amazon's servers. How would a US court ever access those logs?

Run a vllm docker container. Yeah the assumption is you already know what hardware you need or you already have it on prem. Assuming this is ITAR stuff, you must be self hosting everything.

Well put!

Anyone here ever read The Urantia Book? IMO, it's truly fascinating, and brushes up against this post

Ah yes, the doctrine of the Sleepytime Tea cult.

It's racist, eugenicist mystical woo-woo nonsense, and not worth discussing in a thread about actual history.