It's definitely possible (I'm part of a new tech worker cooperative). Cooperatives can be many legal structures, though you need your bylaws to reflect cooperative principles (one member one vote, etc). Here's a list of tech coops if you'd like to know some others: https://github.com/hng/tech-coops

I'm happy to share more - I'll send you an email.

Hey, I'm looking to learn more about joining a tech coop. Would like to get in touch to understand better (email is on my profile).

Congrats on the launch! Looks like you can only play one game as a guest before getting stuck in a loop when hitting "play now" between "forgot to buy items?" and "you must be logged in to buy". I also wasn't sure which one was the base to defend once I'd wandered off.

thank you!! ahh stuck in loop because maybe you selected some premium items? thanks for the other feedback will for sure improve the onboarding.

I recommend:

- Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer

- Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer

- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

The cool thing is that you can, with the BEAM, connect your shell[0] to a running server and use something like recon_trace[1] to watch functions as they’re getting called. The same principle is used for libraries like this distributed profiler so you can watch the aggregate performance of your application[2].

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/iex/1.12/IEx.html#module-remote-shells (the remsh flag)

[1] https://ferd.github.io/recon/recon_trace.html

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/orion/Orion.html

Not just a running server, you can hook into a running cluster and do such things.

The Observer, :observer.start(), is another very nice tool. Might require some widget libraries for the GUI but you'll likely have set that up on the machine you're doing the introspection from.

This was possible with various flavors of Pry and DRB once upon a time.

I've been finding Livebook (https://livebook.dev/) really useful for iterating on a script or manipulating some data in a reproducible way. I'll often try out one solution and if that doesn't work, create a new section and collapse the old one to be able to go in a different direction.

There's also defining a module and then `import`ing it.

Must have come from the Möbius strip dimension.

Go for it! Really enjoying it :)

Minor hiccup, sorry! Should be back up.

Still down. “Can’t find the internet” error.

This uses GPT-3 to find a word "halfway" between two others and it's built with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ash (https://ash-hq.org/) and is deployed on Fly.io.

Some fun ones:

- imagination and vacation -> fantasize

- enthusiasm and zeal -> fervor

- angry and hungry -> famished

- spoon and fork -> spork

The pre-computer version of this is H. G. Burger's Wordtree [1]. It is an absolutely fascinating one-man project to "binomialize" the entire English vocabulary. It is worth owning just to read the bizarre and fascinating series of prefaces, in several of which Mr. Burger details his strongly held beliefs of a strong copyright system.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Wordtree-Transitive-Cladistic-Physica...

>- spoon and fork -> spork

but also:

test and spoon -> spork

fork and knife -> spoon

fork and sword -> spoon

knife and sword -> dagger <- a good one

test and knife -> jest

test and sword -> quill

Are you using embeddings, or a prompt where you ask GPT-3 to find a word between other words?

I tried averaging embeddings at first but a GPT-3 prompt gave more interesting results!

I'm curious about the prompt you used, if you're willing to share (I'm interested in blend words, which this is somewhat related, but not quite - these are blended in a semantic sense, not textual)