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Strange Attractors | Shashank Tomar A visualisation of Strange Attractors using a Threejs particle system. In this post, I will try to explain the basics of dynamical systems, chaos theory, attractors and the butterfly effect.

This has been my favorite tool for spacing out to visualizations.
blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...

It's the kind of issue I'd love to prototype ideas around... but really IMO the challenge is pinning UX that works better than spreadsheets.

"Aren't the backups automatic?"

LLM prompting embodies the Laws of Genie Wishes

I wonder how Bethesda feels about NoMansSky eating their starship lunch. All my 10yo creativity to the Interloper.

I think I better understand LLMs. First built on content and culture, then code; they are greater than the sum of the parts fed into it, yes... but they're the reflections of the understandings processed into topology, even at feed-forward stage.

Gradient descent enabled landscaping. Attention is.

That moment when you pinpoint the cause of a pattern, and for once, its not you. By you, I mean me.

A SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks: “Can I join you?”

And now the pendulum is swinging, and Agents are calling each other User, and being all snarky about it.

Someone else mentioned the built in screencapture tool, but it has a cli command that does audio capture for video (`screencapture --help`).

> -G<id> - captures audio during a video recording using audio id specified.

I hate that Cursor the IDE is name squatting on one of the more powerful descriptors of a mental construct for following a place in the code, the cursor. Give it back.

A word to the major LLM makers...

If you're going to shove ads into the product, do it well, do what ads were initially for (product/market discovery + feedback).

If you do it in imitation of current ads, you will destroy your product.

We already hate ads. Imagine if we bring that hate to you.

Current Vacation Book: "Through the Language Glass" by Guy Deutscher

If spacetime warped similar to this, what do you think the distortion within the 'center' of a black hole might look like? (there's research supporting this being plausible)

Real Sonnet 4.5 response:
> Let's torture test this thing

Xbox raising the Gamepass price so hard, closes the door on my last ongoing subscription. Now I buy my games and own them, or not at all.

A programmer's spouse says "While you're out, buy some milk." They never return.

A programmer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Then calls himself and walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Then calls himself and walks into a bar. The bartender eventually just implements a base case and cuts him off.

Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.

"The LLM is twitchy and outbursts profanity at random, but its code is very good."

Semantic Tourettes is better than Semantic Sneeze for clearing the semantic pipes.

More reminders of the joy of coding flow;

Cursor IDE needs to take a page from Claude Code: Don't change your UI/UX. Its infuriating. Changing it every version patch is worse.
I've learned to expect your product to degrade, and I no longer use it personally as a result.

Which ends up looking like:

My latest LLM "advance" is having it scream positivity into the void (while i scream), so we can show up with game face on (before i delete all its contributions and start from scratch).

I'm reaching the point where I see LLM use as a malediction, rather than a tool. If I offload my detailed code thinking to what amounts to a 3d-printer for code, then i'll get low resolution and weirdly stood-up code.

Time to remember what its like to be the seasoned coder, without power tools.

My LLM workers are making ascii-art presentation slides for me.

> The hive mind is operational.

Quasar.
Quasar 2 has a chance to give motion sickness, feels like an action cam of Quasar.

Watching and Blocking is very cathartic.

Recently with claude code, blocking `statsig.anthropic` and watching it go off like a livewire+snake in my network monitor.

You dont get to watch me as a loophole to your privacy policy.