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@tbabb.bsky.social

advanced cat befriender @tr_babb on twitter Oakland, CA

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Yes, I have some onsen / ryokan time set aside in a few days

10.02.2026 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The weather also doesn't impede the food and cocktail scene, and it might be easier to get into places than during high traffic seasons

But I'd need to go again at a different time of year to know

10.02.2026 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The little alleyways are pretty when it's snowing

10.02.2026 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So far so good; but I'm also here do to do some skiing. It's pretty cold in Tokyo right now, and I imagine it'd probably be more pleasant for walking around during spring or fall

Yesterday was sunny and brisk, though, and I managed to catch a mild sunburn

10.02.2026 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

conservation of piety

10.02.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Doesn't help that there aren't standardized affordances / gestures like with 2D inputs (touch, mice, etc). Everyone has to invent their own interaction system

10.02.2026 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But also I think 3D always faces an uphill battle due to the difficulty of navigation on a 2D screen, particularly on a phone. Few get this right

10.02.2026 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Three fiber isn't bad! IME agents are still unusably terrible at trying to do nontrivial 3D things though. You can't really blame them, they're still basically blind

10.02.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect that increasing the dimensionality of the visualization just to 3D would vastly improve the topology, but the web isn't very friendly to 3D, (or really software in general is unfriendly to it) so nobody does it

10.02.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/theo...

10.02.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Theo said he had trouble getting the projection to fit the actual distances, but did his best

10.02.2026 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Projection to 2D destroys almost all of the proximity information. If we could see the full high dimensional space, those errors would almost surely be gone

10.02.2026 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

invisible "what else is like this"

10.02.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

this is a "yes and" rather than a "well actually"

10.02.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Boats were built before stability calculations could be done, e.g.

10.02.2026 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm big in Japan (6'2")

09.02.2026 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

gorgeous

09.02.2026 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

endorse. I followed a few accounts I recognized but didn't know were on here

09.02.2026 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it's actually quite far away in high dimensional space, but where to arrange it exactly relative to the other clusters in 2D is a free parameter, and it just happened to land there

you can see there's actually a moat of void around it. I bet that represents a large high-dimensional distance

09.02.2026 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

satellite photo of the norvisphere

09.02.2026 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@norvid-studies.bsky.social get in here right now, this is extremely your bag

09.02.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

incredible bisk

09.02.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

welcome to the norvisphere

08.02.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello Earth megacity

08.02.2026 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This is not so we can decide to disbelieve it per se, but to make DDOS attacks harder

I mean, people will decide to ignore based on tagging, but I say let them. We can't / shouldn't police how people decide to evaluate information

08.02.2026 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am in favor of all synthetic content being labeled everywhere across society, so I guess I am I favor if it here specifically

I'm generally pro ai, but because of the asymmetry of effort compared to human content, we probably need to tag it

08.02.2026 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Busted

07.02.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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