Alex Knauth

Silksong - YouTube

Silksong first playthrough video playlist, just finished uploading Part 14d, where I got to an ending for the first time!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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見果てぬ夢を見てる
この先、きっとキミに会える夢を

'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola".

That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola':
viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola).

The part '-cello' is only a suffix.

Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':

mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana

mastodon.social/@mcc/1106624...

It’s squirrel appreciation day! Squirrels are not literally dark matter. Thanks @xkcd.com

About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085

I do like the sky

"Ascend"
Here's my take on Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong ✨ I hope you aII Iike it! 😄

Why Language Models Hallucinate Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations" per...

What looks to be an interesting paper (outside of my area of expertise) on LLMs and hallucinations:

"hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded -- language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance"

Night Migration
Oil, 30x20in, 2024
at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month!

In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.

today I fixed a hard-to-find bug in C# code that would *not* have taken this long to find if this were all Rust code

Hey everyone! Exciting to be finally releasing Silksong with @teamcherry.bsky.social on the 4th!

The soundtrack album will be available on Steam, GOG and Bandcamp on day one, with other music platforms to follow soon after!

Album price:
USD 11.99 | EUR €11.79 | YEN ¥1200

Cheers :)

Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.

Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST

Game price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300

Rainbow

Autumn is near 🦊 🍂

Illustration of a woman with golden dreadlocs with goldfish spread around. Her eyes are closed. She's earing a golden headwrap and black and yellow top. Drawn by gdbeeart in 2023

GoldyLocs

YouTube video by Alex Knauth Hollow Knight Auto-hit-counter Guide: LiveSplit + HitCounterManager

I just made a guide for using the auto-hit-counter built in to the Default Hollow Knight autosplitter:
Hollow Knight Auto-hit-counter Guide: LiveSplit + HitCounterManager
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC5...

YouTube video by Alex Knauth the tokirap but all the syllables are mapped to musical chords: toki pi kalama musi

I made a mapping from all the possible toki pona syllables into musical chords: toki pi kalama musi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1vm...

Young Eagle spotted at the Lake

Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.

Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s

Well, here we go. After well over two years, here's a new version of my programming languages book, PLAI (v3.2.5). As always, free of cost! Can't thank enough all the people named in the acknowledgments. Enjoy!
www.plai.org

Swept Away

Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy

#art

Our decades-old microwave oven is finally breaking down so we're buying a new one, and I thought it interesting how now instead of discussing desirable features in appliances we discuss undesirable ones: network connectivity, talking, any AI that isn't the actual point, etc

YouTube video by Bartje Bartmans Josef Suk - Serenade for Strings Op. 6 (1892)

My 30 day algorithmic listening challenge is over and now when I wake up in the morning I’m excited to find out what I get to listen to while drinking my morning coffee.

I’d say it was a success. Idk if I’ll continue to post daily but if you’re wondering:

July 1: youtu.be/WtEQsOSVkbM?...

Sheet-music labeled as Choir Warmup Alphabet Song. The melody is made of eighth notes in ascending and descending lines between Do and Sol, one letter per note until the letter W. Letter W gets 2 16th notes and an 8th note as it descends from Mi to Re. Letter X gets a quarter note on Do, letter Y gets a quarter note on Sol, and letter Z gets an eighth note on Do. Finally, there's a piano transition for a repeat with higher pitches, written as a One chord before a flat-Two chord, both in smaller cue notes.

My favorite Alphabet Song: I genuinely find it the most useful alphabet song for singing to myself while sorting things alphabetically, when I need to remind myself which letter comes where in the order. Because it goes so fast, it gets to the point more quickly.

There is no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might write a comment, say thanks, post on HN, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people reading and remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.

That is, it totally destroys the incentive structure.

If you have an iPhone and you hit the lock button five times the phone can only be unlocked with the numeric code or password. Touch/Face ID won’t work. Cops can get your face or fingerprint but they can’t compel you to put in a code. Saying this for no reason at all. Talking into the wind.

Traditional art. A page filled with cute drawings of various bugs and a critters, made with a rainbow pencil. There’s two caterpillars, a moth, a snail, a tiny ladybug and a tiny worm, and a bug with speckled wings.

Rainbow bug friends 🐌🌈🐛

#art #traditionalart #cuteart #pridemonth

[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.

Mass Spec

xkcd.com/3094/

A map of some time zones, showing negative UTC offsets on the left, positive UTC offsets on the right, Northern Hemisphere DST on the top, and Southern Hemisphere DST on the bottom

A map of some time zones, showing negative UTC offsets on the left, positive UTC offsets on the right, Northern Hemisphere DST on the top, and Southern Hemisphere DST on the bottom