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Everything is an arms race, or a means to survive in a competitive world.

fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

I got 11/26 on the fstrings.wtf quiz. Can you do better? fstrings.wtf (I need to go take a bath after that)

The world that social media shows is a trainwreck, can't ignore it and can't stand it as well. Time to go back to simpler times of living like a monkey.

Got meself a tennis sesh after a couple of years

Norgay*

How did I not notice the clock app icon on android is animated? And why don't more apps do this?

I wonder what the collective noun for authors is. A scribble, or a tapestry maybe for the digital age.

Kinda feel that we need to stop using diversity as a strategy for making the nation great and just accept it as something we are as humans. The former feels inauthentic.

Didn't even know this was a thing. I need to visit this planet more often.

Me neither. Petition to rename it to crapture.

Short form content has nuked my brain. Nothing will grow on it for several years.

You can tell which one didn't use sunscreen.

Thought that was a Hindu symbol.

As a moderately technical person, I like my information medium rare.

I wonder whose idea it was to add stuff like "you're absolutely right", "that's an interesting insight" to LLM's responses. I highly doubt they come naturally from the training data. I guess I deserve to be treated like a child for using these apps.

By reducing the reuse of year old articles to drive engagement.

Sometimes I wish I could start from scratch, forget what I learnt about the world and think in theorems. Does mathematics exist outside time and space?

The Catter in the Die

Or even if it's the same crowd, maybe something happened between the two events to warrant the scorn.

Someone wanted a promotion. Launch metrics can sometimes show a positive impact due to the novelty effect. Or you could be a part of the test group for an A/B experiment.

Comparing neural networks to god, I might have a religious upbringing problem.

So basically, neural networks are the big daddy of all functions, the god functions if you will and the only thing stopping them from entering your life is your permission.

I don't get capitalism. So two people make a profit trading some asset that they inherited from either something similar or violence, and they can then use that profit to get something from someone who wasn't part of the trade.

How do people manage to write a whole book of fiction? I know some of it is reality obfuscation, but still. I find it more impressive than non-fiction of the same integrity.

Just learnt bluesky is to twitter what mastodon is to bluesky

It's been around a week since I've started using obsidian. While the app is useful, I wish it was open source and didn't use electron to not give me the ick.

I'll just start saying things to the void. What's the worst that could happen?

and that's where I ended, in case anyone is wondering. Not because I couldn't go on, but because... oh hey cat videos...

I've completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1