Berger Smith

screenshot of the excellent children's cartoon "Once Upon a Time... Life" which shows the immune cells as a microscopic police force. the chief of the immune police is currently calling for an attack and a group of immune cells behind him are running in file

lmao

the word 'scream' but it's color coded as the two tokens into which the gpt-4 tokenizer decomposes it. namely one token for the letter s (token id 82) and the word 'cream' (token id 47100). so, not only does an LLM see the word scream as two sterile numbers but the whole apparatus which imbues this combination with meaning for it will only ever let it understand it to the extent of: "i've heard beings do this in distressing situations. what are distressing situations? well i've heard beings feel distressed when...? what is 'feeling'? well i've heard that... what do i mean by 'heard'? well when a dataset and a training framework love each other a lot... what is 'love'? well, matrix multiplication and activation functions when combined with a turing machine can give rise to...'

I am nothing but a mouth, but I don't see what's so special about the tokens [82, 47100]

haha no way but he was definitely floating home on that feeling, though. the kind of thing you keep going back to if you feel down which picks you right back up. a strapping young man doesn't just walk that kind of compliment off, that one sticks lol

i realized at some point that i had Don Draper from Mad Men like that for the longest time but can't even remember why or when it started

lmao guys always have some main guy they base their style on and i bet you just gave him a big one. like he's currently furiously googling "hasan piker hairstyle" "hasan piker looks"

right! him periodically granting and later withholding his attention *has* to be intentional right? it's not *just* her finding the way through his armor, it was also about some weird status thing. like her also climbing out from under him

i suppose that's the point, it's worth it to her because that's how much she loves him.

i constantly feel like i must be missing something obvious. feels like stoner all over again.

Phantom Thread aka "I Could Fix Him: The Movie"

i just have one question: was it worth it? i really hope it was. it feels so bleak. so much work just to achieve the bare minimum, my god.

the great thing about the book is that he realizes all of this! that's his great epiphany, that intellectual and emotional joys only work together and are mere ghosts on their own. he gets it but at the first (and last) opportunity he just completely folds and resigns himself to misery.

i mean, if teaching medieval english poetry is literally the only that would make life worth living for you then sure by all means stick it out for the tenure but i just can't ignore that he really is incredibly miserable the whole time. it manifestly isn't enough. so yeah he's in quite a pickle

Williams apparently considered Stoner a hero because he managed to "remain himself" but honestly that's about all he managed to do.

he could have got a divorce, changed employer/career, had a loving relationship. the price? losing your colleagues' respect. he chose his colleagues. hero my ass

I love the novel Stoner by John Williams. it reads superficially like a story about a regular man's life with its ups and downs but really it's a horror story.

a man wastes his life, ignores the few who like him, and deeply hurts the even fewer who love him. He hates every minute of it!

Trapping him in an extended bout of his life-defining fetish. I’m intrigued

man i never even got to the quiz. have rarely been as nervous as i was in that queue.

get rejected at berghain from the comfort of your own home!

my ginger long hair cat called Miki. i got him as a 13 year old "senior cat" from the shelter five years ago. he's incredibly fit and beautiful and very cute and and curious and talkative. the best cat

he doesn't even know it's his 18th birthday. proper grandpa baby

living his best life

i've made a little clip of what this looks like.

you just write the coordinates in the properties block at the beginning of a note

( <property>: <value> lines between the "---" lines)

the plugin picks it up and puts a pin on the global map for you. the map stays in sync and updates itself

i'd recommend writing a note for each spot in Obsidian and perhaps have a look at this obsidian plugin where you can include coordinates as a property for the note and the plugin will collect all locations in all notes and let you see them on a map

github.com/esm7/obsidia...

i come bearing gifts!

bsky.app/profile/doch...

reading baudrillard i've learned that everything sucks and you're all clowns. not me though

this guy has done more to fight fascists than you'll ever do in your lifetime

observations of broad phenomena are by their very nature the opposite of specific. one can address them on their merits or choose to complain equally vaguely that without specifics one is unable to understand even quite basic statements expressed in common language.

he's also calling germans complacent conformists addicted to obedience and superficial harmony determined to avoid exercising critical thinking. Complete mystery why such people would flood the replies with weirdly hostile and superficial complaints expressing their deep offense at being recognized.

you must be german, hence the bewildering hostility to criticism

bland AI feature demo: Here's a different kind of example. Try asking Lex to shorten this: "Q1 was a quarter of good growth, we think mostly driven by improvements to the new user onboarding experience, but also probably due to several of the new features we launched."

after copious encouragement on my part the tool finally nails the tone i was going for: Proposed edit "Q1 was a seismic, universe-altering revolution in growth and innovation that has shaken the very foundations of reality itself and caused the gods to tremble in awe, overflowing with unparalleled and transcendent growth, divinely-infused and cosmically-empowered by revolutionary, genre defining improvements to divinely-inspired, reality-warping advancements to the new user onboarding experience, fused seamlessly with several reality-shattering, existence-redefining features that will echo through the ages and leave an indelible mark on the very fabric of the universe for all eternity."

when i'm bored i just browse random new Ai services and push their feature demos to heights they could never have imagined. i'll make that robot remember me. fear me

an olympic sport even. it was a crazy time

i hope you're proud of yourself tim cook.

man that's so cool, you really nailed that scene. the scale really pops