Josef Fruehwald

if the function of publishing papers is to boost your personal status, and perhaps personal financial stability via prestigious jobs, then thinking of Claude like a bitcoin miner makes a lot of sense i guess.

what if chatgpt discovered an actual way for you to shit gold nuggets that you can exchange for infinite ice cream cones? Would your interest not be piqued?

my best understanding is that A “cure for cancer” is impossible because our everyday concept of “cancer” is vast constellation of diseases with multiple causes and treatments, and the fact this is the “what if, then what” being put forward indicates how unserious the conversation is

excited to see @nerd4cities.bsky.social at the Kentucky Theater this evening!

it is complete sensory overwhelm to play this way, and our computers don’t like it

arriving at the function

for this next round i’m gonna try respecing people to max out summons to tilt the action economy in my favor

in another play through with my sister, everyone agroed i think because we used a smoke powder barrel instead of a smoke powder satchel, and the blast radius was enough to also injure someone

yeah, but for some reason everyone agroed immediately after blasting the rock (no Nere dialog). I think it’s cause one of the gnomes trapped with him ran out across fire and took some damage?

On to Shuuv_8

I haven't always taught about classes in my CompLing courses, but it's increasingly clear to me that I oughta. Hopefully this kind of thing will be approachable?

uncommon kentucky state legislative W

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For whatever reason i’ve gotten attached to trying a monk build. spec-ed just right, you start off with a 16 AC at level one, and if you chug cloud giant elixirs + the tavern brawler feat, you’ve got +10 to unarmed attacks

I actually scrapped Shuuv_5 myself cause i messed up their stats and it was faster to just start over than struggle through to the point i could respec

i want to beat Baldur’s Gate 3 on Honour Mode. I started off with a monk I named “Shuuv” and every time a campaign ends, i remake them with a number appended. I’m now on Shuuv6

The thing I love about Baldur's Gate 3, especially in multiplayer, it's the most I've felt in a video game that you can get up to hijinx that you may or may not be able to get away with

I totally see where you're coming from. The beacons of Minas Tirith are lit. Gondor calls for aid—you want to know if Rohan should answer. Some things to consider:

- 🔮 Sauron has an overwhelming force of orcs.

The LLMs people are using as therapists

It's a Motte & Bailey strategy. Their broad desire is the elimination of trans people from public life, and they've decided the easiest issues to toxify are sports & youths. The consequences have already expanded beyond that, and poison the discourse about the veracity of trans people.

I'll take it dialed.gg

When I teach anything comp/quant, a lot of my time goes into devops. I've learned the basics of Docker, devcontainers, and gotten a lot better at GitHub actions teaching these courses

Other good landmarks are 10C = 50F and 16C = 61F

tonight gmail suggested an entire email response about vowel analysis that

- suggests using a non-existent R package
- an analysis approach that is certainly *worse* than what was already being done.

🙃

it was deceptively easy: just expand the regex here to include IPA vowels. The bad news is it’ll be much more challenging to expand support to CELEX labels bacause of some overlap with CMU consonant labels

new-fave

new-fave now supports both IPA and CMU label sets out of the box

a tip: if you use gh classrooms, *don’t* post assignment links on the open internet, cause anyone who clicks will get a fork of the assignment in your organization

for my quant/comp course, I use Canvas strictly for keeping track of grades & announcements, and all the content is on GH. I use github classroom, so i wind up spinning up an organization for each course, and put course notes etc on a gh page lin511-2026.github.io

Ah, I see. Plowing snow is just one more thing millennials have killed with our social media addiction I guess.