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This is true, if “the good life” means “drinking heavily and networking with other sons of the gentry, followed perhaps by an easy job in the Church,” and “the humanities” mean “Latin and theology.”

INTERVIEWER: which programming language are you most proficient at

ME: Final Fantasy XII

INTERVIEWER: can you start today

"pierogi witch" my god

SPEAKING of half-life 2 since it got that 20th anniversary update: revisit the blog post where i share the extremely helpful email i back from Valve's Ken Birdwell about half-life 2's EYES
www.joewintergreen.com/69/

oh yeah the jargon for what I'm talking about here is "relevance realization" if you want a rabbit hole to go down. like all recent research things you will find much to disagree with. but it's interesting

Now, mathematicians can get pretty far without ever referring to anything empirical. But they have an ability to distinguish between a collection of worthwhile true statements and a degenerate research program. An LLM capable of producing true statements does not get around this problem

Yeah they're nothing alike from that end. The question is how well do wet neurons create sequences of true implications at all, in their own right, not whether they do so in a similar way to LLMs. They seem to, to us, because we're glued to reality, and reality is a harsh mistress. LLMs, not so much

But you see the analogy.

... mental*

it was a while before I realised that this was actually a sign I was good at maths, and that distrusting every thought you ever have about mathematical objects, and rerunning them repeatedly, is a kind of mental exercise that reduces your metnal error rate over time

so I do a lot of math at my job and as a kid (college) I was quite bad at math. And a big reason for that is I knew deep in my heart of hearts that I, me, had no mechanism for adhering to facts and the logical implications thereof: I could only string together ideas that felt truthy

merely correlated

hello kitty doing an aristocrats routine to beat spider-man at baseketball

i think a more direct visual analogy would be seeing in finer detail. i think you'd need to convince your brain to plasticity its way to allocating neurons to the task, and usually your brain looks at whats coming down the wire to figure out whats sensible. so if we could synthesise fake signals...

just sat here thinking about this for 5 minutes

Hot chocolate. High velocity.

you can just wear things

w. h. auden has a good thing about this in terms of how time works in shakespeare. in the dyer's hand somewhere

this is on right now and very cool

wishing all my friends a life in which they never get a helpful 20 post infodump from the dreamwidth guy this day

Their albums are progressively whackier over time but none of them reach the same heights at this one, dunno if it's related. I think if I wanted to convice someone to listen to this band I wouldn't drop this on them but I knew if you were gonna commit to a whole listen it didnt matter

gezan's anochi

SLIPPY: theres a part of me thats never left corneria

most remarkable real time footage ive ever seen

toast napping looking all blurry and dreamy

Sluice 😌

African American Vernacular English

learning the value of diversification today

you can see repeated box blurs starting to look gaussian in 111*111*111 = 1367631

after that it overflows......

just one more stretch just one more stretch and itll go away for good this time