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by bagful 3y ago
Considering the behaviors children typically get spanked for, these are severe crimes. Do we have a higher standard of behavior for children?
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by bagful 3y ago
GPT-produced text reeks of stereotypies, but there’s a subtler stench to such text that I have trouble verbalizing. Some aspects I pick up on: the text is unnervingly chipper, yet impersonal; it reads like it was never meant to be read out
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by bagful 3y ago
The “randomizer speedrun” genre involves completing a script-generated ROM hack permuting existing game assets. A randomized ROM might rearrange everything from door warps, enemy locations, boss move-sets, even item effects can be randomize
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by bagful 3y ago
A man who fell to his own hubris?
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by bagful 3y ago
May his afterlife be exactly as comfortable as his idea of a dorm room
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by bagful 3y ago
A Wikipedia article is at best a shallow introduction to a subject that wouldn’t fill out one chapter in a cheap paperback; and at worst a fact-hoarder’s opiate, an indiscriminate mass of motivated opinion and decontextualized facts that re
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by bagful 3y ago
I am comfortable asserting that an LLM like GPT-4 is only capable of thinking in language; there is no distinction for an LLM between what it can conceive of and what it can express.
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by bagful 3y ago
My unspoken thought-objects are wordless concepts, sounds, and images, with words only loosely hanging off those thought-objects. It takes additional effort to serialize thought-objects to sequences of words, and this is a lossy process - w
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by bagful 3y ago
This system is quite similar to Briefhand, an alphabetic shorthand letter-omission at its core and augmented with abbreviations for common words. With practice, the core rules alone are enough to write at speaking-pace. Over time you develo
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by bagful 3y ago
All you really need in an language is the former - closures provide encapsulation (instance variables become bound variables) and polymorphism (over closures with the same function signature) all the same
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by bagful 3y ago
Agree; at the root, I think it’s a misconception that being informed is better than being uninformed. We know too much about current events and we have far too little context for it; and our idea of being informed about the state of the wor
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by bagful 3y ago
I’ve been daily-driving Fedora on an Ryzen 5 Thinkpad E14 gen. 2 for almost two years; it works flawlessly except for some issues with how the Bluetooth and power management interact with the laptop on battery power. The lack of a metallic
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by bagful 3y ago
I prefer taking notes one-sided on loose sheets; unlike a bound notebook, you can freely insert, remove, and re-arrange pages. Taken directly from the zettelkasten concept, I date each sheet for a unique identifier, and then notes in a seri
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by bagful 3y ago
From my insignificant experience as an amateur recording engineer, drums can be effectively mic'd with as few as one or two mics or as many as twenty. A bare-bones rock recording setup might have a single overhead condenser mic capturi