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by cowb0yl0gic 3y ago
The way LLMs process text is a lot like a typical human (top-of-the-head answer vs actually analyzing the question in depth). This is a recurring pattern with the current LLMs I've interacted with (ex., A: "x" Q: "but wh
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by cowb0yl0gic 4y ago
BZFlag is an amazingly addictive game (if you can find an active server). It is tricky to get the hang of it (jumping a tank while doing a 180 turn to land and fire a shot at a pursuer!). https://www.bzflag.org/
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by cowb0yl0gic 4y ago
No, you played ARCHON on a C64, as did I. The first time I ever played a new video game straight through to the next day. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Dark
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by cowb0yl0gic 4y ago
Here is a list of things (bits of insight, strategies) you may find helpful. IME, anxiety and the resulting procrastination has more to do with fear of failure and insufficiency than feeling that you can't actually do something. It&#x2
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I found a ghost tree on Google Street View(google.com)
1 points by cowb0yl0gic 5y ago|1 comments
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by cowb0yl0gic 5y ago
I just happened to be looking at this (serendipitous) location on Street View, "walking" down the road, when I found a spot which (for some reason) displays an older photo (current are 2018, this one is from 2014). It's hard
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by cowb0yl0gic 6y ago
This is almost identical to a project idea I've had banging around for...um...6 years now. :) Glad to see someone is running with it, and also that you have data privacy as a 1st-class citizen. One idea for the data model: domain-speci
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by cowb0yl0gic 6y ago
(Sorry, I replied to the other response before I read this one.) "natural logical conclusion" and "common sense": the words "natural", "logical" and "conclusion" (and certainly the phrase &q
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by cowb0yl0gic 6y ago
I'm not trying to be merely argumentative or dismissive. I understand the words that you've written; I'm saying that there's no real point in them. You're saying (aren't you?): "The way I define God, this
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by cowb0yl0gic 6y ago
Sorry, my main point was: If you press a believer on why there must be a god in order to explain things, they will always point to the necessity of a god, that things had to come from somewhere . But there is never any necessity for god
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by cowb0yl0gic 6y ago
When I read Spanish (2nd language; not great at it) I sub-vocalize as I do in English. But if there is a long, complex word that I would have to laboriously "pronounce" (but I know exactly what it means ahead of time), I will trea
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by cowb0yl0gic 6y ago
Exactly. Sometimes I even feel compelled to complete the sentence more than once (as if I wasn't paying attention enough the first time, so I feel the need to say it again). I think there is a subtle difference between that and "r
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by cowb0yl0gic 6y ago
All of the above/below. It's a complex problem (which I share) caused by a lifetime of habit, and it takes a long-term, multi-pronged/phased approach. A) Physical fitness: proper conditioning will allow you to hold posture fo
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by cowb0yl0gic 7y ago
"Terror Management suggests that human nature is actually wired towards self-deception: In order to avoid facing terrifying concepts like death, most of us live in a state of self-delusion." I very early on in life recognized thi
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by cowb0yl0gic 7y ago
The trick is to recognize the things that are wrong, decide what (if any) course of action you can/will take to address them, then focus on that path. The rest you have to keep at arms' length. There are so many things wrong (an
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by cowb0yl0gic 7y ago
"Lazarus Lazaridis' personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats ." I agree completely that "cutesy" things don't belong in professional contexts (I like to make sensible e
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
As an introvert, I completely understand where this is coming from. What you are trying to create is a way for people to signal intent in an emotionally safe way. But I think this misses the mark (by substituting technical infrastructure fo
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
Part of this may have to do that OpenOffice is more enterprise-oriented, so maybe more likely to be recommended by IT people with exposure to it, and more likely to be used in an organizational context. I actually recently searched for &qu
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
As a data manager and a database developer, I can assure you there is a big difference between "a number" and "a string of digits" (even when those digits are supposed to be a number). It's a sign of poor databas
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
"verociously": a portmanteau of "ferociously" and "voraciously". ;)
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
"identification of points of interest during conversations between driver-partners and riders" Wait...what?! I hope this was an opt-in study.
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
I want to knee-jerk and say "you've got it backwards; humans are mammals, mammals are social organisms, love is part of that profile". At the base, of course, everything is genetics; however, that doesn't make our exper
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
By "natural", I mean according to the laws of physics, and all higher-order laws or principles which arise from them (basically, everything else). So, yes, narrow, but no, not. What we call "nature" is largely a fiction,
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
It is the natural state of fire to burn. It is the natural state of life to live. Humans are programmed genetically to do so, and to go to (and suffer) extremes to continue to do so. While there might be situations where suicide is (judged
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
I've always felt that complex software should have a "simple" and an "advanced" UI. Hiri's approach is like having a "complexity scalable" UI, but with the added benefit that the user only has to dea
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
I recommend that you first see any psychiatrist who has experience treating depression (ask your primary care provider for a referral or find one online). Think of depression like any serious medical condition; if you aren't satisfied
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
Yes, it has per-site configuration from the toolbar; also, a couple of different modes to choose from if one doesn't work quite so well for a given site (invert, CSS, simple CSS). I'm pretty happy with this extension (I switched a
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
I have a running list of "accumulated wisdom". Most have to do with maintaining momentum (because...life). Here are a couple items (trying not to repeat other comments). * Don't worry about things, do things * Set goals t
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
The greatest advantage of culture is not having to learn everything, through brutal life experience, ourselves. Often, we only learn some bit of truth or wisdom after suffering its absence.
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by cowb0yl0gic 8y ago
So, you do three times as many checks, and you're concerned about someone else developing a habit, lol? FWIW, I do the same things. I never shut my truck door without physically verifying I have my keys (lesson learned). ;)

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