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by sandspar 1y ago
The actor Brad Pitt has openly talked about his prosopagnosia. I wonder if it helps him focus on facial expressions more easily? As in, most people might see "Margot Robbie is staring at me, holy shit" whereas Pitt sees "This
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It's hard to run a global business. Different people have such different ways of doing things. Every day, tens of millions of people run pen tests on Starbuck's rules. And Starbuck's front line of defence? A bunch of shy coll
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Every parent wants the best for their child.
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My sense is that frame rate is a buzzy topic for nerds to nerd out over. The same way that nerds use to nerd out over RAM. Talking about it seems like a high effort status signal. But those can be swapped out for other things easily.
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The Tasker developers have spent a lot of effort making it easier to use. I used GPT-4o to advise me on mine. I'm sure any modern AI could handle it.
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I have an Android, and use the free Tasker app to automatically take a screenshot of my active phone screen every 19 minutes. It takes only a few minutes to set up the Tasker script. I have vague plans to do something with these one day. Bu
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She spends $10k+ a year on her favorite Kpop idol. Traveling worldwide to view his shows, buying him gifts etc.
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I know someone in an adjacent community (a Kpop "whale") and she's dead serious about it. On some level she knows it's ridiculous but she's fully invested in it and refuses to slow down.
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There's an old documentary where a film crew transported some of those "uncontacted tribe" guys to central London. Rather than being in awe of jet engines or networked internet, the tribesmen guys spent most of their time adm
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Paul Graham wrote a nice article about this. https://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html In my life, I knew a guy who was obsessed with the Beatles. You couldn't get him to shut up about it. People hated listening to him bu
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by sandspar 1y ago
The Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths article strikes again. In this telling, Person A is a geek (creator), Person B is a sociopath, and "regular customer at the bakery" is a MOP. https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-socio
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He's not a writer. He may have reasoned that he has lessons to share but lacks writing skills, so he relies on a framework. In art history, some of the greatest painters were people who were witnesses at the right time and place - we l
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You can quibble about timelines and percentages and all that. But you gotta admit that this is a treat to watch. What a fun time to be alive.
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I love it so far. I'm continually struggling against ChatGPT's fervent love of giving tips and how-to guides. I abhor such tips, but no amount of prompting can remove them permanently. It seems like study mode is the fix. Finally
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That's a valid point! The AI community still has much to improve on.
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I was in the midst of editing the comment when you replied, sorry. I didn't see your reply before I edited mine.
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She's weirded out by creepy hallucinations, which is understandable! But ChatGPT is well known to hallucinate. In other words she doesn't know which of its behaviors are normal so she doesn't know how to react. Additionally,
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This conservative approach is widely useful. For example, beginner-to-intermediate tennis games are frequently won by the player who made fewer mistakes, rather than by the player who had more flashes of brilliance.
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This daycare heard about the Marshmallow Test and decided to one-up it with the "What A Tempting Fire Alarm (Oh Wouldn't It Be Fun?)" test.
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This is a good negative interpretation, thanks for bringing it up. For balance, a neutral interpretation is that an app may be better or worse than physical objects. A positive interpretation is that painting apps lets kids express themselv
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by sandspar 1y ago
There's an old blog article about "PETA problems", maybe? Can't remember the name. The premise is that if you mention a problem or help in a small way, then people blame you for not fixing it completely. Google saves peo
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by sandspar 1y ago
Silicon babies extend our emotions of love. Would you say that love has value, even if it doesn't correspond to reality? For example, I may believe my dog misses me when I'm away, and love him for it. Am I ennobled by my love for
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I'm sorry I jumped on you. I saw an opportunity to show off at your expense and I took it. Thanks for your calm answer - it reminds me to work on my etiquette.
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Ah, so the sound of one hand clapping is: clapping! A little underwhelming, to be honest. You mean I climbed the Zhen Zi mountains and performed the Seven Labors to learn... this?
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"FEED ME" boomed a voice from the back of the library. The reference librarian, used to it by now, doesn't even look up from her work.
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I'm reminded of how the story lines in professional wrestling are mostly faked, but the audience's feelings are real. From a pragmatic perspective, if a woman feels warm, nurturing feelings toward a doll, then... she feels warm, n
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How is this method better for those uses than the old method?
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It reminds me a bit of how humans can say "Yes" in multiple ways to transmit multiple meanings. Ask a girl if she likes a guy. "Yes..." [wistfully, sadly, joyfully, etc]
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"AI comes up with a bizarre short-form generative video genre that addicts user in seconds - but it works!" I'm guessing we're only a year or two away.

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