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A History of Artificial Pets
(specularrealms.com)
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Collapse Sort
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It's a mishmash of philosophical musings, personal projects, and music compositions. Building a Pictionary multiplayer AI game with stable diffusion https://specularrealms.com/2022/10/04/stable-diffusion-
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For context, this is related to a article posted on a sub stack called the rationalist which made efforts to disguise the fact that it was GPT generated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287747 The author, Petra, defe
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Some Chatbots Ganged Up and Plagiarized Me
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https://specularrealms.com The site doesn't have a particularly stylistic design, and my writing tends to focus on theistics and cognitive philosophy. The physiological constraints of free will https://specularre
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Actually "butt tub" is a palindrome that you cannot unsee. Even at a young age I had a very sophisticated sense of humor....
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I abandoned my faith once I was unable to rationally reconcile secular and divine morality, which was a theory I played around with in college and later wrote a paper about. https://specularrealms.com/godsmorality
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I grew up on DOS 6.22 and quick basic 4.5, so I have a huge amount of nostalgia for how low friction it was to start programming back in the day. There's a scene in Stranger Things where Sean Astin's character tries to brute force
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A few years ago I started taking up running regularly but I didn't have a buddy that I could run with so I decided to adopt a dog. Unfortunately the shelters were relatively far away from my home making it inconvenient to go in and che
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Windows 95 had dedicated code to run Sim City
(pcgamer.com)
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The Physiological Constraints of Free Will
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How to Build a Pictionary Discord Bot with Real-Time Images
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What? None of the people in these images are even remotely recognizable as Homer Simpson.
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It depends on what you're generating, complex prompts in DALLE ("a witch tossing rapunzels hair into a paper shredder at the bottom of the tower") blow midjourney and stable diffusion out of water. But if all you're doin
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We should get in touch. I built a language partner in Chinese about a week ago using GPT, continuous real-time speech recognition via webkit speech recognition, and Polly TTS so you don't even have to press any buttons, you can just ha
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Does anyone remember Redhooks Revenge? It was a maritime-themed trivia board game with risk battle mechanics for DOS. You can see the original here: https://archive.org/details/RedhooksRevenge I actually received permi
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I posted an article to my blog about a scene from Stranger Things where Astin's character brute forces a password by writing a BASIC program. It was such a great homage to the 80s. https://specularrealms.com/2021/0
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This will never not remind me of Spaceghost Coast to Coast when he interviews Sportscaster Bob Costas. "Put that in your pipe and smoke it! With your burned lips!"
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I wish it would as well but honestly I think a lot of vendors treat their software as gym memberships - and hope that customers forget about that seemingly innocuous five dollar fee every month on their credit card.
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Evernote is one of the few that might at least have a legitimate case for having a recurring monthly fee since ostensibly you're paying for cloud storage and synchronization across all of your devices.
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Sean Astin is the greatest BASIC programmer of our generation
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I was just dealing with this insanity a few weeks ago. I eventually settled on using a pre-load of my font in the head element and then immediately afterwards a built-in script element that loaded it into the font family. And even after thi
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This should be called the "Baker's Dozen" law for engineering.