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Seattle
Joined April 2019
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I also have a hypothesis about the relationship between aphantasia and working in higher dimensions: In HS, I initially found planar and 3D geometry challenging because I couldn't picture anything. Then I quickly figured out how to get the right answers without visualization
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I've seen several people (some I follow and regard highly) say they'd like "AI slop" labeled for convenience; or they feel they must be "on the lookout" for it. this puzzles me. if AI content is so bad, then surely labeling isn't necessary. and some presumably find value in it.
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permanent PST? permanent PDT? how about permanent GMT (gm time)?
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It feels like every time I open ChatGPT, whether on desktop or mobile, some mischievous elf has changed the UI and capriciously added and removed features at random.
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Guess it's time to rewatch TNG (again)
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"The Inner Light" never fails to moisten my eyes
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🖖🫡💔
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If P = NP but all the things we thought were not P just have huge constants, then the only reasonable conclusion is that we are in a simulation and these constants were chosen to be inaccessible to denizens of the simulation
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I love when a film or TV show deploys a piece of music SO WELL that, for me, it becomes the canonical setting and meaning-cluster for that piece of music. this phenomenon deserves its own term. maybe a long German word.
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apple not updating their bundled git yet is crazy
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I don't think it was intentional, but this had what looked like a sly half reference to one of my favorite niche roadside attractions
holy mother of slopcore bangers what a crazy time we live in!
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lol whispr flow just updated my voice profile astrology test result to "security strategist"
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Being long Cloudflare provides a silver lining to the ongoing cybersecurity apocalypse
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Last call! DM me if interested
I will run my intro meditation course again this fall, starting October 21. DMs are open if you're interested. Six 90-minute sessions, suitable for newcomers as well as folks with some experience.
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me when I buy ICs on Amazon
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sports interviews that are also dharma talks
No exaggeration, this guy might be the best interview in pro sports right now
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I want a 24/7/365 real-time "lofi beats to fabricate to" version of this
This might be the greatest thing ever discovered. Putting the rotating feeds on a tiny TFT display in my office ASAP
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turns out Astra can one-shot this pretty well
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I don't like when people @pangram to ask if a post is "slop". Let the post stand on its own. Some AI writing is good and useful (though rarely so on twitter IMO). Plenty of human writing isn't worth reading.
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my first tweet mentioning AI: xitter.gq/apellis/status/1214405…
my first tweet mentioning ai
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Y'all stop with the You Can See Everything spoilers. Wait until tonight after I've seen it
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The best evidence that Elon is a true engineer is that his timeline estimates are always wildly optimistic
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