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You have a wonderful blog!

Out of curiosity why the complex networking setup instead of, say, tailscale. What kind of flexibility does it give you that makes up for the infrastructure?

This is amazing work! Thank you for sharing! This is what I was envisioning when I embarked on this project.

You appear to know what you're talking about (I certainly don't), but it also seems to me that the knowledge in this post is not accessible to I would imagine the vast majority of people. Do you have any recommendations for where to start learning about this kind of thing aimed at music theory troglodytes like myself?

ChatGPT is a language model, and as far as I understand it isn't designed to do explicit computations or logic.

Edit: Ah... I see now.

By that logic, how is either (7,7) or (8,8) allowed?

I'm confused by the Nested choices and funky order slide.

How does x:=(y|2); y:=(7|8); (x|y) Give only (7,7), (8,8), (2,7), (2,8)?

What about (7,8) or (8,7)?

I did this mod! It is fairly painless as far as mods go, and the result is amazing. It even appears to run longer than with the original screen.

Herb Sutter is such an inspiration. His talk here demonstrating his cpp2 language and cpp2 to cpp compiler cppfront is required viewing for both C++ enthusiasts and those looking to jump to other languages.

Shameless plug for a site I started aimed at increasing visibility of high quality source code for language learners: http://goodsourcecode.org It is a proof of concept, and I'm always looking for people to contribute!

It would be interesting to simulate what a modern room with electronics looks/sounds like to different species that are sensitive to a greater range of inputs than we are.

According to this source, step 3 of the cascading model generates a 16 frame video at 24×48 resolution. So instead of sending a text prompt YouTube could almost just as easily send 16 downsampled frames of the beginning of the video that your Neural Engine chip could work on instead.

For the life of me I just can't get over how different the g is from the rest of the letters. I find it incredibly distracting, so I can't use this font.

Demo > Try it > password creation fails for me

I'm still using my mid-2012 11-inch macbook air. My new M2 air is shipping this week, but my old one is still good for a lot of things.

I can't help but think that walled gardens are attractive places to spend time, not that people want to spend their time in them.

During a shrooms trip one sapphire blue sky day in Fall at university, I lost all access to my language faculty. It felt like an invisible hand was erasing my entire lexicon in huge swaths at a time until there were no more words left in my head. One moment I had thoughts. The next moment, after the last word blinked out of existence, I had only feelings.

The clouds covered the sun, and a gust of wind passed over me, and I was cold, and I could only experience the sensation of discomfort. Then the sun emerged, and I was basked with warmth, and I experienced happiness that brought a smile to my face and a feeling of safety.

For about two hours I existed in this language-less state. Without words I wasn't able to think. There was no internal dialogue. I couldn't reason about things, or think about the past or future. There were no words there to attach to the objects around me let alone abstract concepts. Then, as quickly as my language had been erased, it returned again in patches. Once it was all back I was able to reflect on this experience using my words. I have always wondered if this is what it is like to be a baby.

Life is what you make of it. Personally, since I've become an adult, I couldn't tell you the last time I remember experiencing boredom. And I have deliberately disconnected myself as much as I can. My phone is always on silent mode, and I've turned off notifications for every app except text messaging and calling. I deleted my last social media account a few years ago, and I try to the best of my ability to use my computer and my phone for things that are not mind-numbing, e.g. I don't play mobile games, I don't mindlessly watch youtube videos, etc. I limit my consumption. Even if you spent the entire day sitting in front of a blank wall, there are literally endless things you could think about and explore. You could think about the things in your immediate environment, how they work, how they came to be, how you could improve on them. You could run any number of thought experiments like if we made contact with an alien civilization how would we come to understand each other? You could think about your goals in life and steps to achieving them, explore why you are experiencing problems with certain people and how to resolve them, or just reminisce and be grateful for things you have.

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