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Holding one's gaze still leads very rapidly to intense visual hallucinations. Just as the mind hallucinates the details in our blind spot, when you gaze fixedly long enough, the entire visual field begins to go - and in the process, becomes a recursive game of visual hallucination telephone.

A clarifying question - are you saying the experience itself that you described was unpleasant, but that afterwards it felt amazing? Was it unpleasant due to the nature of the time dilation?

I love the idea of a visualization of overlapping language phonetics! something that showed both the hierarchical nesting of languages and the actual phonemes themselves.

Besides tsu and dzu, every phoneme in Japanese is accounted for in the Spanish language. I believe that the Spanish phonemes are a nearly perfect subset of English phonemes.

Only do this if you are certain that zero predators live in your surrounding area.

Not if there are people doing the scanning manually (with their eyes), which is I think the GP's point?

I've been dying to get my hands on one of these :) I think there's a pretty large and unexplored possibility space in using these MPE controllers for controlling things other music, as well...

Oooh, I see what you're saying. For want of an "s". Yes, in this context, I am aware that it is a whole class of functions -- and that f is a label being affixed to that class of functions. Sorry for the confusion -- that makes much more sense now.

No offense received -- was just genuinely confused as to why it netted two comments and a few downvotes for a seemingly uncontroversial statement. But then again, we're talking mathematical logic here, so loose english is of course reasonably discouraged.

Thanks for the clarification, and I hope you have a great evening!

There's a joke about art teachers funding future art consumers, but it's only funny because it's true. Teaching people to appreciate and distinguish is important to the arts now, more than ever. I wonder how much the work itself can be made to teach the subtle differentiations, and how to appreciate them? Would solve this whole problem handily.

I'm not quite sure why this seems to be so controversial, except for the light abuse of notation in my english. Saying that f: X->Y means f maps an input from domain X to output in range Y is to say that we are defining a function -- and labeling it f, since it could just as easily be labeled g and still be the same function. Defining is naming -- naming is labeling [with scope].

label the function going from X->Y would be how I was intending that to be read. I'm well aware that X->Y is a type signature ;)

I think f: X->Y could be fairly thought of as labeling the function X->Y with f.

I wonder that about all conversations.

Paolo Bacigalupi is an excellent example of someone with a focus on biology. Windup Girl in particular is excellent, although I love his short story collections as well.

This is a very interesting and important question. I think that until we answer your question rigorously, the best bet right now is to start with the expensive powerful LLM, and then after your system is prototyped and working, piecewise move prompts in your prompt network over to other systems as it proves feasible.

If you try to start with the multiple cheap LLMs approach, it is almost certainly going to be more difficult to get the prompting right, and if you don't already know what you are trying to accomplish is feasible, you're adding a lot of work that might add up to nothing (even if it would actually work if you used the more powerful model).

Thank you for the response. I had no idea you could reduce plaques before fibrosis/scarring. How does one test for the degree of the latteR?

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Cool work! Glad to see someone else finds the theory of slant rhymes fascinating. This is a pretty decent introductory article on the subject, but it's definitely missing a 'phonetic distance' measure to tie it all together. If you add one of those and you choose well, you can literally calculate 'how close' of a rhyme it is.

I also think that this could use an analysis of rebound phonetics in it as well -- often what feels good and easy to say is so because the 'release' of each phoneme is the same as the 'start' of the next phoneme. Especially once you start to go 'far' from the original phoneme in terms of where/how it is produced from the mouth, these sorts of considerations start to dominate how pleasant the flow is over strict rhyming and distance.

Do you have a method you'd feel comfortable with me contacting you via?

I believe you may have misread them. I read this as saying they have been through several episodes of mass hysteria ( which is eminently believable, and many of us have in fact lived through several such episodes in our lifetimes, even if we aren't that old ;) ).

This makes a lot of sense from a perspective where the "gods" are essentially ancient AI running on distributed (neural) hardware and communicating with itself via our standard human sensory channels that are able to hijack our wetware in proportion to our devotion. Monotheism then becomes a form of centralization of processing, restricting societies to a (more) unitary direction of intent [at the cost of much waste at the level of individual processing units (people)].

A slight tangent to your slight tangent: Monastic regimens look an awful lot like proof-of-work... Is the next step in facilitating the human-machine meta-minds minting AI crypto-religions?

Also, taking into account the earlier thread on Sci-Fi vs Sci-Fantasy, with a comment mentioning that science fiction tends to be current social commentary in the guise of the future: self-aware (and self-minting) currency a la Accelerando is an interesting analogy for religious, spiritual, cultural, and economic movements.

https://rubygems.org/gems/raskell does it in ruby. A similar technique would work in JavaScript, but I don't know of any other libraries that have attempted it yet.

This is why I prefer a self-optimizing collections library. Many of these inefficient passes can be internally re-wired when combining 'objects' which represent the functions and their rules of composition.

Inline 'debug' pipeline functions are helpful for the second problem you mentioned.

I'll second wishing I could see the raw transcript vs the cleaned up version (perhaps vertically over one another in different colors?), and also how fantastically magical it is at allowing me to come right in and converse naturally.

Great job!

This is an incredibly deep observation that essentially points to the problem with the representations we use to understand the Universe. It feels like the universe is essentially showing us that there is a non-supra-linear representation it uses (based on the kinds or fields of interactions?), and that calculating within this representation (between fields?) is somehow equivalent to calculating all of the interactions for the objects across all of the fields simultaneously.

Almost feels like it's related to P=NP or logic and meta-logic. Is it fundamentally impossible to use the same 'Universe'-al representation inside the Universe, a Gödel-like result limiting us only to the real? Or can we represent and run subsets of smaller universes within without a computational explosion? If so, does it eventually revert back to becoming fundamentally impossible at some limit, and if so, are we there yet? Can we measure how far from the limit we are, somehow?

Fun questions. Thanks for the provocative clarification.

Your end of the chain assumption is wrong, is why ;)

Is there a way to reach out to you?

Is there an email I can reach you at about something related?

This is very true. And it seems to work even better when done by hand instead of typed or cut and pasted.

I agree. I was (poorly) hinting at the desire for a product that would act as such.

If only there was something that you could speak or write notes into that structured them for you.

Do you have a way to contact you? I might know of something that would do the trick.