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"This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events is entirely...

"This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events is entirely cautionary."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsxTdzLVvyE&t=648

Don't fix what's not broken please 😭 Mourning the old simple Notepad.......

Don't fix what's not broken please 😭
Mourning the old simple Notepad.......

🤔Holy mother of pearlHoly abalone

🤔

Holy mother of pearl
Holy abalone

A: *asks for advice*B,C,D: *all respond with similar advice from their personal experiences*A: But [LLM chatbot] doesn't agree with...

A: *asks for advice*
B,C,D: *all respond with similar advice from their personal experiences*
A: But [LLM chatbot] doesn't agree with you!

?????
Why...... Did you ask......

Hm, never mind. Videos play fine, but livestreams just straight up stop loading video after a few seconds

Hm, never mind. Videos play fine, but livestreams just straight up stop loading video after a few seconds

Youtube is refusing to let me watch more than ~30 seconds of video at a time today...

Youtube is refusing to let me watch more than ~30 seconds of video at a time today...

Bash your own tools, fudge your analysis all you like, as long as you end up with something extreme to say about (for OR against) LLMs to...

Bash your own tools, fudge your analysis all you like, as long as you end up with something extreme to say about (for OR against) LLMs to get those juicy headlines! 😑

It is so funny that a whitepaper saying LLM code assistants are ruining code quality would use an LLM to extrapolate/exaggerate how bad the...

It is so funny that a whitepaper saying LLM code assistants are ruining code quality would use an LLM to extrapolate/exaggerate how bad the situation will be in 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Bb0Lf3sCs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Bb0Lf3sCs

Might try to #buildapc again soon. Wonder how much is even possible to reuse from my last build... Would a motherboard bought 10 years ago...

Might try to #buildapc again soon. Wonder how much is even possible to reuse from my last build... Would a motherboard bought 10 years ago still be compatible with anything recent? Maybe the PSU will still be okay, if power needs haven't changed drastically. But is it even worth trying to reuse those parts when I want to switch cases, and it's possible nothing will even fit?

I have a phantom URL autocomplete entry for "twitter.com" in #firefox that I just can't remove.Following instructions here:...

I have a phantom URL autocomplete entry for "twitter.com" in #firefox that I just can't remove.

Following instructions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox
If I uncheck everything, ""twitter.com" doesn't autocomplete, but also nothing else useful gets autocompleted either. So I try to re-check Bookmarks only. But then the "twitter.com" autocomplete comes back???? I have no bookmarks to twitter.com though. Also the entry doesn't have a three-dot button or a "Remove from history" option

Uhhh... what?"You do not qualify for Covered California health and dental plans, Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC) or cost-sharing...

Uhhh... what?

"
You do not qualify for Covered California health and dental plans, Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC) or cost-sharing reductions (lower copays, coinsurance and deductibles) because:
Your household income is too low.
"

I keep reading AGI as Adjusted Gross Income

I keep reading AGI as Adjusted Gross Income

Plover theory is starting to annoy me....... Sure, mapping an entire frequency-sorted list of English words (probably not longer than 2^22...

Plover theory is starting to annoy me....... Sure, mapping an entire frequency-sorted list of English words (probably not longer than 2^22 right...?) directly onto chords would be much harder to learn, but at least it wouldn't involve picking random sounds out of a multisyllabic word, randomly choosing whether to disambiguate homophones with */garbled vowel sounds/spelling-based keys, or bad sound-key assignments resulting in new "homophones"

Need a mastodon "algorithm" that just occasionally shows me my old bookmarks

Need a mastodon "algorithm" that just occasionally shows me my old bookmarks

Ideas I'll never get around to(And don't have the skills to execute anyway)4D version of an old Android puzzle game that involved...

Ideas I'll never get around to

(And don't have the skills to execute anyway)
4D version of an old Android puzzle game that involved rotating a cloud of 3D blocks around until it looked like the target picture. The blocks were different sizes so that the depth from the camera would result in uniform "pixel" sizes when the blocks were in their final positions

SRSBut often I was actually trying to use it for something more like skill-building. I was using time to answer as a proxy for mastery of...

SRS

But often I was actually trying to use it for something more like skill-building. I was using time to answer as a proxy for mastery of that skill/fact, and then trying to map mastery down to Anki's levels of ease. But because my expectations of master change over time (okay to be slow on a new card, but you'd better be fast if you've been studying this for a year!), that mapping also changes over the lifetime of a card, and who knows if that fits the forgetting curve basis of SRS anymore

SRSBeen thinking about how I used to use a combination of automated grading and time-to-answer for Anki cards as much as possible, and...

SRS

Been thinking about how I used to use a combination of automated grading and time-to-answer for Anki cards as much as possible, and realized the system is just incompatible with what I wanted. A basic assumption of most SRS systems is that you want to study something the least amount possible, but you can only ride the edge of that line if you get things wrong sometimes.

Musing on project ideas I'll never get around to actually doingSRS system for a group (maybe in the form of a mastodon poll bot)....

Musing on project ideas I'll never get around to actually doing

SRS system for a group (maybe in the form of a mastodon poll bot). Bringing things up for review when the expected recall rate for the group reaches some threshold, balancing reviews and new cards for long-time followers against the knowledge of new followers, etc. Would get a better idea of the difficulty of a card from a single review, but also could complicate things by people only seeing an unattributable portion of the polls

That's probably the first time I've really felt a building *wobble* like that.... #earthquake

That's probably the first time I've really felt a building *wobble* like that.... #earthquake