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shoggoth toucher

[hands raised before an angry mob] ah, no no, you see, I do not use "AI". I use neural networks. LLMs. machine learning algorithms. these are different things & I'm fairly confident you don't know enough about it to know any better

I've been spending more money the past few months to take a break from austerity mode & re-up on some QoL essentials like clothes, but man, I still flinch at a $25 expense right now

me before erring:

defining the monad as a "monoid in the category of endofunctors" achieves maximal compression at the cost of minimizing communicability; providing "a list with at most one element" as an example of a monad maximizes communicability at the cost of obligating further induction to encompass the whole

might start talking about seams & smoking guns just to fit in

one of my favorite seattle experiences is watching someone do something objectively bizarre & they notice you noticing & say sth like "yo what's up??" because yea I was about to ask you the same thing, man. I'm asking the questions here, questions like: what the fuck are you doing right now, my dude

there are some thoughts you just can't have without first having the tools to think them with

we must build it

I'm not perplexed, I totally knew this was gonna happen

concept: great books style STEM education where you read all the greatest hits in science that haven't been overturned yet so you know where to start when you're all caught up: no textbooks, no summaries, just original publications starting as far back as is necessary to comprehend it all

catastrophic remembering

an accessibility checklist win for video games would be straightforward version rollbacks, or even (!) opt-in version updates, for autistic players who don't welcome change & may not be able or willing to communicate this readily