leroy-is-here

People are well versed in reasons on why they choose not to live in the moment.

Pizza rolls were my introduction to Ranch addiction.

Did he merely learn what he was taught or did he start living what he was taught?

Seeing and sight are two different things and used to be taught as such.

Let em know, champ.

I’m not sure I understand your point with the bikes. Communication , in writing or speaking, is really just sharing ideas. I saw a lot of drawings of bikes in your link. Are you just saying that people lose the details which ultimately don’t matter? I don’t think of “chainstays” when picturing a bicycle.

It may just be the ineffable.

Try reading the words in reverse. That’s what I mean.

I just realized the actual letters are meant to be a palindrome, but the text is meant to be read one-way. "2 Dual" = "laud 2" in reverse. I thought this was a "sentence palindrome", or that I could read from left to right and then right to left and have a coherent sentence either way.

Thanks, I missed that somehow. I went back and checked the article and, sure enough, I just have banner-blindness. If it doesn't look like text in a <p> tag I just ignore it.

Is there a second part to this article? It felt like it ended only part-way through. What happened after being invited to the space? History I suppose.

Engaging writing in any case. So engaging that I thought there should be more lol.

I personally think that humans easily apply structure to language that doesn’t really exist. In fact, we restructure our languages daily, as individuals, when communicating verbally and through text. We make up words and shorthands and abbreviations and portmanteaus. But I think the brain simply makes connections between words and things and the structure of speaking those words is interpreted like audio or visuals in our brains — just patterns to be placed.

Really, words, utterances by themselves, carry meaning. Language is just a structure for _us_, so to speak, that we agree on for ease of communication. I think this is why probabilistic models do so well: the ideas we all have are mostly similar, it really is about just mapping from one kind of word to another, or kind of phrase to another.

Feel free to respond, I’m most certainly out of my depth here.

It’s always great to have companies like FromSoft who still make great and complete games which empirically deny claims like “people don’t want to pay for games “. The statement feels like it came from a board room that was discussing the latest digital-cosmetic store dark pattern.

There is a fundamental disconnect between the answer on paper and the understanding which produces that answer.

Edit: feel free to respond and prove me wrong

I've been using GoAccess because of this exact line of thinking (logs over js pixel tracker). GoAccess comes with a really nice TUI, a built-in web server, and can export to csv and other formats. It's pretty robust. You just pipe logs right into it and it starts crunching.

I think the human element shouldn’t be lost here. Remember, the goal of AI is to have a human brain on demand, but just a bit better than human. It sounds like every complexity there could apply to why humans suck at drawing hands.

Where does the training data come from? Humans have traditionally sucked at drawing hands.

I can relate to the critic, but not the particular words. I've said to myself, "Why bother writing if I have nothing to say," and, "What's the point of open sourcing this when there's the chance Microsoft just copy/pastes it with no attribution", and other similar thoughts.

Everything that isn’t tech is a very, very large set. What I assume the OP is really saying here is a “screen fast”. Reading is nearly the same activity for our text-scrolling-addicted brains. I recommend _anything_ outside even if it’s just sitting and staring. Eventually you’ll fill that time as long as you have discipline for no-tech.

I used to get hung up over having specific journals for specific thoughts -- one for my projects, one for cool stories, one for whatever else. But eventually I consolidated. I stopped categorizing, I stopped judging, and I just started writing. I guess that's kind of the same blocker as the author, just a different spin.

Cybernetics is fairly formalized, but a lot of research into it was dropped. Cybernetics is based on information theory and approaches systems in a probabilistic way which is in direct contrast to the AI approach of the 50s and 60s which were really about processing discrete pieces of data.

If you read cybernetics texts today, they paint a picture very similar to neural networks and the statistical methods for processing data. "Introduction to Cybernetics" by W. Ross Ashby is a decent text with a lot of good exercises. I still think there's a lot to learn here.

>It does. It unifies all of mathematics at the lowest level

This was attempted before by Russel & Whitehead before Godel proved that any sufficiently complicated system can produce non-truths and false statements that cannot be verified by that same system.

I've actually been using Bing as an alternative to Google. Bing. I never would have guessed 10 years ago...

is "living at the head" constantly pulling each update or version-controlled source of every library?

Good work. I’m looking forward to the article.

I didn’t take a deep dive, but I’m interested in how you keep the binary size small. Is it simply that LLVM, etc., all have too much function overhead and don’t take advantage of routines over subroutines (function calls)? Or is your back-end just specialized enough to take advantage of architecture-specific features the larger compiler suites don’t have the time to care about?

Anyway, this looks dope. Truthfully, we could use more hyper-specific languages like this in all sorts of areas.

What kinds of internal pressures is Nintendo feeling to OK this kind of design? The current gaming market has been lambasted for these practices since Bethesda tried to charge $2 for horse armor, but nearly every AAA title has some sort of micro-transaction system now. I don’t think it’s going away, but I do think Nintendo was wise to not try this in a flagship title.

I guess gaming did start off with literal nickel-and-diming at the arcade. I’m glad I experienced the golden age of gaming where buying a game was the only transaction needed for 50 hours of enjoyment.