mdonahoe

If only we had a diffusional model that could take your ideas and turn them into reality!

When I wrists started hurting after a few years of professional programming, I became motivated to learn him.

I used vimtutor on Mac to get started.

Then I also tried my hands at a few vimgolfs and then tried to understand the winning answers.

There’s a lot of YouTube tutorials now too.

AI will fix human thinking the same way I fixed my cats.

Noita is a fun “roguelite” game that is different than anything else I’ve played.

2D pixel physics + spell casting

Death comes for you pretty quickly.

Join r/Noita to see fun death gifs

I could imagine there is tension between airbag deployment times and wanting to reduce false positives.

If you knew the airbag needed to deploy in a test, perhaps you could score better with faster deployment, but that wouldn’t be something you want to send to your entire fleet for fear of false positives.

But just a guess. I don’t work in cars.

Pretty sure that was Carmack's point. He said the code for AGI would be simpler, in terms of number of statements, than say the code for a web browser.

Is this why whales don't die of cancer very often?

Are there any descriptions that I'm missing? Why is this one called "Distraction" https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/5aec677df005411b1a6c794...

Just think of the memes.

You'll be able to convert from video into a screenplay, edit some text, then render to video again.

link?

"In 2008, the company rolled out its only product – a Lotus Elise knockoff called the Roadster."

Is it still a knockoff if the internals are different?

Is the Impossible Burger a knockoff of the Whopper?

Another unrelated story:

A middle school classmate once turned in an article from Encarta as their essay for Social Studies. They didn’t copy paste the text… they literally printed the article, crossed out “Microsoft Encarta” with a pencil and then wrote their name at the top.

I was impressed with how little effort they put in. Teacher gave them an F of course.

Life imitates art.

Using a single downwards-facing camera for position tracking via optical flow pre-dates Skydio (the Parrot AR-Drone had it in 2012 I think)

I suspect that’s why he wrote the article. Now he can just point people to that.

What's the latest in virtual credit card numbers? I've seen these services advertised, but I haven't tried one yet.

I'd love to be able to "cancel" a subscription service by just deleting my card and stopping automated payments.

It would be nice if I was then not legally obligated to pay any outstanding bills, but I doubt I would win that fight, so I question how good these cards are in practice.

Has anyone tried one?

I was very confused by this response, but searching Google for this text returns the following page on "Cuil Theory"

http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory

Have you tried YouTube shorts? The auto-playing-as-you-swipe format is very addictive in a way that the regular YouTube feed is not.

I've been very interested in this topic for a long time, but I found this article to be difficult to read. "planetary" vs "planetarity" confused me, for example.

Can anyone here recommend related articles on planet-scale intelligence?

Have you read any of the author's books? "The Stack" sounds interesting.

> How should a company reimbursement process work? Should the company require employees to write lengthy expense reports and get reimbursed, or just let them put stuff on a company card? Does it matter how many employees they have?

I believe the IRS wants receipts in the event of an audit, so reimbursement programs are set up to incentivize good documentation.

You are correct, this is what I meant.

I've found "self-interpreter" implementations that aim to be short

https://arxiv.org/html/cs/0311032

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/585/self-interp...

But I haven't found anyone yet that optimized for actual number of recursive implementations on a real machine.

If we had that, how many n64 implementations could we stack?

More generally, what’s the most nested Turing machine ever built?

I've abandoned Field Notes and instead use a spiral-bound notebook with perforated pages. This makes it easier to toss pages after I transcribe them.

It's very satisfying to tear out a page after I'm done with it.

I'm not sure most young kids understand either.

My daughter was 3 or 4 when I told her a knock-knock joke.

    Knock knock.
    Who's there?
    Banana.
    Banana who?
    Banana split!

She then tried to make up new knock-knock jokes and assumed they would be funny if she added "split" for EVERY punchline.

    Knock knock
    Who's there?
    Cow.
    Cow who?
    Cow SPLIT!!! hahahaha

This lasted for days.

After having kids, I definitely think copying and random tweaking comes before understanding.

I've been waiting for this for 3 years.

After using Instagram a bunch, I found the targeted ads got pretty good: most were for things I was interested in, such as tech gadgets or crafts for my kids. However, clicking on an ad and buying something was so much higher friction than the rest of the mobile Instagram experience that I often just gave up.

Since then, I assumed FB must be working on some sort of payment service in order to complete the loop on the ad->purchase funnel.

Ooh, I'm going to start trying that!

Edit: Thanks! It worked.

Look at what happens to lottery winners.

I've never seen Terms & Conditions on a blog before

"Please read through the disclaimer before entering the site"

Mark talks about it in the video https://youtu.be/vePc5V4h_kg?t=110

Order of events:

0. Mark tests positive for covid-19

1. He self-isolates

2. Later he tests negative

3. But by then the Bahamas has banned US travelers on commercial flights

4. Mark takes a private jet to get around the ban.

Are you using https?