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mdswanson··on Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?
A good introduction to aphantasia (I'm a total, multi-sensory aphant): https://aphantasia.com/guide/
mdswanson··on Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset
https://aibusiness.com/nlp/github-copilot-loses-20-a-month-p...
mdswanson··on ChatGPT Are You Okay?
What do you let mean? Guard let case sometimes I do too else no I don't.
mdswanson··on Spatial Video Command-Line Tool
Spatial is a free macOS command-line tool to process MV-HEVC video files. It exports from MV-HEVC files to common stereoscopic formats (like over/under, side-by-side, and separate left- and right-eye videos) that can be used with standard stereo/3D players and video editors. It can also make MV-HEVC video from the same stereoscopic formats. Enjoy!
mdswanson··on Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
Just to add: https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark
mdswanson··on What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
I'm also a person with total aphantasia (no voluntary mental imagery). For anyone that's curious: https://aphantasia.com/guide/
mdswanson··on What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Also useful: https://aphantasia.com/guide/
mdswanson··on What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
You can learn a lot more about aphantasia here: https://aphantasia.com/guide/
mdswanson··on What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
There are objective tests for visualization that show that aphantasia isn't just a miscommunication about internal processes. You can learn more here: https://aphantasia.com/guide/
mdswanson··on Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
For balance, paying customer here, and mine was enabled.
mdswanson··on Show HN: Visualize rotating objects from the 4th, 5th, nth dimensions
4dtoys is great.
mdswanson··on The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it
+10 for Philipp Dettmer's excellent Immune book.
mdswanson··on Live Wallpaper Download Script for macOS Sonoma
Here's a script I wrote to bulk download the new live wallpaper videos in macOS Sonoma. Download by category or grab them all. Useful until Apple adds their own "download all" button to Settings.
mdswanson··on John Romero on his book “Doom Guy” and developing games at a small scale
If you're here because you're a FPS fan, you should check out the new FPS Documentary: https://fpsdoc.com/pages/limited-run
mdswanson··on Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?
As with many "adult" decisions, sometimes it's best to just ask a kindergartner.
mdswanson··on The Berkeley Hotel Hostage of Douglas Adams
Speaking of Douglas Adams, a new book titled "42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams" is about to be released: https://www.amazon.com/42-Wildly-Improbable-Ideas-Douglas/dp...
mdswanson··on Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs
Thanks! That was fun. I hadn't seen it. There's the problem of bootstrapping METAL, but perhaps left for a different lecture! ;-)
mdswanson··on Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs
Is it just me, or does "WebAssembly" seem like an oxymoron? Maybe it's because I've been involved with the web since its earliest beginnings.
mdswanson··on Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
Agree that it's second-hand...and even he states this. What about the 11 hours of testimony he's provided privately to congress that includes specific names, companies, and locations? What about the first-hand witnesses that congress has heard from that back-up Grusch's claims?

I mean, there are some seemingly crazy accusations...but even if only some of them are accurate, they're worth looking in to. And if it's all false, it's still very interesting that so many trusted individuals are making such crazy claims. That is its own huge issue.

mdswanson··on UFO/UAP Congressional Hearing Livestream [video]
Live stream of the House Oversight Committee's UFO hearing on Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. ET.
mdswanson··on How to make cheese at home
+1. I've made a few cheeses, and mozzarella was on the more difficult side.
mdswanson··on M.U.L.E. Online
Absolutely! A simple, visual, intuitive, and interactive way to perform an auction.
mdswanson··on Fitting 44% More Data on a C64/1541 Floppy Disk
If you can't find an official punch, I often used the Radio Shack nibbler tool to make this an easy job: https://a.co/d/hR2rKAp
mdswanson··on Tarkovsky's films online for free
It might help new viewers to understand that Tarkovsky viewed film as art, not entertainment. As such, he purposely avoided strong narratives or plots, instead focusing on poetry, mood, and time.

From the book "Sculpting in Time" by Tarkovsky himself: "I find poetic links, the logic of poetry in cinema, extraordinarily pleasing. They seem to me perfectly appropriate to the potential of cinema as the most truthful and poetic of art forms. Certainly I am more at home with them than with traditional theatrical writing which links images through the linear, rigidly logical development of the plot. That sort of fussily correct way of linking events usually involves arbitrarily forcing them into sequence in obedience to some abstract notion of order. And even when this is not so, even when the plot is governed by the characters, one finds that the links which hold it together rest on a facile interpretation of life's complexities."

mdswanson··on TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
Looks like Microsoft's .INI file format.
mdswanson··on Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password
Is it just me, or does every "what is a passkey" definition never actually define what passkeys are?
mdswanson··on Heathkit
This is the way.
mdswanson··on Atari 800XL Remake
Readers might also be interested in a MiSTer FPGA-based system to emulate many hardware devices from your childhood: https://www.retrorgb.com/mister.html
mdswanson··on Atari 800XL Remake
It just got stuck in my head for a week at the mere mention of the game.
mdswanson··on Ampersand (2015)
If you like this, I'd highly recommend the book, "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks": https://a.co/d/iqGNnyi
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