hydrate after vaccination. happy ides of march, astronomical spring. noah webster opened a book of blank pages, bold penned aardvark at the top left of the first one, and then everything else fell into place. ok so separate from my longstanding contention that rembrandt's the
first recognizable human face in recorded history (metric: transported to any age of his life, i could distinguish him from a
brother, i've seen enough of his selfies, from every angle,
throughout his existence, i'd conversationally assert that i know what rembrandt looks like, and
he's the earliest person in time with that distinction), ok so
separate from that, i think albrecht dürer's first, last, only person
in history who can draw hands. suddenly smiles all around :) ü (:
experiment with similies. happy whatever outcome like dune surfing faceplanting lifting our
heads out of the sand still smiling. confusion and
consequence like skydiving t-rex failing to deploy parachute because
teensy weensy arms seconds later impact fireball ushers in the rise of
mammals
continue first egg-laying mammals then marsupial pouch mammals then south america,
australia break off from the other landmasses then placental mammals
evolve on the north america africa eurasia landmass then north america
africa eurasia landmass marsupial mammals go extinct then north america
crashes into south america then tropical-adapted central american
placental mammals flood south across mostly-tropical south america, most (not all) south american marsupials go extinct. in the opposite direction: the virginia opossum, north america's only marsupial since pangaea
drew toggle frog prince (kiss, kiss, record scratch)
read..
(1) how steinbeck's adam trask went bankrupt
vast and wintry logistics
with french doors, a design launched in 2001 and known in france as the 'refrigerateur americain'
(2) penalty kicks of chess championships: rapidplay to decide tournament winners
a game built on infinities
the players must reach forty moves within the two hours on their clocks, at which point they are awarded another thirty minutes, with thirty-second increments per move
in 2013, a blindfolded carlsen took on ten harvard-educated lawyers (and amateur chess players) simultaneously, shouting out his moves, holding all ten boards with their evolving stories of 32 pieces in his head. he won all ten games
such experiences become autotelic, as the boundaries between self and activity fade
(3) gregor samsa, a traveling salesman with a different problem
(4) and you know that notion just crossed my mind
however, that jones managed to avert a potentially disastrous crash through his exceptional skill at slowing the engine and saving the lives of the passengers at the cost of his own
a devoted family man and teetotaler
he was so punctual, it was said that people set their watches by him
he raced to the tip of the pilot (cowcatcher) and braced himself on it, reaching out as far as he could to pull the frightened but unharmed girl from the rails. the event was partially spoofed in the brave engineer, in which the hero rescued a damsel from a cliche bandit
old girl's got her dancing slippers on tonight
his watch stopped at the time of impact, 3:52 a.m.
there are no clearly authentic photographs of the famous wreck in existence
as his engine is badly in disrepair he crashes from a bridge, dies and goes to heaven. there st. peter wants him to break a strike of celestial musicians
(5) offline large language models and hackernews thread
local llms are the only future worth living in
the biggest benefits for me are the uncensored models. i'm pretty kinky so the regular models tend to shut me out way too much, they all enforce this prudish victorian mentality that seems to be prevalent in the us but not where i live. censored models are just unusable to me which includes all the hosted models. it's just so annoying. and of course privacy
i've always talked out loud through problems anyway, throw a bt earbud on and you'll look slightly less deranged
learning to use these speech-to-text systems will be a new kind of literacy
as a daily user of all the latest openai/claude models for the last few years, i'm amazed at how good llama3.1 is - all running locally, privately, with zero connection to the web. how did i not know about this?!
local llms are the future, it's like having your own private google running locally
come join us on reddit's /r/localllama. great community for local llms
you can get diverse low quality data from the web, but for diverse high quality data the organic content is exhausted. the only way is to generate it, and you can maintain a good distribution by structured randomness. for example just sample 5 random words from the dictionary and ask the model to compose a piece of text from them. it will be more diverse than web text
and then when it comes time for the test, i end up hallucinating answers too
you missed the part where this is slow as hell
lightning in a bottle
i'm not sure why anybody would respect that licence term, given the whole field rests on the rapacious misappropriation of other people's intellectual property
oh damn guess i am so uninformed
(6) caravaggio has never been more universally loved than he is today
the scowling pilate, caught in the coils of roman law, leans over the parapet of his palace, visibly racked by doubt, the tousled hair peeking out from his velvet cap suggesting an official so confused he can no longer bother with his personal appearance
we, caught in the position of the crowd gathered beneath the governor's window, are the ones who are called upon to shout either "crucify him!" or "let him go!" - not the jews, not the romans, no one but ourselves
(7) pop-up private schools created to capture the government money
in new orleans in 1960 when six-year-old ruby bridges enrolled at the william frantz elementary school..each day ruby withstood the screaming of angry white parents at the schoolhouse doors
the term "school choice" was so closely associated with resistance to the brown decision
(8) the person whose mind is being fracked
the most reliable way to draw someone in, even if the content on offer doesn't particularly appeal to them, is by creating the impression that other people are talking about them
they can simply throw a million little interruptions at us, track which ones grab our attention, and then repeat those
we overestimate the value of information and underestimate the value of attention
(9) how the leopard got his spots and other just so stories by rudyard kipling
he baked it and he baked it till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental. but just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the altogether uninhabited interior one rhinoceros with a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners
'for goodness' sake,' said the leopard at tea-time, 'let us wait till it gets dark. this day-light hunting is a perfect scandal'
and the little girl-daughter said, 'he was round and he was flat; and his eyes grew upon stalks; and he walked sideways like this; and he was covered with strong armour upon his back'
these nine hundred and ninety-nine queens who vex me
slay me with mirth
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