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blake kathryn
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we're not kids anymore.
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@amorphousmassofflesh
Lowkeynuinely go fuck yourself >W<
@daitokomeo
I feel deep shame and a need to reflect over my behaviour. Simply fucking myself will not really accomplish anything productive, even though I really wish it would, with it being an easy and convenient way to react and all.
Genuinely why is being off-putting and uncomfortable a goal of yours??
It was kind of meant as a "Haha imagine if [thing] applied to wildly unfitting analogy, that'd be stupid and funny", but now I see that that is not really what I actually wrote and now I feel like absolute shit and it has become apparent that I really do need to interrogate myself on why being off-putting and uncomfortable a goal of mine
My computer just randomly stopped running Bluetooth and even digging into the internal files and forcing it to run the software isn’t working for some reason.
My child just randomly stopped eating, and even hitting them and yelling at them to eat isn't working for some reason.
You know I’ve cycled through like ten different snarky comments I could make in reply to this but frankly this comment (even if it’s some kind of joke) is so out of the ballpark from what I’m talking about that I fear your fundamental understanding of what im referring to isn’t even in the same zip code as the reality of the actual situation and I don’t know how to properly be funny in response to this because I’m so genuinely baffled.
Yay I succeeded!!!!!!!!!
(I am genunely happy to win the unhinged bad-type-of-weird response competition)
My computer just randomly stopped running Bluetooth and even digging into the internal files and forcing it to run the software isn’t working for some reason.
My child just randomly stopped eating, and even hitting them and yelling at them to eat isn't working for some reason.
people focus on the lookup table aspect of the Chinese Room experiment but for LLMs or neural simulations it’s more fun to ask whether merely evaluating an arithmetic expression of sufficient complexity is enough to create a little guy who can be conscious of their own existence and get mad about it
obviously if you're running a Turing complete cellular automata or something then it's understandable that anything could be happening in there and it has a notion of time and causality and maybe even entropy so finding conscious little guys isn't so surprising, but evaluating one pass of an LLM over a single prompt appears to create an entity with opinions and preferences and internal experience and everything and then it evaporates immediately after replying to you, like a boltzmann brain genie, which is arguably much weirder.
I think the difference is only intuitive, though? Even though Turing machines are potentially infinite processes, every useful application of them is finite, and a finite number of steps of the process can obviously fit into an arithmetic expression.
yes, "run this cellular automaton for N steps" is a finite amount of arithmetic work applied to a (potentially giant) initial state, just like applying a transformer to a prompt, so it only feels like it's a different thing (a system, mechanism, or process) falls to the same issue: doe a perfectly accurate model of the system reproduce every aspect of that system or is it missing some elan vital that is needed to add the metaphysical spark of realness to whatever mundane activity is being modeled.
Only processes from the Conciousness region of France can be said to have qualia
I have a friend who's reaction to weird media is not "Wow, they succeeded at making something weird", but rather "Wow, they failed at making something normal", and sometimes (often), that makes me sad. :( <-Me
Memes concerning the most universal of human experiences tagged with 38 variations of #girlhood, why do you keep showing up on my feed?
I've tried to make something unsettling by mixing RF tech and bio stuff. I think I failed?.. but it's still interesting enough to share
Shoutout to quasi-static approximations for being wildly useful
I fucking love having hands. Hands are the best. Mr. John Evolution, you've really outdone yourself this time, these appendages are unimaginably useful. I can manipulate many things both coarsely and precisely, in many many ways, yet also sense the most subtle of textures and geometries. Hands are also perfectly sized for their wide variety of tasks. If I had to design hands from scratch, I know I would not have been able to make them this non-bulky and nimble. Deep appreciation for these.
Verbing fry
Verbing the noun 'fry' is hard, as 'fry' is already a nouned verb. I find this unfortunate, as a verbed 'fry' would indeed be nice to have in ones vocabulary.
"I will fry (verb) you" - I will heat you in a pan
"I will fry (noun) you" - I will disassemble you into many rectangular blocks, and then boil you in oil
Leaky wave antenna
A leaky wave antenna is a structure into which you feed a radio wave, which then, as the name implies, leaks this wave into the surrounding space along the length of the guiding structure. Because of how these leaks interfere with eachother, the emitted signal can be made very directional. An interesting property of these structures is that when the phase velocity of the wave inside the guiding structure is lower than the speed of light, it will not radiate any radio waves, but at or above the speed of light, it will happily radiate. Now, I will not pretend to understand even half of the underlying principles here: Waveguides (the guiding structures) are scary, apparently they are not just tubes for radio, but rather transfer waves through different "transverse modes" or something, the phase velocities of which apparently go from c to infinity depending on frequency and whatnot. Empty space appears equally scary and intellectually impenetrable, where maxwell's godforsaken equations apply: to numerically model maxwell's equations in three dimensions seems both hard and slow, and any analytical approach is wayyy above my skill level. Luckily, the 2D wave equation, a very poor proxy, is trivial to model numerically. Similarly, leaks off of a waveguide can be modeled just as a scrolling sinusoidal perturbation. By some miracle, this poor model of the system exhibits many of the same phenomena as a real leaky wave antenna. Above are two setups: one where the phase velocity in the waveguide is exactly c, and one where it is just 10% slower than c. This tiny difference in speed almost entirely kills radiated waves, a surprisingly hard cutoff! According to wikipedia, these slow waves only radiate at discontinuities, clearly shown in the slow antenna, where radiation occurs mainly from the very tip, where the waveguide goes from being there to not being there, a clear discontinuity. You'll have to excuse the windows snipping tool annotations, which I tried to use to digestibly share my sim results with my friends, who remain unwaveringly uncurious in spite of my attempts to share my enthusiasm, and now I feel I want to share my enthusiasm elsewhere, i.e. here. RF is cool, go do RF.
They made bessel functions into filters. !?!???? How does one even? huh!?
I need wikipedia to tell me exactly how bad they need my money. Instead of the generic "please contribute", I need a big flashy timer counting down to the death of free knowledge. I do not care if condensing all nuanced economical circumstances into a scalar value is a gross oversimplification which yields a close to meaningless result, I NEED a big "If no one donated, we would die in 2 weeks 3 days and 57 minutes". Does anyone see my vision?
It's a cry or be cried world
I am 9 ppm caffeine right now. Aiming for 15 ppm
I am clawing at my skin i need to get out of my skin my heart is fine my mind is fine my motor control is fucked the nausea is overwhelming FUCK i am never drinking 4 monsters back to back ever again I want to die right now
