“We have arrived. We are at the time where the human imagination now need meet no barriers to its intent. And so we are going to find out who we are. We are going to discover what it means to be human when there is no resistance to human will. Now, this is, I suppose, like a litmus test for paranoia. Is this going to be a nightmare of, you know, 24-hour a day sadomasochistic pornography or…
“(No one outside the food industry ever tells me they’d prefer paying for excellent bread to receiving mediocre bread for free. Most people just want to be given bread they have not paid for. That bread being good constitutes a rare and wonderful possibility—certainly not an expectation. Nothing tastes as good as free costs.)” I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America…
Horner lays bare the strategic timing of this generosity. Ideally, free bread should not hit the table until after customers have ordered their meal, “because then they order from a position of maximum hungriness,” he says. Plus, the delay builds anticipation: “Will there be bread? I see other people with bread. We haven’t got bread yet.” And then, once the bread is bestowed: “Oh! There is bread!…
“true greatness. I said true greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier — when it’s spelled with a lower case letter. That’s how the hamming window came about.” - Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
“You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, “Yes, I’ve stood on so and so’s shoulders and I saw further.” The essence of science is cumulative.” - Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
gimmickbook : “Fido is for Fido. Fido is against no one. Fido is Youth. Fido has no age. Fido sees everything. Fido judges nothing. Fido is Innocent. Fido is Powerful. Fido comes from the past. Fido is the future.” – the Fido Dido credo
https://x.com/chetaslua/status/2046489044243403029 “🚨Image 2.0 is now online on ChatGPT and it’s incredible! Just a few days ago even 3x3 grids would often struggle, now we can 10x10 the complexity, and it’s near perfect! Prompt is image discription just click on image ALT button Credit - u/Alex__007” this is the prompt: “Create a 10 × 10 grid of 100 different topics…
[Verse 1] We three We’re all alone Living in a memory My echo, my shadow and me [Verse 2] We three We’re not a crowd We’re not even company My echo, my shadow and me [Bridge] What good is the moonlight The silvery moonlight That shines above? I walk with my shadow I talk with my echo But where is the one I love? [Verse 3] We three We’ll wait for you Even till eternity My…
Diagrams for minsky’s finite state machine. Gorgeous. (+ screenshots of how closely this feels to the godmom binary system I’m slowly still working on, a bit shocked to see it reflected like this (*paused while I learn more and launch this next thing))
“ Interviewer: If I had made that movie, I would have questioned the right of the Jesuit priests to come to Japan and impose their ideas on the Japanese. Shinoda: No, it was impossible for the Jesuits to impose their religion on the Japanese because of the animism believed in by this insular, island people. It was not to be destroyed by so severe a religion as Christianity. Christianity destroyed…
“In one particularly fascinating section, Buzsaki notes that the frequency of gamma waves is about 7x the frequency of theta waves. He shows how this means that the hippocampus (a sort of master regulator of short-term memory) can “call” conscious attention “as a function” seven times within one of its time steps, which he links to the old adage that you can fit seven plus or minus two items…
“I’m a gamer. I hire people to do subsymbolic stuff” says the hacker mastermind wrt killing people. Blackhat, almost great Michael Mann joint. Villain should have gotten more screen time.
“I contacted 75 of my peers anonymously via email. I said, "Send me a list of your 10 favorite unproduced screenplays. In exchange I will share with you the combined list that everybody mentioned.” Copied and pasted those responses into a spreadsheet. Literally Microsoft Excel. Ran it through a pivot table, outputted it to PowerPoint, slapped a quasi-subversive name on it, and emailed…
“What lies in this book is perhaps more important as a whole than in its details. If you only have an hour to spend on it, it makes much more sense to read the whole book roughly in that hour, than to read only the first two chapters in detail. For this reason, I have arranged each chapter in such a way that you can read the whole chapter in a couple of minutes, simply by reading the…
“All our reasoning is nothing other than a combination of characters. And every calculus is a combination or transformation of characters. Thus reasoning itself is a certain kind of calculation, and calculation is nothing other than the orderly manipulation of symbols. The combination of characters may occur in various ways — by aggregation, by division, by substitution, or by transposition.…