A bear that bears some load....
TLDR: It is not bad. But it upgrades the wrong cards, has no immediate benefit, and you could pick instead other strong relics that help you survive the first act. Slay the Spire 2 is a video game where you climb a spire to kill the evil architect at the top. Each floor is filled with enemies, regrettable decisions, events, and bosses. You start with a base deck of simple attacks and defends. With…
Because sometimes AI write bad code. It is unbecoming, but bad code is bad! I want to document this because, whenever people says "AI still can't write great code without handholding", it is usually declared vehement without example. That just ain't convincing. People deserve examples. Practical Exhibition 1: # by claude 79 + pub fn parquet_event_time_bounds ( parquet_path : & Path ) -> Result <…
There is nothing special about use text to get back more text. Sometime, you want to trade your text for a list of numbers. Maybe you want a CSV file, a map to plan your trip, or something higher dimensional. You don't want more text. You have nothing against text, but you want numbers you can run your number cruncher on to tell you something more immutable about the truth o' world. Words really…
What can be communicated is knowledge. But what people call wisdom is the generator where knowledge come from. That generator function takes in observations about this world archived pruned and selectively forgotten to build a smaller world inside us. This internal partial world model, mediated by desire, allows us to spit out novel factoids that are intermediate representation of our (desire,…
How do you get better at deadlifting? I have received many advices. From the Sotochovich 5-3-1 truncated hypermaxx paradigm to reading about the Greek sophists while sitting in Mount Athos high on Kykeon while receiving a vision about the perfect Form. My advisors promised eternal progress, 1RM beyond my dreams, and countless anecdotes to back them up. What really worked was just doing more…
I love places that evoke magic sans effort. Places like Mt. Saint Michel and Konstanz. Fortresses on waters. Where nymphs who hand out swords as basis for rulership definitely dwell. My latest obsession is the island church of Blea, Slovenia. It looks like this... So I am off to find more. God knows I will never live in Rivendell, but at least I can approximate it to a few decimal places.…
There are very few things I am passionate about in this world. And hoarding land information is one. This affliction is not found in the DSM but much more dangerous than many found in that book. You may not like it, but this is what peak megalomania with an scarcity mindset look like. Symptoms: An maniacal desire to download every single architectural drawing and feed them to the…