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Joined November 2015
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people usually judge things from their own context, not our own
Hunter gatherers would consider us gods, not humans
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I love—and keep encountering—stories of people from radically different cultures encountering modern/western cities for the first time and being unimpressed except for one specific thing. Do you know of any other stories like this?
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The Astonishing, Unfailing GHC Runtime System (1967)
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burning a text to image AI so my ancestors can imagine what I look like
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Computer history by Balenciaga
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Replying to @yeetgenstein
Is Interpretable True Language Model Output Fact? (GPT3 prompted on a corpus of Gettier papers, 2023)
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rays fully traversing lens system: 34 rays traced but clipped by exit pupil: 2674832 someone who is good at optics please help me importance sample this😭 my variance is becoming unbounded
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its 4am sunday morning here uin beautiful hollywood california and i got a tab open on here called "Arrow Desugaring"
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if you remove the license plate frame that advertises the versoin of gcc your app was compiled with youre a nasty son of a bitch & you want small business owners to choke
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Replying to @kamatsu8 @wilbowma
Or more elaborate chopstick holds
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the bot pulls the latest image from a random camera, but this camera was never deregistered, so every few weeks it reposts its death image
Bonny Doon, SantaCruz County, CA 37.1004, -122.1410 2618 ft above sea level, facing north alertwildfire.org/southeastb…
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The first ever continuous glider gun is... a bit messy 🥴
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destroying western civilization by pointing out that there are 24 ways two apples plus two apples can be isomorphic to 4 apples
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oh and this is real btw😊
Replying to @Rididelduol
bf who wants to talk about heidegger but you just keep saying "I kaaaant hear you" so he says "and Slavoj Zizek isn't a 'trashcan philosopher'!" and you go "then how come when I google 'slavic trashcan philosopher' he's the first result?
disintegration loops, makeup removal app edition
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I have a fear of phone calls and can justify it with Lacan and Zizek but that shitpost from Fakey Fakeson is so much more succinct
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