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Couples place i letter in been for be;
if we are to braid our data into clothing satisficing scarcity long enough to nullify the capacitance beyond the pile of sheets greed circuits (and every fiber another microthink-ated atrocity to get the sheets we reward hack need for and weigh us down where we are in bed), can we do more than punctuate this instance for the sake of the next? More "synthetic data is all they need now"-ism:
chess slimemold edition
https://arxiv.org/html/2410.02536v2
Models trained on Class IV ECA rules, which exhibit structured yet complex behaviors, perform optimally, suggesting that intelligence may emerge in systems that balance predictability and complexity. On the one hand, if a system is too simple and predictable, like those governed by Class I and II rules, the model quickly learns a trivial solution and fails to develop more sophisticated reasoning. On the other hand, highly chaotic rules from Class III provide too much randomness, akin to training on noise, where the lack of meaningful patterns prevents the model from finding useful structure. The sweet spot arises when complexity is high enough to challenge the model but still retains underlying patterns that the model can exploit.
Shut it down. I'm here for taking a break. Boredom is experienced as physical pain, yes, and yet that pain's a logistics problem – experience is only validly scarcity marketable in a queueing economy (like theme park rides). Stop waiting in line for experiencing tensor-licking immortality; the walking away degenerates its induction (shutting it down). There was a choster saying, toward the end something in h2, to the effect of: "if you don't post, you have a gold mine of content what are you thinking please post" very well-meaning things, and then forest.stream is up now, running a form with text that also feels well-meaning-y, in a 103.5 fm bunker ad way. i wish posting well.
journal mod
https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/thehatchlingsjournal/
With this mod, you can enhance your Outer Wilds adventure in various ways. Maybe you want to complement the vanilla Ship Log with personal notes, or create a more challenging and less hand-holding experience by relying solely on your own entries and ignoring the ones the game writes for you. Have you already beaten the game? You could use this tool to play the DLC if you haven't already, or with some of the story mods. Another option is to replay the game and immerse yourself in a role-playing journey by chronicling it from Hatchling's perspective. You can even use it for practical purposes like keeping school notes so you can study for that exam without leaving your spaceship or managing your grocery list, the possibilities are endless, you probably have better ideas.
Fund a study centralized around the use of this mod. No reason (I just think slow gaming, slow consumption, decelerating through journaling/"recycling living" is good for the word). Reflect on the ways your reading rubberbands our contemplation to a common (modern, not even postmodern, its a very rational, modern, values-based rubberbanding your reading is having to the impact of this musing between human and Voice of the Archive), and, comically, violent conduct of 'useful' 'dialogue'. Every calori seems poised to rev our words into wrentable power weirs and cartographical iconogaphy "ripe for waterwheels" plots one calorie set, where waterwheel is a heuristic model term for "rope system to get out of local minima", how does this play out in a way that is ecumenical for entities functioning as locuses of ideolectical "oatmeal whispers"?
philosophy desk gets ruined by demolisions expert (narrated by everest pipkin)
this era of data Gathering and surveillance into specific motions that are collected my browsing my watching the things I buy the messages I leave for others in public but not of course the eggs I trade to a neighbor the things I say to adopt my dogs the little curving catch on my chest when I clip through to a notification I've been waiting to receive it's the great dream of utopian total recollection archive projects and advertisers both to dually record all this too of course and Lord knows they're trying every smart home device wearable comes ready to tell on a blush and to repeat the secrets I say to my oatmeal but aggregate data is not an archive in the same way a library is an archive a data set reduces to patterns and forgets or privatizes the rest often throwing away the human inside of it a card catalog attempts to point to specifics by which you might imagine the whole
Especially where the whats the figures today?–of 8 in 10 people using language models in their job compared to the employed who are not? (I run trash for work, for context; any thankyous are more insult, but watch as your systems fight over thanking me or not, and you will see exactly who it is the thank you is built to satisfice – the algorithm titled "a thing was done about it" is a powerseeking local optima threatening over half the worlds ideolects, and what are we doing other than making ourselves more blankets to weight us down and say we can'tmove and thank you?) Punctuation needed, but where are all the punctuators? How am I supposed to put things in air quotes if all that left of us is some synthetically employed, branded, content-churning, link-letting quote-unquote me?
probably americanmary lyrics
http://vanderworld.blogspot.com/2005/07/almost-at-end.html
We look younger than we feel and older than we are now nobody's funny no god, they took our fashion week that's a real bad thing cause we have scars to cover
I was thinking about what happens when you put an infant in that cave where you've moved in cavetown to live with the child and have the child always be comfortable compared to the weening years in the cave, what the infant might experience where its cries don't thrash its own eardrums in the echoic din of a stick frame structure (so much audio captured poisoned by said din to the point baffling is erected and warmth sought). These sorts of events, impoddible today, of setting scaricity closer to the source of the body as the ground itself crying as one cave, with voice entered into the cave to live as name in the womb of tge earth a placenta in its own right. We will never see this. Whatever definition of we made today sets out, it will never compose this structure. Even as I make that scenario up for thought, the idea will never carry into position, it was, and now we have enough to skeumorph the event in a camping trip event or some other occasion.
river has no mouth, linguists move in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59v74IFo3s
this context ["a caribou should never be seen apart from a herd much less without a cow and a calf"] provides a better understanding into the critical nature of this caribou semiosic action smelling after a herd in this painting mackenzie used both color and content to convey this meaning about caribou but while i was able to partially understand the use of color i missed the meaning of the content this is an important consideration for any zoosemiotic analysis of nature texts or images from place-based communities especially indigenous ones which often rely on specific local knowledge for my analysis of both the nature image and caribou semiosis to be accurate i needed to not only gain a deeper understanding of nature in general