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sorry I haven't been reposting my Silver Ball Century streams here consistently!

Tonight is a bonus stream because pinball in 1992 is too good for just two streams

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Laurie Penny, still relevant lauriepenny.substack.com/p/pea

#eurovision as a peace project; national competition re-envisaged as something gloriously silly, irreverent, irrelevant, fun, camp and democratic.

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@pup_hime @deejvalen what else would “godspeed” mean, if it doesn’t mean that each god makes you go faster

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@christianp oh and I see how this isn't the same. the rule I described would not get off the ground -- it would keep b=1 forever and just produce 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...

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It's funny how this (the TRS-80 MC-10) is a "forgotten computer" to most people, but it's actually what I thought people meant by "trs-80" or "trash-80" for a bunch of my life. It was the first computer that I "owned" myself, though it was a hand-me-down and I was very young. I have a lot of fond memories of doing nothing very useful with it.

https://ioc.exchange/users/siliconundergro/statuses/110307395889084765
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For clarification, folks, this means that Calckey is the first ActivityPub platform (AFAIK) that will let you migrate your entire social graph (followers AND followings) from one ActivityPub instance (whether Mastodon, Calckey, Misskey, or other). You still have to export from one and import to the other, but that's a simple thing (and will probably be automated soon)..

cc @Tchambers @atomicpoet @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @davetroy @scafaria @davidslifka @elipariser @dangillmor

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@christianp so, is it actually the smallest change to a or b that produces an a*b not in the sequence, with ties broken by smallest a*b?

@christianp @gregeganSF but now I see that this rule fits for the first 16 entries, but it would put (7,1) before (7,2).

@christianp @gregeganSF I think the rule is: you have two integers, a >= b >= 1, initially a=b=1.

At each step, you add a*b to the sequence, then change either a or b, so that the new a*b is the least such number that isn’t already in the sequence.

Silver Ball Century, my chronological playthrough of , is now going to be on Thursday evenings instead of Monday.

That starts next week. Tonight is just an arbitrary pinball stream

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People have been posting glaring examples of ChatGPT’s gender bias, like arguing that attorneys can't be pregnant. So @sayashk and I tested ChatGPT on WinoBias, a standard gender bias benchmark. Both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are about 3 times as likely to answer incorrectly if the correct answer defies gender stereotypes — despite the benchmark dataset likely being included in the training data. aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/quan

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(A related, separate problem: The black community has never felt comfortable "here", in the Greater Mastodon bubble, and has repeatedly told us so, and this place remains very white. I would rather fix this by just fixing what needs to be fixed here. But that hasn't happened yet and culture is hard to change, so regardless of what I want this MIGHT ultimately only happen by "Black Twitter", if that still exists, migrating somewhere else and then that somewhere else merging with "our" Fediverse.)

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