FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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That's why we evolved a "pattern finding" brain. Because there's patterns in the world, and recognizing them is useful.
Anyway, I think of those pigeons, spinning in place, perhaps praying to some God of Food Pellets they invented, and how they don't know there's no pattern and all there actions are meaningless. The cruel scientist man built this game so you can't win, and worse: you don't know you can't win, so you have to keep trying.
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If you want the cookie cutters: https://www.printables.com/model/688786-blobfox-cookie-cutters
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@deshipu@fosstodon.org I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Frankenstein, is in fact, Frankenstein's monster, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Frankenstein plus Monster. The Monster is not a Frankenstein unto itself, but rather another uncontrolled creation of a fully reckless dr Frankenstein made alive by the power of lightning, poorly thought out science and vital human organs harvested at the local morgue.
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I left a comment at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prompt_engineering#Neutral_point_of_view. Please *please* don't spam the thread with +1s and absolutely don't harass folks there.
If you have useful resources to add, though, by all means please do so. I greatly appreciate the help from folks who are deeper in this than I am.
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TIL that the Wikipedia page on "prompt engineering" is an absolute disaster of AI hype.
I am this close to starting an NPOV discussion.
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TIL: There is LaTeX coffee stains package and I think you should know this: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/latex-coffee-stains/qsjjwwsrmwnc
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gender affirming surgery that gives you cat claws
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the most terrifying word in the swedish language is:
tonartshöjning
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> scan as .tiff
> look inside
> .jpeg artifacts
> look inside
> .jpeg artifacts
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OH: I love the way the French are so perverted about cheese
Or as JP in the linked post mentioned, Ursula K Le Guin's definition of technology: "what we can learn to do"
Technology is not machines, it's the "application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals", so it could involve machines, but may as well not
LB: As Wikipedia defines it, Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
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@seachanger I'm sure you've read it before but Ursula K Le Guin's definition of technology as "what we can learn to do" has long been my favorite and operating definition. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
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the reason to intentionally use the word technology is a) because it’s the correct word for these concepts; b) it directly challenges the power of techbros as a social class (as well as the ecosystem of liberals, scientists, centrists, white supremacists, misogynists, institutionalists, and careerists who’ve crowned them king of this particular moment) and 3) it digs at the root of the “tech will save the climate” capitalist fantasies the oil corporations have placed throughout the panopticon
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
