niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Slowly realizing I have to like being bad at something if I want to get any good at it

babe what's wrong, you've barely touched your demon core

C library functions are always like: "SYNOPSIS. This function converts foos into bars depending on the user locale. ARGUMENTS. src and dest pointers must be distinct; it is undefined behavior if they are not QPU-aligned. RETURN VALUE. Returns the number of foos converted. A zero value indicates failure, or that zero foos were converted. A negative value indicates that the final foo was only partially converted (function got tired). Check this global variable to find out why."

Hooley dooley.

This post is about a "found-in-the-wild" small Turing machine (3-states, 4-symbols), that halts --- after an Ackermann function-level number of steps; using Knuth's up-arrow notation, more than
\[ 14 \uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow\uparrow 14
\]
and in fact we know exactly how many!

https://www.sligocki.com//2024/05/22/bb-3-4-a14.html

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My job has made me into a TBI truther. Brain injuries are devastating to cognition, self-regulation, and a bevy of other health outcomes. It's linked to a zillion bad social outcomes.

Forget about every other factor that determines human development outcomes: forget about genes, IQ, pollution, whatever. All of that shit is easily washed out by one good fall off of a bike. But unlike genes, we can actually do something about protecting brains.