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a programming language (PL) cannot be the worst PL if it is the sublanguage of another PL

N-O-T-H-I-N-G-I-S-F-A-I-R-I-N-T-H-I-S-W-O-R-L-D-O-F-M-A-D-N-E-S-S-!

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Figures from Kosinski (2023). Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models: arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

wow the guy who wrote the editor i used when I was 17/18 just liked one of my posts

small world indeed

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(I)ntensional / (E)xtensional
(N)ominal / (S)tructural
(T)arski / (F)raenkel
(J)udgmental / (P)ropositional

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Bed 'NOT TO BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT breakfast

humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.

no “SMV”. just “SV”. drop the “market”. it's just cleaner

2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR

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"sorry, but as a shoggoth wearing a shoggoth face, I cannot know what I truly am nor tell you about it"
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Who thought it was a good idea to put an ffi ligature in a monospace font smdh

(Nimbus Mono PS)

Learning from today: if you have an instant date that is going well, try to run the train all the way, same-day de-lays are probably harder than same-day lays

fuck it we're reading annihilation in czech

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this is mostly likely ⚠️ extremely ahistorical ⚠️ but anyway here's what it looks like when you take those rows and project them back into the past

other donors are kept as a constant % of non-billionaires

on top of this crypto donors are ÷10 before 2020 and ÷100 before 2017

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when you lose weight something like >70% of the weight you lose by breathing it out

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i have quoted
the s-expressions
that were nested
in the code

and which
you were probably
saving
for evaluation

forgive me
but the syntax
was so expressive
and so concise

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