May 18 2023

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8-bit bram

Bridgerton - Queen Charolette

I am Venus

Code

This is great, I recommend!

Went to NYU ITP Spring 2023, here were my favorite booths:

Videos

My internet is way better now -- thanks FioS! -- so I celebrated with a stream working on my monorepo and I had fun.

Perhaps the craziest workout I've ever seen

https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Sternocleidomastoid/BWFrontNeckBridge

Zenitsu be doing it

When you realize that this guy and Caster got the happiest ends out of every main character in this series…

Music

Raw Thoughts

Animals unconsciously agent in their environment and change it (overeating resources -- finches for example)

Humans consciously agent their environment and change it (global warming for example)

Programs agent their environment in a feedback loop that is not conscious in the sense of serving the need to eat for survival but not unconscious due to fact that they know what’s going on with access to state of impossibly massive systems (which is why humans get caught off guard by bugs)

If coding with an LLM was painting, gpt serves as the broad strokes applied to the sketch of an artist -- it’s hallucinations serve as the rough edges of the paint stroke on the canvas. The artist meticulously changes a line or two and instead of deciding to paint a mountain in the background he decides to paint a tree and asks the LLM to draw the broad strokes of a tree and to reintegrate the surrounding landscape to make the tree seem like it was always there. But he doesn’t remember the size of a tree so he uses LLM as a reminder of how tall they are what color the bark is how many leaves a tree has, etc.

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