Activity from cortex

Of which, one of the most delightful and human bits of trivia about Knuth and the dragon curve is his admission, late in this Numberphile video, that his wall-sized tile rendering of same has an error in it. As a serial artistic hand-iterator (but… [more]
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MeFi comment - An hour ago

Also, if you're the sort of sicko who likes to read along with the score when you go to the symphony, note that the github repo includes among other things a 12.7MB text file called "full.lua" that list ever single button press (or repeated… [more]
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MeFi comment - An hour ago

Another option available to you is to pretend that Pokemon doesn't exist and this whole thing is an elaborate exercise in gonzo lore building. [more]
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MeFi comment - An hour ago

this section will take about 20 hours and will max out Eevee's EVs
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MeFi post - An hour ago

I warn you, I have gone full bitchy crone, but I am there under my other guise Greetings from the other side, old friend. joshmillard.bsky.social. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 ½ hours ago

Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to see this and to give it a listen! [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 21 hours ago

The Dead Flag Blues The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the… [more]
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MeFi comment - Yesterday

I feel like I remember this subplot from Hannibal. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 days ago

I used a bit of this in this month's MeFi podcast! [more]
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Music comment - 2 days ago

This election opened my eyes to how minorities, women, and youth are no less evil than Musk, Bezos, and Confederates. I feel you on the, like, immediate feels behind this, but also I reject this outright. A failure to be motivated to vote,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Szpakowski yesssssss [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

mood [more]
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Music comment - 9 days ago

Do you make wigs? Have you made wigs? Will you make wigs? When will you make wigs? [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Stay The Fuck In Line
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Music post - 12 days ago

*finger pistols* PTSD resurfacing hard, or hardly resurfacing your PTSD? *chuckles, pounds entire carafe of coffee* [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Reconsidering the rule against friend-linking on the MeFi front page
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MetaTalk post - 12 days ago

metal husband [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

And now it's that special time of year when we find out how many people still didn't know that if you held down A and hit start after an SMB1 game over, you'd restart at whatever major world you'd reached. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Can someone do an ELI5 for me about 'gravitationally connected'...isn't everything(tm) gravitationally connected? It looks like they're really saying here that the third object is likely to be in orbit around the other two, rather than just… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Endless Jingling
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Projects post - 3 weeks ago

they saw it from across the quadrant and liked its vibe [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Sontag
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

But specific thoughts about all this: 1. I don't know how good Google's natural language generation models have gotten. I know GPT and such can produce far more coherent and contextualized chunks of content than a cheap toy like my beloved Markov… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

First of all, I want to apologize for the limited updates on this stuff the last few months. It's been a really complicated 2020 so far, but both despite and because of that I want us to find our way to more consistently providing updates and that's… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last month

[This is a followup from anonymous.] I posted this, and wanted to acknowledge a superior reply and one that really helped me. The one posted by necessitas gave such great insight, I had to write to you. Also, in spite of the seeming conflict… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last month

Walz seems like a good enough guy, but this is some Pollyanna bullshit. This is the pro-forma shit every competent politician is expected to say, ASAP, in the face of anything like this. Maybe Walz in his heart of hearts is pollyana enough… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Confused, rage-filled gun violence is a fact of life for school children. It has no place in politics. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Next: bumbled attempt while Trump is ordering a hamburger. Next again: bumbled attempt while Trump is at home, brainstorming a new nickname for a political opponent. Ad infinitum; an endless, accelerating treadmill of failed assassinations in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

mathowie transfers ownership of MetaFilter to cortex
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MetaTalk post - 2 months ago

This seems like a really good way to get kidnapped or worse. Imagine wanting to kidnap Vivek Ramaswamy. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I was a little bummed I’d forgotten the username of that last example It is for understandable reasons etched into my grey matter; pretty much the first thing I did when I came across this article earlier was whisper "holdkrisssss!… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

For the sake of anyone interpreting this as an actual suggestion/request: no. Obviously no. Shredding-your-brain-with-a-potato-peeler no. But I appreciate the post as a creative work. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 months ago

dammit why did I retweet, I should have hoarded this [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

alt.clutch.grind.grind.grind [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 months ago

Giant swaths of small text are hard for many people to read. Consider conveying whatever the "this is in small tags" angle is explicitly rather than paralinguistically if it is important, and keep in mind that not everyone is going to… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 2 months ago

Heh, it's a slim word count; eliding a lot of the gooey middle part and keeping the cast of characters to a minimum is a pretty reasonable call. I'm proud of all the work I did here over the years but it has been a tremendous boon to me to not be… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Time-stretching with PaulStretch
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Music post - 3 months ago

This is tremendous. Love it. Love it a lot. Why is it so tense?!?!?! Like SPrintF said, a big part of it is just that it never makes a move. A fundamental part of how we experience music is the sense of change in time, in the melody… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

dammit Faint of Butt [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

See, this take on Let It Be is a great contrast to the Bobby Darin; it's still weird but mostly (especially for the major key version in the first half) just kind of an oddly boring kind of weird rather than deeply unsettling. Because we aren't… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This is great! My one dashed hope was that it was going to dig a bit more into the sub-tasks a human player would go through mentally in evaluating options in a puzzle or reasoning through tricky spots. That it attempts to capture the human… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

[A few comments removed. Folks, I know this budges up against more than one hot point but let's trust the asker to know why and what they're asking and try to focus this on specific, concrete advice/guidance for the question asked.] [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

as Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a daytrading shark [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Happy birthday, you big blue beast. I was just thinking out loud about this place, how much I care for it and all of the people that make it what it is. Here's to another quarter century, by hook or by crook. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Tom Lehrer is on topic in The Vatican Rag. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 3 months ago

Guys, I'm having a lot of trouble getting this article to load in Netscape Navigator. I tried resetting my modem, do you think I need to update Trumpet Winsock? Don't worry about that, you can just switch over to the Gopher server. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

If you're here for Euclidean Doom, you're in the wrong room
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

Fucking hell. Just in the general holistic sense. Christ. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

This may be the most bald-faced display of racism Adams has shown in public, but it is a bit of a wonder to me how he hasn't been "cancelled" yet. Adams is one of those weird cases where someone got rich and famous for some… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Ah, yeah, that's a bit more comprehensive than the one I remembered. Heh. (I should have put this in askme. Sorry.) Nope, you were right on with this. If it's "help me track down something metafilter related or something that was… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

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