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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • One of many things I heard as a kid and went “wtf, no”

    Same with a 40-hour, 40-year career. You mean I have to follow all these adult rules, go to school 6 hours a day all these years feeling like I’m in prison… To graduate to literal slavery or else… Prison? When does living actually come in?

    5 year old me already wondered what the point was and knew I wanted off the ride. Not necessarily in a depressed way, but a way that said “this ain’t it, chief”.


  • I grabbed a banglejs a while back for cheap embedded funzies, and it’s really stellar as a hackable companion device that you don’t use much, or at least in fairly passive or niche ways. Espruino is really cool though, and that’s the heart of the project.

    I wonder how this compares as a higher-end (maybe only other?) FOSS watch, mostly on the battery/power ratio. I actually don’t know much about the pebble design.










  • There’s a certain understanding of what is and isn’t decidable by means of Computation (capital C), and it’s fundamental to the formalized systems of logic that define computers.

    From what I can glean, they show that some modern theories in physics display logical properties that we know cannot arise from a formalized computational system.

    To be fair, I feel like that only means the universe can’t be described by internal computation, not that some hyper-logical model of computation couldn’t exist to drive it all from “above”… It’s fundamental, so not like a higher spatial dimension, but a sort of “conceptual” one we can’t re-articulate? 50% confused and 50% talking out of my ass tbh




  • It’s shocking just how biased the third is despite sounding (relatively) reasonable and unbiased. But bias is the entire nature of AI, that’s the whole point: biasing a machine to transform and distill data to arrive at a desired output.

    Really, the instant anything is made into a process with or without AI there’s bias, and it’s inescapable.

    ETA: I guess what I’m getting at is

    Because: Human behaviour can be fixed. With the right measurements, biased people/racists can be retrained or taken off-duty.

    is bias in and of itself