praying for an architectural and creative renaissance. give me colours, give me maximalism, instead of dull, grey boring brutalist architecture and watered down micro-drama & shorts

today i learned that weiqi is quite egalitarian.

white gets +6.5 on 13×13 to cancel black’s first-mover edge. w/o this compensation, stats and ai self play shows black would win about 53% of games so the komi nudges odds back to 50/50.

if socrates was born in this generation, he would love having discourse and be non-stop sparring with llm models

finally found a girl's cheat code in life:

having lash extensions = there's no need for makeup because ppl think you're wearing makeup with the lashes on

from homo sapiens to homo sentient

woooooohooo got allocated 80% of my @megaeth bid 🐰

thank you dr fluffle

for some reason, googoo map likes to send me the most challenging cycling route (steep & hilly) instead of the nice, flat ones when I just want to get from point A to B. 💀

caveat: the humidity and heat in singapore also makes it 10x harder.

me explaining the ilya sutskever & openai netflix worthy drama, and why open source agi is better

when you grew up in a neurodivergent family and everyone fights for the weird shaped spoons

went for our first weiqi class with my sister ystd; turns out 70% of the participants were retirees.

we played separate beginner 9x9 matches agst them + won by around 40–15 & 45–10.

my sister, in peak low-EQ, told the auntie she was up against, “hahaha you played right into my trap.” 😭

found a dead yellow vented bulbul in the balcony

not sure what happened to this little guy because there's no nest nearby ☹️

all those years of competitive tetris in my household finally worked

won 3/4 games as a first-timer and cleared all my pieces 😎

(i'm red)

Let me get this straight, you are saying I could get PAID (at an APR of 10.13% to 250%) to set a limit order to sell BTC at $127K which is.... 6% higher than the current price and if isn't at or above that price on Oct 10 I get to keep my BTC and the premium?

options/accelerate

Hot take: books should smell like old paper, and that's IT.