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Amethyst, orchid, mulberry, midnight blue, navy blue, electric blue, sapphire, turquoise, cyan, aqua, olive green, pine green, sea green.
とどまりたる例なし。
43 years old.
とどまりたる例なし。
43 years old.
I though the Greek connection was regarded as dubious, and must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :)
But since this is from 1891, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
But since this is from 1891, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
October 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I though the Greek connection was regarded as dubious, and must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :)
But since this is from 1891, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
But since this is from 1891, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
uhh sorry, it doesn't say that, I guess I must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :)
But since this is from 1881, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
But since this is from 1881, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
October 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
uhh sorry, it doesn't say that, I guess I must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :)
But since this is from 1881, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
But since this is from 1881, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?
did some enjoyable LLMing on this ... it kindly took time from its busy schedule to make up a bunch of completely fake Old English poetry quotes
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
did some enjoyable LLMing on this ... it kindly took time from its busy schedule to make up a bunch of completely fake Old English poetry quotes
working on a (for now at least) LLM wrapper thingy for a use case I often have. at the stage of "the basics sort of work but it's hideous"
September 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
working on a (for now at least) LLM wrapper thingy for a use case I often have. at the stage of "the basics sort of work but it's hideous"
the man in the street is strangely averse to using quaternions ...
August 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
the man in the street is strangely averse to using quaternions ...
mt. rainier again
August 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
mt. rainier again
Also the co-inventor of quaternions was a lover and successor of Saint-Simon??????
August 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Also the co-inventor of quaternions was a lover and successor of Saint-Simon??????
July 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Apparently lesswrong are LLM skeptics now? www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFv...
March 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Apparently lesswrong are LLM skeptics now? www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFv...
They seem to use their decision theory stuff* as a way to recreate something like Kantian deontology within a utilitarian/econbrain framework?
*(I do not understand their decision theory stuff at all, but this is how I've observed it seems to get used at least rhetorically)
*(I do not understand their decision theory stuff at all, but this is how I've observed it seems to get used at least rhetorically)
February 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
They seem to use their decision theory stuff* as a way to recreate something like Kantian deontology within a utilitarian/econbrain framework?
*(I do not understand their decision theory stuff at all, but this is how I've observed it seems to get used at least rhetorically)
*(I do not understand their decision theory stuff at all, but this is how I've observed it seems to get used at least rhetorically)
I like how Kafka's The Metamorphosis does the Title Drop at the end of the first sentence
February 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I like how Kafka's The Metamorphosis does the Title Drop at the end of the first sentence
biology has extremely good aesthetics
January 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
biology has extremely good aesthetics
This guy works for Andreessen btw:
January 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This guy works for Andreessen btw:
He is trying to associate EA with communism (which he hates). "True Effective Altruism has never been tried" is supposed to be a sarcastic reference to "true communism has never been tried"
January 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
He is trying to associate EA with communism (which he hates). "True Effective Altruism has never been tried" is supposed to be a sarcastic reference to "true communism has never been tried"
Part of his interestingly wrong argument for special creation of the human rational soul.
January 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Part of his interestingly wrong argument for special creation of the human rational soul.
I like this (from the very beginning of the Pali canon!):
December 18, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I like this (from the very beginning of the Pali canon!):
To the extent TPOT comes from the original postrat stuff, e.g., David Chapman's meaningness, it explicitly billed itself as a redo of what he thought the poststructuralists were trying to do or should have been trying to do. e.g., metarationality.com/stem-fluidit...
December 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
To the extent TPOT comes from the original postrat stuff, e.g., David Chapman's meaningness, it explicitly billed itself as a redo of what he thought the poststructuralists were trying to do or should have been trying to do. e.g., metarationality.com/stem-fluidit...
Obligatory Nam June Paik work photo
December 14, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Obligatory Nam June Paik work photo
Apparently this is what Deleuze is actually about???
December 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Apparently this is what Deleuze is actually about???
Wow, google books has a digitization of the first edition books.google.com/books?id=xL4...
November 27, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Wow, google books has a digitization of the first edition books.google.com/books?id=xL4...
Do Laurens see each other's rank number above your heads like in The Last Ranker
November 25, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Do Laurens see each other's rank number above your heads like in The Last Ranker