daytura
@daytura.bsky.social
undergrad cognitive science @ UCSC :-)
photography, writing, sitcoms
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photography, writing, sitcoms
Journal: [DM at this current time]
Long(er)form: https://daytura.substack.com/
straight up scrollin "it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. DirkJohn tumblr page
December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
straight up scrollin "it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. DirkJohn tumblr page
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now yearning for a pfp that's twink coded
December 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
now yearning for a pfp that's twink coded
As if all the mental fog shrunk down to a fallen teardrop, even for a brief moment
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
As if all the mental fog shrunk down to a fallen teardrop, even for a brief moment
Is it as simple as that? Little clipped threads at first, and then seeing what knits from there?
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Is it as simple as that? Little clipped threads at first, and then seeing what knits from there?
Oliver Sacks approaches Rebecca, sitting on a bench, with his "human vision":
"And then [she said], in Jacksonian spurts, odd, sudden, poetic ejaculations: ‘spring’, ‘birth’, ‘growing’, ‘stirring’, ‘coming to life’, ‘seasons’, ‘everything in its time’. I found myself thinking of Ecclesiastes"
"And then [she said], in Jacksonian spurts, odd, sudden, poetic ejaculations: ‘spring’, ‘birth’, ‘growing’, ‘stirring’, ‘coming to life’, ‘seasons’, ‘everything in its time’. I found myself thinking of Ecclesiastes"
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Oliver Sacks approaches Rebecca, sitting on a bench, with his "human vision":
"And then [she said], in Jacksonian spurts, odd, sudden, poetic ejaculations: ‘spring’, ‘birth’, ‘growing’, ‘stirring’, ‘coming to life’, ‘seasons’, ‘everything in its time’. I found myself thinking of Ecclesiastes"
"And then [she said], in Jacksonian spurts, odd, sudden, poetic ejaculations: ‘spring’, ‘birth’, ‘growing’, ‘stirring’, ‘coming to life’, ‘seasons’, ‘everything in its time’. I found myself thinking of Ecclesiastes"
But the three siblings return in time like a refrain: thought, word, self. Mind like a story. They are a braid. Where one appears the other two must lurk by.
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
But the three siblings return in time like a refrain: thought, word, self. Mind like a story. They are a braid. Where one appears the other two must lurk by.
Still using Llama-405b through Hyperbolic/OpenRouter for my (mostly) single-strand drafting! Feels about as powerful as code-davinci-002. Open to other models if you have recs
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Still using Llama-405b through Hyperbolic/OpenRouter for my (mostly) single-strand drafting! Feels about as powerful as code-davinci-002. Open to other models if you have recs
Sci-Hub exposed me one too many times and now im just bones
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Sci-Hub exposed me one too many times and now im just bones
meat lovers rejoice! +100 points yet again! 🍕🍕
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
meat lovers rejoice! +100 points yet again! 🍕🍕
mental context REORIENTED! +100 pts
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
mental context REORIENTED! +100 pts
truly something heart-stopping about being 10 ft within an attractive man. Like in today's lecture
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
truly something heart-stopping about being 10 ft within an attractive man. Like in today's lecture
grinding out Fall quarter, feels like my cogsci knowledge is gelling together for better or for worse 😅
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
grinding out Fall quarter, feels like my cogsci knowledge is gelling together for better or for worse 😅
A successful scientific discipline is a self-regulating epistemic community. It’s *supposed* to kick out charlatans and cranks and creeps.
6/To those who call my position political correctness, being woke, an example of cancel culture, I say the following. A profession's decisions on how to allocate opportunities has dimensions that define its professional ethos and culture. There are spillover effects that matter.
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We are so back. One of my uncles gave him a Nikon digicam and a Canon M3 just sitting in his drawer
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We are so back. One of my uncles gave him a Nikon digicam and a Canon M3 just sitting in his drawer
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A compromise could be found in rigorous qualitative research and content analysis. But this demands reflexivity; to be honest about your biases and background. Unfortunately, contributors may be very uncomfortable with reflexivity even though they're very interested in apparent invariants.
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A compromise could be found in rigorous qualitative research and content analysis. But this demands reflexivity; to be honest about your biases and background. Unfortunately, contributors may be very uncomfortable with reflexivity even though they're very interested in apparent invariants.
One simple answer is that of radical functionalism. The taxonomy of ideas do not exist; ideas are situated in human individuals and behavior and society; and the value of ideas can be qualified by determining how they serve a particular culture.
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
One simple answer is that of radical functionalism. The taxonomy of ideas do not exist; ideas are situated in human individuals and behavior and society; and the value of ideas can be qualified by determining how they serve a particular culture.
But formal semantics is just a stone's throw away from logic. Propositional, predicate, lambda calculus, etc. These too have very long and varied histories, but they don't make arguments or inference on the content of the ideas, which is what memetics could be most interested in.
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
But formal semantics is just a stone's throw away from logic. Propositional, predicate, lambda calculus, etc. These too have very long and varied histories, but they don't make arguments or inference on the content of the ideas, which is what memetics could be most interested in.
Jumping the gap from description to prediction/inference requires a level of generality. You could make the argument that certain narrow compositional systems are invariant across human cultures. So you would need to consult some formal semanticists.
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Jumping the gap from description to prediction/inference requires a level of generality. You could make the argument that certain narrow compositional systems are invariant across human cultures. So you would need to consult some formal semanticists.
... because if you could establish the meme as a unit measure of a single replicating idea, you still need to illustrate how they compose together in specific and predictable ways that match actual human behavior.
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
... because if you could establish the meme as a unit measure of a single replicating idea, you still need to illustrate how they compose together in specific and predictable ways that match actual human behavior.