Sugarcrystalz
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Trying to learn some functional programming, this monad shit is confusing
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trying to learn some functional programming, this monad shit is confusing
Someone tell me why John C. Lilly wrote like The Board from Control (Remedy Entertainment, 2019)
October 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Someone tell me why John C. Lilly wrote like The Board from Control (Remedy Entertainment, 2019)
Enlightenment be like
August 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Enlightenment be like
Seems like he's having a nice time.
July 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Seems like he's having a nice time.
Just saw "Malaysians" abbreviated as "M'asians" and I cannot help reading it like "m'lady."
July 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just saw "Malaysians" abbreviated as "M'asians" and I cannot help reading it like "m'lady."
Mathematicians these days never leave their royal positions to go on quests for additional knowledge in the deeper realms of the occult and supernatural, smdh
Well, maybe Grothendieck did
Well, maybe Grothendieck did
July 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Mathematicians these days never leave their royal positions to go on quests for additional knowledge in the deeper realms of the occult and supernatural, smdh
Well, maybe Grothendieck did
Well, maybe Grothendieck did
According to Rabbinic legend, Solomon used a stone-eating worm known as a shamir to help build the First Temple of Jerusalem. This depiction is from a collection of books published 1683-1691 by German Eberhard Werner Happel.
I like it, he's a neat little guy.
I like it, he's a neat little guy.
July 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
According to Rabbinic legend, Solomon used a stone-eating worm known as a shamir to help build the First Temple of Jerusalem. This depiction is from a collection of books published 1683-1691 by German Eberhard Werner Happel.
I like it, he's a neat little guy.
I like it, he's a neat little guy.
You never know when this word might come in handy.
(Baskin, Wade. The Dictionary of Satanism. London: Peter Owen, 1972 (?).)
(Baskin, Wade. The Dictionary of Satanism. London: Peter Owen, 1972 (?).)
June 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
You never know when this word might come in handy.
(Baskin, Wade. The Dictionary of Satanism. London: Peter Owen, 1972 (?).)
(Baskin, Wade. The Dictionary of Satanism. London: Peter Owen, 1972 (?).)
Was it cocaine? You can just tell us it was cocaine, Arthur.
(From Arthur Machen, "The Novel of the White Powder," The Three Impostors, 1895)
(From Arthur Machen, "The Novel of the White Powder," The Three Impostors, 1895)
June 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Was it cocaine? You can just tell us it was cocaine, Arthur.
(From Arthur Machen, "The Novel of the White Powder," The Three Impostors, 1895)
(From Arthur Machen, "The Novel of the White Powder," The Three Impostors, 1895)
Today I learned that the "ye" in "ye gods!" is actually the old rendering of "the" (Y being a substitute for the thorn, Þ, like in "ye olde shoppe"), and thus should arguably be pronounced "the"; but common pronunciation has it as a "y" so dictionaries list it that way too.
June 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Today I learned that the "ye" in "ye gods!" is actually the old rendering of "the" (Y being a substitute for the thorn, Þ, like in "ye olde shoppe"), and thus should arguably be pronounced "the"; but common pronunciation has it as a "y" so dictionaries list it that way too.
Plato would have had much to discuss with the Spheronites.
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Plato would have had much to discuss with the Spheronites.
He's just a chill little guy.
May 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
He's just a chill little guy.
Jeeze, spoilers much, Dafoe?
May 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Jeeze, spoilers much, Dafoe?
Me when I am visually perceiving an arrow
May 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Me when I am visually perceiving an arrow
Dunno if the film's worth watching (tbh the trailer doesn't interest me much), but damn this poster for Alchemik (1989) goes hard
April 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Dunno if the film's worth watching (tbh the trailer doesn't interest me much), but damn this poster for Alchemik (1989) goes hard
One way to throw off LLM usage of em-dashes, of course, is to chaotically use em-dashes where hyphens belong.
From Pritchard, Duncan, John Turri, and J. Adam Carter, "The Value of Knowledge", SEP (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.)
From Pritchard, Duncan, John Turri, and J. Adam Carter, "The Value of Knowledge", SEP (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.)
April 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
One way to throw off LLM usage of em-dashes, of course, is to chaotically use em-dashes where hyphens belong.
From Pritchard, Duncan, John Turri, and J. Adam Carter, "The Value of Knowledge", SEP (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.)
From Pritchard, Duncan, John Turri, and J. Adam Carter, "The Value of Knowledge", SEP (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.)
The second half of this seems pretty undeniable, but I am genuinely a little perplexed about the first half. I take it these deep truths are something you have to "experience" by reading said literature, and they're not something you could, say, learn from a CliffNotes summary.
April 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The second half of this seems pretty undeniable, but I am genuinely a little perplexed about the first half. I take it these deep truths are something you have to "experience" by reading said literature, and they're not something you could, say, learn from a CliffNotes summary.
Montaigne reporting on a little-known gender reassignment surgery technique from the 1500s.
("Of the Force of the Imagination", tr. Charles Cotton)
("Of the Force of the Imagination", tr. Charles Cotton)
April 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Montaigne reporting on a little-known gender reassignment surgery technique from the 1500s.
("Of the Force of the Imagination", tr. Charles Cotton)
("Of the Force of the Imagination", tr. Charles Cotton)
Listen, if you can think of a simpler way to exchange long protein strings, I'd like to hear it.
March 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Listen, if you can think of a simpler way to exchange long protein strings, I'd like to hear it.