ClearAndPresent

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by ClearAndPresent 11d ago
I spent a while trying to figure out why the site was open and working perfectly. Turns out uBlock keeps the site open on a Sunday and it's so splendidly written that it works like one of those old-time websites; the links work when yo
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by ClearAndPresent 1mo ago
No mention of Dehomag or what those punch-card machines were used for in the 1930's, so only homeopathic levels of truth.
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by ClearAndPresent 1y ago
One that comes to mind was the manuals and bits and pieces that came with Infocom text-based adventure games. They were nice bits of cruft to have alongside the actual game but in certain instances puzzles within the game could only be solv
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by ClearAndPresent 1y ago
Ironically, I can't see your image because Imgur assumes my VPN is malicious and rejects traffic from it. (Instead of saying this, it lies about being over capacity. This situation mysteriously resolves when I disable the VPN.) ht
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by ClearAndPresent 1y ago
Useful idea. I, and many peers, are your target market. However, this looks like it might be US centric, based on searches in the merchant/wallet search on the main page. Is it? Might be worth mentioning that somewhere so a large inter
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
That is all the Harry Potter books in one .txt file, hosted on Github.
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
You might enjoy this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942096
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
My understanding from the paper is there is no difference between 4, 8, 12, and 40Hz frequencies on the neurobiologcial effects, but I found the 8Hz a bit less comfortable than the 12, so I uploaded both.
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
Paul's animation wasn't playing at an even rate for me, for some reason, so I created two video versions (8Hz and 12Hz) with the 16 second on/off period, starting with an off period, running for 254 seconds, as per the paper.
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
Indeed. I anticipate the next Post Office Scandal(1,2) attributed to LLMs. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal 2 https://www.postofficescandal.uk/
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
The icon is the teal/white circle just in line and to the right of the social media icons at the bottom of the page. I missed it on first glance and would have no idea what it did.
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
More a reformulation of Clark's third law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
Considering you can fly from London to Chișinău for around £36 at present ($45) on a low cost EU airline, then it probably isn't. The Telegraph is a right leaning newspaper for a wealthy readership, so their travel articles offer luxur
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
As a palette cleanser and loin girder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U (You already guessed it was Mike Monteiro.) For this project: Did they refuse to pay actively ("We won't pay you."), or passi
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
The exhaust fumes of capitalist engines optimising for a single variable.
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
Eh ... they should focus on customer experience rather than AI. As a customer unable to remove a credit card from my account, despite the service being inactive and cancelled, because the service is "still active", I'd rather
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
https://archive.is/Ikgw8
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
Somewhat reminds me of another story from the same decade, of a 30 year old man attending a Scottish high school: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60081503
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by ClearAndPresent 2y ago
Sadly, for us, comparisons are moot, as what was previously a rejection of our phone number for verification has become an instant account suspension when once again attempting to sign up. We understand this has been a recent issue and Anth
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by ClearAndPresent 3y ago
I don't have the time to set up Asterisk but this story inspired me to generate a collection of handy random DTMF tones that could semi-automate a mute and mash approach. Enjoy. https://we.tl/t-IHXSHQ6FU3
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by ClearAndPresent 3y ago
Although the actual audio quality seems low on playback (a low bitrate MP3?) the structure and arrangement of the song seem fine. Yet ... the irony of a song of worship created by an AI surely reverberates through the cosmos like a clap of
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by ClearAndPresent 3y ago
While not technically a demo scene demo, in 1952 Sandy Douglas pushed the EDSAC to play a game of noughts and crosses (OXO) on its cathode ray tubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO_(video_game)
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by ClearAndPresent 3y ago
https://archive.is/WNfDg
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by ClearAndPresent 3y ago
So far, after asking if the system had an API, and giving me the link, it tried to gaslight me into thinking heypi.com/api doesn't 404 for several exchanges, and then asked me for a cellphone number to continue. Nice UI though.
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by ClearAndPresent 3y ago
It appears the only way to sign up is with a Google account. (I know that is a solution suggested by OpenAI for user authentication.) Will there be an option for email, for those of us who don't use Google, or other large corporations?
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by ClearAndPresent 3y ago
Nice UI. Speaks succinctly and with authority. Statefulness is a bit iffie. Lies with impunity. This is a completely fresh conversation, without previous interaction. *Hello! How do you work?* I work by using a massive amount of text data,
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by ClearAndPresent 4y ago
Non-physics person here: > General Relativity is the theory that explains how gravity works. Okay. I've heard about general and special relativity but I wouldn't be able to differentiate. A quick Google tells me special relativ
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by ClearAndPresent 4y ago
It appears to be on the Spanish language version of the blog but not the English: https://roberdam.com/wisper.html Although in the text it's just described as "a Chinese box" with a 5000MaH battery and the ab
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by ClearAndPresent 4y ago
Reminiscent of Wintergaten's Marble Machine, which continues to evolve as Martin Molin works on it. Full song, with an earlier version of the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q Martin is working on V3
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by ClearAndPresent 4y ago
I can't downvote you, and being as dismissive of you as you are of these efforts would simply create more rudeness. Instead, consider why a governmental agency might want to be as inclusive of as many users of its services as possible,

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