SaidinWoT

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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
Just to understand the baseline you're working form, what data are you drawing on when stating what's "normal"? It has appeared to me throughout this conversation that you are starting from the assumption that your inter
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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
Both my wife and one of my co-workers experience hi-res images superimposed over their actual vision when prompted (and occasionally involuntarily). This opposite end of the spectrum is hyperphantasia[0]. There are accounts in this thread o
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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
I can only tell you that I do not have mental imagery and am not constantly surprised by my surroundings. Object permanence has absolutely no dependency on visualization; it is completely unsurprising to me that the stop sign near my house
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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
This is actually one of the things about aphantasia that has already had a (small) study[0], and the results are actually the opposite! The participants with aphantasia were more likely to both (a) take longer to answer and (b) be _correct_
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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
Similar questions throughout this thread make it clear that people assume recognition and/or knowledge of what something looks like is tightly coupled to internal visualization, but (writing as someone with aphantasia) they're not
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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
> it sounds like the way you remember things must be missing a lot of details. > Do you think that's accurate? I don't think someone with aphantasia (of which I am one!) is really capable of assessing this - which details ou
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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
Not who you asked, but also have aphantasia. "think of" is far too ambiguous here to really meaningfully drill into the differences of _how_ people think about things. I know that a stop sign is a red octagon (with a white boundar
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by SaidinWoT 2y ago
Constructively using LLMs tends to require validating the quality of their output; even when not hallucinating content, they do hallucinate confidence. Increasing the size of the output dramatically increases the effort needed to validate i
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by SaidinWoT 3y ago
That's exactly the model used by the Kakoune editor[0]. It definitely feels more intuitive to me, but I personally didn't stick with it due to vim's ubiquity. [0] https://kakoune.org
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by SaidinWoT 3y ago
But Michael Jackson was born on April 19th[0]! As well as March 27th[1], and many other days[2]. "Michael Jackson was born on August 29th" is the most likely answer to contextless queries like "When was Michael Jackson born?&
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by SaidinWoT 7y ago
The key point making `a -> a` have only a single implementation is that the type `a` is a wildcard that's determined by the caller - it must be possible for the implementation to accept any value of any type. The identity function i
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by SaidinWoT 7y ago
There's actually already a study on spatial reasoning and aphantasia: https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... Basically, aphantasiacs tend to do just as well at spatial reasoning tasks as p
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by SaidinWoT 8y ago
They've certainly come to appear that way, but in female/male (and, to a lesser extent, woman/man) the etymology is distinct. Female comes through Old French "femelle", which ultimately traces back to Latin "fe
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by SaidinWoT 8y ago
Extremely likely that you already know this and the answer is no, but just in case - is there any chance you're using the wrong setting? There are two separate color correction modes, on the most recent version of Android named "C
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by SaidinWoT 8y ago
The draft doesn't include any actual examples with multiple returns on a function that uses check internally, but the behavior is fully specified: > A check returns from the enclosing function by returning the result of invoking the
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by SaidinWoT 10y ago
Perhaps something combining all of the things you've made use of? https://play.golang.org/p/8RDqjjZDB8
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by SaidinWoT 10y ago
You should be pleasantly surprised, then! All of the functionality you included in your complicated case exists directly on the event creation page. "Select a time that works for everyone" was the last one missing, and this update