bluewin

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by bluewin 5mo ago
It's only a violation in the same way life is in violation. If the system is open it's fine to mess about as long as energy flows. Of note, information is actually pretty low entropy in general, there are only a few confined state
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by bluewin 5mo ago
His book is great, but to be clear I feel like he writes exactly one book. I've read it in many forms and it's an amazing book. But don't be surprised when you realize that every book is just him trying to find a new way to l
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by bluewin 5mo ago
Annihilation By Jeff VanderMeer Diaspora by Greg Egan Anathem by Neal Stephenson (this one is a bit like doing homework but worth it imo) If you vibe with short stories Exhalation by Ted Chiang Crystal Nights by Greg Egan isn't bad ei
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by bluewin 5mo ago
I'd push back on the redaction point. One of the primary conceits of the book is that the information is generally affected, which includes the contents of the book itself. While doing multiple pages is kinda taking the piss, the gen
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by bluewin 5mo ago
Yeah, it's trying to cohere the structure of the book with the topic matter which I really appreciate. It doesn't always quite land, but I think it was really worthwhile. Although I can understand how someone who is looking for a
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by bluewin 5mo ago
Researcher here, if you like antimemes as a concept then this is a nice treatment that introduces people to what it means and how one needs to think around them in order to function. It's a bit off kilter but well worth it
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by bluewin 5mo ago
A malicious antimeme would be a dark pattern in web design for handling privacy/data/etc. Something designed to satisfy whatever law/regulation requires them to have the option while making the ability to find/remember&#
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by bluewin 5mo ago
I spent a fair amount of time thinking about this and the character of antimemes. Even ended up writing a whole taxonomy and mathematical framework for it. In general a meme is specific to an entity-pair, with self-censoring information as
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by bluewin 11mo ago
Are you an LLM?
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by bluewin 11mo ago
Honestly this one is cooler, I've never seen these kinds of gliders before https://rulehunt.org/?rulesetHex=000018000000001810c5d585dc5...
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by bluewin 11mo ago
Oh this is neat, it seems to be a good way to switch off of doom scrolling cause after using it for a few minutes it was pretty easy to just go do something else without the urge to go back to it. Plus some of them are pretty cool, I found
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by bluewin 1y ago
I worked on this once after an argument with my boyfriend. The original argument was "the ones digit has permanent pattern in 2^n {2,4,8,6,2...}. We made a system to generate digits for powers of two, although eventually we just made o
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by bluewin 2y ago
Looks rad! Can't wait to integrate this into my workflow
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by bluewin 3y ago
I found guardrails AI really useful for my research on LLMs. Otherwise I would have wasted a lot of time trying to curate the outputs from my experiments. Don’t cram too much in a single prompt though. Prompt structures like guard rails nat