Berger Smith

first half: fervently disagree (respectfully)
second half: hell yeah that's more like it

that book's a doozy for sure lol

best punch in the gut i've ever had. love that book

hey, so cool that you're getting into generative art. the tool that really made that art explode onto the scene was Processing and then continued with p5.js. so if you want to get deeper into that you can google some works and see what you like and what's possible. keep on growing and exploring

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I found Dostoevsky bewildering for similar reasons until i looked into it and found that there was some popular rationalist utilitarian intellectuals who specifically got on his nerves and whom he was expressly trying to piss off.

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man that style is so good. i want to find the people responsible now. maybe there are books about them. i've only just started but i found this article about a different tape producer that also had some nice design maybe you'll get a kick out of it:

www.ddr-museum.de/en/blog/2016...

one last hail-mary:

mingling, as in intermingling or commingling.

thats as close as i'll get i think

you're right, the relevant meaning is a lot more abstract than i can grasp. curious what other alternatives you find, this is fun!

the normal german meaning of the word Verkehr is almost identical to the english "traffic", both for vehicles (rush-hour traffic) and exchange of goods (i.e. trafficking). the word "Verkehr" itself just means the transfer of something so exchange or trafficking could do i think?

screenshot of the excellent children's cartoon "Once Upon a Time... Life" which shows the immune cells as a microscopic police force. the chief of the immune police is currently calling for an attack and a group of immune cells behind him are running in file

lmao

the word 'scream' but it's color coded as the two tokens into which the gpt-4 tokenizer decomposes it. namely one token for the letter s (token id 82) and the word 'cream' (token id 47100). so, not only does an LLM see the word scream as two sterile numbers but the whole apparatus which imbues this combination with meaning for it will only ever let it understand it to the extent of: "i've heard beings do this in distressing situations. what are distressing situations? well i've heard beings feel distressed when...? what is 'feeling'? well i've heard that... what do i mean by 'heard'? well when a dataset and a training framework love each other a lot... what is 'love'? well, matrix multiplication and activation functions when combined with a turing machine can give rise to...'

I am nothing but a mouth, but I don't see what's so special about the tokens [82, 47100]

haha no way but he was definitely floating home on that feeling, though. the kind of thing you keep going back to if you feel down which picks you right back up. a strapping young man doesn't just walk that kind of compliment off, that one sticks lol

i realized at some point that i had Don Draper from Mad Men like that for the longest time but can't even remember why or when it started

lmao guys always have some main guy they base their style on and i bet you just gave him a big one. like he's currently furiously googling "hasan piker hairstyle" "hasan piker looks"

right! him periodically granting and later withholding his attention *has* to be intentional right? it's not *just* her finding the way through his armor, it was also about some weird status thing. like her also climbing out from under him

i suppose that's the point, it's worth it to her because that's how much she loves him.

i constantly feel like i must be missing something obvious. feels like stoner all over again.

Phantom Thread aka "I Could Fix Him: The Movie"

i just have one question: was it worth it? i really hope it was. it feels so bleak. so much work just to achieve the bare minimum, my god.

the great thing about the book is that he realizes all of this! that's his great epiphany, that intellectual and emotional joys only work together and are mere ghosts on their own. he gets it but at the first (and last) opportunity he just completely folds and resigns himself to misery.

i mean, if teaching medieval english poetry is literally the only that would make life worth living for you then sure by all means stick it out for the tenure but i just can't ignore that he really is incredibly miserable the whole time. it manifestly isn't enough. so yeah he's in quite a pickle

Williams apparently considered Stoner a hero because he managed to "remain himself" but honestly that's about all he managed to do.

he could have got a divorce, changed employer/career, had a loving relationship. the price? losing your colleagues' respect. he chose his colleagues. hero my ass

I love the novel Stoner by John Williams. it reads superficially like a story about a regular man's life with its ups and downs but really it's a horror story.

a man wastes his life, ignores the few who like him, and deeply hurts the even fewer who love him. He hates every minute of it!

Trapping him in an extended bout of his life-defining fetish. I’m intrigued

man i never even got to the quiz. have rarely been as nervous as i was in that queue.

get rejected at berghain from the comfort of your own home!

my ginger long hair cat called Miki. i got him as a 13 year old "senior cat" from the shelter five years ago. he's incredibly fit and beautiful and very cute and and curious and talkative. the best cat

he doesn't even know it's his 18th birthday. proper grandpa baby

living his best life

i've made a little clip of what this looks like.

you just write the coordinates in the properties block at the beginning of a note

( <property>: <value> lines between the "---" lines)

the plugin picks it up and puts a pin on the global map for you. the map stays in sync and updates itself

i'd recommend writing a note for each spot in Obsidian and perhaps have a look at this obsidian plugin where you can include coordinates as a property for the note and the plugin will collect all locations in all notes and let you see them on a map

github.com/esm7/obsidia...