beeandapenguin

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Comment · 2 months ago
Kinda sounds like a "linguistic manifold."
Comment · 4 months ago
Thanks for the TIL, always just assumed it was some digital artifact
Comment · 4 months ago
By what measure?

I wonder how much of design capability improvements is related to our collective ability to recognize AI design tropes.

Comment · 4 months ago
If the task is so simple why use a model like Fable 5? Wrong tool for the job?
Comment · 5 months ago
Submitted some pretty harsh feedback about this back in Jan after my old school technical father in law sent me a few AI generated “news” videos in a row about Trump and Venezuela. The AI label was technically on all of the videos but 3 taps away hidden in the video description, and not visible from the search results at all. So thankful YouTube is doing something about this.
Comment · 6 months ago
The Prospect Park S is such a weird train. I love it.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Q: Who else had their first exposure to programming on a Ti-83/4 calculator?
Comment · 6 months ago
Same for me, it was also my first time ever seeing code, and I still remember it well. While getting ready for swim practice in a locker room, my friend challenged me to beat his score on a button mashing game he programmed earlier that day in school on his TI-84. My 12 year old self was in awe of his BASIC skills.
Comment · 6 months ago
Fun fact: Axolotl have the largest animal genome ever sequenced with ~32b base pairs, 10x more than humans.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Agreed. I just traveled to Peru for the first time a few months ago and visited Cusco for 7 days. For me, it was not enough, since all I wanted to do was go back immediately upon leaving. I'm normally the kinda person that wants to travel to as many new places as possible, but Peru was different. I can easily say I want to go back there at least 5 more times in my life.

Reflecting on it when I got home, I couldn't understand what made me not decide to go earlier in my life. I had Machu Picchu at the top of my bucket list since childhood as I'm sure many do, but it was never at the top for some reason. That was such a big mistake and I wish I went to Peru a long time ago, there's no other place like it, and it only gets harder to travel there the older you get since the altitude is rough. The number of elderly and retired people I saw struggling in Cusco from altitude sickness was too high. I heard a horror story of someone needing to spend a week in the hospital and unable to see a single site.

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