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Comment · 2 months ago
There’s a fascinating book called Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett that covers the Piraha people in the Amazon.

Their language is unusual: no recurrent sentences, almost no discussion of the past. I’m not suggesting they are unconscious but there appears to be something different going on with the Piraha sociolinguistically.

Comment · 4 months ago
Who made this? I didn't see any About section or answer to that in the questions.
Comment · 5 months ago
I used to want this kind of recipe card, but I've cooked so much that's no longer the case (I actually forgot all about the idea until reading this comment). I can usually look at the list of ingredients, and imagine what needs to be done. If it's an unusual or unfamiliar cuisine I will read the method, but after that point the list of ingredients suffice. If I read a recipe somewhere and want to cook it later, I will just write the ingredients on a post-it (usually in cooking order) and maybe 1-2 brief comments.

I imagine in domains you are skilled at you'd also prefer high level instructions than a step-by-step tutorial.

I agree that doesn't help the beginner, or someone who doesn't cook regularly, or someone cooking something new and I think most recipe writers are just following the established structure without thinking about what they and others really need.

Comment · 6 months ago
Yes.
Comment · 7 months ago
Very cool! The dither is no longer in screenspace though, which kills the retro charm.
Comment · 8 months ago
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Comment · 9 months ago
You would need to say "red fox". I think that feature, managing specificity, is actually quite well implemented.
Comment · 10 months ago
It’s certainly possible, but you don’t need to go to any trouble - I’d hate to have misremembered the name and waste your time.
Comment · 10 months ago
There was a MUD I read a printout of the textile manual for when I was a kid (didn’t have a computer). It explained how to create mobs and zones, and one of the example characters they used repeatedly was a knight or paladin called Geoffrey. I think it also introduced me to kobolds.

I’d love to find it again and reread it.

I thought it was called Legends but that hasn’t turned up the same thing.

Comment · 1 year ago
_America of Theseus_ is a great shorthand for what you're describing. Did you just come up with it then?
Comment · 1 year ago
In what way do those imperfections make something like cutlery inferior?
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Comment · 1 year ago
I've also been (December 2024), I didn't realise it was so difficult to get reservations.

It is an awesome space and surprisingly well lit.

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe stupid answer, but I’ve read a few older papers that used ensembles to identify when a prediction is out of distribution. Not sure what SotA approach is though.

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