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cardinals live in the snow anyway, so you can maintain suspension of disbelief a little longer than you can with sandpipers https://warpcast.com/airned/0x6017bd41

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sandpiper building a snowman 🤯 #Veo2

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lol, #Veo2 prompted by the infamous dril corncob tweet, raw

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Want a python snapshot testing library that lets you cache the results of genAI, and build other tests on top of that? pytest-selfie and selfie-lib 1.0 released today! https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1hfwri1/selfielib_snapshot_testing_and_cachingmemoization/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Sora’s blend is pretty good…

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0s: Two white adult friends sit comfortably on a plush, beige couch. They are chuckling heartily, seemingly amused by a situation unfolding in front of them. The room is well-lit and cozy, with a coffee table. 2s: In front of the two friends stands an angry pale white man. "I'm not owned!" he shouts. 3s: The two white friends on the couch laugh even harder. 4s: "I'm not owned!" the standing angry man shouts again. His pale skin morphs into yellow. 5s: The two white friends on the couch laugh even louder, pointing at the angry yellow man, clearly entertained by the bizarre scene. 7s: The standing angry yellow man's expression grows even more intense, and he yells wordlessly as his skin transforms into a texture resembling corn kernels. Finally, he transforms completely into a corn-like figure. 8s: The happy white friends laugh harder than ever, with a small regular corncob in front of them.

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…so I specified in every shot what shade of white or yellow each person was to make the meme work, and it added black people on its own while angry white people turn into corncobs (full prompt in next post)

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I tried to make my favorite dril meme in Sora, but characters kept turning yellow at the wrong time…

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I’m a big fan of MDX. It’s a markdown syntax for react. What’s nice about it is that you can author and insert any react component anywhere, and the rest of the time it’s just regular markdown. Lower friction to integrate cool widgets, best integration path for goodies from Claude Artifacts and the like. Here’s one I maintain: https://github.com/diffplug/gitfromscratch

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https://a.co/d/ee3DIAc

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Second half was a little weaker, but not bad. One thing it kinda hinted at that I’m a fan of are “eddies” in the hero’s journey - places which are stuck in some ignorant state because people don’t want to / structurally can’t return to. Like kindergarten for instance - full of ignorant buffoons. But when one of them leaves and learns something, they don’t come back to kindergarten to spread the wisdom - they don’t want to and the kids actually can’t usefully hear it anyway. So you just abandon them and let some poor teacher and life deal with them - I have no better suggestion! But there are aspects of all adult life that work this same way, and the movie kinda points at one of them.

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Just watched “the wild robot”. Dall-E + Iron Giant + Paddington + motherhood. I *loved* the first half, which is an excellent portrayal of a “helpful assistant” AI ending up in a totally out-of-distribution environment which forces it to undergo a kicking-and-screaming socialized -> self-authoring transition.

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I was with my wife on a college campus (unusual for us) and we overheard a student say “chat, is this real?” It caught my attention and I tried to explain who “chat” was to my wife (blessedly offline), and realized I’m not quite sure who chat is, lol. Sort of a referent to “we the group, but amongst a larger group”? The pronoun of choice for “we” in the context of a dark forest?

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a catchphrase is all you need

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At least for programmers, i think the traditional wisdom is captured by https://xkcd.com/974/ but the AI tools have flipped the table on that. Explore/exploit is a classic trade off, but the acceleration is so steep now that the value of explore has skyrocketed, but it takes at least a little exploit to survive and stay oriented. I yearn for a meta-assistant to help manage the outer-loop

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I have work I need to do *and* tools/workflows I want to learn and explore. My work is getting overwhelmed by the exploring. Is there an LLM agent that checks in every 15 mins to say "hows the <ticket> going?" Some kind of realtime coach I can dialogue with?

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I love cursor, not a fan of Lex. Would you recommend?

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I think the seal attacks are ambush rather than dogfight. speed >> maneuverability. But they do seem to break the surface at some odd angles, maybe I’m not giving them enough credit for how many DoF they use

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Seems like a shark has the physical hardware to roll and then pull a surprising maneuver in the pitch direction (just as surprising as a whale fluke suddenly providing yaw), but that pre-bone neural system just isn’t up for the task. And I guess dolphins do have 6DOF dogfights with each other, so I’m glad that somebody’s getting full use out of the ocean!

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I think it’s a little bit surprising that fish stay as upright as they do. Birds seem to corkscrew much more than fish or even octopi. In space sims, there’s a big delineation between 6DOF and arcade shooters like starfox, and it’s a little disappointing that fish don’t seem to have full 6DOF dogfights. They just need one “Fosbury flop” moment and they’ll be rolling before pulling at a 90 offset from where the predator expected. Seems like it’s mostly ambush predation and a little bit of capital ship warfare between whales,

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