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I thought Nvidia was the shovel seller here.
my Z_spiritual(T) has been unusually high recently because all of this slop is supercharging the value I've been generating through ego-confrontation and progressive liberation
Re:Claude partial outage on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:43AM (#49894221)
Project completely disappeared. Conveniently for Anthropic, the bug report also went down, so they weren't spammed by my stale complaints after the project magically resurfaced.
Re:Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:19AM (#49866860)
Now I'm considering how many tokens I've wasted writing "tihs" instead of "this" - tens! Any how much extra work goes into understanding misspellings?
Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:46AM (#49866612)
How does LVT square away zoning laws that require commerical real estate to maintain vast parking lots that sit 50% unused?
Re:Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:09AM (#49774619)
looks like we both created educational materials about the same topics - except yours clearly is higher effort in terms of prose and human effort.

https://learn.mimmsy.com/

Was toying with the idea that with everyone vibe coding niche educational sites (this is a claim about myself, not this site) it would be nice if that effort could go into building an auditable library of widgets/ educational resources users could trust.

Disclaimer: my concept is a stalled WIP/ completely vibe coded, but for me it was fun POC of a widget registry that can be served into chats via mcp

Googling "gtao graphics" results in "Grand theft auto online"

"Gtao technique" was more helpful: Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion

Frontotemporal dementia
100% agree. If the models are so capable that they're advancing math, it doesn't seem like a stretch to expect they should be able to determine with "doing math research" entails and the best way to use their capabilities towards that end. Why do we need to hand hold the models by telling them to do parallel research, keep threads independent, etc.