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Re:Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:09AM (#22644881)
Fight fire with fire

-- James Hetfield

Re:How can we develop transformative tools for thought? on Friday October 04, 2019 @01:55AM (#21155169)
In the ancient near east people did not refer to literary works by means of a dedicated title, but by the first line of the composition, which is taken as an indication of origins in an oral tradition, esp. for the earliest works that were written down. When large portions of text have been committed to memory, reciting the first sentence is often enough to trigger a flow, a small but useful "technique" applied by e.g. hiphop lyricists.
Reminded me of Eme-sal, a notable variety or sociolect of Sumerian:

>eme-sal (𒅴𒊩 EME.SAL), possibly to be interpreted as "fine tongue" or "high-pitched voice" ... used exclusively by female characters in some literary texts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language#Dialects

Re:Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements on Friday March 29, 2019 @08:46PM (#19526824)
I used to do web dev in chrome but installed ungoogled-chromium after that scandalous update where they forced you to login; in fact, after installing said update, I suddenly found myself "logged in" with a gmail address that I never even created in the first place (something like mycompanyname[at]gmail[dot]com). My trust in Google was already crumbling, this creepy move was the final blow. So far, my experience with ungoogled-chromium has been great, but I must admit I'm not really following up on the project (devs, userbase, security updates, etc).