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Re:In the Belly of the MrBeast on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:44AM (#42697793)
> The ideal creator has no distance between themselves and their persona. They have been interpellated by audience metrics; their subjective experience already takes audience reactions into account.

Isn't this sort of one of the themes from The Prestige(2006)? That certain magicians were so dedicated to their craft that they became inseparable from it. The performance never actually stopped

Obviously there's some level of subjectiveness here, but how many years could they realistically have gotten his award?
Re:Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:40AM (#42697059)
great recommendation
Re:Visualizing 13M Bluesky users on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @02:44PM (#42118919)
Wasn't this also sort of a feature with Twitter? iirc the retweet and other now popular features were originally hacked together by users
The thing I always remind myself on this topic is from Dale Carengie's How to Win Friends and Influence People which is essentially you will make an order of magnitude more friends by being interested in other people than you will in trying to make them interested in you
Absence of evidence != Evidence of Absence
Re:Mistral 7B Paper on ArXiv on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @01:14PM (#37847281)
Thanks, so does that mean position within the buffer is irrelevant?
Re:Mistral 7B Paper on ArXiv on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @12:30PM (#37846595)
Can someone help me understand Figure 2? Why does the newest token appear at the beginning of the sequence rather than next to its neighboring token?