Illumination

> I don't think I care enough to execute them You can own this, its totally reasonable to have a good idea and say "meh". > at my age This is a cop out. It's weak at best and you contributing to your own discrimination at worst. You might not like that but I'm not just talking, I'll bring the receipts; https://medium.com/illumination/late-success-is-possible-8ba65e1e9066 I highly recommend you look at the 77th infantry division in WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Su5-_KuDf8 Is an entertaining summary.

We will rent everything, and we will love it. https://medium.com/illumination/in-2030-youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy…

Bear in mind that I can't stand the taste of coffee nor like hot drinks. The author writes: "I thought like this, until I became a 9–5 workday zombie myself." .. "I wish I had that kind of time, but I find some for the occasional stroll to the local beanery." I have a different interpretation - you always deserve a 6 hour work day (or shorter). That's two more hours per weekday to brew your own coffee, take a walk, take a nap, hang out, etc. While the author appears to have a full-time job plus a side-hustle, if I read https://medium.com/illumination/start-your-side-hustle-as-soon-as-poss… correctly. ("I have to force myself to relax sometimes. I’ll spend an entire Saturday inside blogging and won’t realize it until it’s 7pm.") I grow increasingly supportive of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" theory, the idea "that over half of societal work is pointless, which becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

I can't tell if you know :) https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-managers-30f73e8…

> And mentally. We never stop playing. Do animals stop? There are plenty of examples of play in adult animals: - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037663571400228… - https://medium.com/illumination/wild-animals-at-play-982e26ea57f0 - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1998-07899-003

It is, however, what Google tried. https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-managers-30f73e8…

Pretty big knowledge miss actually - Lincoln's fighting skills were both legend and a matter of public record [1]. In his most famous, documented match -- for which some credit him with the invention of the "choke slam" [2] -- the man who would one day write the Gettysburg address challenged onlookers: "I'm the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come whet your horns." [1] https://www.britannica.com/story/was-abraham-lincoln-a-wrestler [2] https://medium.com/illumination/did-abraham-lincoln-wrestler-invent-th…

https://medium.com/illumination/the-death-of-third-places-and-the-evol… you have to pay exorbitant prices to be somewhere (the third place) in society with people. it's expensive to socialize.

It definitely existed in the past, for the very specific reason of avoiding 13 guests being seated at the table: https://medium.com/illumination/how-the-phobia-of-the-number-13-create…

Supposedly, it's because of more centralized surveillance and control. https://medium.com/beyondmoney/the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-cbdc-ed4ea4bd0… https://medium.com/illumination/how-the-central-banks-digital-currency…

I feel that Midjourney v5 really lets you explore different worlds. One recent feature the guide missed is the permutation [1] and repeat [2] features. They're quite helpful for power users that want to explore multiple styles quickly. Last week I tried putting together a short film using GPT-4 and Midjourney v5. I was stunned by the cinematic frames Midjourney v5 was able to create: https://youtu.be/6O_tOuUcG9s I (human) wrote the prompts for Midjourney, though. [1] https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/permutations [2] https://medium.com/illumination/midjourney-launched-new-repeat-feature…

https://medium.com/illumination/i-put-chatgpt-to-the-test-heres-what-i… has some examples of simple maths/logic problems it can't really solve. It'd be good to know how much better chatgpt-4 is at them.

Hah. As for the wobbling plate, it reminds me of the super secret revelation of what happens when you juggle nuts and wrenches in spaaace! https://medium.com/illumination/why-a-tennis-racket-led-russians-to-be…

Curious what you think of Google's experiment getting rid of managers in the early 2000s? I think I originally read about this in Measure What Matters: https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Google-Foundation-ebook/dp… Here's a blog post that seems to summarize: https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-managers-30f73e8… (Personally, I came away from reading about this incident thinking most organizations have an appropriate amount of managers.)

Nothing you said here doesn't not apply to M1 which also overheat under high load and gets throttled, and some of them dont even have a fan. https://medium.com/illumination/how-to-solve-overheating-issue-of-macb… A lot of these benchmarks run for several minutes and test the system as it OVERHEATs, simulating real conditions and Intel i12 beats M1/M2. So this doesnt change anything or bring any new information.

Wikipedia is Rolling in Wealth. Then Why Does It Keep Asking Us For Donations? https://medium.com/illumination/wikipedia-is-rolling-in-wealth-then-wh…

The 'reliable heuristics' for identifying LLM output tend to pattern-match on technical lexicons, adherence to syntax at the cost of parsability, and atypically rigid punctuation and literary contrivances. Typically these form the same rulesett historically used to demarcate the aneurotypical - clear, direct and precise to the point of coming across as mechanical. Anybody familiar with ASD would wholly support the claim, and even the most cursory search validates it. https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/1q4vh0z/autistic_daughters_wr… https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticAdults/comments/1n8hrf6/autistic_writ… https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/15sw3ei/have_you_been_mistake… https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/1oh1kk9/update_just_had_a_col… https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/1vgboem/autistic_writing_styl… https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/1f1n98g/does_anyone_else_writ… Given a large curated corpus of Reddit posts, it was shown that those posted in autism-centric subreddits—presumably written by autistic people—were more likely than posts from other subreddits to be flagged as AI-generated by OpenAI’s GPT-2…