Cale

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Tech Policy & Strategy w. Government of B.C.

PhD, MFA, Interactive & Generative music for games, background in music, arts, tech

Happily living the alt life, opinions my own

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Battlestar Galactica (2004)

Southwest Airlines was spared from today's CrowdStrike catastrophe that grounded or delayed hundreds of flights because they run on Windows 3.1... ...an operating system whose last update was November 8, 1993...

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I humbly submit: the cover image of "Methods for Calculating Forest Ecosystem and Harvested Carbon with Standard Estimates for Forest Types of the United States" (USDA 2006).

I honestly miss ASCII art.

Joe Biden saw Hunter playing this game called "Fort Knight" and now the USA needs to implement crafting mechanics within 4 months.

AP reports the Biden campaign called a surprise all hands meeting for tomorrow and if you work in gamedev you know what that means

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The US federal government is being acquired by Embracer Group?!

AP reports the Biden campaign called a surprise all hands meeting for tomorrow and if you work in gamedev you know what that means

I do love when they do the interviews immediately after the stage in the TDF and every single rider is just uncontrollably sobbing. Like, yeah, that's about how I'd feel after climbing up the alps and then sprinting at 60km/h on a bicycle too, regardless of whether I won or not.

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I turned a speaker i found on the curb into an amplifier to turn kites into aeolian instruments. It goes "whoooooo"

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Great post, attempting to replicate from first principles and the experimental results from a 1931 paper how color spaces work

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?jlongster.com I've always wanted to understand color theory, so I started reading about the XYZ color space which looked like it was the mother of all color spaces. I had no idea what that meant, but it was created...

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ITS WHAT HE WOULD’VE WANTED

Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

Italian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence | CNNwww.cnn.com Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

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this is more a nitpicking on words but everything a computer does follows an algorithm there is no such thing as "no algorithm" just as there's nothing that contains "no chemicals"

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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Look the thing is, I'm generating and moving a lot of objects in an HTML document, and using a factory design happens to make the most sense right now. So I don't know how I could have possibly avoided making a bunch of calls to the "Dom Factory"

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Llms are like the fae, very powerful inscrutable entities that can grant you insights and knowledge but just as likely to lie or manipulate you depending how you word your request and a clever adventurer can bind it or make it reveal itself with a properly worded request

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There are a handful of absolutely perfect jokes in this world…

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I had the pleasure of chatting with Richard Lintern, the voice actor behind Elden Ring's biggest hater Igon. We talked about the iconic "CURSE YOU BAYLE" monologue, I showed him some memes, he talked about meeting Miyazaki, it was great: www.ign.com/articles/eld...

Elden Ring’s Igon on Recording His Role in the Erdtree DLC and Meeting Miyazaki: ‘It Was Epic in There’ - IGNwww.ign.com We spoke to Richard Lintern, the voice actor behind Elden Ring's most iconic hater Igon, about his experience meeting "gaming god" Hidetaka Miyazaki and delivering one of FromSoftware's most epic mono...

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Caesar 3 (1999)

I give it three months before we can play doom on bluesky labelers

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big bridge stuck

The Third Avenue Bridge between the Bronx and Manhattan is stuck open due to overheating. The 120-year-old bridge's metal components expanded in Monday's 90-degree heat 🥵 📷 @NYCFireWire

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I made this entirely on my phone at 6am on a holiday weekend so you have to like and share it

a bunch of UK candidates checked the grocery store magazines for which initials and birthdays to input for unlockable nba jam characters

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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.

"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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there’s a Somber Smithing Stone (9) and 15 “try finger, but hole” messages with over 10,000 appraisals waiting for you if you can climb up there

would u use the Forbidden Outhouse

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what if you stopped posting for clout and started posting for glory

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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this is the way #academicsky

attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

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Insanely good punchline in this game that they just coded the Stormtrooper Gun to shoot in like a vague 30 degree cone. Explains a lot about their onscreen accuracy in the movies

Star Wars Dark Forces (1995)

And a Five! Six! Seven! Eight!

If you were a Starfleet captain what would your catchphrase ("engage", "hit it", "make it so" etc) be?

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Speaking as someone with a PhD, I find the idea that anyone would be impressed by the idea of "PhD level intelligence" absolutely hysterical.

ChatGPT now to respond to all questions with “while compelling, that query is beyond the scope of this paper”

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Nothing has broken my science-writer brain worse than the litany of subjects on which there is good, dispositive research that has had little to no impact on policy. UBI, airborne disease spread, city planning and cars, housing, abortion access…I mean, come on.

But that would mean sfstandard.com/2024/06/21/v...

Valencia Street bike lane didn't hurt businesses, report findssfstandard.com Valencia Street's controversial center-running bike lane did not harm businesses, as merchants claimed, a new report finds.

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This is hilarious and a good example of how an incomplete or biased corpus can skew the output of a language model. If you see the word “delve” in an article it’s almost certainly generated by ChatGPT

Delving into “delve”pshapira.net If scientific authors use ChatGPT in writing their papers, it is likely that common ChatGPT words will appear.

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watching a video of wendy carlos demoing a synthesizer with enormous fake sideburns on, the world's most slapdash last-minute dressing room drag www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsW2...

1970: WENDY CARLOS and her MOOG SYNTHESISER | Music Now | Retro Tech | BBC Archivewww.youtube.com Electronic music composer Wendy Carlos - whose debut album Switched-On Bach has introduced a new audience to classical music - explains the fundamentals of electronic sound using her Moog Synthesiser, and demonstrates some of the techniques she employed to adapt Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for the electronic age. This clip is from Music Now, originally broadcast 8 February, 1970. You have now entered the BBC Archive, an audiovisual time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you through our classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1