When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
While developing an ATProto app, I went down a rabbit hole around the odd way Bluesky defines "character limits". I have a challenge for anyone who knows a lot about languages:
mastodon.social/@mcc/1161050...
If you don't like reading, you can just play around with:
data.runhello.com/bs-limits/
Silksong first playthrough video playlist, just finished uploading Part 24a, where I got to another ending!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I'm pretty sure I'd never seen anyone spell it "shoo-in" until seeing this. I'd always thought it was "shoe-in" but wondered why. Was it a Cinderella reference or something like that about a perfectly-fitting shoe? No, apparently it's "shoo-in" and no one told me until now!
a different take on this by someone else, Cogwork Dancers but it's an actual waltz by Joe Z: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbU_...
Cogwork Waltz: Cogwork Dancers but it's in 3 instead of 4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1oS...
She's learning #silksong
Silksong first playthrough video playlist, just finished uploading Part 14d, where I got to an ending for the first time!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
毎日ホロナイ1234日目
見果てぬ夢を見てる
この先、きっとキミに会える夢を
'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola".
That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola':
viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola).
The part '-cello' is only a suffix.
Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':
It’s squirrel appreciation day! Squirrels are not literally dark matter. Thanks @xkcd.com
About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085
I do like the sky
"Ascend"
Here's my take on Hornet from Hollow Knight: Silksong ✨ I hope you aII Iike it! 😄
What looks to be an interesting paper (outside of my area of expertise) on LLMs and hallucinations:
"hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded -- language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance"
Night Migration
Oil, 30x20in, 2024
at @ixarts.bsky.social Art Show next month!
In our night sky there is a dark band that runs through the Milky Way, known as the Great Rift. This darkness is where the stars of our galaxy are obscured by vast clouds of interstellar dust and geese … er, gas.
today I fixed a hard-to-find bug in C# code that would *not* have taken this long to find if this were all Rust code
Hey everyone! Exciting to be finally releasing Silksong with @teamcherry.bsky.social on the 4th!
The soundtrack album will be available on Steam, GOG and Bandcamp on day one, with other music platforms to follow soon after!
Album price:
USD 11.99 | EUR €11.79 | YEN ¥1200
Cheers :)
Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.
Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST
Game price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300
Rainbow
Autumn is near 🦊 🍂
Illustration of a woman with golden dreadlocs with goldfish spread around. Her eyes are closed. She's earing a golden headwrap and black and yellow top. Drawn by gdbeeart in 2023
GoldyLocs
I just made a guide for using the auto-hit-counter built in to the Default Hollow Knight autosplitter:
Hollow Knight Auto-hit-counter Guide: LiveSplit + HitCounterManager
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC5...
I made a mapping from all the possible toki pona syllables into musical chords: toki pi kalama musi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1vm...
Young Eagle spotted at the Lake
Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.
Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s
Well, here we go. After well over two years, here's a new version of my programming languages book, PLAI (v3.2.5). As always, free of cost! Can't thank enough all the people named in the acknowledgments. Enjoy!
www.plai.org
Swept Away
Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy
#art
Our decades-old microwave oven is finally breaking down so we're buying a new one, and I thought it interesting how now instead of discussing desirable features in appliances we discuss undesirable ones: network connectivity, talking, any AI that isn't the actual point, etc
