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I'm Vanessa Spiral, and I make digital design that helps the web remember what it is. Work with me for identity, apps, illustration and a lot else.

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8-Bit Sensation

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how i’m spending all my evenings between xmas and new years:

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Somewhere in the middle is the intelligibility that makes time habitable for beings like us.

The most terrifying question is -- how does software accelerate the user's cognition? the necessity of intensifying the affect of any behavioral pattern leads to the production of a radically different Dasein.

artificial neural networks, and natural language processing as well, are distant from living behavior, partly because they lack the element of time, where the symbolic is provided by the chomskian language, but the temporal has to do with drive, specifically the scheduling of events and the specification of optimal moments and maximised solutions by the drive for time. the two systems working in tandem would help make llms palatable. especially miyazakian would be the juxtaposition of extreme long duree with quick shock events. in effect we are talking about an agent in the existential welfare of their user.

Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature Can civilizations really expand technologically until they build Dyson Spheres? Or do they need to conform to biospheres to survive?

One of the pieces of set dressing for a dark forest is the assumption that the universe can be generalized to a competition for energy between intelligent lifeforms, so I was happy to find that maximizing energy consumption has already been challenged as an intelligent or long-term life strategy

A highly compressed, blocky image of a cartoon child celebrating while wearing a Santa hat, looking at a decorated Christmas tree. The photo is captioned "repost to spread 6.1 kb of Christmas Joy"

bsky.app/profile/both... let me have her blouse please

As a writer, my attitude to automated words has to be oriented by the questions, what remains to be said and what is worth saying. I have expectations for the idea of the hush that will settle right after the epoch of the written word finally ends

So far I've gained some stamina with lengthy algorithms or proofs by committing to meander a lot and write many things between the margins, with strategies thrown at the wall indiscriminately

adventofcode.com/2024/day/3#p... This is making me into spinda... I worked through a very clumsy parsing logic without relying on any help.. just to know what it takes.. something recursive here

Apropos of never ending discussions about whether ANNs are "good" models of the nervous system, here is a slide I present to masters students showing a network that is found in motor control circuits *across phyla* (that's pretty ubiquitous!) I ask them to guess what it does...

オリジナルイラスト 西洋風の建築の外廊下的なところをオリキャラ2人が手を繋いで歩いている

夕陽の園

Resurgence of my admiration for the whole world

wait... the real logic of ownership is in overlapping lifetimes...

my wife is pneuma from xenoblade and i am tora the nopon

we could spend centuries painstakingly clawing around it before the right intelligence meets us. this is what an art is. if you are curious what would make reticulated computers kinder to us, this is the scale of the situation.

technic and essence of a thing that must be built. there is a real building, it prescribes and justifies building technologies retroactively by its existence, and

that the reproductive logic of industry is yielding phenomena with quasi-vital, quasi-computational, or quasi-catastrophic properties. but humility allows him to move further and realize that the little lego blocks of early modern design actually suggest nothing to us of a fully formed

Christoper Alexander’s work is beautiful and ultimately not about reinventing the wheel on structural mechanics. He recognizes what postmodern architects all do, that we are no longer dealing with a matured art of natural sciences,

At the Rent-a-Zilla shop, Yuki dressed in her maid disguise stands in front of a cage holding a large zilla who is sitting on the floor, munching from a bag of pork rinds, and watching tv on a small screen. The cage has a large hamster bottle for water and signs for "think safety" and "<please do not tap on glass!>. The zilla is secured with a collar around its neck with a chain attached to the wall.

Megatokyo webcomic 1060 panel 5
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#webcomics #manga

I guess we are not even talking about loops in geometric space, but maybe they exist in these things in statistical space

I continue to be the opposite of a mathematician