It’s just a semiotics perspective. Try reading Language in Thought and Action (1949) by S.I. Hayakawa, it has basically the same vibes. Chomsky was a linguist first after all.
People spend their whole lives trying to prove to the machine that they aren't a burden, so that they aren't next on the chopping block. If they have a problem with that, well "it's up to you to deal with that." ...
This is why I like bimboism/himboism. Society wants us to be smart and you can reject that. It's okay to be dumb and present yourself as dumb. Honestly, it's freeing and it's something I need to exercise more.
Archive.org while great is also really incomplete with busted pages not showing media correctly (probably because it was never saved). Browsing some of these homepages on restorativland it looks like a more comprehensive archive project.
I had a geocities when I was about 10 years old where I would put cheats for video games and just random stuff. I would come up with my own game genie code on the NES by changing a few values of existing codes. I found some cool stuff and it was a ton of fun. I had this big book about HTML that I memorized and made my website from scratch. At this point I'm not sure I'd be able to recognize it even if it was on there.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a communist political party in the United States. FRSO formed in 1985 as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist movement organizations. ...
I made software I absolute hate in principle but it works so well in practice. It's all kubernetes (bad), yaml (bad), graphql (bad), and made for vibe coding (bad). I hate myself for spawning this monstrosity into existence but its the shortest path to build the thing I wanted to build for a few years.
DSA is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party actually. If you join, they'll force you to go to China to be brainwashed. You'll come back talking about the joy of high speed trains and how we can have a bright future if we all worked together. And it's all completely legal. Careful out there y'all.
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Write a list of every reason you why liked her and go over it one by one and remind yourself that you can find that in another person. Works like a charm.
When you employ AI agents, there’s a significant volume problem for document study. Reading one file of 1000 lines consumes about 10,000 tokens. Token consumption incurs costs and time penalties. Codebases with dozens or hundreds of files, a common case for real world projects, can easily exceed 100,000 tokens in size when the ...
Hey, good job, looks cool. A few observations: It makes sense to aggressively use token caching. It makes sense to improve context accuracy by treating docs as external to the input prompt. Smaller context = more calls, faster CoT, higher llm concurrency. We see a lot of this now, where coding agents aggressively cache documents, and use of tools to do more complicated tasks, e.g. code gen as tool use. I also see more moving away from RAG and more towards using good ole gnu tools like grep as exploration hints. RAG approaches are definitely is more prone to contextual bandit problems. But IMO, balancing exploration with exploitation is fundamentally a reinforcement learning problem rather than a linear flow from recursive llm calls, but it acts a reasonable surrogate model, and our RL algorithms consistently fall short. For example, you could help govern exploration behavior using deep-q or ppo to guide search, e.g. have your llm produce a top-5 exploration s-expression horizon, feed the exploration into the rl algorithm with cosine similarity on vectors + metadata (file size, LOC, etc) as features, then rank the exploration space. This would further reduce token count and increase parallelization in exploration (since top-n results are computed as batch in the llm with only marginal overhead).
Personally, I just wish I had a good search tool that didn't expose all of the LLM tomfoolery. For example, today I needed to find where a particular sql table was defined in the code since it used some crazy ORM and an initial grep didn't yield results so I jammed into openai codex and it found it. This was useful to me where github search was useless. I need more context-aware search, and it would be better if I could combine it with all of the other docs and slack convos floating around. Actual coding tasks require a greater level of human interaction where opaque results are less useful.
I bought some cereal from the discount grocery store because it reminded me of cat food. First two ingredients are soy and pea protein, with some flavorings (strawberry). I'm eating it straight from the bag, it's okay. Thanks for asking.
I used to have a hair tie but then I cut my hair short and eventually lost it. Now I keep everything loose in my pocket like a troglodyte. Occasionally when take off my jacket all my cards will spill all over the floor.
First of all, love the lust for power and for absolute rule, everyone here is touting some ideology and it's tiring tbh. I just want to obey. But as a person to empower monsters, where do you stand on white monster energy drinks?
“If it’s raining outside then we set the price of umbrellas to its maximum, $20.” One analyst said. “As long as there’s an ATM in the store, customers won’t leave when they run out of money.” The analyst goes on to suggest this periodical cash influx is the only way the store is staying afloat, citing poor management and excessive building budget.
I try my best to help out my cousin but she's 100% there. Any hiccup and she will be homeless. She has persistent mental health issues that she tries to get treatment for but is unable to get anyone to actually help her (her words and I know she tries). She has provisions already in place for when she eventually dips below the line of normal self care. My family is surprised she isn't already homeless. But she somehow holds a full time+ (40-50 hours a week) job and never misses a day working in health care intake at an ER in a hospital and has had that job for 5+ years.
I'm sure there's a few of them out there, considering how much money is being spent, but I'm mostly interested in the idea that the ballroom is actually just a lid for a massive multi-layer basement data center for the president to do fucked up classified things with. I got it from a conspiracy theory youtuber that recently had ...
Not sure anyone really cares about the above ground structures when a whole complex exists below it. Unless they needed to retrofit a retractable roof for some sort of giant mech.
I don't really fuck with the first, second, and third world concept but everyone I have met who would call themselves a third worldist (even jokingly) was really cool. I think I also fall into this catagory but I want to make sure I am understanding it correctly. ...
So Sweden, Finland, and Ireland are all Third world because of their neutrality. The term has drifted to a meaningless term and usually just means 'poor' or 'evil' depend on context. I wish words still had meanings.
I have no idea what third-worldism is tho and I couldn't even begin to guess.
I posted this about a month ago asking you guys for help, and I got so much more than I expected! Since then, I changed the soil, the lighting 'strategy' and the watering regime/practice. ...
they use those buzzwords on everything like it actually means something, mfs will look you dead in the eye and tell you to become a self employed railroad worker or some bullshit. can not talk 2 sentences without sounding like they're a siren trying to lure you, fluent in hustling you and scamolympics gold medalists. ...
One guy I knew in college was a failson like this. Lived off his dad's big DC lawyer money. He would pay me $40 to drive him to a psychic every other week. He wanted to do some dumb AI startup thing back in 2013 so I wrote his foundational software in an afternoon and he's been trying to milk it ever sense. I think I have equity because I get random investor update emails but I have no idea how much because I never agreed to any payout. Like 7 years later he got evicted from his own company for spending the company's money on cocaine, then he started a new one that does the same thing. He's a mobile lawsuit machine and sues everyone so I avoid him like the plague. For example, he totaled a rental because hes an insane driver and blamed the rental company and got a big settlement. He was perfectly fine. He was also caught selling weed in college and was expelled but he sued the college for defamation because they brought him on campus in cuffs. The college backed down and he graduated somehow after 7+ years. He now TEDx talks and claims hes a lecturer at a university in poland because he gave a talk once. If I showed you a picture, you would instantly identify that he is a guy who does a lot of cocaine and does business.
The government needs to pull a lot of levers before a capital solution is viable. But there is just no threat that gas prices will go up within the lifespan of the car (next 8 years), and gas prices are low relative to US income. Couple that with poor infrastructure for EVs and it's a non-starter for the majority of americans, regardless of price.
The economics make a ton more sense in Shanghi where electricty cost $0.07/kwh vs my city (san francisco) which is $0.60, almost 10x more. There's only 2 charging stations with 8 spots each in my neighborhood of 60,000 people(!), neither of which you can park your car overnight.
The idea that you can invent or create something and then reap the rewards for it to create stable employment for yourself is no longer a thing that exists. Anything valuable that you create as an individual will be either copied or straight up stolen by a better capitalized firm.
Trump has framed the need for comprehensive AI regulation as both a necessity for the technology’s development and as a means of preventing leftist ideology from infiltrating generative AI– a common conservative grievance among tech leaders such as Elon Musk.
“You can’t go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. Fifty is a disaster. You’ll have one woke state and you’ll have to do all woke,” Trump said at the US-Saudi Investment Forum last month. “You’ll have a couple of wokesters and you don’t wanna do that. You wanna get the AI done.”
Earlier this week, he reiterated that sentiment in a post on Truth Social, saying: “We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won’t last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS! AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY!”
I could only have these thoughts after I got out of my depression. Glad you've found a slice of happiness!
My advice for people over 30- get your hormone levels checked, mine were down for probably a decade and it really made life infinitely better when I got them corrected (over the counter DHEA from the grocery store). I can’t begin to describe how much it immediately changed my life when I started taking it.
I have a signal. I can call fine. I can text fine. I can use wi-fi fine. But any time I try to connect to the internet using mobile data, it tells me there's no connection. The phone is a Galaxy A02s. Here's everything I've tried: ...
I just read the book. He was the head programmer and had a team back in the states. He had a falling out with hammond about a budget overrun which he had to absorb the cost, which is why he wanted to get back at him and make some money by stealing the embryos.
The book really outlines the shortsightedness of capital and it's all still relevant. They really get into the park's construction and design decisions. Honestly I wished the movie was done by Kubrick instead of Spielberg where it features all of the cost cutting and incompetence which convinced you that the park was doomed to fail, and then it fails.
I think my favorite part of the book was when the rival company wanted to steal InGen's work but needed board approval so they do this song and dance to get board approval to do it in a way that doesn't open them up to liability. It's like what happened with the PG&E fires a few years ago, where nobody on the board or executive team got in any trouble because they did neglect in this special way that allows them to get a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Christmas fruit punch is an infusion that is consumed in Mexico, traditionally in December during the posadas and on Christmas Eve, although there are also people who start consuming it from September for the national holidays and from November during the eve of the day of the dead (mainly in Mexico City and its metropolitan ...
Thinking about pivoting to himboism. I'm sick of the expectation that I need to be smart or say smart things. I'd rather do things that make me happy and stop pressuring myself to be perfect all the time.
I love these movies, the stupider the better. In one (Roped?), the hunk guy races the old boyfriend but instead of a ford f150, he brought a horse! He of course wins and the now ex boyfriend disappears from the plot entirely. Peak cinema. If you know some more, drop em, I'll watch em.
I did a project where i used genetic algorithms to evolve a set of glyphs that tried to fit themselves into whatever the user prompted, using an image vectorization model as part of the fitness function. I had it do a bunch of things like try to generate shapes, attempt color scaling, limit pallets, use extended glyphs to tune, and other applications of art theory. Essentially an ascii art generator but more freeform. I used it to generate some fun images that would maybe be considered art, some things came out cool looking. But I never once considered anything it created as my original art. Like when I do linocut, I often trace and freehand many things before I end up at the linework that I want to cut, and I’ll consider that to be my art. I wondered if the act of doing a lot of work would make it be art, but my gut said no absolutely not. It was more of a technical achievement, like a painting that is technically well executed but had no creative input. But I don’t consider myself an artist tho.
This happened to a former classmate of mine who was a MLM heath influencer. She got colon cancer and she tried to healthy eat her way to good health. She died a few months later. Real tragic.
Assume we have an array of 26 binary variables, one for each letter of the alphabet. We flip to 1 if the letter is present in the word.
Dog -> [0,0,0,1,0…]
Cat -> [1,0,1,0,0…]
Then we can do a search by taking a target word and doing a cosine similarly search, roughly we find the binary array most similar to a given array to compute a score.
Modern models compute a much more complicated vector by using the context of the words around them. Multimodal image models use a combination of images and text to train a model so later you can use pass it some text to get a vector.
There are some things out there about doing math on vectors because the form a latent space, for example: ‘king - man + woman = queen’ but empirical tests show that this doesn’t quite hold up on modern models. 3blue1brown has a video on vector math which is worth a watch.
I love growing weed! I smoke maybe 4 times a year, but I find it to be such a fun plant to grow. Even if you find it hard to keep house plants alive, it's such an easy plant to grow (it grows like a weed)! It can cost a little bit to get going, but craigslist/facebook marketplace can get you going for only ~$200. ...
I fundamentally believe we can’t engineer software anymore. Like how we can’t manufacture anything anymore. So I don’t think there will be more tech growth in western nations. A good number of my high tech friends work for companies based in other nations. Open source software for my field is mostly Chinese contribution. I’m in the late stages of the interview process for an Indian company. I live in Silicon Valley.
The Black Death was a plague pandemic that devastated medieval Europe from 1347 to 1352. The Black Death killed an estimated 25-30 million people. The disease originated in central Asia and was taken to the Crimea by Mongol warriors and traders. The plague then entered Europe via Italy, perhaps carried by rats or human parasites ...
Tag yourself, I’m britain
Php is the best language and true programmers know this is the case ...
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet. Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma... ( www.nbcnews.com )
Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns. ...
Is it wrong to like Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"?
Considering all the recent attention surrounding Noam Chomsky and his connections to Jeffery Epstein, I thought I might ask this question. ...
U.S. Farm Bankruptcies Increased 46% in 2025 ( www.agriculture.com )
Maybe half the reason so many people are burnt out now is because the "no one is going to help you" mentality of our society encourages masking?
People spend their whole lives trying to prove to the machine that they aren't a burden, so that they aren't next on the chopping block. If they have a problem with that, well "it's up to you to deal with that." ...
If you like browsing old websites, I've got a treat for you, an archive of geocities with lots of pages kept intact and working. ( restorativland.org )
Archive.org while great is also really incomplete with busted pages not showing media correctly (probably because it was never saved). Browsing some of these homepages on restorativland it looks like a more comprehensive archive project.
Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a communist political party in the United States. FRSO formed in 1985 as a merger of several Maoist-oriented New Communist movement organizations. ...
It's unfair to tax the rich
Nobody should appropriate the value created by another. ...
DSA member leaked NYC DSA meeting notes to Newsweek which show that the party tried to set up communications with Chinese Officials ( archive.is )
Jan 20, 2026 at 09:25 AM EST ...
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Cutting LLM token usage by 80% using recursive document analysis
When you employ AI agents, there’s a significant volume problem for document study. Reading one file of 1000 lines consumes about 10,000 tokens. Token consumption incurs costs and time penalties. Codebases with dozens or hundreds of files, a common case for real world projects, can easily exceed 100,000 tokens in size when the ...
What are you eating or drinking right now?
What kind of fucking "wallet" is that?
I'm so tired of seeing ads for these things. ...
Greetings, I am Lord Zedd, Emperor of Evil, enemy of all that is good. It is an honour to finally meet you.
Tell me, have you heard the name "Zordon of Eltar?"
Okay.
corps
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Predictions for 2026
2026 will be the year of the 9front desktop ...
Phrase ‘US kill line’ sparks debate on American ordinary people’s economic fragility and social safety nets on Chinese social media ( www.globaltimes.cn )
University of Oklahoma fires the graduate teaching assistant who gave Samantha Fulnecky a 0 on homework assignment
What are everyone's thoughts on Whitehouse ballroom conspiracy theories?
I'm sure there's a few of them out there, considering how much money is being spent, but I'm mostly interested in the idea that the ballroom is actually just a lid for a massive multi-layer basement data center for the president to do fucked up classified things with. I got it from a conspiracy theory youtuber that recently had ...
what is third-worldism
I don't really fuck with the first, second, and third world concept but everyone I have met who would call themselves a third worldist (even jokingly) was really cool. I think I also fall into this catagory but I want to make sure I am understanding it correctly. ...
Update on "my plants keep dying"
I posted this about a month ago asking you guys for help, and I got so much more than I expected! Since then, I changed the soil, the lighting 'strategy' and the watering regime/practice. ...
Start up entrepreneur talk.
they use those buzzwords on everything like it actually means something, mfs will look you dead in the eye and tell you to become a self employed railroad worker or some bullshit. can not talk 2 sentences without sounding like they're a siren trying to lure you, fluent in hustling you and scamolympics gold medalists. ...
Why haven't Intel and AMD caught up with Apple Silicon yet?
Is ARM the only way to get there? And if so, why isn't Microsoft pushing for Windows on ARM? Are they too busy working on Copilot?
$29B Disaster: Ford Cancels EVs, Kills Battery Plant, Turns to Profitable Gas Cars. Hands victory to China. ( www.youtube.com )
What Do You Generally Think About Copyright Laws?
Is copyright a good or bad thing? Why? I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
Trump signs EO to ban states from regulating AI ( www.theguardian.com )
As seen in the Pentagon
Can Americans explain whats happening over there
Just non-vegan leftist things
They banned all vegan posting lmao
Imagine not having a pie rn LMAO OWNED
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This is how Hillary can still win
Thank you. The Official USA Citizenship Renouncement Thread has been closed due to Lack of Interest
My cellphone decided it doesn't want to do mobile data anymore.
I have a signal. I can call fine. I can text fine. I can use wi-fi fine. But any time I try to connect to the internet using mobile data, it tells me there's no connection. The phone is a Galaxy A02s. Here's everything I've tried: ...
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Ponche de frutas navideño - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of December 2025
Christmas fruit punch is an infusion that is consumed in Mexico, traditionally in December during the posadas and on Christmas Eve, although there are also people who start consuming it from September for the national holidays and from November during the eve of the day of the dead (mainly in Mexico City and its metropolitan ...
I thought this was a 14 words movie at first.
There needs to be a Gulag for people who make AI slop and call themselves "artists"
There they will be FORCED to pick up a PENCIL and DRAW and WRITE POETRY, BY HAND! ...
Just saw some twitter 'health' influencer convince her Dad to start ivermectin instead of Chemo for pancreatic cancer.
No link because I noped the fuck out of there and refuse to go looking for it again. Yeah I'm a lib, but you're all my alts so so are you. ...
Make the taglines worse
For the past 40 years this basic function just worked. Please give us money and unrestricted access to all your data to fix that.
https://xcancel.com/Denizen_Kane/status/1991248070714224646
and so begins the largest transfer of wealth in human history 😤
all thanks to sleepy joe and the deep state!
Weed growing appreciation thread
I love growing weed! I smoke maybe 4 times a year, but I find it to be such a fun plant to grow. Even if you find it hard to keep house plants alive, it's such an easy plant to grow (it grows like a weed)! It can cost a little bit to get going, but craigslist/facebook marketplace can get you going for only ~$200. ...
When people say that the tech market will bounce back up for CS graduates are they been delusion? People seem to have this religious concept that the tech sector always bounces back. It this copium?
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On piracy
Stop pirating ...
Black Death - Novo General Megathread for the 10th-13th of November 2025
The Black Death was a plague pandemic that devastated medieval Europe from 1347 to 1352. The Black Death killed an estimated 25-30 million people. The disease originated in central Asia and was taken to the Crimea by Mongol warriors and traders. The plague then entered Europe via Italy, perhaps carried by rats or human parasites ...