by orchaeus | Apr 19, 2024 | Status Update
“The transformer architecture is like a holographic storage mechanism for its training data, compressed into an image that looks different for each of the input vectors you give it–the input query. It takes an input vector and gives you an output vector,...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2024 | Status Update
Langri Tangpa’s Eight Verses for Training the Mind Determined to obtain the greatest possible benefit for all sentient beings, who are more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel, I shall hold them most dear at all times. When in the company of others, I shall...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2024 | Status Update
“Comedy is a bit like juggling… and… ‘something else’ — in that, if you’re not actually ‘doing it’ — well, let’s just say that the fact that you ‘have balls’ becomes trivial.” — Bobby Yingo at the...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2024 | Status Update
“Millions of years ago, when the young Earth was fertile, but sterile, a group of explorers arrived from Space. Unfortunately, their ship was destroyed during their initial exploration, and all hands were lost. The only thing that survived was a lunchbox, and...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2024 | Status Update
Doing laundry and listening to Vervake and Peterson, Peterson keeps interrupting Vervake to impose Christic vernacular, which is a bit annoying, but not entirely ungenerative. They spoke about a pre-Descartian perspective on the mind, which is that rather than...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2024 | Status Update
A crane fly is trapped inside. It’s in the window, having found the one place where movement happens indoors. Within the lethal box. It’s between the window and the screen. I test the screen to see how hard it is to open it … and release the crane...
