bug peoples developing glasses in order to give their compound eyes the ability to focus at all and see at a greater distance
little droplet of water whose shape you adjust with surface tension
i do not wish for my obsessions to be 'wholesome'. they're obsessions. the whole point is not to worry about how they come across.
i am out of practice in... everything. took very long to get to the point where i could work somewhat consistently, and now i'm rusty
depressing
ah, well. it'll just be embarassing for some months or years. whatever.
what if you used a language model as like, an editor. like, you give it your "show bible", your big long list of rules you impose on yourself and characteristics of your characters and so on and so forth and it tells you whether or not you actually followed your own rules. like that would be useful maybe. for art purposes.
been distracted for a few days trying to compute (a nontrivial lower bound on) the probability that a quadratic form gives a negative result when applied to some random vectors
not the math i usually do... but i guess i had to learn about chi-squareds at some point
given an nxn symmetric matrix whose entries are bound in absolute value by B and whose lowest eigenvalue λ_n is negative, if you apply it as a quadratic form to a standard normal random vector, the probability of you getting a negative result is bounded below by
...i think.
bound should be... fairly tight? so if you're testing for positive(semi)definiteness by doing this, getting to any given degree of certainty would be like. (n!)²exp(n) slow. so this would be a really dumb way to do it.
thats my stats exercise that i did for some reason. why did i do this
always bothers me when someone explains why conspiracy theories/etc are popular by saying they "posit a simplified theory of how the world works" because conspiracy theorists "abhor complexity and ambiguity" because like
well, every theory of the world simplifies the world. that's like. you reduced the world to words and stuff, that's going to be an approximation. it's inevitable.
moreover, you don't have a choice but to simplify the world, if you want to do anything with thought. nuances take time to consider, and you only have so long to consider them. you also don't like complexity and ambiguity beyond a certain point.
so that explanation doesn't work. the problem is way more complicated than that, and people just don't want to think about it because they abhor complexity and ambiguity.
what does it mean for something to be "very human". what does it mean for something to be about "the human condition". what does it mean for something to "have no humanity". what does it mean for something to be "deeply human". what does it mean for something to be "human nature". what are "shreds of humanity". i am going to deprive your organs of their involuntary functions.
been distracted for a few days trying to compute (a nontrivial lower bound on) the probability that a quadratic form gives a negative result when applied to some random vectors
not the math i usually do... but i guess i had to learn about chi-squareds at some point
finally found the pen for this old wacom tablet that someone left in a closet
linux drivers work fine so far
heres the ones i did/revised today (and 0, because that's where it is in "the order"). * might be a bit easier to read once printed, hopefully...
done so far:
- these
- integers 0-13
- jacks
- one of the knights
- the template that i'm using to make these
still to do:
- NaN, √3/2, √2, φ, e, ω, ω + 1, ω², ε₀, 𝔠 (mostly ports)
- remaining face cards (new designs)
- trumps/major arcana (sort of new designs?)
- jokers (haven't even decided what i want to do for these)
- back of card (port)
- card that you glue cards you find on the ground on (new)
- card with the rules on them (research necessary)
- manual (research necessary)
- put library on github
- put library on CTAN? maybe? -1 is reeeeeally slow r/n though...
pushing the boundary, what if we did ancient aliens but for buildings that are still under construction