You wouldn’t know her, she lives in the Andromeda Galaxy

Usually somebody would come busting through the front gate yelling “THE POLICE ARE HERE! DA GONNA BEAT YO ASS!!!” and everybody would take off running.

Hyperphantasia. I had to look that up. While it is pretty descriptive of my inner world, I don’t think I would ever self-identify as that. Feels… a little much.

I find the whole concept of cognitive styles fascinating and I think there is a trade off. While the advent of reading is certainly a great thing, I think for many it has shrunk a part of the brain that processes speech. Prior to books, if you needed to know something you had better listen close, comprehend it quickly, and be damned sure you remembered it because there may not be a second chance.

That’s wild, I am the complete opposite.

When I read my mind takes what I am reading and provides a rich imaginatory backdrop replete with emotional undertones that unfolds and plays out as the words become concepts and the concepts link together in context to the plot/scenario/etc. It’s like a combination of a movie and playing make-believe in real time. It doesn’t seem to require any particular effort, it just happens automatically.

Except with math heavy subjects, I can usually get the gist of any topic by reading about it.

Conversely, I can barely follow audio instructions or explanations at all. Having something explained by a friend is fine, lots of back and forth until it clicks. Casual listening, like a fiction book, is fine.

Anything else and I get a little lost halfway through, usually trying to remember the first thing that was said.

Being at work is torture because I’m nodding along with the boss but I usually don’t know what the heck he’s talking about if he’s trying to explain something complex. Just let me read the documentation, bro.

She was extremely entertainment savvy. She had a 6th sense in knowing how and when to grab the spotlight, how to cause an uproar, and ride it until it died down. Then it was on to the next transformation.

Even if you didn’t like her, she made sure you were paying attention to her.

I was more of a heavy metal, alt and industrial fan, but I give credit where it’s due. She played the game masterfully.

No. But I wasn’t doing anything particularly complex, just a LAMP stack server for some game forums. Think I had a Dell desktop. Was a dishwasher at the time.

Took a few days fumbling through tutorials but I eventually got it up and running. Repeated that a few times over the years, once to host a blog, stuff like that.

Would like to get into it again but all I have now is a tablet.

Ah, a fellow controls guy out in the wild.

I was curious so I just looked it up. Very surprised to find out Nana Visitor is 5’8. Just goes to show how tall the cast was on average.

I’m so dumb that whenever a xkcd strip can make me laugh it brightens my day.

You show some respect to Michael J. Anderson.

Not only was he an excellent actor, he worked for NASA. Not bad for a guy who’s only 3 foot 7.

And, he was, in fact in Star Trek. Deep Space Nine, as Rumplestiltskin, appropriately.

I tried Bluesky before I found Lemmy. I really wanted to like it but after a few months I decided it wasn’t for me. It’s got a chicken-or-egg problem and you need to bring your own fanbase if want to have any interaction.

I never liked Twitter and don’t feel it’s a particularly good model for actual socializing. I think it was created back when people were still hacking together ideas, it sort of worked, and it hasn’t changed much since.

It’s great for disseminating stuff, terrible at creating space for discussion.

The founders seem like a bunch of young ultra-capitalists who sensed an opening in the market and are just shooting their shot. The app reflects this in subtle ways.

Right? I might have poured out a bottle of beer into the toilet in an ill considered act of abolition, but drugs are expensive.

Every night, baby!

I’m grinding so hard, I cleared the sigmoid with 3 fingers in 20 minutes and just one pain killer.

No, I won’t.

Fuck your “reason”, people covet their own logical prowess but in reality they didn’t come to their views on their own nor their way of seeing things on their own. In fact, it’s a weakness borrowed from others, based on flawed methodology and is what got you into the situation you’re in now.

I ain’t teaching a class, believe me or don’t, I dgaf.

99% of people are mostly interested in confirming their own myopic view, to the degree that they will commit violence to ensure it. If someone reaches out a hand, I will grab it, but that’s exceedingly rare and it’s not my day job to fish randos out of their own ignorance un-asked.

Do you drink your coffee black?

I don’t know shit about mathematics, except that when numbers and letters collude, that’s a fucking conspiracy against me. That said, I strongly suspect that for legit mathematicians, solving thorny math problems is only half of what they do, but rather, by operating from a platform of experience, intuit the nature of numerical systems, what that means in relation to other systems, and how we use them to understand and navigate the world.

The title sounds as ridiculous as proclaiming professors of literature are worried because an LLM can parse a sentence.

There’s a fundamental knowledge, both in the specifics of systems and holistically that can only be gained by solving these quandaries through the lens of human interpretation.

No

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Blink twice if Mrs. Baseball is in the room with you now.

I had that same experience, too, many years ago doing the anti-depressant circuit.