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SaidinWoT
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Comment #40769995
Just to understand the baseline you're working form, what data are you drawing on when stating what's "normal"? It has appeared to me throughout this conversation that you are star…
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Comment #40764472
Both my wife and one of my co-workers experience hi-res images superimposed over their actual vision when prompted (and occasionally involuntarily). This opposite end of the spectr…
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Comment #40764432
I can only tell you that I do not have mental imagery and am not constantly surprised by my surroundings. Object permanence has absolutely no dependency on visualization; it is com…
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Comment #40764100
This is actually one of the things about aphantasia that has already had a (small) study[0], and the results are actually the opposite! The participants with aphantasia were more l…
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Comment #40764020
Similar questions throughout this thread make it clear that people assume recognition and/or knowledge of what something looks like is tightly coupled to internal visualization, bu…
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Comment #40763960
> it sounds like the way you remember things must be missing a lot of details. > Do you think that's accurate? I don't think someone with aphantasia (of which I am one!) is really …
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Comment #40763880
Not who you asked, but also have aphantasia. "think of" is far too ambiguous here to really meaningfully drill into the differences of _how_ people think about things. I know that …
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Comment #40419500
Constructively using LLMs tends to require validating the quality of their output; even when not hallucinating content, they do hallucinate confidence. Increasing the size of the o…
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Comment #36369935
That's exactly the model used by the Kakoune editor[0]. It definitely feels more intuitive to me, but I personally didn't stick with it due to vim's ubiquity. [0] https://kakoune.o…
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Comment #35797146
But Michael Jackson was born on April 19th[0]! As well as March 27th[1], and many other days[2]. "Michael Jackson was born on August 29th" is the most likely answer to contextless …
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Comment #22415537
The key point making `a -> a` have only a single implementation is that the type `a` is a wildcard that's determined by the caller - it must be possible for the implementation to a…
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Comment #19621382
There's actually already a study on spatial reasoning and aphantasia: https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... Basically, aphantasiacs tend to do just as wel…
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Comment #19272870
They've certainly come to appear that way, but in female/male (and, to a lesser extent, woman/man) the etymology is distinct. Female comes through Old French "femelle", which ultim…
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Comment #19103823
Extremely likely that you already know this and the answer is no, but just in case - is there any chance you're using the wrong setting? There are two separate color correction mod…
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Comment #17868092
The draft doesn't include any actual examples with multiple returns on a function that uses check internally, but the behavior is fully specified: > A check returns from the enclos…
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Comment #13665661
Perhaps something combining all of the things you've made use of? https://play.golang.org/p/8RDqjjZDB8
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Comment #11584458
You should be pleasantly surprised, then! All of the functionality you included in your complicated case exists directly on the event creation page. "Select a time that works for e…