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The way LLMs process text is a lot like a typical human (top-of-the-head answer vs actually analyzing the question in depth). This is a recurring pattern with the current LLMs I've…

BZFlag is an amazingly addictive game (if you can find an active server). It is tricky to get the hang of it (jumping a tank while doing a 180 turn to land and fire a shot at a pur…

No, you played ARCHON on a C64, as did I. The first time I ever played a new video game straight through to the next day. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the…

Here is a list of things (bits of insight, strategies) you may find helpful. IME, anxiety and the resulting procrastination has more to do with fear of failure and insufficiency th…

I just happened to be looking at this (serendipitous) location on Street View, "walking" down the road, when I found a spot which (for some reason) displays an older photo (current…

This is almost identical to a project idea I've had banging around for...um...6 years now. :) Glad to see someone is running with it, and also that you have data privacy as a 1st-c…

(Sorry, I replied to the other response before I read this one.) "natural logical conclusion" and "common sense": the words "natural", "logical" and "conclusion" (and certainly the…

I'm not trying to be merely argumentative or dismissive. I understand the words that you've written; I'm saying that there's no real point in them. You're saying (aren't you?): "Th…

Sorry, my main point was: If you press a believer on why there must be a god in order to explain things, they will always point to the necessity of a god, that things had to come f…

Lol. Ok, my entire comment went over your head. You say that "God is not a created being". But I say "Why is God not a created being? Why do you say that?" The only answer I've eve…

Not really, as demonstrated: A: Why must there be a god? T: The universe had to come from somewhere; how do you explain all of this; something must have created it! A: Who created …

When I read Spanish (2nd language; not great at it) I sub-vocalize as I do in English. But if there is a long, complex word that I would have to laboriously "pronounce" (but I know…

Exactly. Sometimes I even feel compelled to complete the sentence more than once (as if I wasn't paying attention enough the first time, so I feel the need to say it again). I thin…

All of the above/below. It's a complex problem (which I share) caused by a lifetime of habit, and it takes a long-term, multi-pronged/phased approach. A) Physical fitness: proper c…

"Terror Management suggests that human nature is actually wired towards self-deception: In order to avoid facing terrifying concepts like death, most of us live in a state of self-…

The trick is to recognize the things that are wrong, decide what (if any) course of action you can/will take to address them, then focus on that path. The rest you have to keep at …

"Lazarus Lazaridis' personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats ." I agree completely that "cutesy" things don't belong in professional contexts…

As an introvert, I completely understand where this is coming from. What you are trying to create is a way for people to signal intent in an emotionally safe way. But I think this …

Part of this may have to do that OpenOffice is more enterprise-oriented, so maybe more likely to be recommended by IT people with exposure to it, and more likely to be used in an o…

As a data manager and a database developer, I can assure you there is a big difference between "a number" and "a string of digits" (even when those digits are supposed to be a numb…

"verociously": a portmanteau of "ferociously" and "voraciously". ;)

"identification of points of interest during conversations between driver-partners and riders" Wait...what?! I hope this was an opt-in study.

I want to knee-jerk and say "you've got it backwards; humans are mammals, mammals are social organisms, love is part of that profile". At the base, of course, everything is genetic…

By "natural", I mean according to the laws of physics, and all higher-order laws or principles which arise from them (basically, everything else). So, yes, narrow, but no, not. Wha…