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wunderbaba

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About wunderbaba

I build things up to and including stuff. I spent a lot of time thinking about how I seem to have the same success ratio at making life decisions as I did when I was a kid reading a choose-your-own-adventure book.

https://specularrealms.com

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    It's a mishmash of philosophical musings, personal projects, and music compositions. Building a Pictionary multiplayer AI game with stable diffusion https://specularrealms.com/2022…

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    For context, this is related to a article posted on a sub stack called the rationalist which made efforts to disguise the fact that it was GPT generated: https://news.ycombinator.c…

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    https://specularrealms.com The site doesn't have a particularly stylistic design, and my writing tends to focus on theistics and cognitive philosophy. The physiological constraints…

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    Actually "butt tub" is a palindrome that you cannot unsee. Even at a young age I had a very sophisticated sense of humor....

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    I abandoned my faith once I was unable to rationally reconcile secular and divine morality, which was a theory I played around with in college and later wrote a paper about. https:…

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    I grew up on DOS 6.22 and quick basic 4.5, so I have a huge amount of nostalgia for how low friction it was to start programming back in the day. There's a scene in Stranger Things…

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    A few years ago I started taking up running regularly but I didn't have a buddy that I could run with so I decided to adopt a dog. Unfortunately the shelters were relatively far aw…

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    What? None of the people in these images are even remotely recognizable as Homer Simpson.

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    It depends on what you're generating, complex prompts in DALLE ("a witch tossing rapunzels hair into a paper shredder at the bottom of the tower") blow midjourney and stable diffus…

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    We should get in touch. I built a language partner in Chinese about a week ago using GPT, continuous real-time speech recognition via webkit speech recognition, and Polly TTS so yo…

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    Does anyone remember Redhooks Revenge? It was a maritime-themed trivia board game with risk battle mechanics for DOS. You can see the original here: https://archive.org/details/Red…

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    I posted an article to my blog about a scene from Stranger Things where Astin's character brute forces a password by writing a BASIC program. It was such a great homage to the 80s.…

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    This will never not remind me of Spaceghost Coast to Coast when he interviews Sportscaster Bob Costas. "Put that in your pipe and smoke it! With your burned lips!"

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    I wish it would as well but honestly I think a lot of vendors treat their software as gym memberships - and hope that customers forget about that seemingly innocuous five dollar fe…

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    Evernote is one of the few that might at least have a legitimate case for having a recurring monthly fee since ostensibly you're paying for cloud storage and synchronization across…

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    I was just dealing with this insanity a few weeks ago. I eventually settled on using a pre-load of my font in the head element and then immediately afterwards a built-in script ele…

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    This should be called the "Baker's Dozen" law for engineering.