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wunderbaba
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About wunderbaba
https://specularrealms.com
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Comment #36593978
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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Comment #34383755
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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Comment #34283275
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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Comment #34155716
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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Comment #34100714
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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Comment #34033961
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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Comment #33966040
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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Comment #33012635
What? None of the people in these images are even remotely recognizable as Homer Simpson.
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Comment #33012616
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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Comment #33001246
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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Comment #32706556
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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Comment #32350079
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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Comment #27241028
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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Comment #27125860
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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Comment #27125841
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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Comment #25225456
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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Comment #25201553
This should be called the "Baker's Dozen" law for engineering.