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seth shapiro

@sethmsh

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calendar_today30-10-2009 20:25:04

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A species of sapient birds who think humans with wings are hilarious, but birds with arms are their religion's equivalent of angels.

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How to build a #Roman military field-camp, as illustrated on Trajan's Column in #Rome. The soldiers are shown undertaking the construction, overseen by the emperor. They have taken off their helmets & shields while building, but they lie ready nearby... #ReliefWednesday

How to build a #Roman military field-camp, as illustrated on Trajan's Column in #Rome. The soldiers are shown undertaking the construction, overseen by the emperor. They have taken off their helmets & shields while building, but they lie ready nearby...

#ReliefWednesday
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Useful concepts from computer programming (per naive non-programmer): 1. Modularity 2. Descriptive precision 3. Procedure made explicit 4. Debugging 5. The idea of “state”

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Sat down at the piano to see how Head Over Feet worked. Glen Ballard and Alanis Morissette how in the world did you come up with the key change into the chorus? Amazing. Never noticed it before. One of the most subtle and effective key changes I’ve ever heard.

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No matter how much you fight it, I find that the visible chain-of-thought from DeepSeek makes it nearly impossible to avoid anthropomorphizing the thing. The visible first-person "thinking" makes you feel like you are reading a diary of a somewhat tortured soul who wants to help

No matter how much you fight it, I find that the visible chain-of-thought from DeepSeek makes it nearly impossible to avoid anthropomorphizing the thing.

The visible first-person "thinking" makes you feel like you are reading a diary of a somewhat tortured soul who wants to help