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> Take for example the Stroop task . It's a classic psychology experiment where humans select the color a word is written it and not what the word says. Humans typically show slower responses when the meaning of a word conflicts with its color (e.g., the word "BLUE" written in green), reflecting an overriding of automatic behavior . Bots and AI agents, by contrast, are not subject to such interference and can respond with consistent speed regardless of stimuli.

So I completely disagree with this; you can train youself to completely ignore the color and just read/act on the word very fast. In fact, this is a game that people play.


I think the OP does themselves a great disservice by not seeking a qualified swim coach to start with. Swimming is a deeply experiential workout and technique is very important. You can learn a lot of bad habits by swimming badly; 50m freestyle in ~2mins is, as example, showing that their technique is very bad right now (I suspect most swimmers here can probably kick 50m in <2mins with just a kickboard).

someone mentioned it was the liquid propellant being vented:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303132


I'm a bit confused, most cars aren't more than 3m in length. This rocket is 6.3m.

Or are there really SUVs which are > 6m in length?


Current gen Prius is about 4.5m in length, 1.8m in width, 1.5m in height. "Slightly under 5 x 2 x 1.5m" has been the standard size of a sedan for past few decades.

the mentioned suvs are 5.7m and 5.6m long, respectively

wow, and I thought F350s were big

Huh? Even in Europe most cars are longer than 4m (a VW Golf is 4.28m for example).

there are giraffes that are 6m tall?!?

It is said that many males exceed 5.5 m in height.

A record height for a giraffe in a UK zoo was 5.8 m, but the tip of his horns was said to have reached close to 6.1 m.

So 6 m is about in this ballpark.


I think this is how certain LLMs end up with 14k worth of system prompts

"Be fast", "Be Cheap", "Be Good".

*dusts off hands* Problem solved! Man, am I great at management or what?


I ported DOOM to it. In 100 LOC. BTW it's just a a line shooting a ball of zero width, at another line. And there's some movement left and right. But not forward, nor backwards. So there's no real strafing. And the other line doesn't shoot a ball of zero width back.

But it's the spirit of DOOM!!!

/s


turn up during pre-conf, check your slides with conf IT, works beautifully.

Day of conf, 100x the number of users. Things go boom.


I have to upvote this, because this is how I felt after trying three times (that I consciously decided to give an LLM a try, versus having it shoved down my throat by google/ms/meta/etc) and giving up (for now).


now I want an emotional support chicken!

I'm going to send this article to all the knitters I know (quite a few), in case any of them get the hint and decide to knit me one.


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