No need to say sorry. I’m adding them now.

I can add those later. Very cool of you to add the tmdbs. I have code to add to the poll with just a list of tmdb links.

We are looking to do more than one of these nights so that list is useful.

In fact people can already start voting on the time for the next one: https://goatmatrix.net/c/MatrixEvents/xUSsfhkmCg

IBM did. This is one reason why we need separation of business and government.

They are currently trying to oust the some 5 people in Congress that actually spoke up. Thomas Massie has three separate billionaires funding campaigns against him in Kentucky. If they have their way it really will be 100% of congress that does what Israel wants lockstep, up to and including sanctioning genocide.

IDK, the whole situation reminds me of Fallout and VaultTech. We don’t really have representation. If you want to know if someone actually represents you just ask them where they stand on Israel.

For anyone who missed it here is the movie https://gvid.tv/v/KnLvloD8

I do have that. When you get past the nudity it’s not as bad as people say it is.

Told people to go home?

You store your credit card in your computer? If browser credit card management isn’t secure enough to avoid that attack you shouldn’t be using it.

They are so short sighted to. Ad blocker help advertizers. It allows sites to fill up sites with ads to the point of being unusable while not losing 100% of traffic. That keeps these site relevant enough that old people who don’t have ad blockers end up there too when they follow links or google ranks a site high because it has traffic.

If they got rid of all ad block somehow they would have to decrease the ads because I wouldn’t use the web. Or online communities would be way more conscious of the ad level of the things they link to.

Yeah. I hate that I post these so late, literally right before. Most people say that’s dumb and I would too. The problem is numbers don’t lie. Every post has an exponential decay in visibility and people tend to not follow up hours or days after its mention. More people just show up when it’s posted 10 minutes before sadly. I hate it.

Because what I’m doing is already… slightly spammy, I can’t post it multiple times to get the best of both world or that would be ridiculous. So I have to post it at the time that works best. I really wish that wasn’t 10 minutes before. It’s off by everyone’s intuition for how it should work including my own. But outcomes don’t lie. In one case I’ll have no one show up and I’m watching a movie by myself, and the other we actually have people.

For the people who want to plan longer term, it’s every Friday at 8pm Eastern.

In the future there will be media queries for how old the reader is.

The dependency hell of JS is caused by React. It’s an ironic turn because node gained popularity in part because it was one of the first to have a coupled package manager with a massive public contribution model, full of a billion packages that follow the unix philosophy of “everything should do only one thing, and do it well” Dependency hell would disappear if people stopped popularizing competing swiss army knives. It’s made worse by people trying to mash these swiss army knives together just to improve portfolio.

We’ve gotten to the point where you aren’t considered a real professional unless you start even the smallest projects with maximum technical debt.

It should never be impressive that you used a tool. If the tool made programming it easier then it’s not a mental feat. If the tool made programming it harder, then people should think you are kind of slow for using a tool that made development harder. This is why brag culture over what tools are used makes no sense. Just use tools that make life easier. If it doesn’t make life easier, stop using it.

Intuition is about the only thing it has. It’s a statistical system. The problem is it doesn’t have logic. We assume because its computer based that it must be more logic oriented but it’s the opposite. That’s the problem. We can’t get it to do logic very well because it basically feels out the next token by something like instinct. In particular it doesn’t mask or disconsider irrelevant information very well if two segments are near each other in embedding space, which doesn’t guarantee relevance. So then the model is just weighing all of this info, relevant or irrelevant to a weighted feeling for the next token.

This is the core problem. People can handle fuzzy topics and discrete topics. But we really struggle to create any system that can do both like we can. Either we create programming logic that is purely discrete or we create statistics that are fuzzy.

Of course this issue of masking out information that is close in embedding space but is irrelevant to a logical premise is something many humans suck at too. But high functioning humans don’t and we can’t get these models to copy that ability. Too many people, sadly many on the left in particular, not only will treat association as always relevant but sometimes as equivalence. RE racism is assoc with nazism is assoc patriarchy is historically related to the origins of capitalism ∴ nazism ≡ capitalism. While national socialism was anti-capitalist. Associative thinking removes nuance. And sadly some people think this way. And they 100% can be replaced by LLMs today, because at least the LLM is mimicking what logic looks like better though still built on blind association. It just has more blind associations and finetune weighting for summing them. More than a human does. So it can carry that to mask as logical further than a human who is on the associative thought train can.

Even defining reason is hard and becomes a matter of philosophy more than science. For example, apply the same claims to people. Now I’ve given you something to think about. Or should I say the Markov chain in your head has a new topic to generate thought states for.

If you make recommendations here I’ll add them. https://goatmatrix.net/c/MatrixEvents/4toi9ookbQ

I tend to do it all at once every couple weeks.

This is like closing a nature reserve due to insufficient landscapers.

I tried to run one. That time poll you see was created hoping I’d see a good time for Europe and or everyone. From that Sunday 4pm Eastern seemed like the time that would get everyone. No one showed up vs the 8pm Friday Eastern.

I had to let it go because there is nothing more embarrassing than running these and it’s just me and a rare person popping in and then immediately leaving because they see it’s just me watching a movie by myself.

Basically these are fun but a certain level of social momentum needs to happen for it to work and I tried but couldn’t get it working for the Europeans. You aren’t the only one who has asked, so I’d think it would take off just fine. I tried like three times. That’s three lonely movies I’ve watched.

If you want to launch one and can hype a time for it better than I can you can even use the same space. Anyone can plan anything they want there.

We do

Thanks!

It’s a joke. https://gvid.tv/v/oXgL30