Yesterday we went to a baroque performance with M. █████████ and it was lovely. I had never heard this kind of music close.
So I realized that mac is showing the content of txt files on their icons, and for that added a Figlet based encoder on top of the LLM Serializer that adds a large kary date on top of the file and so when you look at the icon you see a little date on the icon and so you can easily distinguish them.
Over the course of my life; I have had many many heroes; maestros; crushes; and obsessions. I think the way my mind works is architecturally designed for this to happen. I crave kindness; closeness; beauty; and most of all beautiful ideas. This notion of beautiful ideas is built around the concept of wildest combinations. I very much adore either the strangest combinations one can make or the best arrangement of ideas. (which now that I think means beauty — to me — is partially an optimization of vectors…) And so when I find beautiful people I become immensely obsessed and invested in them. I go into the short or sometimes lifelong rabbit holes of understanding everything about them; decoding them; trying to explore them closely… And so what happens here becomes a bit strange and honestly embarrassing. I become intimate with them in my mind. I find what they do amazing; I become friends with them in my mind; I try to build what Cobb (DiCaprio) built of Mal (Cotillard) in his mind in Inception and you see; that is exactly what happens that leaves me in shock.
The phenomenon of sub-graph transfer is one of the craziest and hardest things to think about in the whole of human history — and perhaps the most important thing in the whole of our Human-condition. And as you know; in the center of it is the idea of reconstruction. Sub-Graph Transfer is never about sending something perfectly; but sending instructions and helping the receiver reconstruct in the most faithful way they can make of those instructions. And so much happens in this gutter space…
I have been a little obsessed with this great great artist that I’m going to call Robbin recently. I mean I always loved what she did and had such an “intimate” relationship with her work. In her comics; you have this lovely lovely innocent and cute character with her cat and dog and while they are meant to give you comic context; you see the emotions; expressions; and so much.
You realize so much about this person and make a version of them inside your mind. This version is highly tied to everything else in your mind graph and for that; those people — or at least Robbin for me — become someone very close and intimate; they begin to feel like you; you begin to have a sense of closeness; because those people are very very close.
And so what happened was that I searched her and saw her face for the first time and she was exactly everything that I had seen in the comics; she was beautiful beautiful; and looked so nice that it was hard not to look at her; she had the exact outfit as her comic version; exact hair style; only the real her was infinite times more beautiful. And you would try to see her work and you would see she talks just as beautifully; has a very professional and amazing character and your respect for her would only increase and you would see a very nice and perfect person that you would feel a little crush on. Amazing person period.
And so this makes her a very nice intimate person in my mind. Perhaps a bit of a crush — and not at all something that interferes with my love for Zea ; but something that is non sexual; non romantic; but very very intimate. You want this person for yourself but that feels strange; you think you understand them better than others; that you see in them something that others don’t and so they somehow belong to you. You genuinely love them and have a very intimate relationship with them; and others can’t have that; but then; how can you not?
Years ago I would have looked at myself and felt guilt and thought I am one horrible horrible person; but now I understand the feeling is very much correct and I think everyone else has it. The thing they say: “In Love with The Idea Of A Person” that is nothing strange anymore. All my feelings are valid because the Robbin I love is the person I constructed in my mind with my nodes; with my memories. She has with her so many compound feelings and things that only I can understand and belong only to me; so of course I feel that I love my construction of her; of course I feel she belongs to me; because she 100% does; she “Is” my creation. She doesn’t and can not exist any where else.
And you see… That is the very devastating part of it. I have a Rachmaninoff that is just as intimate as my Robbin; as my Victor ; as my Darwin ; as my Ive … And I would go so far as to say “Even As my Mac OS X Leopard” or Pixar Animations. And that is very very disturbing.
I’m watching this series by Apple called “Dark Matter” In the series; you have people This person who is taken away to another dimension by another version of himself and when he gets back to the reality; he finds out that there are infinite numbers of himself also coming back because the superposition has made infinite versions…
Now that is very disturbing. This series makes it very hard to deal with this fact. When we think of things like this we think abstractly; but when you see the next person with real flesh and blood this becomes brutal.
This gives me the feeling of the people we construct in our minds after sub-graph transfer . And how much that may violate someone. I really do love my Robbin; but Buddha forbids; if she ever reads this note; what do you think she would make of me calling her “mine”? Or that I have a version of her for me? I hope she never reads this to be honest. And then for example; how would Rachmaninoff actually see me? Do you think it would be in a good light? I doubt it.
I don’t want anyone without my consent calling me their friend and the idea that I exist in other people’s minds really gives me a bad time. And now I know that I can’t do anything about it.
This work I’m doing is really giving me some hard hard times. Knowing some truths are hard; being the only one to know them is harder.
If your TV is making money from your data, what data is it actually collecting? The answer starts ACR. Explained with something called automatic content recognition or ACR.
Smart TVs sample whatever appears on screen, create a digital fingerprint of that content, and then send it back to a server for identification. They’re essentially Shazaming everything you watch.
On TVs like the The data Samsung S95, the data was clear enough for us to isolate. With ACR enabled, they sent regular bursts of data to identifiable endpoints. But when we disabled ACR, that traffic stopped. On other TVs, like the TCL QM8K, we couldn’t neatly separate ACR related traffic from ordinary background communication. That made it harder for us to actually verify what’s happening when you do or don’t consent.
But the network activity became much more active when we connected a PlayStation 5 or a laptop. That’s right. Your TV isn’t just tracking whatever you play on Netflix. It’s tracking everything you plug into your TV. Your laptop, your gaming consoles, USB drives, all of it.
The shadiest example we found was Roku OS. For one, its terms of use had to be opened up in a separate browser, which is annoying. And we couldn’t find any clear mention of ACR or ACR related language anywhere in the terms. The first time we actually encountered anything related to ACR was when we got to the hands-free voice remote setup page. The TV asks for your consent to let the remote listen and collect data so you can use it for voice commands. And it’s only here that Roku links you to their privacy policy where they mention that they collect your viewing data. But the kicker is that you can’t move past this page unless you agree. Most people would reasonably assume they’re only consenting to the remote’s microphone here, not agreeing to the broader collection of their viewing data. Roku Every TV calls ACR something different was just the most egregious example we found. But many TVs hide these settings within broader policy agreements and then have them enabled by default. then they make it incredibly difficult for you to find and turn them off after setup. In fact, if you want to withdraw consent on your TV right now, you might have to look under settings labeled viewing data, viewing information, interactive services, enhanced viewing, or some other label entirely depending on the brand or the platform.
Wooden pencils were used to Photoshop faces back in the 1940s. When portraits were shot on film negatives, a specialist would remove wrinkles by carefully drawing over them, because darker areas on a negative show up brighter on the final print.
I study the formation of stars, galaxies, planets, and all of those formed either in gas or from gas. And so I’m asking: how do fluids interact with gravity?… pretty much anything in astrophysics is behaving as a turbulent fluid, and thus we have to think about the Navier-Stokes equations because that’s what describes them. Same as on Earth: if we think about the atmosphere, if we think about the weather, if we think about the climate, if we think about a ship on the ocean, that’s all fluids; that’s all Navier-Stokes calculations.
Basically, physics is partial differential equations with some set theory.
