As a transmillenial student of AI / ML, great write-up.

I’ve settled firmly into the road-mountain hybrid groove so it’s really just about having it be tall enough for me to fully extend my legs on the downstroke, and not have to hunch my back to grab the handlebars.

Though, druthers, it’d be electric lime green all over.

Loudon Wainwright

They had the AI models of those days.

There’s no point and the meaning you have to make yourself.

nihil novum sub sole

I grew up Episcopalian.

Thankfully, my parents never tried to undermine my self-esteem like that.

Yes, if I realized later it detracted from the discussion.

I grew up reading the comics in the newspaper, now I read webcomics.

Non-shitty answer: mint and geranium oil.

And the other D is for “deficit”!

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Let me ask you: What’s the difference in result?

I think there’s one at [email protected] already

If I’m not driving, sleep.

If I am driving, and have someone with me, conversation.

If I’m alone, blasting music and singing along at the top of my lungs.

You know there’s only one Dalai Lama, right? A successor isn’t chosen, they look for the reincarnation of the same person.

You may not think that makes sense, but either way, there’s no line of succession.

Yes, it was one of the things that made RIF such a good app and I miss it, too.

You need a repeating visual pattern, a fairly busy one. Then you need a greyscale image of what you want the “magic” picture to be. You deform the repeating pattern by the intensity of the greyscale image.

When your two eyes overlay the background images, your brain highlights the distortions and interprets them as depth… at least if your eyes are good enough to give your brain that information in the first place.

If you want to know more, the algorithm to do this is public, and you can set it up in eg. javascript in an afternoon.

Yeah, I’ve had a continuous blog since… 1999? Since before “blog” was a word. Self-hosted since 2003, write my own blogging software in 2007.

These days I also have a bullet journal for notes and tasks.

Nope! But I’ve made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.