<a href="https://smidgeo.com/notes/deathmtn">deathmtn</a>

10/3/2024, 5:48:18 PM

The upside of failing at a basic task like starting the grill on time for dinner is that when you finally do it, you’re like aw yea I’m the greatest guy on earth
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10/3/2024, 4:04:01 PM

The white bee and the yellow bee in their coworking space
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10/3/2024, 9:19:37 AM

It seems Tony Blair’s new book is all about how AI is great and tech companies should be allowed to have all of our data.
With AI, Blair is fully signed up to the hype about self-reinforcement and an imminent great leap forward. The latest LLM-based AI, he says, ‘has human brain-like capabilities – BUT one with an ever improving intellect ... True, at present, it resembles a person with an average IQ of about 100 ... but as the reinforcement loop gathers momentum AI will soon have an IQ of 150 – that’s very smart. In time, it will have one of 200. Then we’re in a new world.’
David Runciman’s review points out many problems with the book, but this is the funniest bit:
A lot of this is hard to square with the advice Blair gives elsewhere in the book, which is that Leaders (it’s always capital L, for reasons never fully explained…
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10/2/2024, 11:52:24 PM

Over the Garden Wall was great, but one thing I was disappointed by is that there's never an explanation about why some people have extremely large heads. (That's not a reasonable complaint on my part, I know.)

It was probably just an art choice. If it was, it was a good one. There's a lot of humor in the show, but this guy standing here with his huge head made me laugh harder than anything else in it. I still think about him once in a while and laugh.
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10/2/2024, 2:27:50 PM

Eighteen-minute run, seven pull-ups.
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10/2/2024, 10:14:19 AM

I was ready to report the cars parked in the EV spots at the library, but this time, they were actually EVs, and they were indeed charging. I guess it’s good that EV adoption is taking off, but mildly inconvenient for me personally.
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10/1/2024, 11:14:49 PM

The tree rendering is still not easily readable but it is definitely better now that it chooses from label positions that are hit by the least number of edges.
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10/1/2024, 1:55:49 PM

The swelling and dispersion of the ripples here is vaguely like bird flock movement.
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10/1/2024, 1:42:09 PM

There’s some good lily pad shading here.
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10/1/2024, 11:57:01 AM

It’s always freaky when you grab an ice cube and it sticks to your finger. I get an “aw shit an inorganic object has fused to my cells!” feeling.
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9/30/2024, 2:38:27 PM

This guy didn’t mind me being 10’ away from him.
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9/30/2024, 1:32:26 PM

There’s both yellow and white bees in the snakeroot.
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9/30/2024, 1:20:43 PM

Katt planted four snakeroot plants a couple years ago. Now there’s like twenty or so?

In New England, it’s a very good choice if you have a ton of weeds to outcompete.
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9/30/2024, 9:43:51 AM

The guy’s current getting ready for the day jam is the “robbing the shopkeeper” music from Spelunky 2.
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9/30/2024, 9:02:15 AM

Back workout done. I got most of the reverse flies all the way up! I did two and a half slow pull-ups, but during the down part of the third one, my scapula (?) felt weird, so I dropped.

I did arm circles, head circles, and cat-cows after this, even though I already did them in junior calisthenics. It's probably important — all of those parts felt kinda tight, post-workout.
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9/29/2024, 10:45:31 PM

Nonograms were named after Non Ishida, one of the two inventors of the puzzle.
I thought they were named that because they were on 9x9 grids! Upon further inspection, they are not on 9x9 grids.
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9/29/2024, 10:36:11 PM

Even though the demo is not the point of the line-hitting-the-box code, it bothered me that, in it, moving the corners and line ends was so awkward so it now has regular dragging. I feel like it was worth it because I got to get rid of this awkward form.
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9/29/2024, 8:13:36 PM

I reflavored these beans from a couple weeks ago that didn’t have much flavor. (Bittman said we could skip the bacon and instead double up on peppers.) I just reheated it, added bacon, chile de arbol, and garlic, then let it simmer. Flavor was absorbed!
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9/29/2024, 2:05:01 PM

Weird woods works
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9/28/2024, 11:16:46 PM

I have never actually implemented line-box collision, and so I had trouble with it when trying to move the labels out of the way of the edges in my custom tree graph. At one point, I was thinking, can code really algebra??

Turns out it can. I'm sure there's smarter implementations that use dot products or something, but the naive implementation is simple and works fine for what I'm doing.
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9/28/2024, 7:06:44 PM

The guy squeezed the juice out of all of these. Ten was probably a big age for parents that had kids so that they could automate tasks on the farm and at home.
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9/28/2024, 6:54:55 PM

This looks like a robot made this dessert, but it was actually really good.
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9/28/2024, 3:31:24 PM

I’m literally the only guy mad about this, but this band at the jug band festival barely played the jug and put it aside entirely for most of the set. I was picturing bands entirely composed of multiple jugs of various sizes and washboards.
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9/28/2024, 12:44:30 PM

Flooreo
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9/28/2024, 11:12:48 AM

Godot gives you a warning if you declare a signal, but don't use it in that class. In my case, I use it in another class, but it belongs to the class I declare it in because it is emitted there, just via some indirect data-driven stuff.

This is a surprisingly tough case for Godot.
It's simply impossible to solve. There's no way to correlate a signal declaration to its emission in a completely different place (especially when not even in GDScript, such as an animation, or if it's emitted in some script made in another language). (Don't say "you could solve this with AI." You can't reliably, and it wouldn't be worth the cost even if it could.)
So, if you can't reliably detect if it's used, should they just eliminate the warning entirely? I don't know. Sometimes, signals are meant to be emitted straightfowardly, and there are dead signals lying around.
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