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Kith.Kitchen will be shutting down on the 31st of May. I've not been able to dedicate enough time moderating this instance and we've struggled to build a moderator team. Thanks to all our members who helped to make this such a nice community, but all things must come to an end sooner or later.
To those on other instances - can you recommend some nice communities elsewhere on the fediverse that our users can migrate to?
post-church kebab shop has seriously upped their pitta game
YUM
Dear everybody re ChatGPT etc,
The word you need that you don't know you need is CONFABULATION.
What y'all are calling "hallucination" is, in neurology and psychology (where it means two slightly different things) called "confabulation".
It means when somebody's just making up something and has no idea that they're making things up, because their brain/mind is glitching.
A lot of folks are both trying to understand the AI chatbots and are trying to grapple with the possible implications for how organic minds work, by speculating about human cognition. Y'all should definitely check into the history of actual research into this topic, it will make your sock roll up and down, and blow your minds. And one of the key areas will be surfaced with that keyword.
There have been a bunch of very clever experiments that have been done on humans and how they explain themselves which betrays that there are parts of the mind that are surprisingly - and even alarmingly - independent.
Frex...
We keep getting lamb's liver in the meat subscription box and all three of us find it a bit too strongly metallic for e.g. liver and bacon on mash.
Recipe suggestions appreciated; boosts fine.
One bay is almost full now and I think I have enough material to fill... two more. That leaves four more I need to find stuff to fill.
Woodchips get delivered for free but get used up quickly, too. I can probably count on getting enough to fill two bays though.
So I need to scavenge another... two tonnes, -ish, of material, preferably nitrogen-rich.
On a bicycle.
This is non-trivial.
We don't drive, so it feels like my entire winter is spent scavenging carbon and nitrogen from wherever I can. The more diverse my sources, the better the compost will be.
I wasn't so well earlier this winter, either, so we are really very far behind where I would like to be with this.
I do have some manure too but don't like to rely on it too much, because of previous problems with aminopyralid contamination. Last year's supply was OK though.
I have seven compost bays and my aim is to fill all of them with compost heaps by mid-March. That gives them time to heat up and cool down again a bit by June, when I will plant out squashes into them. The squashes *love* it, and it means the heaps have time to ripen.
But it's a bit of a scramble.
I'm glad about the woodchips, once they've settled a bit more I can put some of the raised beds into place and get the compost (which we made last year) into those.
I have some woodchips stockpiled for further compost building, too. And some soaking for when I put the next layers onto the current compost heap. Need to find some nitrogen, though, if the coffee grounds supply is no longer available.
Paul
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