astrospanner

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Tw?tter refugee, finding a new place.
thinkin about this date picker i made like 6 years ago

Second recommendation of the day: TIS-100. It's a zacktronics game about parallelized assembly programming.

(zacktronics do a load of really good puzzle games)

It's similar to the "nand to tetris" course, but slightly simplified (you don't have to worry about interrupts, for example)
Quick recommendation: The "TuringComplete" game on steam. Basically leads you through a computer science course, to go from nand gates to a full, working, programmable computer.
UK: "We have no food. The economy & social infrastructures are collapsing. "
UK gov: "Only the woke eat salad! British-made cardboard is more nutritious than foreign vegetables! Cardboard for lunch = patriotism; dirty foreign salad = treason, passport cancellation & deportation!"

An AI test from 1971 shows you need to adjust your #ChatGPT expectations.

In 1971, Terry Winograd devised the Winograd Schemas, simple sentence understanding tasks that require the use of knowledge and commonsense reasoning. Humans understand them easily. ChatGPT... not so much.

#THREAD
I spent a few days with the in-laws for Christmas and in my down time did a deep, dark dive into #QElon’s ideology and motivations.

The shortest version I’ve come up with so far is that he’s in a billionaire eugenicist, transhumanist, white supremacist, anarcho-communist, Russian Cosmist science-fiction cult.

Unfortunately I’m dead serious about this.

This also offers a partial explanation for why he is a literal Kremlin propagandist. He and Putin are deeply aligned.
#EvacuateTwitter

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”