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a hangry mouse@oscillatory· 18d

here's an example I know of where rendering is slow and bad when you zoom in too quickly. i could get the AI fix it but i was thinking i should probably save a small set of problems to fix by myself

a filled region with a fine-grained border looks bad if you zoom in quickly: it shows a blocky, coarse-grained color fill near the boundary.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· 23d

busted: wet claude trusted: oiled up qwen

<meta name="keywords" > tag for qwen image 3.0 blog post has various unhinged keywords visible:

"nude qwen stacy, nude qwen staffani, obituariy for qwen bookheimer, oiled up qwen, old qwen naked, older spider qwen naked, ollam qwen,"

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· 24d

in my orbit, undamped, just vibing

diagram of linear plane autonomous systems with "centers" circled

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· 26d

if I was doing hardcore accelerationism, i would simply use my datacenter full of geniuses to invent new breakthrough approaches beyond deep learning that have significantly less expensive scaling laws, rather than just pouring more RL data into ever-bigger models

3. Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist, and I'm continually surprised to see the so-called "accelerationists" so excited about open-weight models. I suspect the reason they are is that they know open-weight models are effectively ungovernable, and they simply like the overall cloak of ungovernability open-weight models create over the whole of AI. It's not a bad strategy; it reminds me of James Scott's recounting of the hill people in "the art of not being governed." Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· 26d

"just issue some bullshit advisory that doesnt even make sense and everything that touches government funding will be forced to use Made-In-The-USA AI, as a kind of protectionism for frontier labs (i'm currently employed at one of these btw)"

5. I would guess that the Trump Administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open-weight Chinese models. You don't need to "ban open source" (one of the dumber motifs of AI policy discussion). You just need to direct every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD. "A Federal Reserve Advisory Bulletin found that there may be backdoors in Chinese AI models." It needn't be that well justified. You just create enough regulatory risk that every regulated enterprise backs off. You probably don't want to create so much regulatory risk that you scare off the hyperscalers from serving Chinese models; this will just drive startups to sketchier providers. There's a happy middle ground here. I'd assume they will do some version of this.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· 29d

gm gunkon chickens

image of two chicks standing by a window as lightning strikes, but with the whole scene rendered as geons

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· 29d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(p...

drawing of a cheetah and the geon representation of a cheetah

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 13

consigned to the permanent underclass for being gab-impaired and rizzless

charisma, people skills, personality hires

AI makes the world more nepo. So go make some friends. Let’s say there is a “human premium” where there are some services where people would prefer humans over machines doing them, even if the people are technically inferior. Well, this only works if the human is a really good hang. Become the good hang. Sometimes people assume that social skills aren’t practicable, but they are. You can choose to be funnier, kinder, and more empathetic. Pay attention to the people you like best, and study the traits that make them glow.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 13

the white guys came and taught us

Painted illustration of two nearly identical figures with long white-blonde hair, pale glowing skin, and blue eyes, standing against a dark forest background at night. Both wear white long-sleeved garments with gold-banded collars, gold wristbands, and wide gold belts with ornate rectangular buckles. Each figure is surrounded by a soft white aura. The figure on the left raises their right hand, palm facing outward in a greeting gesture. The style resembles vintage New Age or 'Nordic alien' spiritual artwork.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 11

now i'm picturing ISIS giving powerpoint presentations about fanfiction-based jailbreaks

AI training has been delivered through transnational jihadist networks. Neither
faction arrived at AI use independently. Islamic State operatives delivered in-person
training and online assistance to ISWAP across multiple locations: “The white guys
came and taught us,” one former commander recalled. “They assembled the top
people in a room and used a projector to show how it works on a big screen.” They
supplied laptops with VPNs and encryption software, set up accounts and managed
paid subscriptions, and advised daily on prompting techniques and bypassing
platform restrictions. Respondents consistently identified the Islamic State as “the
real source” behind these efforts. Because ISIS disseminates technical capabilities
across its provinces and runs them as an integrated global network, similar training
has likely reached other affiliates. JAS received parallel training through separate
networks, indicating diffusion beyond any single group.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 10

i originally thought i had managed to avoid posting this, but somehow cognitive offloading discourse returned

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 10

"You wouldn't offload a cognitive task", in the style of "You wouldn't download a car"

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 9

messing around with a phase portrait visualizer for 1d systems

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 7

gm goo chickens

1 Introduction: the binding problem as
neuroscience’s tough nut to crack
In his philosophical writings, Alan Watts articulated a fundamental dichotomy that cuts to the heart of how we understand reality: “There are basically two kinds of philosophy. One’s
called Prickles, the other’s called Goo. And prickly people are precise, rigorous, logical. They like everything chopped up and clear. Goo people like it vague. For example, in physics, prickly
people believe that the ultimate constituents of matter are particles. Goo people believe it’s waves.” I would not say I like things “vague,” but I will tip my hand early in this paper: I’m going to make the case for goo over prickles for a new understanding of cognition and consciousness.

Aspect Prickly thinking Gooey thinking
Fundamental nature Reality consists of discrete particles Reality consists of continuous waves/fields; particles are highly
concentrated standing waves
Core metaphor Brain as digital computer Brain as electromagnetic field medium
Primary substrate Neural spikes and synaptic connections Electromagnetic fields and resonance
Information Coding Discrete spike trains (binary/digital) Continuous field dynamics (analog)
Binding mechanism Requires special binding circuits/convergence zones Natural integration through field coherence
Communication speed Limited by synaptic delays (10–100 m/s) Field propagation at ~50,000 m/s
Information capacity Linear, sequential processing Volumetric (3D) parallel processing
Temporal binding Complex synchronization mechanisms needed Automatic through field coherence
Criticality maintenance Active tuning of synaptic weights Arises from multi-scale field interactions
1/f noise origin Requires fine-tuning Natural consequence of field dynamics
Neural avalanches Sequential synaptic cascades Electromagnetic resonance cascades
Energy efficiency High metabolic cost for binding circuits Minimal energy via resonance
Unity of consciousness Paradoxical - how to bind separate modules?Natural—fields are inherently unified
Measurement focus Spike counts, firing rates Field potentials, oscillations, phase
Consciousness theory Emerges from computation IS the electromagnetic field patterns
Philosophical position Reductionist, mechanistic Holistic, continuous

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 7

we eating tonight

An operator like this eats a function ψ(t) and spits out another function.

the architecture has to eat variability as a feature, not fight it.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 4

Switched to Opus 4.8 · Why? Edit your intellectual interests and retry with Fable 5

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jul 4

bro what is a "ghost ladder" 🫠

What the A/B showed

1. Same information, mirror-imaged. Single 250 ms tone — both peak at 250, but their
ghost ladders run opposite ways:
- Bank ghosts at submultiples: 250, 125, 83 (= P, P/2, P/3) — a resonator locks to
every n-th kick.
- PID ghosts at multiples: 250, 500, 750 (= P, 2P, 3P) — every n-apart pair of spikes
leaves an interval.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 30

"just crank it" ???

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 30

sorry claude, the GPU poverty *is* the fork. it's non-large-load-bearing.

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 29

emphasis on the "can" so far. most seeds don't manage to solve it, but some seeds can for certain combinations of initialization strategy and learning rule

plot of [2 -> 1 -> 1] network of spiking LIF neurons, with a spike from in1 at t1 = 50ms and a spike from in2 at t2 = 250 ms

the top two plots show the dynamics of the effective weight, plus facilication and depression factors, of the (in1 -> hidden) synapse and the (in2 -> hidden) synapse, respectively

the middle plot shows the (spiking) output of the hidden unit

the plot below that shows the synaptic dynamics of the hidden -> output unit

the bottom plot shows the output unit not firing at t1 but firing at t2

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 27

fact-checked by real anti-corn patriots

The priest and Tucker both make a subtle but fundamental error here. By the priest’s own recounting, the demon told him that his power over the woman was from “pop” (soda). But in the United States, this isn’t made with sugar, it is made with corn syrup. Corn does not occur in nature. The Olmec bred it from a grass called teosinte in one of the most radical and unexplained transformations in the history of agriculture. The plant barely resembles its ancestor. Mainstream archaeobotanists still struggle to fully account for how it happened as fast as it did but there is a school of thought that suggests the Olmec obtained the knowledge to do this by communing with entities contacted through psychedelic rituals involving human sacrifice. Corn deities figure prominently in the religion of the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, and other groups in the Americas. Its derivatives are now in virtually every processed food product in America. When you consume it, you are partaking in it. It’s even in your gas tank thanks to the federal government’s ethanol subsidies and fuel mandate. When your car burns it, it leaves a cloud of the stuff lingering in the air like cursed incense.

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Father Chad Ripperger tells Tucker Carlson sugar is a big addiction demons drive in people who are possessed.

"I'm not surprised even a little bit. I'm just surprised you said it out loud."

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 23

no context

LSD can be used to solve the Spatiotemporal XOR problem

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 17

upgrading my knot server

screenshot of top of tangled.org webiste with a warning header:

Some services that you adminster require an update. Click to show more.

Upgrading to v1.15.0-alpha

With v1.15.0-alpha, a knot itself owns its members and per-repo collaborators directly. Previously this data was sourced from PDS records (sh.tangled.knot.member and sh.tangled.repo.collaborator) that the appview and the knot both read off the firehose. The knot is now the source of truth and serves them over XRPC instead:

- sh.tangled.knot.addMember, sh.tangled.knot.removeMember, sh.tangled.knot.listMembers
- sh.tangled.repo.addCollaborator, sh.tangled.repo.removeCollaborator, sh.tangled.repo.listCollaborators

Until your knot is upgraded, the appview keeps reading its members and collaborators from the old firehose-sourced records. Upgrade to move your knot onto knot-owned access control.

- Upgrade to the latest tag (v1.15.0 or above)
- Head to the knot dashboard and hit the “retry” button to verify your knot

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 13

playing around with spectrograms at the moment

screenshot of computer window titled "EWMA Resonators -- Spectrogram" showing two spectrograms, one, based on the "Resonate" algorithm, on top of the other, based on the traditional Constant-Q Transform (CQT)

f_min = 16 Hz, f_max = 100 Hz, B = 24 / oct, K = 63, hop = 26
Tone generator
Source: freesound_community-bass-sine-sweep-20-70hz-73676.mp3 29.7 s · 24000 Hz · 2781 cols · 63 bins (16.0–95.9 Hz)

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 13

conehead has no principles, to the surprise of no one

“This was verbatim: ‘we classified whole entire areas of physics in the nuclear era and made them state secrets and that research vanished. And we’re absolutely capable of doing that again for AI—we will classify any area of math that we think is leading in a bad direction, and it will end,” Andreessen said. “I just personally can’t tolerate the idea hanging out there that literally we could have linear algebra being declared a state secret.”

pmarca quoting Anthropic Fable/Mythos suspension announce with "waoh . o (BASED BASED BASED)" meme

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 12

okay dang, up to around 80 tokens / sec with MTP (though I'm losing track of all the acronyms and modifiers. Gemma 4 12B IT QAT MTP (Unsloth)) "please generate an svg of a guinea pig wearing a top hat riding a unicycle" bsky.app/profile/unsl...

guinea pig wearing a top hat riding a unicycle

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 12

Good sky tonight

Sky at sunset, mammatus clouds fill the sky

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 11

i had a dream that I could fill my tangled.org repo READMEs with incomprehensible mathematical pseudocode, and that dream is one step closer to being real now

$markdown + latex document rendered correctly: - define **EWMAResonators** ( $f_s$ : sample rate, $f_{min}$ : frequency of lowest resonator, $K$ : number of resonators, $x$ : stream of input samples ) - setup resonators: $\forall k \in \{ 0, \ldots, K-1 \}$ - $f_k := f_{min} \cdot 2^{k / B}$ - $\omega_k := 2 \pi f_k$ - $\tau_k := \dfrac{c_\tau (\log_{10}(1+f_k))^{n_\tau}}{f_k}$ - $c_\tau = \text{given or } 1, \quad n_\tau = \text{given or } 1$ - $\alpha_k := 1 - \exp \left( \frac{-1}{f_s \tau_k} \right)$ - $\beta_k := \text{given or } \alpha_k$ - $\gamma_k := \text{given or } \alpha_k$ - $A_k := \exp(-i \omega_k T_s)$ - $P_k : \mathbb{C}, R_k : \mathbb{C}, \tilde{R}_k : \mathbb{C}, D_k : \mathbb{C}$ - $P_k \leftarrow 1$ , $R_k \leftarrow 0$ , $\tilde{R}_k \leftarrow 0$ , $D_k \leftarrow 1$ - on each input frame $x_{0:M-1}$ : - on each input $x$ : - $\forall k \in \{ 0, \ldots, K-1 \}$ - $R_k \leftarrow (1 - \alpha_k) \cdot R_k + \alpha_k \cdot x \cdot P_k$ - $\tilde R_k^{prev} \leftarrow \tilde R_k$ - $\tilde R_k \leftarrow (1-\beta_k)\,\tilde R_k + \beta_k \, R_k$ - $D_k \leftarrow (1 - \gamma_k) \, D_k + \gamma_k \tilde{R}_k ( \tilde R_k^{prev})^\ast$ - $P_k \leftarrow P_k \cdot A_k$ - output: - power $\leftarrow |\tilde{R}_k|^2$ - phase $\leftarrow \arg \tilde{R}_k$ - inst. freq. $\leftarrow \begin{cases} f_k + \dfrac{f_s \, \arg D_k}{2 \pi} & \text{if } |D_k| \geq 10^{-6} \\ f_k & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$ - $\forall k \in \{ 0, \ldots, K-1 \}$ - (numerical stabilization of $P_k$ ) - for $f(x) = x^{-1/2}$ , first-order Taylor expansion around $x = 1$ yields: $$f(x) \approx \dfrac{3 - x}{2} =: g(x) \quad (x \approx 1)$$ - $g(|P_k|^2)$ is then used as a scaling factor - $P_k \leftarrow P_k \cdot \dfrac{3 - |P_k|^2}{2}$$

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 11

got a tangled local appview up and running, currently working with Opus 4.8 to try to get LaTeX rendering working via mathjax. some pre-existing CSS rule is adding display: block to all SVGs, gotta fix that first

$localhost instance of tangled.org showing a test markdown string with latex. math equations are labeled but each <svg> element is on its own line due to a pre-existing css rule adding display: block to <svg> Markdown rendered: # Math render test Inline: the relation $E = mc^2$ and a sum $\sum_{i=1}^{n} a_i$. Underscores stay intact (not italics): $a_1 + a_2 = b$. Display block with a matrix and cases: $$ A = \left[ \begin{matrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{matrix} \right], \quad f(x) = \begin{cases} x & \text{if } x \geq 0 \\ -x & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} $$ Currency **must** stay literal: it costs $5 today and $10 tomorrow.$

a hangry mouse@oscillatory· Jun 9

"If anything is ever learned about what I am, tell me." same goes for me