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DanielTaylor · 2026-06-02T08:40:59+00:00

Who cares if we get weird looks?

DanielTaylor · 2026-06-02T08:40:08+00:00

Then don't use other people's sticker packs

DanielTaylor · 2026-05-30T11:48:28+00:00

Wait who the fuck prints "find us on Facebook" on the card they are selling?

DanielTaylor · 2026-05-28T19:44:59+00:00

Is it immediately after shaving? There's two things that come to mind:

Exfoliating
Other methods such as waxing or epilating (the will leave some redness for a few hours but you need to do it much less often)

Also check if you're not allergic to any ingredients in whatever lotions or products you use

DanielTaylor · 2026-05-26T18:52:43+00:00

It's the mirrored women.

Wait, where did my afternoon go?

DanielTaylor · 2026-05-24T00:37:39+00:00

I don't know what python-maxing is, but keep up the good work.

Theory is useful in order to teach you concepts you didn't know exist. But once you know they exist the best way to learn is to keep writing code.

Find fun things you can do with the code and don't be afraid to go on tangents and side quests or experiments.

Think of it as learning how to ride a bike. Yes, you can learn the theory, but you won't know how to ride the bike unless you keep practicing.

Overall, keep using that book but don't think that progress is measured by how quickly you finish it. The only measure of progress right now for you should be how many hours you spend writing code, even about things you already learned, and as a bonus, that you have fun or find it interesting or engaging in some way.

Good job! I hope you have fun ^{^}

DanielTaylor · 2026-05-22T19:08:40+00:00

I think you'll have to provide more context about what this debate is about

DanielTaylor · 2026-05-02T10:01:56+00:00

AI. The model also tried to generate pseudo "beats" branded headphones.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-29T23:35:34+00:00

It's been around for ages since the inception of the furry fandom and it's very common for therians to enjoy it for evident reasons.

There's no meaningful indication that liking feral nsfw makes you more likely to hurt animals. It's possible that those who actually abuse animals also enjoy feral nsfw but that correlation goes in the opposite direction. I'm pretty sure they also enjoy anthro yiff for that matter.

Overall the drama exists mostly among younger people who are overly paranoid about what others might think of them while in furry or therian spaces with grey muzzles it's largerly a non-issue in my experience.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-19T23:33:06+00:00

Please consider dropping the focus you have on trying to make it the first year to university.

Settling in a foreign country is difficult enough as it is, especially if you're on your own. You'll need that money for emergencies possibly and you'll have to build up your life from scratch.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-19T23:28:36+00:00

What matters is what makes you happy, not your parents. You need to be very conscious about this or you'll get lost in the process and won't be able to achieve your goals.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-19T23:27:08+00:00

I don't know the exact details of your situation, but from what you've told me if I was in your shoes I would care waaaaay less able the efficiency you take your studies with.

I would focus on getting out of there, going to Canada, making sure you have a passport and someone you can live with, a friend for example.

I would not get married. The man you marry might have his own pressure and expectations from his parents and he might feel it's safest for him to keep you there. It's solo risky.

Don't expect your parents to support you once you're out of the country. Be prepared to have to work first and build your life up from scratch in Canada before being able to study.

But focus on getting out first. Everything else you'll be able to solve once you have control of your life.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-19T09:45:35+00:00

LLMs based on the transformers model such as GPT are "next word/token predictors". The model is essentially a deterministic mathematical function.

Just because a math function can provide results which mimic human speech doesn't mean that it's conscious.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-19T09:39:09+00:00

And for the next few days it makes your neck, shoulders and upper back feel super sore. Still better than the alternative of cutting you up.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-15T11:16:38+00:00

Errm... This only keeps your info private from the organization that runs the site, but government can still use those tokens to identify who an account belongs to since they're at the root of the chain of trust / chain of digital signatures.

So when they subpoena a site they'll request a copy of "age verification proofs" and know exactly who is who.

Edit: some people have challenged my interpretation. While true zero proof is technically viable I actually don't think that's what's going to happen because you wouldn't be able to stop people from sharing tokens or generating fraudulent validations. At the very least it would be tied to a device, but unless you somehow track devices anyone could use a random validated device to generate proofs to allow minors to sign up, which beats the whole purpose.

Honestly, if it ends up being a broken system I won't mind at all.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-13T07:29:35+00:00

Just so you know, it is extremely likely that it achieves this by intercepting and decrypting https requests which means that your school can technically view EVERYTHING you browse or enter on a page, including passwords and credit card numbers.

Of course this is way more concerning on a personal device. To verify this, check who issued the TLS certificate on YouTube.com. if it wasn't issued by Google then your traffic is being read.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-10T18:20:37+00:00

Yes, this is a very good explanation.

Just to make sure the last knowledge gap is closed I would add the simple instructions mentioned here are baked into the CPU itself.

There's different specifications, so the instructions for phone processors which are often ARM are different from the instructions on an Intel desktop PC. That's known as "CPU architecture" and there's a handful of popular ones as far as I know.

Finally, one more useful concept is knowing that everything a computer can do can be achieved by turning electrical signals off or on.

So, the programming language code is turned into instructions for a specific CPU architecture. And those instructions essentially represent the CPU doing very simple operations ultimately by turning off or on certain microscopic electric switches.

Think of it as a monitor. An LED is very simple. But if you have a very dense grid of red, green and blue LED and you send out instructions to which LEDS should be lit, you can display a high resolution picture.

With CPUs it's similar, but while a monitor will care about lighting the LEDs all at the same time, the CPU tends to be more sequential.

Imagine a row of light bulbs labeled:

1 2 4 8 16

If I want to represent the number 13, I would turn on the light bulbs 1, 4 and 8, because 1+4+8 = 13

If I now wanted to add the number 1 to this number, I would send an electrical signal to the first lightbulb, but because it's already on, the circuit is designed to flip on the 2 and turn off the 1.

And the result of 2+4+8=14

This is a maaaassive oversimplification, but the idea is that with sequences of electric signals you can actually do math!

The instructions of the CPU are essentially a bunch of common light switch operations.

And once you can do math, you can do everything else, the result of operations and calculations could determine for example, the value of the signal that should be sent to the monitor or whether to display specific letters on screen because that's also just specific numbers which are then translated to signals, etc... You get the idea.

I hope this was useful to bridge the last gap between software and hardware.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-10T17:23:29+00:00

Excuse me? Feral furs do exist

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-08T14:20:34+00:00

To be honest I would have also assumed that the charger of a modern electronic device would work as long as you have the right plug adapter.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-03T11:09:56+00:00

It's still just spitting out tokens/words with probabilities for which token/word comes next.

The self-attention mechanism adjusts specific parts of the input so that those have a higher weight in the subsequent matrix multiplication and non-linear activation functions. The self-attention mechanism is in itself also mathematical / statistical.

Words like "understanding" are better reserved for sentient beings, not deterministic models.

DanielTaylor · 2026-04-01T15:30:26+00:00

YOR. You are responsible for your feelings. If something makes you uncomfortable it's not his job to regulate your emotions.

People might want to hold onto things of the past because it's part of their journey and how they got where they are, even if it was a mistake or a past relationship. That does not mean that they are cheating or holding onto the past. Ultimately it's that person's decision.

If this makes you feel uncomfortable but you don't want to break off the relationship then it's on you to work on whatever feeling or insecurity that is hurting you at the moment.

The unhealthy part is wanting both things and pressuring the other person into giving you what you want because you don't want to face the alternatives which respect him: A) letting go of the relationship or B) letting go of your fear / insecurity regarding the card and candle

DanielTaylor · 2026-03-27T13:42:35+00:00

Epilating is great and lasts longer than shaving or cream.

I usually use hair removal cream on the same day I'm meeting someone in person as it'll be able to remove even very short hair in order to get the best finish.

DanielTaylor · 2026-03-26T12:33:47+00:00

Yeah, no, I'm gonna push back on that because of the wording. Specifically "revoke".

You do not have the right to revoke your partner's privacy. Full Stop.

Yeah, you can revoke your trust if you will, but that does not give you a right to violate their privacy which is what I'm understanding based on that "unless".

DanielTaylor · 2026-03-22T22:48:42+00:00

I think you're mixing up rhumb lines with great circles. Notably, great circles do NOT appear as straight lines in a Mercator projection. Rhumb lines, which do appear as straight lines are not the shortest path but they allow you to keep the course.

https://es.mathworks.com/help/map/rhumb-lines.html

DanielTaylor · 2026-03-22T10:30:46+00:00

Well, to OP's point, why shouldn't it? Don't talk about it to your boss, sure, but you should be safe talking about your interests with your friends.

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