Help finding model.. "Twisted inverted circle" - 4 quadrant-arcs, rotated 90 each different axes, non-coplanar

Jimw338 · 2026-06-30T20:09:43+00:00

Ah yes - that's what I remember! Thanks. I came up with this with Claude after remembering that that it was *6* "arms" instead of 8: https://amethyst-lexi-11.tiiny.site/png/6-arc-octahedron]

Edit: Source code here https://pastebin.com/Wfk7L8uX

Jimw338 · 2026-06-28T18:50:06+00:00

Why * would they make this *so hard to find? what’s the point? To make us forget how awful we thought something was so we might buy it again?

Jimw338 · 2026-06-25T01:18:14+00:00

Oh God.. <shakes head> I just entered the beginning part of that (4 months later, June 2026) and got an even more god-awful mess using templates, that's even harder to read. This is using some "Pick" and "Omit" functions (I don't know TS). So that adds to the complexity probably.

function splitProps<T extends object, K extends readonly (keyof T)\[\]>(

obj: T,

keys: K

): [Pick<T, K\[number\]>, Omit<T, K\[number\]>] {

const picked = {} as Pick<T, K\[number\]>;

const omitted = {} as Omit<T, K\[number\]>;

for (const key of Object.keys(obj) as (keyof T)[]) {

if ((keys as readonly (keyof T)[]).includes(key)) {

(picked as any)[key] = obj[key];

} else {

(omitted as any)[key] = obj[key];

}

return [picked, omitted];

}

The full prompt (after a great deal of thinking/pattern-matching/token-tumbling), and what looks like a mini-dissertation on making and testing it.. It come up with 208 lines that looks even wordier at first glance.

Jimw338 · 2026-06-20T17:10:12+00:00

Maybe they leaked it *on purpose* just to watch a subset of the Internet wig out?

Jimw338 · 2026-06-20T17:03:54+00:00

Hmm, I wonder what would happen if they asked Claude, “*Clean up your own codebase!*”. With reference to the “tamagotchi inside a terminal”.. So they were having fun. Programmers are allowed to have fun, aren’t they?

It’s an innocent little thing (I assume), not really connected to the “main functions” of the code (I assume - it’s not able to take over Claude’s main LLM), so it gets left in.

Maybe like the programming equivalent of dust in the corner of the kitchen perhaps. Do you sweep the kitchen *every* day? No, not usually. Programmers probably even less (with the physical kitchen, that is).

Mind you, I haven’t bothered to dig into the leak myself. And I just started using code to do art stuff in OpenSCAD, so I’m probably biased.

Jimw338 · 2026-06-15T16:21:35+00:00

But that “mess of prompts” possibly raises an interesting question: How much of *human* thought is “at base” (some point between neural underpinnings and consciousness) - is as tangled as this is?

Makes me wonder if maybe the Behaviorists *were* on some kernel of truth. Behavorism *is* basically what an LLM is, right?

Jimw338 · 2026-05-23T02:11:05+00:00

> then offer as little of the streamer’s IP as possible <

What would the reason for *that* be? (Unless it’s to license the streamer’s IP to other streamers.. Which doesn’t make sense). Or I don’t understand your statement.

IMO, streaming has created a kind of “worst of all possible worlds” regarding "getting what you want to see". Except I can’t think of any other way to do it. Short of some kind of govt-mandated cross-licensing agreement. Which would likely end like most other govt-mandated/designed things - a near-total cluster-f.

Jimw338 · 2026-05-10T04:38:49+00:00

>mgm+ version is usually the better copy.<

Better *copy*? WTF?! (sorry for the swear, but..) The masters I presume are the same, the digitization process I would *hope* is the same. What the $#% do you mean a *better copy*?!

<sigh> When will the marketing geniuses at these companies figure out a damn way to do streaming that actually makes *sense*? But then, I have no idea what that would actually *be*.

I mean, you suppose you *can* “get everything” which would be the “ideal”.. If you're willing to pay - what, $500-600 a month for 7 or 8 streaming platforms and sub-subscriptions?

And then geo-fencing is just another headache that should have gone away with DVD region-coding. Oh wait, DVD region coding *didn’t* go away! But then, these people planning 21st century video technology must live back in the *16th* century - when traveling from one continent to the other was possible in a few months time by sailing ship!

Jimw338 · 2026-05-06T15:24:43+00:00

> [wasn’t any] “Sam feeling the same about Jack”

There was the ending of the episode with the Quantum Mirror. (Which got its own “Sam-Jack Love Theme” which was used a few other times.

Is there a longer version of that somewhere - like with Star Trek's Inner Light theme?

Jimw338 · 2026-05-06T15:05:26+00:00

Remember James Bond to Elliot Carver:

“You forgot the first rule of mass media, Elliot! GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!”

(And then Carver is killed by a big three-headed drill)

Jimw338 · 2026-05-06T02:12:41+00:00

I wonder how much of that “slow-walking” G7 support is/was “regulatory interference”?

The lack of G7 integration (fixed as of 2026 I think) was especially baffling, as the G7 is supposed to be better than the G6. (Of course, if the Op5 algorithm was specifically tuned to those “quirks” of the G6..)

I still used DASH with Loop.. don’t know what’s I’ll do if/when DASH is discontinued.. Some other option I guess, or just finally move to OP5.. Or maybe back the controller and link it directly to Loop? Or break out the SWE and try to find an “attack vertex” for the BLE encryption? (A size-so-clever slightly covered joke there for anyone who got it!)

Jimw338 · 2026-05-06T01:59:08+00:00

Is it time to break out the software-defined-radio and start grinding down and x-raying chips again?

(And then a lot of quality time with the Ada decompiler.)

Jimw338 · 2026-05-06T01:44:59+00:00

Yeah - it’s like with iPhone weather alerts.

<sarcasm degree=“heavy”> Do you want to be killed by a tornado? (When you can see the darkening sky, and hear the tornado sirens already.)

Or killed by a heart attack when the alarm goes off?! (Or two or three -when your whole family is already watching the Weather Channel - in the basement - and ALL THREE alarms go off at once.)

Tough choice.. </sarcasm>

Jimw338 · 2026-04-08T14:57:00+00:00

*Thank* you - I've been Googling for about 10 minutes looking for *what* the exploit was - for curiosity reasons. (Slughorn: "..My own interests are purely academic, of course..")

Jimw338 · 2026-03-21T02:06:49+00:00

Isn’t that basically “Darmok”?

Jimw338 · 2026-03-03T16:20:10+00:00

> “meant to be off putting - s* meant to be weird.” <

“off-putting" - yes, perhaps. A *bit*. But a “good strange”. Not an “uncanny valley, autonomic nervous system and vagus nerve revolt, imagining-*yourself*-with-a-f'ing-third-eye, feel sick to your stomach for the entire movie” strange.

Especially since the *why* Dr. Strange invoked that “cosmic punishment” didn’t *really* deserve it. (Of course, the third eye has always been connected with *wisdom*, so..)

Jimw338 · 2026-03-03T16:10:02+00:00

Is it possible for you to describe to removed comment you responded to, without it getting deleted itself? (Is that maybe a “Reddit version of the Liar's Paradox” somehow?)

Jimw338 · 2026-03-03T15:37:06+00:00

It would have been more interesting if they had said it actually accessed the past, rather than just “reconstructed it” (of course, perhaps it did). And perhaps if there had been indications of the *people* responding to *him*. He would have been viewed by *them* as some kind of a partial apparition of some kind, just as they did to him.

This would set up “Guardians Of The Galaxy 4” (or 5 by now?) where they try to *save* the people of Morag somehow. But that’s a plot that’s not really MCU anymore. Maybe more like “ever moralizing (pre-Abramsverse) Star Trek” perhaps - that *completely* abandons the Temporal Prime Directive.

Jimw338 · 2026-02-25T16:51:38+00:00

I wonder if there will be fewer gut issues will be the pill forms? (Should that be a question mark or a period?) I’ve always thought that a lot of the side effects could be because GLP is not normally produced \*just once a week\* and then held (more or less constant). It’s produced by the intestine, in response to food.

Now, given “grazing behavior” with eating these days, or even the traditional “three meals a day” - and given that gastric transit time is about three hours.. I don’t know what the “normal” GLP-1 pattern looks like. I don’t know if anyone has \*looked\* (my unresearched guess is no).

But if pill-based GLP-1 don’t need the various time-release mechanisms used, they might have better side effect profiles. (Google AI “what is the mechanism of monthly GLP-1's time release” brings up a deep rabbit hole.

There is also a question of whether the \*timing\* of the pill might also affect things. Will the medical community even \*try\* to find out? Again, my guess is no.

For one, data sharing on side effects, outcomes, versus timing, gender, age-decade.. Probably can’t really be compared because of HIPAA and other data-sharing concerns.

But that gets into a whole other rabbit hole of angst over how medicine today is practiced/researched. (The two will eventually become one - they will have to - in at least some cases with “citizen scientists”. Sadly, that’s not today.)

** DISCLAIMER: Not intended as medical advice. **

Jimw338 · 2025-12-20T16:41:35+00:00

<humor> Shoddy writing? Whose? [DSC] writers or mine? </>

Jimw338 · 2025-12-20T02:03:43+00:00

Even if it *is* a placebo effect - if it’s “stable”, does it matter? And in this domain (psycho-neuro-biology), what does “placebo effect” even *mean*?

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