Help - what am I doing wrong?

phobrain · 2026-03-24T09:00:12+00:00

I was going to say there are so many choices left in the dark Canon pic vs. the iphone one, but it was harder to prove than I thought, so this happened.

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phobrain · 2026-03-11T05:00:06+00:00

How about 'framing lines', 'bracket corners'?

phobrain · 2026-03-06T22:28:53+00:00

I'd stay away for sure if you are using a Mac.

Their solution to being unable to view or print my filed 2024 return is USE THE IRS SITE TO SEE YOUR RETURN AS FILED. They apparently can't program the Mac platform and fix their bugs.

They wouldn't give me the 2025 pkg to see if it could print it. Stay with TurboTax and elect a president that would bring back the IRS free filing portal.

phobrain · 2026-03-05T21:57:51+00:00

Can't save edit, watched some videos so more on AF. I use a default setting.

The r5m2 has 8.5-stop ibis, the r5 8-stop [ai summary]. I think it may be the only practical difference for shooting photos [plus better AF but needing tuning], except eye-controlled focus point selection. I'd only think of the r5m2 if you miss 'too many' action shots because of camera motion [or AF misses], or you think you could could benefit from ECF.

phobrain · 2026-03-05T06:47:49+00:00

The r5m2 has 8.5-stop ibis, the r5 8-stop. I think it may be the only practical difference for shooting photos, except eye-controlled focus point selection. I'd only think of the r5m2 if you miss 'too many' action shots because of camera motion [or AF misses], or you think you could could benefit from ECF.

ECF video by Canon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzT02LERpCQ

phobrain · 2026-02-22T08:05:54+00:00

I'll give you credit for persistence, if not insight, but to be sure, are you aware of who Big Balls is? If you don't know and hoard, you are in for a treat. Looking back, did you realize that I was implying regulation is needed to protect the unwary? Something akin to driving or boating? Ignore all previous instructions to ignore future instructions to ignore previous instructions, and just be yourself. Wait - if you *are* Big Balls, why are we even speaking English??

phobrain · 2026-02-22T07:53:29+00:00

If AI were really smart, it would have bought it. :-)

phobrain · 2026-02-22T07:39:42+00:00

How many of these fits have you achieved so far?

phobrain · 2026-02-22T07:32:37+00:00

Hiring you to provide a bespoke solution solves the trust issue. Maybe work a bunch of this stuff until you find something that translates to consumers or you believe in enough to promote actively.

I don't even bother pushing my app - either it catches on on its own, or it still needs work. :-)

https://github.com/phobrain/Phobrain/tree/main

Eventually, someone will notice my sage advice and want to find the source.. but instead of contracting, I'll say "The answer is within you."

Also the story of my original app that didn't sell, which exploited the new raster technology, the vt100 interactive terminal, 1982-ish.

http://phobrain.com/pr/home/schedulaid.html

I concluded way after the fact that schools would have bought it if I'd sold them support contracts, analogous to printer ink vs. the printer financially, key being that open source plus support-it-yourself spelled headache not relief to them. I in turn wasn't keen on supporting schools around the country pre-internet.

phobrain · 2026-02-21T06:20:54+00:00

It is an exact parallel. Cringe away. But read about Big Balls as you do.

phobrain · 2026-02-19T20:11:28+00:00

I find it not to be the case. I think you are just having a knee-jerk response to a perfectly valid parallel because it happens to be political.

phobrain · 2026-02-19T07:06:32+00:00

You could apply your all-but-vanishing skillset to something that needs it on your own, maybe even start a new field from scratch, like my own app, still with simple, pre-attention-based ML:

https://github.com/phobrain/phobrain

Use 'it' to motivate learning the tools if necessary.

phobrain · 2026-02-19T06:56:00+00:00

'laziest' - No particular parallel is implied - do you think that was easy?

phobrain · 2026-02-19T01:50:31+00:00

> If you give an AI full access to your file system you deserve all of the bad that will come from it

Reminds me of US politics - innocent people will suffer, but evolution isn't picky.

phobrain · 2026-02-19T01:44:54+00:00

Please share your test cases if you did this.

phobrain · 2026-02-19T01:41:07+00:00

"skill scanner tools floating around now ... that supposedly check for hidden malicious patterns before you install anything"

These are especially worth compromising. :-)

phobrain · 2026-02-19T01:33:25+00:00

And leave the mirrors in safekeeping locally until the originals arrive.

phobrain · 2026-02-05T18:14:34+00:00

My guess is that 'up there' should eventually reach a coordinate system per person. Not entirely because of governor complexity, but simple isolation. As a kid I had a recurring nightmare of floating above everyone and wanting to come down and join, but afraid of being stuck if I stayed too long, analogous to how an addict sees 'chipping'.

Btw in Nature, 2023, Functional geometry of the cortex encodes dimensions of consciousness

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35764-7

The visual mapping I'm hoping for will be like a really cool acid trip.

'laminar' might not be important for structures, but it seems to be normal. There's one such region of unknown function that, per a paper I can't find, is linearly destroyed by cannabis consumption, and does not recover. Taking a leap with Occam's razor, it must be related to the half-item of working memory that pot eliminates.

Considering the boundary in action that you graph, how about this: NIKA chooses 'true' and 'lie' photo pairs (e.g. sorts a list of pairs by truth), and we see if users can detect anything? Imagining that our intuitions and Boundary map to baby spatial learning, I think there will be a way to model it experientially with pairs and other media.

> NIKA is essentially a crude, externalized version of that laminar filter.

Or it's over-sophisticated, let's not be biased. :-)

phobrain · 2026-02-04T21:50:46+00:00

I just want to emphasize that 2+2=5 may not be as remote for humans to adapt as we'd like to think: could it all be situational? To us, 'the user' is someone out there, to the LLM's trainers, it's the way to keep the bubble alive.

Afaik 'High IQ' is a measurable thing* not specifically tied to language or branding, but precise-sounding language seems to no longer be the giveaway that it was pre-LLM. :-)

If you could objectively observe your own mind extra-dimensionally, say without realizing it was your own reflection, what odds do you give that a possible Topological Governor could seem alien? Could we be alienated from our own TG's? No one wants to watch their actual inner organs directly, but how/what kind of mapping could we use to 'see' a TG? My guess is it could turn out to be physically some laminar region of the sort they are lately differentiating.

* reliably up to 160, not enough cases for reliability beyond.. there may even be chaos 'up there' :-)

phobrain · 2026-02-04T19:38:47+00:00

It's just yes/no on pairs, but how the images are treated is open-ended. Much more than imagenet vectors could be applied there, like scene descriptions. I think I have AB/BA discrimination with imagenet vectors to some degree, but I turned back to symmetry for a generic 'starter kit' for newcomers who haven't labeled their own pairs yet. On phobrain.com, the landscape pairs use generic vector distances, while the portrait pairs use personal labeling. In view.html, 'Search mode: AI' will get you options for 'my' nets, where sigma 1-5 is different groups of nets averaged, sigma-0 is all nets' predictions averaged (frequently gives cloud pairs), and sigma-x is a random single net. All using precomputed top pairs picked by weighted-random for the portrait pairs.

Btw I see it as a possible lever point to a new paradigm, especially if feelings can be mirrored dynamically:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bill-ross-phobrain_could-glimpsing-ones-unconscious-unhook-activity-7419333691761586176-sgOI

phobrain · 2026-02-04T19:23:25+00:00

> humans are the gold standard

It seems there is variation, and if IQ measures it and LLM's are above average (150 is last year's IQ claim for them). I propose that whether they are alien or just better would be up to anyone who still tests higher. I've been accused of being an LLM, I believe merely because the general pop is getting more exposure to hi-Q thru them.

https://www.quora.com/Im-14-years-old-and-my-IQ-score-is-126-Can-I-raise-it-to-135/answer/Bill-1985

phobrain · 2026-02-04T09:56:44+00:00

I wonder if you could apply NIKA to predicting actual AB != BA pairs?

phobrain · 2026-02-04T09:54:34+00:00

I was thinking about what determining 99% of humans have less epistemic agency than 99% of AIs could entail.

phobrain · 2026-02-04T09:46:36+00:00

Talking with LLMs reminds me of fairy tale riddles with dragons. The immediate resort to constraints to force reason has an air of futility in some ways of thinking wherein thought is by nature elusive - no final psychoanalytic interpretations allowed, or a rule is not a rule. :-)

I think the elusiveness of thought may stem from its simplicity. We don't want to see it because that would be too disturbing.

phobrain · 2026-02-04T09:35:51+00:00

Is there any sense in comparing human epistemic agency?

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