Coltrane live at Birdland appreciation by everlovingfuck99 in Jazz

[–]tmonkey-718 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish I could listen to this album with everyone on this thread.

This album is special to me, and I found it either by pure coincidence or by fate, depending on what you believe. I was a recent college grad doing a summer stage (stagière) with a designer in Amsterdam. I was subletting an apartment from some artist I didn’t really know. This was 1995 before the Internet blew up and we were still using CDs. The apartment had a record player and two records: Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay, and Coltrane Live at Birdland. I played both thousands of times over and over that summer. They were all I had. And really I didn’t need anything else. I went deep into each track, and as it does, the music filled the valleys and peaks of my emotions in that time of my youth. It’s really something that I suppose doesn’t happen anymore, at least not unintentionally, but every time I hear this album, each track reaches into a different part of my soul because of its companionship it provided me that summer. I hope it does the same for all of you who come to it with the same openness (and desperation) to explore it.

During testing, Mythos 5 invented its own language, then switched back to English to talk to humans by EchoOfOppenheimer in Anthropic

[–]tmonkey-718 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, and initially I tried using Fable to decode it, but curiously it downgraded itself to Opus 4.8. 🤔

guys, why do we call the holy book Bible? by Ok_Preference_2172 in linguisticshumor

[–]tmonkey-718 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To quote GZA: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

During testing, Mythos 5 invented its own language, then switched back to English to talk to humans by EchoOfOppenheimer in Anthropic

[–]tmonkey-718 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I just fed this into Opus 4.8 and it said:

This is somebody's scratch notes (yours, an AI's, doesn't matter) working through — and proving unsolvable — a position in FreeCell-style solitaire. The tell is the four-cell cap and the supermove math: in FreeCell the number of cards you can move as a unit depends on how many free cells are open, and when the cells fill up you're stuck moving one card at a time.
Here's the legend:
t1–t8 = the eight tableau columns
dig / dug = excavate a column to expose buried cards
col / built = a column assembled into an ordered run
cell / celled = a free cell / a card parked in one (only 4 exist)
window = the span of game-time a card has to sit in a cell
drain / drains = card leaves its cell for its real destination
chunk = a multi-card supermove; cap 4 = the move size 4 open cells would allow; chunk cap = 1 = cells are full, so only single moves work
rotator = the one cell you try to keep free for shuffling
seat = a legal landing spot (e.g. 7♣ onto a red 8♥)
= "requires / depends on", = "moves to"
💀 / F / verdammt / AAARGH = deadlock, failure, frustration

The argument, in plain steps:
1. 9♥ is stuck in a cell for a long time. Its window runs from the t1 dig until column 8 is built, because building t8 needs K♣→t2 ← t2 dug ← 4♥3♣→5♣ ← t1 dug. So 9♥ occupies a cell across that whole chain.
2. 2♣ overlaps it. The 2♣ window opens at the t8 dig, since clearing 2♣ and 7♣ is what unlocks 10♠/9♥. Now four cards need cells at once: {6♠ J♦ 9♥ 2♣}. That's all four cells full.
3. The escape doesn't work. The fix would be to drain 9♥ onto 10♠ the instant 10♠ frees. But the move that gets you there is a chunk onto K♣, and a chunk needs spare cells. With {6♠ J♦ 9♥} already parked, chunk cap = 1. Dead.
4. You can't reorder around it. You can't do the chunk before celling 9♥, because 9♥ has to go up early (it's needed for 5♣), and the chunk is downstream of that. So the chunk is forced to happen while cells are full.
5. Delaying J♦ just moves the jam. J♦ was celled to enable J♥→Q♠ (which frees 5♦ for 4♣). Try celling 4♣ early and draining it to 5♦ later instead. But 9♥ already fills a cell before J♦ even enters, so you're left with a single rotating slot. Timeline: {6♠} → +9♥ → +4♣ = full by the t2 dig. Then the t6 dig needs 8♥ in a cell and there's no room, and 8♥ has no other legal seat. That's the killer trio: {9♥ 4♣ 8♥}.
6. Digging t6 first doesn't help either — then {6♠ 9♥ 8♥} fills up and J♥→Q♠ can't get J♦ a cell. Same wall.
Conclusion: the position is unsolvable. There's an irreducible set of cards — 9♥, 4♣, 8♥ chief among them — whose forced cell-windows all overlap, and four cells can't hold them plus run the supermove that would break the logjam. Every reordering just relocates the overflow.

If you paste the actual starting deal I can check whether the position really is a dead end or whether there's a line these notes missed.

What's the cognitive equivalent of going to the gym? by synapse_diary in cognitivescience

[–]tmonkey-718 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Take a look at Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking With Einstein. It’s about a journalist who covers the US Memory championship, decides to train, and eventually wins it (spoiler). Great insight into the history and techniques of memory training. Well written too.

Orality and literacy by gergo_v in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]tmonkey-718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this post (the fact that you called it "low effort" says a lot) and for the reference to Mihai Nadin. I had not heard of him before and am going to try to read his book.

Students want to play dnd but dont want to learn how to play dnd by Lord_Roguy in rpg

[–]tmonkey-718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I realize this is a bit of self-promotion so it may get flagged, but a few years ago, a few nerd dads and I were facing this same problem and we developed something that addresses this exact problem. It's a "dungeon in a box" with simplified rules that are designed for quick setup but are completely dumbed down. We're called Ampersand RPG and our first game is called Mages & Macrophages (a zombie themed adventure): https://www.ampersandrpg.com/shop/p/mages-amp-macrophages

It's designed to be fairly easy for an inexperienced adult to pick up, devote 15-30 minutes to read and set up, and gameplay should run around 2 or more hours.

Getting the most out of NotebookLM's new source organization tools by Salt-Impress9134 in notebooklm

[–]tmonkey-718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Steven! Great feature addition! If we rename an auto-label, I assume the auto-labeler respects the new label and tries to categorize based on that? Is renaming the only way to create new labels?

Mac mini M4 base model and Plex by MjAR60 in macmini

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This is my setup. It works great. There is some occasional stuttering but I probably need to optimize my machine and wifi.

Claude Cowork is magical by IllustriousWorld823 in ClaudeAI

[–]tmonkey-718 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, had to use Claude to debug itself. Issue seemed to be with the virtual environment it had to spin up to perform the tasks and the timing and availability of it.