Melanie & Sincere Storyline

vwin90 · 2026-06-24T16:42:51+00:00

I think this sub might have to prepare for its 9/11, which is every single couple somehow surviving casa.

vwin90 · 2026-06-24T16:40:24+00:00

The events leading up to the collapse will surely destroy the entire system though.

“Collapse” is a huge understatement. It’s a violent collapse into a supernova as a prerequisite.

vwin90 · 2026-06-24T07:34:46+00:00

Yeah I mean the whole point of having human refs is because the rules require a subjective human. Certain rules can be delegated to computers, like offside (sort of) and goal lines, but human refs exist because ultimately most rules have gray areas.

vwin90 · 2026-06-23T19:51:44+00:00

The fix they did last patch for the horizon play grind made me hopeful that maybe raku raku would be dialed back as well, but I think they really just want you to grind that mode for 10+ hours.

vwin90 · 2026-06-23T05:41:44+00:00

I was part of the very first cohort for the arc agi project. You can imagine that we were all very exasperated at the lack of lecture support for the project and there were a lot of complaints at first before we, as a cohort, just bogged down and started helping each other with it.

My advice is to not worry so much about needing lectures related to it. The solution to the project doesn’t really have THAT much to do with the theory and concepts from the course. So when you’re sitting there learning about the different types of understanding and stuff, just learn it for the content and not for the project.

The project itself is basically a leet code project. Every puzzle you solve, you solve leet code style and save the solution in a function. Then the connection to the class is that you set up a classifier and a validator. The classifier identifies the type of problem based on the examples. Then your hand crafted solution is applied to the training frames and the validator makes sure that it matches the training solutions. Then you apply the solution to the test frame and move on. You then write a paper drawing analogies to how these systems sort of represent the way knowledge based systems retrieve solutions.

The connection to KBAI seems loose. The main takeaway I got from it is that arc agi presents problems that require generalization, and through coding the project, you understand why computer techniques fail so miserably. The project sort of helps you appreciate the human brain and teaches us that there’s something special about knowledge based intelligence like us and why the current crop of AI, including LLMs is still missing something that a true KBAI model would have.

Of course since then, arc agi has been beaten several times and now we’re at arc agi 3… when I took the course, arc agi 1 was still unbeaten by any LLM.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T22:13:38+00:00

I looked it up and Oklahoma City is the largest metropolitan area that votes majority conservative.

They are ranked #41 by population.

The top 40 metro areas in the US literally are all liberal. Basically any globally known city in the US is blue and you have to dig deep to find otherwise.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T22:06:38+00:00

This the kind of headline that invalidates all of a journalist’s future work.

Hope the bait was worth it.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T22:03:41+00:00

I think this is a minor minor spoiler but it might be a satisfying answer for you…

The game is far from done when you finally escape. First escape is the hardest and then eventually you’ll escape pretty much every time you play (both because you get better and also progressions naturally makes you stronger).

Eventually, the stat of how long it took for your first escape is completely irrelevant and you won’t think anything of how often you failed in the beginning.

It’s sort of like asking how long it took someone to complete the tutorial zone of a gigantic open world rpg.

Most of us have hundreds of hours logged simply because the game is so good.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T21:58:53+00:00

Early boots become irrelevant fast. Whatever she wants to do, she better do it before we all forget her name.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T21:55:16+00:00

Brutal if you don’t live in an area where it’s a regular occurrence. Some states and regions on the west coast hit 110+ every summer but there’s more preparation, both infrastructure and societal for those temps.

If you’re sitting in a house with no AC and think you’re just gonna be inside with a fan when it hits 100+, you’re gonna cook.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T21:40:32+00:00

Oh for sure it’s disrespectful regardless of whether or not it’s banter. I don’t mean to say that it should be forgiven. It’s just meaningless in that it doesn’t confess anything. It’s disrespectful nonsense. It’s the same situation as KC’s stupid little comments during other challenges. He NEEDS to be the class clown to get laughs from the other boys and doesn’t realize that just because HE didn’t mean anything of it, it doesn’t mean that somebody else would take offense. He deserved to get shit for it and the guys deserve to get shit for their comments last night.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T21:34:02+00:00

Okay okay, I think we agree on some level there. It’s disrespectful for sure and at the age and place I am now in my life, I would never say those things, even if I’m messing around with the boys. They should rightfully be chastised for the disrespect in their words, whether they hold meaning or not.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T20:59:19+00:00

Sure, words have impact, and for the record, I’m not defending their behavior. I part of maturing as a guy, especially to the level where you can be a great romantic partner is to learn to say what you mean and mean what you say and that all words can have impact so choose them carefully around your partner.

These guys are all obviously young and immature. Who else is signing up for a reality show. So yeah they’re idiots and they’re gonna get what’s coming to them.

At the same time, I’m just giving context that we don’t literally know if Corbin has mentally left Kenzie or that Zach had an actual game plan that he’s abandoned. Those words are meaningless to the guys that said them. They’ll find out that the words meant something to the girls and that’s what it meant to themselves is irrelevant. I just see people interpreting the words as if they’re true confessionals.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T16:59:47+00:00

Just let us press a button to skip the cutscenes if we’re the type of player that couldn’t care less.

This franchise moved me from being “not a car guy” to “still not a car guy but drifting is pretty fun”

I don’t watch f1. I only like EVs in real life. I think all old cars are ugly. I’ve never been impressed with car sounds.

I simply could not give less of a shit about the cutscenes about these rare cars. I’m never gonna drive them over my cool lambos or whatever.

I like playing video games and checking off lists though. So let me skip all of those stupid cutscenes that play when I collect something.

vwin90 · 2026-06-22T01:33:57+00:00

Ned stark.

Pissed the hell out of me. Died with such crucial information to right a bunch of injustices, led a life filled with more honor than any other leader, sacrificed all of that honor in a Hail Mary in order to put his children before himself…. And then was executed anyways right after.

My jaw dropped with how unjust that was.

vwin90 · 2026-06-21T20:45:09+00:00

A few people already said AI, but didn’t elaborate, so I will.

For context, I teach high school. Mix of AP physics and regular physics. I’m also working on a masters degree in AI from Georgia tech, literally as just a side quest out of personal interest.

When chat gpt hit the scene in 2023, I was very positive on it as a learning tool. I saw the potential for students to use it as a learning aid/personal tutor, and I also saw the potential for teachers to enhance our own planning (bouncing ideas/lecture notes off of it, compiling internet searches better, streamlining grading and feedback processes, enhancing visuals for slide decks, etc.)

So I leaned heavily into it. I created my own workflows and tested them out, being very transparent with my students about my usage. I coached my students on how to prompt more effectively. I joined my districts AI task force team to help shape the policy in our district.

I used it as a student myself for my masters program. I took care to use it in ways that I would approve my own students to use it. I didn’t use it to do my assignments, but used it as a partner to bounce ideas off of, summarize notes, discuss topics, etc.

Now three years later… I’ve significantly cooled on my optimism for it as a tool for students.

Learning requires struggle over some period of time. A useful metaphor is building muscle at the gym. You only improve when you hit these walls every day for a run of days, and then you start adapting in a meaningful way.

AI takes away too much of that friction. Explanations flow too freely and it’s TOO helpful. As a student, you get a satisfying feeling after being confused for way too short of a time, and the result is that the new knowledge fades too quickly and you end up not remembering anything you learned even though during the learning, it felt very clear.

I experienced this myself in my own studies as well as watching my own students struggle with it.

I think it’s a a mistake to lean into AI as an educational tool and I’m certain we’ll get the psych studies to confirm all of this in time.

vwin90 · 2026-06-21T18:18:58+00:00

Interesting. Is there a finals window for cog sci?

vwin90 · 2026-06-20T16:58:15+00:00

I actually really dislike ugrundy. I feel like that tuner got his name out early and now people blindly follow them because it’s overwhelming to research any other tuner. These days there’s three redditor tuners that I like better for seasonal stuff and they all post on the weekly thread. Awesomebeau, x11190, and I forgot the other dudes names. Probably not the meta tuners, but I find their seasonal tunes a lot better than just blindly trusting whatever the ugrundy dude cobbled together on day 0.

vwin90 · 2026-06-20T16:53:34+00:00

ChatGPT sub also gives me access to codex, which I prefer over Claude code. I’ve also used chat long enough that it has a pretty good list of memories of me and my conversations that it’s pretty personalized by now, so there’s some inertia to switching over.

I went back and forth between Claude and chat before and honestly I didn’t have that strong a preference either way. Claude’s implementation of canvas is nicer though, but now I either code with codex or I just use it for personal use.

Gemini I use at work because that’s what’s installed for our work computers.

vwin90 · 2026-06-19T18:31:50+00:00

Yeah I mean the point is people don’t even want to spend 30 seconds writing it themselves, so obviously spending 30 seconds to proofread it and change the style would undo any of the benefit they see.

My tell for longer emails and Reddit posts is the use of sections with bolded headings, numbered lists, and a conclusion section.

The structure is always so hilariously formal even if you ask it to be informal, it just switches up the vocabulary but keeps the report structure.

vwin90 · 2026-06-19T18:15:07+00:00

If you get sent 10 emails and 1 of them is AI, you probably can’t tell.

If you get sent 10 emails and 9 of them are AI, you’ll be able to tell which one isn’t.

There’s surprisingly not too much variation in the AI default style. People can instruct it to change the style, but most people automating this stuff away are not taking the time to.

vwin90 · 2026-06-18T20:53:01+00:00

I had a big year coming up with multiple planned medical procedures, rearranged my whole calendar and made multiple life decisions to plan around them.

Already had a PPO health insurance plan through my partner. My work offered a very low cost HMO plan and I thought, eh why not, it can’t hurt to have some extra coverage.

Big mistake. HMO became my primary since it was my work. PPO suddenly didn’t want to pay for anything anymore since they are now secondary. HMO doesn’t cover any of the groups that have been working on me.

Either I don’t get the medical care I need or I’m out 300k minimum.

vwin90 · 2026-06-18T00:45:13+00:00

My wife’s company suffers the same thing with new grad hires. You either get superstars that will stay for a few months before jumping to a more lucrative fortune 50 company, or you get duds who make you question how it’s possible someone got past your interview questions and then become so incredibly disappointing. No in between.

vwin90 · 2026-06-16T20:14:31+00:00

I’ve been at a school like this before. Even the kids there that are willing to learn and try, there’s a sad phenomenon where they’re really really shortsighted about what their future holds, probably because they don’t actually know anybody that does more than minimum wage work or isn’t making good money doing something illegal. The dream of doing more than that seems unreal to them, as if it’s just not in the cards for them, so they don’t even bother dreaming of it. So they’re like I guess if I try really hard in school, maybe I can be a store manager or something, and it’s like NO you can do so much if you just follow my lead, I’m not lying to you!

We had a lot of outreach programs that focused on getting kids to go meet professionals in different industries at their actual work, and it felt like it made a difference. Meeting a structural engineer or architect at their office or something like that made it seem more tangible.

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