music
September 2 2023
A lot of calories!
I watch these videos, read essays like "Patina and Intimacy," and feel this curious churn inside. Somewhere in the blurry boundaries of envy, thrill, and longing. I'm envious because a lot of pictures and items in these videos and essays look bewitching, mainly because they carry the weight of time — they're worn and loved for years. Software, though, it doesn't echo the same sentiment. It gobbles up the old as it races forward, much like trap music swallowed the raw edge of old school hip hop.
Working for beauty in software is what gets me up in the morning, but I confess, my CSS skills are a bit tragic. Likewise, tools like Unity, they're not my cup of tea. So, in my own way, I am, trying to carve beauty in code, to weave unique patterns in programming, to make something beautiful out of 0 and 1.
August 28 2023
Where do you see yourself in four months?
Bangers only from the Readwise review today!
Factual consistency is measured using natural language inference models based on the output score of the entailment class that compare the ground truth and the context from which the ground truth is done.
"James has 3 apples" and "James has fruit" would be considered an entailment.
"James only owns a car." and "James owns a bike." would be considered a contradiction.
Entailment seems like an abbreviation or rework of p > q from discrete mathematics.
Since ChatGPT's launch just nine months ago, we’ve seen teams adopt it in over 80% of Fortune 500 companies.
Wild. Seems like the null hypothesis won't really be happening lmao...
ChatGPT Enterprise removes all usage caps, and performs up to two times faster. We include 32k context in Enterprise, allowing users to process four times longer inputs or files.
if (interaction.isButton()) {
if (interaction.customId === "button_id") {
await interaction.deferReply();
console.log(`Button was clicked by: ${interaction.user.username}`);
// Here you can call your function
const { prompt, imageUrl } = await main(interaction.message.content);
if (interaction.replied || interaction.deferred) {
await interaction.followUp(`Art Prompt (save the image it disappears in 24 hours!): ${prompt} \n Image: [(url)](${imageUrl})`);
} else {
await interaction.reply(`Art Prompt (save the image it disappears in 24 hours!): ${prompt} \n Image: [(url)](${imageUrl})`);
}
// set interaction command name to aart
interaction.commandName = "aart";
await invocationWorkflow(interaction, true);
}
return;
}
August 27 2023
Sunday is the reprieve!
August 26 2023
Hearthstone Battlegrounds has this knack, it's sticky.
Hearthstone Battlegrounds has this knack, it's sticky. Twice, you place seventh. Tough luck, you think. Two rounds straight, both no cigar. Your mind tickles towards, what's the point? A whisper of giving it up. Then, bam, you land first or second. Pride swells. A soft glow envelops you. You're hooked. You want more. You can't stop.
These fuckers at Blizzard really nailed the Gambler's Fallacy lmao.
But unlike the casino where the house always wins, no one wins (outside of useless MMR)
never forget sora chopping actual buildings in half like tofu
August 25 2023
and perhaps a discord was born?
Mulling over a comfy spot for my small projects, I had a twinkling—Discord could be it. Each bot could handle its own chore, instead of firing up a whole stack.
The good parts are clear as day:
- It works with mobile and desktop.
- Any user could get chummy with their own curated list of bots.
- No need to craft baffling UIs for mainly, well, text-based tasks—like function calls or database lookups.
- I've long since resolved that the output of p5 makes more sense as pictures or movies than code for end users—unless someone wants to sow their own seed data for an image, I can manage that with bots as well.
- A community? I could grow one.
- Channel-specific invites, they're a thing.
- A stable (ish) API.
- An app store to lure an audience—no need to don the hat of a content creator.
- Wonky CSS, not my problem.
- Templates for multiple bots, no sweat.
But, clouds have their silver lining:
- Running a discord server, well, that's on me.
- I might lock myself in a discord bot world, straying from the freedom of the open web.
An appeal to reason is 80% appeal, 20% reason.
Discord Bot Command Ideas
PSA: BAKI IS BACK – HE'S FINALLY FIGHTING YUJIRO
August 23 2023
Out-of-towners often mistake Manhattan as the whole of NYC, I feel.
Out-of-towners often mistake Manhattan as the whole of NYC, I feel. Take the time to explore spots like Bay Ridge, or Cortelyou Road.
You'll find calm there, perhaps even a surprising dose of the suburban. The real perk of living in an area like Bay Ridge vs a suburb outside of Corpus Christi? A train line linking you straight to the heart of Union Square or Grand Central in under an hour.
When you see those tier 7 minions in your game, do me a favor, grab Tess. Just trust me on this.
I am the one who decides.
The gallery feature on Ubud is acting up. Beats me why.
Trying out Spear in Discord. Maybe it's something that could tickle the fancy of vault members, make them feel special. Definitely can picture it being a neat bonus!
Another day done, neatly cut into boxes of time. This time block journal, it's kind of become a friend. Excited to think where I might be in a few months - maybe a master at wrestling time.
GPT helps me to write, and I like that. It’s like the words I jot down aren't my own, they’re not precious. So, when it comes to chopping them up and pruning them, I don't flinch. And, there's something cool about typing in shorthand, or even in low key, lowercase letters. GPT just takes it, and churns out sentences that sound as real as rain splattering on a windowpane.
August 22 2023
New season of Hearthstone! Goodbye, next forty-eight hours.
New season of Hearthstone! Goodbye, next forty-eight hours. I'll be captive to this relentless obsession. Alongside Baldur's Gate 3, of course.
This patch, it sucks from the get-go. Bannana Slammas for life, I suppose.
The billboards up in Soho stir something within me. Something McLuhan might've coined, about the package being more valuable more than the item inside. The ads on NYC's billboards, uncountable as they are, most fade from memory like a worn-out jazz record. But their very existence on the giant sized wall, catching the eye of the odd twenty-somethings, mid-pilgrimage to their temple of Equinox, that broadcasts its own message. Sure, I could plaster an ad on some wall in a silent town but that lacks the jazz, the hum and pulse of the viewer's gaze, which makes all the difference in selling the song. Plenty artists wallow unseen, only a handful get to wallow under the spotlight.
Leaders need this one thing more than anything else: good sense. It's the same when it comes to your body, your thoughts, your work life. Be your own arbiter of good judgement.
Photos...they've been the game for me on Instagram lately, kind of like a guilty pleasure I suppose. Don't know why.
It's ludicrous when you think about how I'm using Instagram, disregarding entirely how they mapped out the service. Truly not giving a flying fuckkk. It's like a Finstagram, but taken to the logical conclusion of really only using Instagram for a glorified photo storage service. Picture it: me following no one, completely ignoring ads on the feed the company worked so hard on to build! A strange way to play, right?
But in its way, it's transformative. Instagram morphs into something else, a simple yet miraculous platform for my photos, a sanctuary. It's effortless to stick in my favorite tunes too, lending a voice to every image. And the filters? Oh, the filters. An array of options with a single, easy tap. Quite something, isn't it?
Oddly enough, I found myself the central character in some LLM tutorial – an instructional piece about using these LLMs for cold outreach on LinkedIn, of all things. Seeing this offered some clarity, unsheathing the mystery of the spam deluge that keeps finding me. Particularly from the VCs, the constant hum in the background. Leave me alone dammit!
Random post logic – all credit goes to the original creator: milkythemes!
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function luckyPost() {
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let apiKey =
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const api = new GhostContentAPI({
url: pageUrl,
key: apiKey,
version: ghostVersion
});
const postUrl = [];
const randomBtn = document.getElementsByClassName("btn-random");
const stringHostUrl = `[href="${pageUrl}/#rdm-post/"]`
const randomPost = document.querySelector(stringHostUrl);
const randomPostSelector = document.querySelectorAll('[href="https://www.bramadams.dev/rdm-post/"]');
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randomPostSelector[i].text = `Loading...`
}
api.posts
.browse({ limit: 250 })
.then((posts) => {
posts.forEach((post) => {
postUrl.push(post.slug)
});
})
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Blue Lock got dark!
Hey, the kid's scored a page on Wikipedia!
Sticky Header for Ubud! (Put this in the code injection header)
<style>
.c-header{
position: sticky;
z-index: 1;
top: 0;
background: var(--background-primary);
}
</style>
May 26 2023
my favorite album of 2023 dropped, conflict, drawn out battles, malicous aura
Music
my album of the year already dropped <3 SLEEP TOKEN
favorite songs:
- ascenionism
- chokehold
- dywtlm
Raw Thoughts
Light (Death Note) died on my birthday!
Date of death
January 28, 2010 (2013 in anime)
Quotes
I realized that when you only focus on the light and positive thinking … then it's like you're staring up at the sun without looking down to notice that you were standing in a pile of feces. Something smells bad, but as long as you stare at the light then all the bad will go away. And instead of cleaning up the poo you spray perfume (affirmations) all over it. (Location 112)
The Kore desired to experience a great story, and in a great story, whether comedy or tragedy, there are always struggle and obstacles and opposition. There are separation and reunion. (Location 185)
Godself Kink Let's return to a point mentioned in the Introduction: if the ancient wisdom of Vedas are correct and the whole universe is just God playing elaborate rounds of hide'n'seek with Godself, then God is a super-freak. We need only look around our planet to see that God's idea of a fun time includes some seriously edgy, ultra-taboo, hard-core stuff—including war and poverty and pain and ravaging and abuse and atrocities of all variety. (Location 448)
To Search for God is to insult God: 202212260027
most of us have grown up in a society that exalts wealth, and we have disowned and denied the other side of the polarity: a love of scarcity. In doing so we make our love of scarcity unconscious, and thus scarcity synchronously shows up in our lives, until we agree to consciously, deliberately, “insanely,” shamelessly love it. The Great Work involves making the unconscious, conscious and thus changing the locus of our agency and taking charge of our own fate. (Location 547)
Videos
Crazy drawn out battle between Xaryu vs the members of the Stormpike
Zohakuten Gets His Malicious Aura
In the Upper Moon meeting, Hantengu was the only demon who didn't get a malicious aura drawing around his body. (ep 1)
Cleverly, they gave it to Zohakuten! (ep 7)
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