Yeah. Otherwise you gotta squeeze the wets and then spoil the wets and dry the wets in a cave for a long time and by then the meal is cold.

Hashbrowns courtesy of the Blair Witch.

Thanks. I never needed to see Simon Cowell’s murderin’ face but I guess I’ve seen it now. That’s cool.

If they knock: a polite “I’ll be out in a moment”

If they bust in like some kind of shitting Kool-Aid man: a cheerful “HOWDY!” with sustained eye contact.

This, but tactile.

We are in a period of magical thinking. Absent of learning process, people have shifted towards the idea of innate skill. It’s a false idea.

Yep. I’m convinced that the closest thing we have to innate talent is love of the skill. It always takes work. Some people are wired to understand a little more a little earlier in the process, but work is what develops skill.

As for learning things with no material gain: it’s hard to predict. I started learning lock picking last year. I’m firmly mediocre, but when the front door knob broke, I bought a knob with the same keyway at the hardware store and keyed it the same as every other door in the house. I didn’t start the hobby with that in mind, but it came in handy.

They cut him loose after season 1 and the show got better.

return “This question has already been answered. Please check the site before asking questions to see if yours has already been answered. Closing.”

there I also wrote an AI to do what stackoverflow does give me money now

Motherfuckers going around talking about mistakes like they spontaneously generate from old rags and bags of flour.

“Wow, you can really tell a machine made that. Fuck. I hope you’re not planning on sending that to anyone else. They might think you wrote it. Talk about your soulless garbage. I hope you didn’t spend money on generating those.”

Yeah, it’s so much cooler to learn how to type things into something that costs money and already does what you can do for free with slightly more effort.

“According to the model, you set the mood with vintage polka music and then start leafing through a paint catalog.”

It’s flashy, does just enough to look impressive, and a lot of people throw money at it. Just like them.

I’m guessing it really flies over the neighbor’s tree, unrolling perfectly and leaving enough on the other side to throw it back across.

Word salad is your friend. The bigger the context of the prompt, the more it has to thrash. So if you ask it for a longform essay about elephants in the blue diamond-shaped trifold organza station wagon and the quality of fudge it can expectorate in the style of an old timey sea captain who just dropped his iPhone over the starboard bow, it has to pull in more data. And then tell it that whatever it did was awful and nonsensical and it should redo it.

Alternately, ask for a list of one thousand random numbers, with no repetition, between one and a million. Whatever it does, tell it it’s wrong and duplicated numbers and/or gave you too few. Repeat.

Dan Brown writing men: “He had steely grey eyes and was very smart. Scientists thought he was an idiot but that’s because he was smarter than them and didn’t spend as much time writing papers. He did four hundred pushups and took a shower. ‘Not bad for a fifty five year-old guy’, he thought, which was smarter than other thoughts even if those thoughts had won prizes.”