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Sometimes in life we have fleeting moments of presence and feelings of “I am on the path” . Could it be we are part of dual consciousness, our regular ‘I’ experiencing time moving forward. Whilst another unknown self travels backwards in time from our death to birth. Every so often we make some choice that pulls the super imposed time travelling consciousness’ into a single moment. That is where we feel those moments.

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Have you ever tried using processing or p5js as a way to engage students with code? I think the visual aspect would be a great way to engage young learners. Also are you looking for volunteers?

I felt like that about a lot of education particularly science and maths, okay so yes your telling me it is a -insert term- but why is it called that, why do we need to know that, how does it fit in with a larger picture…

Fifteen minutes of lost time to a minor bug or incorrect instruction step doesn’t seem like a big issue

I think this should be part of the curriculum - it’s a daily part of the job of a SWE, introduce it in the class, make it fun and explain the frustrations and rewards when figuring out bugs. It’s not a set back of the day, it becomes part of the day, another side adventure to solve.

I know it’s dark but reading some of the comments calling out how much money he has created for charities etc brought to mind Jimmy Saville, the good friend of King Charles made millions for charity throughout his life. If people get an ‘icky’ feeling about this man’s so called altruism, it’s understandable in this world.

Hahaha yeah right, how is porn a scourge on society, it is a niche art that a minority of people engage in, at most a right of passage for teenagers to watch when they stumble across it. Although these days probably not as hard as in vhs times. There are far bigger things to worry about than the social impact of people engaging in consensual sexual activity for the film and magazine.

Great author and one of the best teachers! This book is being rewritten to use JavaScripts p5js- original version is written for Java processing.

People seem to think they can just take a load of mushies and it can solve all lives problems. The great art requires a lot of hard heart work and suffering.

I understand this sentiment - it’s just another step of monetized lifestyle. The internet was never free. Remember all those free internet AOL cd-roms? It was never really free. Telephone calls, same. Never had free calls either. OpenAI can be compared to a telephone network operator. They built a system that people want to use, we got to pay. However maybe the tools OpenAI are developing become so ingrained into the publics life that they eventually become public utilities. We still have to pay.

This quote tickled me the most - His curious IRL appearance — of a human designed by a computer or of a Styrofoam cup that a wizard decided to turn into a person but then changed his mind about halfway through — adapts unexpectedly well to the Meta-cartoonization algorithm

All in all a great bit of writing and commentary on something shit. The metaverse.

Rather than using this app, I simply have a shell function called generate that I can call anytime with a string. Mostly I use it for ffmpeg commands or occasionally asking it to explain something. For the ffmpeg commands I am finding it gets them wrong a good number of times and I have to them use a browser and search for the correct usage. It’s never too far off but it’s wrong enough. Although in my case I think I am actually using free credits on da-vinci - for what it’s worth.