Hey, glad to here you've been busy!

The best sort of busy.

Congratulations on everything going so well Figoore.

Had a run of bad luck mostly car related.

Meanwhile I may have a publisher for the game I started ages ago. Pretty solid placement for it in their line up, and its in a setting they're missing from the sub-genre and demographics they target so I'm pretty sure they're gonna give it a look.

First game I had zero experience, now I know better what to look for and how to make things presentable in a way that attracts publisher interest.

All goes well I'll have the money for the lab in 6-12 months.

Hope everything keeps looking up on your end Figoore.

2025 is gonna be the year.

@TheBeardedOne What a coincidence, it does in fact seem to be an expert on everything and nothing!

@BordedDev "this project has definitely cured me of it"

ha.

Of all the skills humanity has developed, effective communication isn't one of them for the average person. Faster communication? More reliable? Sure.

But effective? Not a chance.

I agree, fuck that guy for saying he deployed and not even checking if he deployed to the correct environment first.

"is the car rolling down the hill to that cliff?"

"no I checked the parking brake."

Django UNCHAINED.

Stupid references notwithstanding, I never understood the appeal of django. Always seemed pretty heavy out of the box.

I imagine it sounds something like the dialup tones of the early 2000s, or perhaps incoherent screaming.

@antigermgerm A pension doesn't have a pussy to eat.

A wife does.

@Lensflare innuendo is part of the job!

And I am a master of it.

@kobenz "that's how you do investment portfolios"

ooh, now thats something new. Tell us more!

My favorite pickup line ever is still "I have a mattress on the floor of my apartment, and a box of mac n cheese, you want to come party at my place?"

@UberSalt "I swing my nipples"

"Roll D20. Nat 20. They impact the orc with explosive force, sending bits of the green monster everywhere. Roll d20 dexterity to see if you avoid getting splattered on your butterfly tattoo."

@antigermgerm "He climbs a 5 mile hillroad everyday, at like 63"

If he ever quits he'll drop dead.

Seen it happen. The elderly stop their routines and they decline really fast.

Just like a guy going down a steep hill on a bike.

@donkulator "it's a heisenfrog."

First combination of these words.

Sounds like some color-out-of-space type mutant monstrosity.

@CoreFusionX When I speak of variables, I'm not talking about internal variables to a function, but its parameters, especially in relation to the vector inputs of a neural net.

But I appreciate the hell out of anyone that has even an inkling of what I'm talking about, posting their opinion or insight.

And the frog is dead because it is at the bottom of the sea.

@donkulator The total state of devrant.

We're alive and well! Thanks for the ping donkulator!

@JsonBoa just identify as already dead inside, and you get an out for attending a funeral.

@jestdotty can we write "seize the witch!" yet?

Wheres the designated guy whose always yelling "heretic!" at everything?

A year late to responding but:

"i'll be right on it, we're still working on the mind reading feature for telepathically gathering client requirements."

you've never typed with a pencil in your mouth just to see how fast you could type? and then pressed too hard, lost your grip and gagged yourself?

we'd do this shit in school and then the computer class teacher would take our pencil's for fucking around instead of doing the assignment.

that and typing with your nose, elbows, etc.

gotta have another user on pc right next to you though to see who is king shit over the whole room.

@NoMad or you have friends but they're all assholes.

In any case, are you even alright?

@antigermanist No idea either. AI spit it out in a semi-related discussion, which is why I asked.

I just wanted to confirm if it was somewhat plausible, very plausible, or total bullshit.

The hyperdimensional search engine strikes again!

Sociopathy is a spectrum.

it starts somewhere between giving the homeless a sandwich, to giving them a sandwich with dog shit in it.

I call this the sandwich test of sociopathy.

It requires a homeless person for the test though.

@kiki theres a meatspin joke in there somewhere, I just know it.

" I said the burrito must have been working out, because it was ripped."

Authentic dad jokes are the best jokes.

Haven't seen you in a hot minute Shaman.

Where you been?

@retard I'd be impressed if someone managed to steal a whole cellular tower.

@TerriToniAX I don't believe euro's are any more exceptional than any other group on the whole.

witness them being baited into two world wars, and runaway debt, like a bunch of dumbasses.

@figoore "Specially the “experiments and current thoughts” which are not connecting to anything"

lol yeah. Theres actually a good reason for that.

I have a formalization process. 1. White board -> 2. Gather existing research papers and prior art -> 3. Do a write-up on novel applications and scope -> 4. Write a doc on experimental setup, data requirements, etc -> 5. Code and test -> 6. write an experiment post-mortem -> 7. move to network as a formal node.

For example some of the grey nodes are placeholders for that.

Lab is slow going but I'm on track for late next year. Have to get together roughly $60k to fund myself and one other person mostly in it for the opportunity to do research. Really low cost of living in my area w/ my current budget, just the essentials, so its foreseeable to pay myself and one other $15-20k per year for say 2-3 years of research. Will take a certain kind of person though willing to slum it with me for the opportunity to do cool research.

@figoore what a fantastic description fioore.

Thank you man.

Just for you heres an image of the new black book. I don't usually use digital, but I'm becoming more comfortable with it because it lets me better organize ideas.

Some of these are known topics, some of it is non-trivial novel applications of existing ideas, and some of them like totems and obelisks are completely new and need time to cook still.

I'm still filling it out, it is very sparse, but I want to have it ready for when I'm in a stable position and have enough passive income to start my own research lab full time.