Robert Nozick, a #libertarian#philosopher, wanted you to imagine that you are offered a sophisticated machine which can perfectly simulate all the things you deem most pleasurable.
He asks you now: would you prefer this to real life?
Nozick assumes you don't & uses that as a justification against (#ethical) hedonists.
The Irish researcher became sick so only the #Finnish researcher is coming to "study" my way of grocery shopping and #cooking. I feel a bit nervous but also excited. I think it's just human. I'll try a meat tendering technique named velveting #today. It's used in the Chinese #cuisine. "Simply coat strips of chicken, turkey, pork, beef, (or scallops, prawns etc.) in a mixture of egg white, cornflour, sesame oil and salt before frying." #finland#suomimastodon#food#experiment
🆕 blog! “This link is only available by keyboard navigation”
There's a link, right here ➡️⬅️ but, if you're on a touchscreen, you can't tap on it. Using a mouse? Nope, that won't work either. The only way to navigate to it is via keyboard navigation. Hit your Tab ⭾ button! There's a little bit of me wants to build an entire website which can […]
I have disabled all my #browsers using the #Windows#registry to stop myself from getting side-tracked all the time.
So far, it's been going surprisingly well! It's a bit annoying because I also can't look up #programming questions anymore, but it kinda forces me to think myself and actually read the #code on my machine.
🌿🍃 I did an #experiment to see how various types of #lichen respond to moisture. I found a stick with many different kinds of lichen and sprayed water on it every few minutes. Here is a 1 hour #timelapse video!
I did an #experiment to see how various types of #lichen respond to moisture. I found a stick with many different kinds of lichen and sprayed water on it every few minutes. Here is a timelapse video!
Starting tomorrow, I will do my best to have Social Media Detox weekends, which means I will not use any social media on Saturdays and Sundays, including chat modules such as Facebook Messenger.
And to be fair, Mastodon and Calckey are also included in this experiment. Join me if you want, and let's share our experiences on Monday.
So, I was reading about Jackson Pollock and how he used house and car paint for some of his bigger paintings. So, I said to myself, “self, there’s a big ol hardware store with sample size jars.” So I tried it. It almost worked. If I hadn’t been manipulating the paint, maybe? Maybe I need to lighten the weight? I dunno. It cracked when it dried, but it almost worked! Back, as it were, to the proverbial drawing board. #painting#art#experiment#learning
Today, I'll be conducting more experiments with snac2. Until yesterday, I had been running it with 16 threads.
Today, I'll try with 32 to observe the load and how it responds when posting while simultaneously using the web interface. With 16 threads, there was a (slight) slowdown during queue processing; let's see if things change with 32.
I'll also delve into some more niche aspects - I've noticed a couple of details regarding boosts that don't always seem to be displayed by Mastodon (a behavior I've also encountered on Pixelfed).
I'll investigate.
Interesting, #beekeeping#experiment to build a new hive by forcing bees to develop queens from a "known good" queen appears to have spurred development of 8 (!) queen cells. Now we're going to try to catch 8 virgin queens before they all run away (hopefully for replacements for some less tame queens, if necessary).
Ab Morgen steht ein neues #Experiment an. Es geht in die Shake Week(s). Nope, keine Abnehmshakes, das ist alles Müllzeugs.
Es gibt hochwertiges #Whey#Protein in der Keo-Ausführung.
Habe jetzt ein neues Lieblingsprotein am Start Das "#OptimumNutrition Gold Standard 100%" mit der Geschmacksrichtung "Double Rich Chocolate". Das ist so unglaublich lecker <3
Doc and Marty took a real chance stealing that train. Because as easy as they took it, they could just as easily have gotten a shotgun unloaded in their faces and then had to reload their last save. #science#experiment
As a random Friday experiment, I took the lyrics of a popular 90s song and asked ChatGPT to come up with images inspired by the text (wow, 90s texts were dark).
Playing around with small LLM's on my very old laptop using Llamafile , all those models are totally unreliable, hallucinate a lot. Not surprising if you think about how relatively small they are, my resources etc. This is fun to play around with and you can easily change the settings use another model etc. As a learning experience great, for practical use i will stick with ChatGPT4 . https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile #llamafile#experiment#llm#AI