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aparrish

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Poet, programmer, game designer. Assistant Arts Professor at NYU ITP. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

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i made a quick prototype today of the first steps toward a little gameboy advance ROM dumper, using a Raspberry Pi Pico! here you can see that I managed to read the first two bytes of the "game title" field in the ROM header. second photo is my breadboard setup

breadboard with a pi pico board connected by many-colored wires to another breakout board that has a gameboy advance cartridge plugged in

aparrish,
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i bought the cartridge reader breakout board from here: https://diychris.com/index.php/product/gameboy-dmg-cartridge-connector-breakout-smd-version/ (advertised for DMG/GBC carts, but works fine with GBA carts too)

aparrish, to random
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this table of C escape characters is making the same noises as I do when I have to wake up early

aparrish, to random
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i am going to die from laughter. the entire appeal of LLMs to capitalism is its potential for obviating the cost of creative labor. it would be hilarious if the only way to prevent LLMs from eating themselves is... to pay people for their creative labor

aparrish,
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(screencapped from data science community newsletter https://mailchi.mp/academicdatascience/dscn-16913610)

aparrish,
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someone needs to convince openai etc that the only way to keep their numbers going up is to advocate for free college education in the US, so there are more experts to write on more topics. hell, throw in free health care—healthy people that live longer can produce a larger quantity of training data, after all!

aparrish,
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@gotofritz @xgranade i was using the word "creative" with broad intent—maybe the wrong word choice, but e.g., copyediting, concept art, customer service, computer programming, and information retrieval all form a category that feels like "creative" work to me. basically any work that normally results from people being in conversation and working toward a common goal

aparrish, to world
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some pretty sweet datasets here https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables/sugar-and-sweeteners-yearbook-tables/#World%20Sugar%20Production,%20Supply,%20and%20Distribution

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feels like there was a missed opportunity to just call it "regular data" instead of "small data"

aparrish,
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instead of "big data" consider: unwieldy data. brobdingnagian data

aparrish,
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@sohan there's a joke in here about Clifford Geertz something something "dummy thicc description" something but I can't figure it out

aparrish, to random
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a computer can never be poked in both eyes three stooges style. therefore a computer should never make a management decision

aparrish,
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@th okay. this computer can make management decisions

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"for you, it was the most money you'd spent on compute in your entire life. but for me, it was four seconds on a tuesday" — sam altman probably

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can anyone tell me why the Adafruit RP2040 Feather has a diode in line with the BOOTSEL button? https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/116896 (located in A3 in that schematic)

RPi's Pi Pico doesn't have a diode here, and neither does the Sparkfun RP2040 board. the diode's number on the schematic indicates that it's a schottky diode, so I assume Adafruit is just being super careful and put a diode there for reverse current protection? or is something else happening?

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Do any native English speakers pronounce "asked" in ways other than "ast" and "axed”?

I never realized I've been pronouncing it "ast" my whole life until I took some voice lessons recently and really paid attention to how I pronounced everyday words. But if I try to pronounce every letter in "asked", it feels super-weird.

aparrish,
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@jmac i don't think i fully articulate the /k/ — the release seems to get caught up in the following /t/. but "asked" and "assed" are definitely not homophones for me!

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"AI" is such a weird word once you're semantically satiated on it. eh-ee ya-ee. no consonants really, it's just waggling your jaw a bit, tongue tensing up and loosening

aparrish, to random
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"Technology is neither lawful nor chaotic; nor is it neutral" — Kranzberg's First Law of Technology, along the other axis

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    aparrish,
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    @scanlime even more true now for me now that ios automatically deletes apps that I haven't used recently. my "apps" are really just cached http responses

    aparrish, to random
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    I had a fun and wide-ranging conversation with Cristina Lopes on her "Board and Paper Talks" podcast https://theboardandpapertalks.com/ among other topics, we discussed: the contentious relationship between computer-generated text and print, Google Calendar, Game Boys, learning how to read in English, and of course those big ol "language models" what have been in the news of late

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    okay you might remember this project that i posted about last year: https://posts.decontextualize.com/solar-powered-dawn-poems-progress-report/ in which I generate poetry from a markov chain on a microcontroller using a solar panel harvester chip and some big capacitors. i originally wrote the generator with CircuitPython, which gave me 2–3 lines of poetry per discharge from the harvester.

    well I just finished reimplementing the generator in C++ and now I get... ~200 lines of poetry per discharge (!)

    aparrish,
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    @annika just out here trying to do my best every day 💪🏻

    aparrish,
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    @hugovk i am a python fan but it does seem to be singularly unsuited to being a programming language for embedded systems...

    aparrish, to random
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    sine lookup tables: strangely soothing to look at

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    For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

    https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

    The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

    To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

    aparrish,
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    @mcc @cwebber radix is so goooooooood

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