Roshan: Wikipen One thing I've found hard to find on the Internet is a general list of techniques that work. Usually, people provide a lot of theory, or they provide many platitudes that I cannot turn into applicable information. I will add to this as I get more. This is a stub to get started with. == Eating ==...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:NBA_Player,_perhaps_JaVale_McGee,_at_Mission_Bay_Basketball_Courts.jpg}}|thumb|Once, while we played at Mission Bay, an NBA player showed up to shoot some hoops with the local lads, do some outreach, and so on. Despite being there when he scored easily on everyone one-on-one, I...

AutoDescriptor: Added categories via AutoDescriptor bot [taxonomy v3] I used to use [[wikipedia:Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]] quite a lot back in the day and despite the fact that often trains would be cancelled or whatever, transit enthusiasts and BART itself would frequently publish an on-time percentage that...

Roshan: /* Most Plagiarism Is Fine */ I really dislike the modern era of intellectual property maximization where all text or imagery has provenance traced back to the source of where it could possibly have entered someone's mind. I honestly couldn't care less in most cases. == Most Plagiarism Is Fine == I really...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Fable_solves_DeepSeek_V4_Flash_Vision.jpg}}|thumb|Walking Astra to the playground when I'm notified that DSv4 Flash Vision now works]] The new Anthropic Fable 5.1 release is outrageous. One of the things that I always found perplexing is that various models don't...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Falun_Dafa_Protest_at_APEC_2023.jpg}}|thumb|Yayoi Kusama had an exhibition back at the SF MOMA coincidentally during APEC]] In the last day, a bunch of famous artists died and it made me reflect on what they are to me. == Dolly Parton and Conviction == First that I know of was...

Roshan: /* Using Output As Reasoning */ [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_OpenRouter_UI_with_27B_models_understanding_Claude.jpg}}|thumb|LCL <math>\leq</math> 27B]] Recently I have found Claude Opus 5 to be unusable because of its style of language. I've found this quite annoying for a while because I frequently...

Roshan: Wikipen [[Suicide is Absolution]] is the idea that if someone kills themselves then their crimes are forgiven. It is a historically common position adopted by various societies. Some of these are: * Modern Western Civilization - [[wikipedia:Jason Arday]]'s suicide retroactively transformed his fraud and...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_Stylometer.jpg}}|thumb|Moderators sound like moderators]] Recently there was a big hullaballoo about the fact that Claude is watermarking their generated text. John Gruber called it a 'perversion of writing': {{Quote |text=My error was believing Anthropic that their...

Roshan: Wikipen Most people have a variety of objectives, proximate and ultimate, and a variety of virtues. The virtues are how one represents themselves to be predictable and trustworthy to others, which are how they are able to form coalitions. Crucially, though, these techniques for coalition-building differ in...

Roshan: Wikipen [[Environmentalism As A Means]] refers to the approach of using environmentalism as a mechanism to achieve other objectives. This is the dominant form of environmentalist thought and action in the United States with the biggest environmental organizations in the US focusing on ending clean energy...

Roshan: Wikipen '''Amber''' is my personal web archiver. If you found this page from a <code>User-Agent</code> string in your server logs, this is the crawler that visited you. == About == Amber keeps versioned, replayable copies of websites I read. The idea is to have my own personal Wayback Machine that I can use...