Roshan: Wikipen I've noticed that I fail to write down much of what I feel in the moment of using AI models and working with them. Then afterwards I can't look back and recreate my understanding of the previous state. I do have extensive KB articles written as agents do things but I cannot read those since they're...

Roshan: Wikipen [[The Whispering Earring]] is a device described in Scott Alexander's short story titled ''Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism''. One paragraph from the story describes it well: {{Quote |text=The earring begins by only offering advice on major life decisions. However, as it gets to know a...

Roshan: Wikipen A quote that is very popular on the Internet is: {{Quote |text=Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. |source=Benjamin Franklin, ''Reply to the Governor from the Pennsylvania Assembly''<ref name="founders.archives.gov"/>...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Bitwarden_Chrome_Extension.jpg}}|thumb|This used to be instantaneous. Then one day it took 5 seconds. Infuriating!]] I use [[wikipedia:Bitwarden]] for password management. As is inevitably the case with these pieces of software, they start out quite speedy and nice...

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...