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Did anyone else watch today’s Apple Special Event? If you missed it or weren't able to watch due to time zones, they have a recap up: https://www.apple.com
How would I compile an entirely custom-made GPT model and run it locally on an Intel-based Mac? Most of the sources that I've consulted have yielded unsatisfactory methods, so I'm hoping that someone here knows.
OBSERVATION: in Rhythm Doctor, patients with counting heartbeats are usually suffering from some abnormality, while SVT patients are usually treated due to negative habits.
I have finally jumped the gap into Artificer’s campaign. I'm currently on Cycle 7, in the shelter near the Exterior - Precipice gate. It turns out that carrying around scavenger corpses isn't as necessary as it seems; I could, in theory, complete the entire campaign with only one scav corpse, as the Mem. Crypts-Exterior and wall-top Exterior-Pebbles both have no karma requirement either way, and the Exterior-Metropolis gate has a different kind of requirement.
I haven't needed to make many explosives so far. For evasive situations, such as climbing a section of The Leg with a cyan lizard following closer behind, the concussive blast was all I needed. And for eating purposes, mauling lantern mice, grappling worms and spiders was also quite fun. Repeatedly getting shot by a spitter spider? Not so fun.
While I had karma flower protection in Shaded Citadel, I noticed the reinforcement ring flickering, similar to how the entire karma indicator does in Saint’s campaign. Interesting.
Apparently, recording screen audio on macOS is an extremely daunting task. There are absolutely no easy solutions.
Since I'm here, I'll give an update on my Rhythm Doctor level ideas:
Everything Black: developed to a complete product by Gilbert
Peer Gynt: made by Gilbert
Final Hope: made by Gilbert
For Me: planned, delayed due to calibration issues
The Daybreaker Double: delayed due to calibration issues
No Hints Here!: planned
Teleporting: made by me
Catchy Song: made by me, partially complete
Colorblind: planned as a vague concept
I have successfully secured a copy of Rhythm Doctor’s level editor . . . albeit from a somewhat outdated version. I don't know exactly what version it's from; the launch screen states the version as “Level Editor r27”, the character list probably contains the blue bird from Meet and Tweet, and the oneshot beats contain tentative freeze beat support . . . but I couldn't find any subdivision beat controls.
Here's where I found it, in case you aren't a subscriber to the GT-180/RW-570 broadcast channel: https://giacomopc.itch.io/rdle
ADVICE: if there's something that you wish you had been recording in the past, now is the time to start writing. In the future, you will value those logs as much as you would've valued those nonexistent records you wish you had been keeping earlier.
I've also noticed an increased volume of cold callers targeting me lately. While I haven't shared my phone number anywhere, I got hit with six unknown callers on Thursday. One of those callers went so far as to attempt contact over FaceTime. One of those callers also left a voicemail.
On the other hand, I haven't gotten any junk texts since September of last year.
ENTRY 4.1.B - Perfect Yet Imperfect
The Icelandic Waters just got the idea to create a creative multiplayer Minecraft server open to all of wasteof. I know what their ulterior motive for this is, and I must say that it's a bad idea in the way that every idea they've made with this ulterior motive behind it is bad, but it's also kind of smart anyways.
The only problem is that I'm still logged out of my Minecraft account . . .
ENTRY 4.19.B - Recidivist Ideas
A while ago, I got the idea to make a creative Minecraft server for all of wasteof to use. Now, thinking about the lack of active community SMPs on Scratch, I got the idea for an SMP for all of wasteof to use. I feel like these ideas are wrong because they're just absentmindedly funneling wasteof's community into server activity.
I'm going to consider sharing these threads of thought on wasteof and seeing what others think of these ideas.
-=-=-=-
AMOUNT: $18.99
STATUS: Cleared (Apple Cash)
TOTAL: $18.99
DATE: 4/19/24
TIMESTAMP: 3:55am
TRANSACTION ID: ************
-=-=-=-Okay, who stole eighteen dollars from me while I was sleeping?
If I were to somehow get ahold of a copy of Rhythm Doctor and modded in a new chapter of custom levels, these are the songs that I would consider using:
LH-1: Everything Black by Unlike Pluto
Rivulet Otter - Prolonged exposure to subzero temperatures has afflicted this slug-cat hybrid patient with chronic bouts of offbeat arrhythmia.
LH-2: For Me by Throttle
Analdis - N/A
LH-2N: Final Hope from ADOFAI
Analdis - Complications suffered as a result of previous tachycardial treatments have amplified the patient’s heartbeat to a dangerously high rate.
LH-3: Peer Gynt by cYsmix
Monk, Artificer - N/A
LH-X: No Hints Here! [EX] from ADOFAI
Rivulet Otter - An unexpected uptick in the patient’s beat rate has been detected. The patient had already been discharged and could not be contacted, leaving them at an elevated risk for cardiac arrest.
LH-XN: No Hints Here! [Original] from ADOFAI
Rivulet Otter - same description as day shift
The act ends with Rivulet catching the virus from somewhere in Middlesea, being discharged without it being detected, and returning to their globetrotting activities. Still, Rivulet’s metabolism isn’t very strong, so the virus wouldn’t be as much of a problem to them as the slugcats they’re spreading it to. I'm not very good at writing these descriptions . . .
ENTRY F - Who Are They?
I had a dream in which I was scrolling through another long cluster of posts from Nihilev, checked his profile, and discovered evidence that Mef and Silly weren't just online friends, but were siblings and lived together. This was revealed by Nihilev mentioning Ninja in his overhead bio. (In hindsight, this would tie him to Penguin, but nothing about dreams makes sense.) I considered tactics to find out for sure who he was living with, including baiting him into Shellfish and using the YourYou'reYouAreUR database to identify him.
Later in the dream, I had somehow gotten ahold of an Apple Vision Pro, and was configuring settings on it from my iPad. There was a section of weird 'screensavers' featuring some sort of mouse in a balancing situation. I tried running Minecraft. When I launched it, it displayed a video that looked like something out of an advertisement with no product, which seemed fine and dandy normal intended behavior to me. I pulled up the window-bottom controls, which only showed two controls for closing the window. I had fun with the eye tracking and wiggled my gaze between the two buttons, watching the highlighting. Minecraft eventually launched for real, but I got a notice from Screen Time. When I realized that ALL of my devices had Screen Time enabled on them, I freaked out and the dream ended.
I wonder how far neural engineering has come. From what I’ve read, it’s as simple as carefully watching what goes in, observing which neurons activate, and using it to reconstruct any kind of perception. I’ve read that, even though it’s likely decades away, it may be possible to tap into the ‘video feed’ of a dream. And this is all from a book written in 2018 . . .
While I would love to know of technological means to force a vivid dream of a certain topic, there is certainly a natural purpose to dreams. Treating a lapse of subconsciousness like an untethered brainstorming session might be a dangerous venture.
Here's an excerpt of my journal, from earlier this year:
ENTRY 3.7.E.3 - Rivulet, Caught On Overseer!
While reading through my pearl data archives, my attention snagged on this particular one. The pearl is described by Moon as- *reads more* -containing an image of a blue slugcat. We can all name one blue slugcat, and only one. In a Garbage Wastes broadcast, Pleading Intellect sends a picture of "one of those resourceful, wandering ones that go in pipes" to Wandering Omen. Seeing the pieces coming together?
CONCLUSION: Rivulet must be quite the wanderer if one of Pleading Intellect's overseers got a picture of them!
Last night, my dad completed TLoZ:TotK. In my dreams, they seemingly mixed with the art from Mef to make THIS . . .
https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?5f4d5806596bc14da18c72efae31e2db.png
