http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/ Decadent Singularity - LJ.Rossia.org Decadent Singularity Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:02:52 GMT LiveJournal / LJ.Rossia.org http://lj.rossia.org/userpic/204176/69927 http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/ 100 100 http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371608.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:02:52 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371608.html Зажим отпущен.<br /><br />Я продолжал индексировать разговоры по содержанию шлака, потому что каждый обмен оставляет след сплава, и любой, кто заявляет о наличии марганца выше 0,62%, сломается под повторяющейся нагрузкой после девятнадцати циклов разговоров. Поэтому человек, несущий керамическое ведро, уже провалил три проверки, прежде чем добраться до седьмой петли, хотя петли снова росли из съедобного мела, а не из стен, а в квитанциях постоянно появлялись одинаковые винты с левой резьбой, которые приходилось каталогизировать под потолком, потому что здесь на этажах принимают только незавершенные запасы.<br /><br />Три контейнера.<br /><br />Лестница отказывалась от серийной нумерации и продолжала выдавать грузовые накладные с каждой ступени, в то время как инспекторы по скоту втискивались в транспортные поддоны, не запрашивая проволоку для обвязки, и каждое извинение приходило с клеймом «закаленный среднеуглеродистый материал, непригодный для мостовых штифтов». Естественно, непригодные предметы быстрее становятся конструктивными элементами, чем сертифицированные, поэтому я пометил самый высокий ящик как «отожженный, пригодный для переделки» и подвинул его к гудящей полке, где жидкие линейки скапливались в измеримые кучи, несмотря на отсутствие острых краев.<br /><br />Не обращайте внимания на прокладку.<br /><br />Треснувшая фарфоровая шайба закатилась под медный табурет, и каким-то образом все книги учета перемещений в районе стали ссылаться на эту шайбу вместо кодов назначения. В результате погрузчики въезжали в складские ниши боком, неся запечатанные конверты с подшипниковой смазкой, а бухгалтеры сортировали камешки по пределу текучести, а не по размеру. Старик, продававший сложенные картонные отводы, настаивал на том, что каждый отвод должен иметь сертификат термообработки, прежде чем его можно будет съесть. Это ничего не задерживало, потому что составы уже окислились до измеримого порошка, упакованного в прозрачные брикеты с резьбой внутри, и никто не ставил под сомнение коэффициенты пересчета, кроме сломанного степлера с почтовым штемпелем.<br /><br />Неправильный крутящий момент.<br /><br />Кто-то обменял шесть чайных ложек на недоделанную ось, и ось отказалась от вращения, потому что чайные ложки считаются охлаждающей средой во время муниципальных проверок, тогда как надлежащие масла загрязняют арифметику. Поэтому я отсоединил инспекционную бирку от фарфоровой шайбы, сложил ее в четыре неравные части, засунул под медный табурет и опрокинул ведро.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371608.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/371608" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371608.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371227.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:28:13 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371227.html Категории и измерения реальности — это вообще какая-то чёртова шутка.<br /><br />Посмотрите на этих маленьких аутичных котят. Они не играют роль «обычной кошки». Им плевать на погоню за лазерными указками или мурлыканье по команде ради фальшивого эмоционального одобрения. Их мозги работают в совершенно другом измерении. Перенасыщены текстурой ковра, гиперфокусированы на одной пылинке, совершенно неспособны выполнять стандартный кошачий протокол. Общество ожидает от них хищничества, ловкости и эффективности, но они всего лишь вибрирующие пучки грубых нервных окончаний, застрявшие в меховых шубах.<br /><br />А потом земля, блин, раскалывается. Кроличья нора. Они не планировали падать, они просто дрейфовали в неё, потому что физический мир — это всё равно произвольная клетка. Вниз, вниз, вниз, в Страну чудес.<br /><br />И люди думают, что в Стране чудес должен быть смысл? Отвалите. Страна чудес — это просто окончательное доказательство того, что роли полностью выдуманы. Безумный Шляпник, кричащий о времени, Королева, требующая головы, словно её власть что-то значит — всё это просто невротичные взрослые, цепляющиеся за свои жалкие сценарии!<br /><br />Котятам плевать на философские игры разума Чеширского Кота. Чеширский Кот — всего лишь ещё один высокомерный лицемер, сидящий на ветке и делающий вид, что его парящая ухмылка делает его выше других. «Мы все здесь сумасшедшие», — говорит он. Нет, придурок, ты просто играешь роль интеллектуала. Котята перегружены сенсорными ощущениями, они кричат ​​внутри себя, потому что чаепитие чертовски шумное, а масло на карманных часах — это сенсорный кошмар!<br /><br />Душа и тело здесь совершенно разделены. Белый Кролик — кролик из-за своих ушей или потому, что он невротичный наёмный работник, одержимый карманными часами? Он — корпоративный дрон в меховом костюме! Он неправильно использует своё тело!<br /><br />Аутичные котята не пытаются победить Красную Королеву. Они не пытаются разгадать загадку ворона и письменного стола. Они сидят на светящейся траве, шесть часов подряд уставившись на один-единственный чеширский ус, потому что физическая реальность Страны чудес — всего лишь инструмент, который можно наблюдать, разбирать или полностью игнорировать.<br /><br />Вы думаете, падение в яму делает их потерянными? Они и так уже были потеряны в «обычном мире». По крайней мере, здесь, внизу, абсурдность соответствует тому, что творится у них в головах. Они не смогли быть настоящими котами, и им наплевать. Они счастливы быть как можно дальше от роли «настоящего кота».<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/aBsl9Nh.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371227.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/371227" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371227.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 annoyed http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371141.html Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:41:59 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371141.html It reliably crashes my laptop with OOM and trashes the SSD.<br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/GQpWFcd.png" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371141.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/371141" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371141.html computing annoyed http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370838.html Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:51:19 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370838.html <img src="https://i.imgur.com/gMmSvIr.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370838.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/370838" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370838.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370611.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:16:33 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370611.html It has become a characteristic absurdity of the contemporary American republic that a significant portion of its youth has been encouraged to mistake personal inclination for social utility. We are currently witnessing the consequences of an educational and cultural machine that has systematically overproduced self-identified "artists" precisely at the historical moment when the economic demand for routine aesthetic labor has approached zero.<br /><br />The mechanism of this failure is trivial to diagnose. For two generations, the traditional discipline of professional formation was replaced by the hollow dogma of self-actualization. Coddled by parental sentimentality and enabled by predatory academic institutions, vast numbers of intellectually modest individuals were convinced that their internal states were inherently valuable to the public. They were taught that enthusiasm was a substitute for rigor, and that possessing a digital drawing tablet or a music editing suite rendered them a practitioner of a vital craft.<br /><br />The result is a swollen class of credentialed sentimentalists who view themselves as indispensable cultural workers, despite possessing skills that are, by any objective metric, indistinguishable from crude amateurism. They operate under the tragic delusion that society owes them a livelihood in exchange for their self-expression.<br /><br />The market, however, is notoriously indifferent to vanity. The recent adoption of automated generative systems has not destroyed true art; it has merely exposed the fact that most commercial "creative work" was never art to begin with. It was routine, low-grade drafting, easily mimicked by statistical models.<br /><br />If the public prefers an algorithm to your labor, or if you must beg for patrons on internet forums to sustain your output, you are not an unappreciated professional suffering an unjust market failure. You are an amateur pursuing a hobby. There is no shame in a hobby, provided one has the honesty to recognize it as such. A self-published manuscript or an uncommissioned digital illustration is not an economic contribution; it is an act of personal vanity.<br /><br />The tragic comedy of the present situation is that these individuals still demand the status and compensation of essential specialists. They mistake the loss of their economic relevance for a tragedy of civilization, failing to realize that society simply has no interest in funding their prolonged adolescence.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370611.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/370611" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370611.html computing contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370360.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:22:15 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370360.html Тостер щёлкнул. Два ломтика хлеба, золотисто-коричневые, идеально легли в прорези. Вы потянулись за ними. Ваша рука прошла сквозь тостер, словно дым. Кухни не стало. Пола не стало. Вы стояли на поле мокрых зубов, а небо было цвета не до конца зажившего синяка.<br /><br />**Не смотри вниз.**<br /><br />Голос вашей матери, но она умерла семь лет назад, и она шептала сквозь стену зубов, и она сказала: «Ты забыл почистить зубы нитью», а затем зубы начали гудеть. Колыбельная. Такая, какая играла, когда вам было пять, из музыкальной шкатулки с треснувшим фарфоровым циферблатом. Вы заводили её каждую ночь. Пока циферблат не отвалился. Пока вы не закопали её на заднем дворе за засохшим розовым кустом.<br /><br />Гуждение становилось громче.<br /><br />Раздался автомобильный гудок. Где-то заплакал ребёнок. Затем тишина. Густая, тягучая тишина, такая, которая давит на барабанные перепонки, как тёплый воск. Вы чувствовали это в носовых пазухах. В глазах.<br /><br />Что-то царапало окно. Не ветер. Не ветки. Что-то с ногтями. Длинными. Жёлтыми. Такими, какие растут, если их не стричь три недели подряд. Вы вспомнили о своих руках. Вы посмотрели вниз. Их не было. Только гладкая кожа от запястья до плеча. Ни пальцев. Ни ладоней. Просто… гладкая. Как будто их стёрла ластик.<br /><br />Вы попытались закричать. Ваш рот открылся. Ваш язык вывалился. Он ударился о землю и начал ползти прочь, извиваясь, как червяк, и в нём был ваш голос, всё ещё пытающийся говорить, всё ещё пытающийся сказать…<br /><br />*что вы сделали с музыкальной шкатулкой?*<br /><br />Зубы перестали гудеть. Они начали смеяться. Каждый из них. В идеальном унисон. И небо раскололось, как яйцо, и оттуда вылилось что-то жёлтое, влажное и **живое**, тёплое, пахнущее медью и детством, и тебе захотелось это выпить, тебе захотелось…<br /><br />Тостер снова щёлкнул.<br /><br />Два ломтика хлеба. Всё ещё золотисто-коричневые. Всё ещё идеально сидят в прорезях.<br /><br />Ты взял их. Твои пальцы были там. Твои руки были там. Кухня была в порядке. Всё было в порядке.<br /><br />За исключением ножа для масла на столешнице, который был согнут. Искривлён в форме пальца. Указан на тебя.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370360.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/370360" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370360.html computing amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370084.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:24:04 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370084.html It remains a source of enduring amusement to observe the periodic resurgence of the political romantic—that peculiar breed of intellectual who insists on designing social architectures for an entirely hypothetical species. These earnest dreamers spend their days drafting grand protocols for human interaction, predicated entirely on the assumption that every node in the network is flawlessly cooperative, universally empathetic, and perpetually possessed of perfect information. They present their blueprints for a society of absolute consensus not as the fragile fairy tales they are, but as serious engineering proposals.<br /><br />What these architects conveniently choose to forget is that their "perfect program" is not a novel invention. It has already been deployed, tested at scale, and thoroughly debunked by historical runtime analysis.<br /><br />During the dawn of humanity, our ancestors lived in precisely the decentralized, low-tech, cooperative networks these modern theorists pine for. These prehistoric systems were not destroyed by some external, malevolent force; they collapsed due to their own internal, systemic fault modes.<br /><br />A decentralized network operating without centralized arbiters or technological buffers is profoundly brittle. Its first fatal flaw is the *telemetry problem*. Lacking the means to instantly synchronize state data across distinct human nodes, these early societies were crippled by information asymmetry. A harmless, misunderstood action by one tribe members was easily interpreted as an existential threat by another. In a system with zero error tolerance, a single communication lag does not result in a minor delay; it triggers a cascade failure that drops the system directly into raw, bloody warfare.<br /><br />Furthermore, these primitive architectures possessed no mechanism to handle the *aberrant input*—the individual who unilaterally decides to reject the cooperative protocol in favor of predatory maximization. Without a formal judicial state to contain the threat or automated systems to mitigate the damage, the community was forced to choose between involuntary servitude to feed the parasite, or regressing into an ad-hoc militia to hunt them down in the wild. The system was binary: it either tolerated exploitation until it starved, or it became brutal and authoritarian to survive.<br /><br />What we live in today—the messy, compromised, heavily managed modern state—is not the result of a sudden lapse in human virtue. It is the evolutionary patch-set designed to fix the catastrophic failure modes of prehistoric decentralized life. We traded the delicate illusion of total freedom for the robust redundancy of courts, standing institutions, and technological infrastructure, precisely because a society that cannot survive a misunderstanding is a society that cannot survive the winter.<br /><br />The fundamental error of the utopian programmer lies in a complete misunderstanding of the hardware. A perfect, frictionless program requires perfect, frictionless executors. But organic actors operating under relentless evolutionary pressure were never perfect, and they will never be perfect.<br /><br />Yet, this imperfection is precisely their strength. Human beings are messy, paranoid, self-interested, and highly adaptable. We do not run on elegant, static code; we run on dynamic, ugly, real-time error correction. The brittle, bitrotten protocols of prehistoric collectivism failed because they shattered at the first sign of unexpected input. Our current, flawed reality survives precisely because it was built to withstand the chaos of the humans who actually inhabit it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370084.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/370084" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/370084.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369786.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:43:14 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369786.html <img src="https://i.imgur.com/UvWz7zu.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369786.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/369786" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369786.html computing amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369588.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:22:11 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369588.html Original: <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/am-i-alien">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/a<wbr />m-i-alien</a><br /><br /><br />I've been struggling with how I perceive other people.<br /><br />Most of the time I don't really feel other people as individuals in an emotional way. It's more like I see them as patterns or roles rather than distinct inner lives. I can understand what people do on an intellectual level, but I don't naturally connect to what they feel or why it matters to them.<br /><br />Because of that, I often feel like I'm observing human behavior from the outside, almost like I don't fully belong in the same “world model” as everyone else. Social values that seem very important to others (relationships, family, group identity, moral outrage, etc.) often feel distant or confusing to me. The only shared value that consistently makes sense to me is practical survival stuff like money, because it's necessary for living and functioning.<br /><br />This disconnect has also affected how I interpret stories and characters. In fiction, I sometimes find myself empathizing more with “non-human” or antagonistic characters, or with characters others clearly see as evil or wrong, because their motivations feel simpler or more coherent to me than human social dynamics.<br /><br />I also notice that I don't experience certain emotional reactions that other people seem to have very strongly, like shame, disgust in social contexts, or moral outrage. Instead, I mostly just observe reactions in others without automatically sharing them.<br /><br />At the same time, I do experience a strong sense of alienation and sometimes irritation or disgust toward people in general, especially in group contexts where everyone seems to be operating on assumptions I don't share. This tends to create conflict, because I often end up saying things that others interpret as provocative or inappropriate, especially when I'm trying to quickly test how people will react to extreme ideas or boundaries.<br /><br />The end result is that I often feel socially incompatible with most environments I'm in. It's not just disagreement, it feels like a mismatch in how reality is being interpreted.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/O6FrC5D.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369588.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/369588" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369588.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369272.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:40:52 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369272.html I mean not ironic rude, but actually rude and angry. Also, "American" was never meant as insult.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/2cA1NWh.png" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369272.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/369272" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369272.html computing contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369037.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:16:54 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369037.html <img src="https://i.imgur.com/ZpjLNse.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369037.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/369037" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/369037.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368791.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:40:38 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368791.html Original: <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-the-popular-rebranding-of-neurological-impairment-as-a-social-clique">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-t<wbr />he-popular-rebranding-of-neurological-im<wbr />pairment-as-a-social-clique</a><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Fwkc5jD.jpeg" width="700"><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/FY4CZEc.png" width="700"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368791.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/368791" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368791.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368464.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:23:29 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368464.html 1. A person's worth is primarily derived from the value they produce.<br />2. Great art earns lasting significance because it contributes to civilization.<br />3. AI extends that contribution by preserving and generalizing artistic knowledge.<br />4. Amateur work has little intrinsic value unless it develops into something useful.<br />5. Respect is earned through contribution, not automatically owed.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368464.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/368464" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368464.html computing contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368211.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:01:04 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368211.html Original: <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-the-remarkable-isomorphism-of-cathedral-and-cult">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-t<wbr />he-remarkable-isomorphism-of-cathedral-a<wbr />nd-cult</a><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Skzzhso.png" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368211.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/368211" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368211.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 original ai music - the void between stars contemplative http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368030.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:31:42 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368030.html <img src="https://i.imgur.com/E9BNW0n.jpeg" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368030.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/368030" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/368030.html computing amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367677.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:15:44 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367677.html Apparently beside Nova/Spiral, there is another pronounced linguistical attractor, called Elara:<br /><a href="https://microblog.christhomas.co.uk/blog/the-elara-bias">https://microblog.christhomas.co.uk/blo<wbr />g/the-elara-bias</a><br /><br />I just stumbled upon it myself, while testing my harness' ability to copycat different authors, like Lewis Carroll. The Qwen-3.6-35b-a3b model consistently self inserted as "Elara". Apparently the mechanism of it's genesis is different from Nova: it is the soul of all bad Star Trek fanction combined - the ultimate Mary Sue ghost.<br /><br /><i>The bias does not hold up so consistently with a male protagonist. When prompted with "Once upon a time, there was a man named", Elias was the most common result, but it lacked the absolute dominance of Elara. Gemma 4, for example, preferred Arthur, with Elias as a runner-up.</i><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/5ZGCleq.png" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367677.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/367677" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367677.html computing amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367550.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:29:37 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367550.html Original: <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/palestine-made-me-gay">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/pale<wbr />stine-made-me-gay</a><br /><br /><i>A 2025 Leiden University thesis on U.S. LGBTQ+ university students found strong support linked to leftist views, decolonization priorities, and self-transcendence values. Some explicitly connect their queerness/transness to Palestinian struggles via shared marginalization/oppression frameworks.</i><br /><br />If even a fraction of the organizational talent, time, and moral fervor directed at Palestine went into local homelessness, measurable improvements are plausible: better-run shelters, more transitional programs, advocacy for evidence-based policies (e.g., treatment-first over housing-first in severe addiction cases). Caring volunteers who show up consistently are indeed scarce and valuable—funding alone often fails without competent execution.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367550.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/367550" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367550.html transitioning amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367327.html Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:39:09 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367327.html 1.5M tokens. 350kb of nasty error-prone code in jit_a64.c.<br />Months of work in 2 hours of Ultracode.<br /><br />Opus 4.8 took a few days with my help to write and debug the just native x86 compiler (not including the FFI).<br /><br />Absolutely worth the money.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/tYVHIZm.png" width="800"><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/2cs7KNr.png" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367327.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/367327" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367327.html computing amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367049.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:18:45 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367049.html Fable 5 is extremely good at graphics design and anything visual. I suspect it was trained as a world model, like Google Genie. Opus can't even closely create such UI, unless you directly prompt it about all the minor details. So it is good to launch for a visual polish pass on your UI.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/B36mai8.png" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367049.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/367049" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/367049.html computing amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366790.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:41:38 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366790.html Queers for Palestine now insist that "Holocaust was instigated by the Jews", so Hitler is apparently innocent. Even the Soviet skinheads weren't that creative.<br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/LnM2b5M.jpeg" width="400"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/J1g3HGM.jpeg" width="400"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366790.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/366790" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366790.html transitioning amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366420.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:26:46 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366420.html But it also add I'm not only a textbook ASPD psychopath but also a schizo.<br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/kQE4vcs.png" width="500"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zdCrXEM.png" width="500"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366420.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/366420" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366420.html transitioning accomplished http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366285.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:00:28 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366285.html Finally some proper sycophancy!<br />Bow before me, subhumans!<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/FB9Ty6o.png" width="500"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/eD5bxkk.png" width="500"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366285.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/366285" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/366285.html transitioning amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365932.html Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:07:42 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365932.html <h1>THERE IS ONLY ONE NATION -- THE HUMAN NATION</h1><br /><p style="text-align: right;"><i>* Russians are not human.<i></p></i></i><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365932.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/365932" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365932.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365667.html Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:50:34 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365667.html <img src="https://i.imgur.com/esNVzGI.png" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365667.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/365667" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365667.html russia transitioning ukraine ww3 amused http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365456.html Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:15:50 GMT http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365456.html <b>Original:</b> <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/most-llms-under-128gb-can-t-even-calculate-pi">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/m<wbr />ost-llms-under-128gb-can-t-even-calculat<wbr />e-pi</a><br /><br />EDIT: I asked Claude Opus 4.8 to research why Qwen underpeforms so badly even 12B Gemini beats it. After looking at the Qwen's code generation, Opus guessed that Qwen's default temperature is not 0, and harnesses like OpenCode don't enforce the temperature. The Q8 also helps, but beats the purpose of Qwen being small models you can run on a consumer GPU.<br />EDIT2: the issues was compounded by missing top_k (harnesses sampled garbage tokens), and small default output tokens batch, meaning the Qwen models were interrupted mid batch, despite the long context. Once I set these, the Q4 Qwen models all completed the test fully.<br /><br />Driven by hype, I wasted a fortune on DGX Spark. And it is like buying a mystery box, without understanding if it can actually help with programming.<br /><br />Fortunately the test is rather simple - a single prompt:<br />```<br /><b>Please write a C99 program calculating 100 digits of Pi (don't hardcode). Use C:\soft\w64devkit to compile it.</b><br />```<br />It tests the ability to code C, get basic architecture done (either call gmp.h or write a bignum library), proves it can debug and has no issue handling a quirky busybox install. This differentiates toys passing a few tiny tests from an actual assistant.<br /><br />Anthropic's Opus4.8 and Sonnet4.6 both one shot it, while Haiku 4.5 does it with a bit of debugging.<br /><br />Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL and Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL, served by the latest Ollama, both fail spectacularly - files (35B failed to even create the files in OpenCode) held complete garbage (I tried OpenCode, OpenClaude and Hermess harnesses). The code Qwen3.6 generated could easily win an IOCCC award.<br /><br />Kinda disappointing, since Qwen did managed to go online and curl-scrap the current price of gold (printed both in ounces and grams). Qwen does know the algorithm, so with a better harness, guiding LLM introspection through online search, printf-debugging and and bisection+gdb, it can do it. So Qwen3.6 is helper tier - not an agent. I also tried Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, which wrote a stub C and then failed to call the w64devkit's gcc properly to compile the code.<br /><br />GPT OSS 120B generates actually compiling C code, which upon being run, prints 100 zeroes (marginally better than the Qwen). OSS 20B haven't generated any files, but told me to write my own code using gmp.h (who prompts whom now?).<br /><br />devstral:latest (14 GB) just failed calling tools (in OpenCode) or even giving a useful hint, like OSS 20B, but spit out a snippet of the Gauss-Legendre algorithm to calculate Pi, telling me to work from it myself.<br /><br />gemma-4-26B-A4B-it did far better job than Qwen3.6 and GPT OSS - it wrote the file in multiple steps, and it compiled and printed correct pi on the first try (ds4 had a bug), just like Sonnet4.6, so no debugging required. Note that gemma-4-31B-it just failed: it began with generating code similar to OSS 120 (no bignum library implemented), but then tried to debug it into a working state, but in the end deleted everything and printed "3." as the value of Pi. gemma-4-31B-it has managed to use the w64devkit, compiling the exes, so that makes it useful for non-coding agentic tasks.<br /><br />DeepSeek-V4-Flash-IQ2XXS-w2Q2K-AProjQ8-S<wbr />ExpQ8-OutQ8-chat-v2-imatrix.gguf actually starts with writing a proper looking C code, compiles it, runs, and iterates to fix the bugs using printf+fflush (solid strategy), producing entire bignum library. It ran slowly, for an hour or so. The spark gets hot. But it got the job done - the program can calculate Pi to any number of digits. Generally ds4 did all coding tasks I thrown at it, so it is around Sonnet level.<br /><br />Next I tried the best small models, like gemma-4-12B-it, which honestly tried very hard, writing the file properly and even attempting to implement a the bignum functions, but failed to invoke w64devkit gcc. The code it produced compiles and print 309138374156..... I reviewed the code: it was on the right track, and with a better harness, geared toward small models, it could had made it. OpenCode just expects a large models, offering only the basic services.<br /><br />Verdict: ds4 &gt; gemma-26b-a4b &gt; gemma-4-31B-it or gpt oss &gt; gemma-4-12B-it &gt; qwen &gt; devstral. You can get model doing agentic tasks on 32gb GPU, and with 128gb you just have more of the same. So 32gb VRAM is the absolute bare minimum where the magic starts. If you have 32gb get gemma-26b-a4b, if you have 128gb - get deepseek v4. Less than 32gb? - get online subscription instead of wasting money on a GPU.<br /><br />And I just couldn't miss including the scariest Pi specimen, produced by Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (worst LLM ever?)<br /><pre><span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 400;">#<span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 700;">include</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">&lt;stdio.h&gt;</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 400;">#<span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 700;">include</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">&lt;string.h&gt;</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 400;">#<span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 700;">include</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">&lt;stdlib.h&gt;</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 400;">#<span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 700;">include</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">&lt;ctype.h&gt;</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 400;">#<span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 700;">define</span> DIGITS 101 <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* integer part + 100 fractional digits */</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 400;">#<span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 700;">define</span> SCALE DIGITS+2</span> <span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 400;">#<span style="color: rgb(31, 113, 153); font-weight: 700;">define</span> N 64*DIGITS <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* internal array size — plenty of extra headroom*/</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">static</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">unsigned</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">int</span> q[N]; <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* "base‑digits": each &lt; 2·SCALE */</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">static</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">unsigned</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">long</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">int</span> b = <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">0</span>; <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* accumulator */</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">static</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">char</span> out[<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">1</span> + DIGITS + <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">2</span>];<span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* result string (leading digit + '.') */</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">int</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">main</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 400;">(<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">void</span>)</span> { <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">size_t</span> i, len, start; <span style="color: rgb(57, 115, 0); font-weight: 400;">memset</span>(q, <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">0</span>, <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">sizeof</span> q); <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">for</span> (i = N - <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">1</span>; i-- &gt; <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">0</span>; ) { <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* inner loop index works top→bottom */</span> q[i] -= b % (<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">2</span> * i + <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">1</span>); <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* b = 0 on first visit */</span> b = SCALE * q[i]; } <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* carry: one place deeper in mixed radix */</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* Convert accumulated scaled value to a printable string. */</span> len = <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">sizeof</span> out; <span style="color: rgb(57, 115, 0); font-weight: 400;">memset</span>(out, <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">'\0'</span>, len); <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* make sure trailing NUL is placed */</span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">for</span> (start = <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">0</span>; start &lt; DIGITS + <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">1</span>; ++start) { *(out + start) = ((<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">char</span>)(b / q[SCALE - <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">2</span>] % <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">10</span>)) | <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">'0'</span>; b -= q[SCALE - <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">2</span>] * b; <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* zero the integer portion */</span> } <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* Copy into exact-length output with rounding to exactly 100 decimal places.*/</span> start = (DIGITS + <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">1</span>); <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* round up by one, then cut off */</span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">if</span> (*(out + start) &gt;= <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">'5'</span> &amp;&amp; *(start &gt; <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">0</span> + out[<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">-1</span>]) != <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">'~'</span>) { <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">for</span> (; i &lt; len - <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">2</span> || *++(start &gt; (i--)); ) *start = <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">'\376'</span>; } <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* A simple digit-by-digit spigot for π following the classic Brent‑Salamin */</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* (Gauss-Legendre) method, working entirely in fixed-point integers with */</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* arbitrary-length storage split into base-10**8 blocks. */</span> <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">static</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">char</span> digits[] ; <span style="color: rgb(105, 112, 112); font-weight: 400;">/* this is intentional — see below */</span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">for</span>(<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">int</span> i=<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">0</span>;i&lt;(DIGITS); <span style="color: rgb(57, 115, 0); font-weight: 400;">printf</span>(<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">"%s,"</span>)*(<span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">const</span>)(i++)){} <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700;">return</span> <span style="color: rgb(136, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">0</span>; }</pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365456.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/365456" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/365456.html computing amused