Posts by mattskala@mstdn.io
(DIR) Post #AznmUSrfdib5gogtii by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-11-01T12:44:17Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain This one again. I still haven't read the paper, but my first thought was of a crank who used to post on sci.crypt a lot about how all functions in security applications need to be injective (indeed, bijective - he really had a thing about permutations). My second thoughts are in the directions of numeric precision and thermodynamics. Time-reversal symmetry of physics doesn't mean you can unscramble an egg.
(DIR) Post #AztLVo9QS248BSAgLo by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-11-04T01:39:32Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain As for the other four,
(DIR) Post #AztLWYUc9aLZuURFlQ by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-11-04T01:36:46Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain @harblinger I'd endorse this one, and have heard others say the same. Wonder where it fits on the log plot.
(DIR) Post #AzwSwVNvc5HYxCVnea by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-11-05T17:17:39Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain Whassamatta, what have you got against xyz?
(DIR) Post #B0YmsBGvu7dzGHXtQG by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-11-24T03:34:42Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain All my vicar friends use the Oxford comma.
(DIR) Post #B0uTL7wdd9PbjahFiK by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-04T16:05:19Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain Dragon's Blood. There's probably a guy named Dragon.
(DIR) Post #B15pl7b9sOTXv40cQy by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-10T00:16:09Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain for men who wish to look like coral snakes
(DIR) Post #B15zyQBb4tbYsH28RM by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-10T00:42:55Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain "What Is This My Son Tom"
(DIR) Post #B1BaDYwvLXn8XNUO36 by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-12T22:12:19Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@lain I still miss Ragu spaghetti sauce.
(DIR) Post #B1PPqiKe180peEUP3o by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-19T13:33:50Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@lain It's going to end up "cancelled" over "alignment" issues, and probably not even the most obvious ones. Like maybe it'll come out favouring coal burning too much to be palatable.
(DIR) Post #B1Z682j1f2wEmjEWyO by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-23T23:14:50Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain checking it twice
(DIR) Post #B1b5hRctMNsYVmbKPg by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-24T21:44:47Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain It took me many years to figure out that I don't like duck. Because I don't *hate* it, I just don't really like it much. I'd see it on a restaurant menu, think "That sounds fun to try!" and then be disappointed, and I was pretty far along in life before I realized that it goes that way every time. I thought I was just getting duck dishes that were individually not very good.
(DIR) Post #B1clhFUKsZoA6D9FEO by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-26T00:58:31Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@h4890 @nicholas @lain Yeah, they're called Canada geese in English. Not sure I'd care to eat one, given their filthy habits and likely toughness.
(DIR) Post #B1i8CLsQLX7ZfiS1Wy by mattskala@mstdn.io
2025-12-28T14:56:14Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@lain Ah, yes, the Hedgehog Dilemma.
(DIR) Post #B1x6Jq1NNooUeXTlq4 by mattskala@mstdn.io
2026-01-04T20:22:52Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Just once, Mastodon, can you tell me that an *expected* error occurred?
(DIR) Post #B1x6QOnczWeGFlB2Po by mattskala@mstdn.io
2026-01-04T20:24:13Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain No copyright intended.
(DIR) Post #B1xffghwBihAXAXbzk by mattskala@mstdn.io
2026-01-05T02:03:22Z
2 likes, 1 repeats
@lain They did. I stayed in one, in Tokyo, because I hadn't been warned. Literature rack in the room full of stuff that would probably have been illegal back home.
(DIR) Post #B2DtiCbnjmoKzcRHFo by mattskala@mstdn.io
2026-01-12T22:51:01Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@lain So they make it up by further hiking the fees they charge to merchants. Why does he hate small business?
(DIR) Post #B2IPmUGM14DW4OKlQO by mattskala@mstdn.io
2026-01-14T22:33:56Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lain oh susanna na tenshi no you ni, anata no namida shinai de
(DIR) Post #B2xFaQX8ShyY1NFNU8 by mattskala@mstdn.io
2026-02-03T19:58:05Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@bob I'd caution strongly against this interpretation because people will use it to draw incorrect conclusions about copyright and "citation."It's all very well to make theoretical statements *among theorists* about generation being "equivalent" to a search engine (after all, everything is equivalent to searching the Library of Babel); but lay persons will assume that means it's searching real documents that actually exist and that it necessarily copied from, and that way lies trouble.