Had them more than a decade ago, pros couldn't get rid of them. All I had to do was put all my belongings in the garage, heat that up to 140 degrees F for about 12 hours, dust the entire house including inside the walls with diatomaceous earth, and move out for 3 months. Easy peasey.

Btw they can't climb smooth surfaces, it's actually practical to just put protectors/detectors on all the legs of your beds and furniture and make sure there's nothing touching the walls or hanging to the floor. I did that for a few years out of paranoia actually and always for the first few months after moving into a new place. I still wake up sometimes and am compelled to turn on the light and check my sheets. They need human blood to survive, unfortunately they can live for quite some time without feeding.

it constructs a concept in a more abstract way then progressively finds a way to put it into words; I know that arguably that's what it's doing currently,

Correct!

but the fact that it does it separately for each token means it's not constructing any kind of abstraction

No!!!!! You simply cannot make judgements like this based on vague ideas like "autocomplete on steroids" or "stochastic parrot", these were good for conceptualizing GPT-2, maybe. It's actually very inefficient, but, by re-reading what it has previously written (plus one token) it's actually acting sort of like an RNN. In fact we know theoretically that with simlified attention models the two architectures are mathematically equivalent.

Let me put it like this. Suppose you had the ability to summon a great novelist as they were at some particular point in their life, pull them from one exact moment in the past, and to do this as many times as you liked. You put a gun to their head, or perhaps offer them alcohol and cocaine, to start writing a novel. The moment they finish the first word, you shoot them in the head and summon the same version again. "Look I've got a great first word for a novel, and if you can turn it into a good paragraph I'll give you this bottle of gin and a gram of cocaine!". They think for a moment and begin to put down more words, but again you shoot them after word two. Rinse/repeat until a novel is formed. It takes a good while but eventually you've got yourself a first draft. You may also have them refine the novel using the same technique, also you may want to give them some of the drugs and alcohol before hand to improve their writing and allow them to put aside the fact that they've been summoned to the future by a sorcerer. Now I ask you, is there any theoretical reason why this novel wouldn't be any good? Is the essence of it somehow different than any other novel, can we judge it as not being real art or creativity?

I assume that's an extract in a capsule and not dried kratom in a capsule? 6.5mg of plant matter would be a miniscule dose... So alkaloid content is something like .7-1.5% of dried weight, 2 would be equivalent to 1-2g of dried kratom. No, it's about a perfect starting dose, in the medium to low range. It gets problematic at about 5-10x that amount

Kratom is great when used in moderation, in my experience you start to get side effects after a week or so of daily usage, it's not the tolerance that's most annoying, the effects seem to change, it becomes less stimulating and the mood enhancement disappears. Thankfully it's very easy to withdraw from unless you're taking really large doses, you can just go cold turkey and be back to normal in 2 or three days. Results may vary, but highly recommend frequent breaks of 7-10 days and never escalating dosage to more than a few grams a day. Also, it really shines at lower doses, where it's a mild stimulant and just a touch of the opiate feeling, and it's a very good physical performance enhancer.

Just can't help myself.. "Disperse" is the word, disburse means to release an allotment of money

Lmfao

The cuts to the locks, yes! Very weird decision, I'm not sure it was intentional. The movie has some serious issues but I have to admit I did enjoy it

I'm really sorry to hear that, I don't have too much experience with chronic anxiety but every few years I'll have a full on panic attack just randomly and it's absolutely excruciating, I can't imagine having to live with that on the regular.

Just one other comment, I'm a bit wary of using antihistamines in general, probably irrational paranoia but there's been some news that over the counter ones can increase risk of dementia later in life and hydroxyzine seems like it's a lot dirtier and more powerful. For just passing out there may be other options, have you tried an alpha agonist (clonidine, tizanidine)? I feel like these are tragically underutilized as sleep meds, not everyone gets super tired but most do, and from personal experience at least the sleep quality is very good. Probably easy to get from the doc and I've never heard of anyone becoming addicted to these although there is technically now a street drug in this class (xylazine).

It's been a while but I want to say this is not a topological concept. Topologically the band with no twist and with a full twist are both just a disc with a hole, they're homeomorphic meaning topological tools can't tell the difference between them. A half twist (Mobius strip) is distinct though..

Still the argument I used is partly topological, cutting things apart and glueing them back together is very much of the subject. Anyway I believe there are math people on the sub who cracked a book more recently than 12 years ago, please chime in!

Edit: And now I'm realizing this is almost certainly wrong, for example knots are just circles no matter how convoluted but you can still study them with topolgy by looking at their complement, which would be the whole of 3d space but with the knot cut out, probably you can do the same with these bands. So correct answer would have been: I don't know

Yeah but more like 15 years, it's not great

It sucks for .NET also, I currently waste up to an hour a day switching between different browsers for debugging and restarting the instance, sometimes my whole work laptop if that fails. All my coworkers have equally annoying but apparently unrelated problems, like maybe I could spend a couple days nailing down the issue, my younger self would have, but at this point I just don't have the motivation. It's sad because .NET is actually quite good, C# is a very pretty and expressive language, the compiler is nearly flawless, blazor is... not the worst framework for building a UI, even VS itself has some impressive magic it's just slow and constantly breaks in new and exciting ways no matter what you're using it for

Via bing image creator, yes