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Heartiste once said, "To seduce hot girls, it helps to know the mind of a hot girl. And that means getting in her peep toes and taking a look at the sexual market through her eyes. Hot girls don’t get hit on as often as merely cute girls, but that doesn’t mean they don’t notice the head...

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Listening comprehension is the hardest skill and takes the most time to develop. The one thing which can speed up your learning is by spending bigger chunks of time. Your ears need MASSIVE exposure to language. Three hours a day is good. To maximize time, there are even people who listen to...

Gated communities, those without a guard standing at the gate, are security theater. The image of security is more important than actually doing anything to protect residents. I once lived in a gated community which had a gate at one entrance but did not have a gate at the other entrance. The...

Four experiments show thinking in a foreign language reduces the framing effect and two experiments show it reduces loss aversion, while in the foreign language. A pair of experiments show it reduces causality bias. It's not clear why, but it has been suggested a possible explanation is that the...

VPNS encrypt your connection to a remote network, such as telecommuting to work. If you ever use public WIFI, a VPN helps protects you from hackers (unless the VPN itself is hacked, which sometimes happens). VPNs are only one layer of protection, though, nothing is a silver bullet. For the...

People simply buy a VPN. Internet searches for VPNs skyrocketed.

Naomi Watts.

"Cognition AI can turn a user's prompt into a video game." AI-generated video games will all be crappy games. The games may be technically playable but AI does not know a thing about Art Direction or things like affordances which go into video game design. The games will also be very generic.

On the other hand, there is the Gartner Hype Cycle. AI is at the Peak of Inflated Expectations. The Trough of Dillusionment happens when limitations are found. Until extinction does actually happen, it's nothing more than speculation.

Free time. Time is our only true currency.

ThePrimeTimeAgean, who is a software engineer at Netflix, predicts that AI will widen the gap between experts and beginners. Experts will become better experts, beginners will remain beginners.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Grand Theft Auto 5 Honorable mention of Alien Isolation and Madden NFL 2024. But I almost never, very rarely play, because I'm a busy guy. I'm not sure about the future of GTA 6, because it's my understanding they're getting rid of comedy and doing a more serious...

People like to praise the value of tutorials. "There's so much you can learn on Youtube!" Tutorials are helpful for simple topics, for sure, but not so helpful for complex topics like computer programming and VFX. People get stuck in "Tutorial Hell" where they watch tutorials for years but make...

The pernicious danger of automation from AI is atrophy of human skills. There are people who think there's "no point" in learning a skill, for a career, if AI is "just" going to take it over. When automation fails, people have no idea what to do. In 1997, American Airlines captain Warren...

About a year from now, I will be moving to inside of the Washington DC Beltway, to be closer to family. It's a great area but the one big sticking point which made me pause for a few months before making the decision is the loss of friends. Making friends in middle age life is not the same...

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I’ve recently started hardcore learning of Houdini (after two small attempts of dabbling with it.) SideFX Houdini is a 3D animation/simulation software package. Everything and anything is possible in Houdini. If you can dream it, you can do it. It's primarily used for VFX in...

My name is Cory. Back when I was a little kid, I remember some kid once mocked me for having a "girl's name." Throughout the years, though, most of the Cory's who I've met are guys, so I agree about it being more masculine.

We all know about the concept of a snob, "a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and looks down on those regarded as socially inferior." Snobbery isn't really a thing. That's not to say it doesn't exist, but it...