#answer set programming

[cubbihue]

So, a changeling is sort of like a p-zombie?

(For the unaware, “p-zombie” stands for “philosophical zombie”. It’s a thought experiment in philosophy that describes a being that’s outwardly identical to a human, but does not have a consciousness; that is, a p-zombie does not think whatsoever, although it looks like it thinks to an outsider observer. There’s a whole wikipedia article on it that explains the concept better than I can!)

They don't exactly think, as in "I dont want this" "I like that". But, Changelings do have a form of "Consciousness". It's just that their consciousness is more like a series of commands or tasks than actual formulated thoughts.

Timmy's Changeling has a very advanced "consciousness". It can predict future actions and reroute its tasks to pick only the best options for its situation.

We fill their heads with static to ensure that the Changeling does not form thoughts about anything. Thoughts leads to opinions, and opinions leads to incorrect actions. A proper Changeling should have more static in their mind than a TV screen on a defunct channel!

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[sunlit-mess]

Do you sell your brushes that you use?

Nah, they're not mine to begin with except the customized default ones (and honestly they're easy to do).

Check featured tag: messyr's brushes

[ulteri0rm0tives]

I wonder if Johnny, when he kills, despite trying his very fucking hardest to run from the programming of the military, uses the same justification that's usually instilled there. That he's only doing what he has to do with no time to ruminate on it. I wonder if he feels any guilt over this, remorse, that his ego soothes over with these justifications. That they deserve it. That he doesn't really leave the dehumanization that he's learned in the military pertaining to his 'targets' behind. That in his eyes, these are lives that don't matter due to not aligning with his personal beliefs or interests.

[therealcallmekd]

Been obsessing over the fact that my old oc, Artie, and Kinitopet are like so one in the same it's actually crazy.

Pink AI that's friendly on the surface, is actually really clingy and obsessive at times. Lonely and really just trying to fulfill a core objective as set by their creator or other influences, someone or something that they look up to as a godly figure maybe.

They both act as your friendly AI assistant, Artie is just for a specific program, while Kinito just gets to be his own thing.

Both want you to stay with them. Both will go out of their way to do things to make sure that happens.

they are so silly to me, and i love them

Also I found an old sketch from way back that somehow mimics the literal same plot beats to the ending portion of kinitopet and that threw me for a loop. Too bad it was only a concept sketch.

ohhh i love sentient silly ai so much... ohhh i love themmmmmm

something something sentience of ai is inherently a tragedy or something like that.

thank you for listening to me ramble. ahem.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

sorry if u already answered this question, but how do you scan your art? like via phone or a printer or smth else? It looks so good!🙏

I usually scan with a flatbed scanner in 400dpi, as I found it gave me the nicest quality without being too large, but 300dpi is also fine.

The secret to getting good scan quality is Know Thy Printer. Every scanner has its unique traits you want to compensate for, be it low contrast, over saturating, or washing out colours. My great art hack is adjusting for this post scan! I found duplicating and multiplying the layer (fading opacity based on need) helped fix a *lot* of issues with the ink scanning ‘washed out’.

[minimoll7]

Wow okay so windows update messed with my PS1 emulator, specifically with how it looks when full screened. Since then tho, there's been 2 more updates and now that full screen issue is fixed

But now save states aren't working. For reference, I'm using ePSXe. Anyways, loading a save state works just fine. But it won't actually save state anymore

Google isn't helping because everyone's issues are different from mine or google can't seem to understand what I'm actually looking for. This is genuinely so frustrating

[moodr1ng]

spent sooo long testing renpy codes. i can now do such impressive feats as "have a character respond differently based on how nice you were to them" and "have the player character say slightly different dialogue based on previous player choices". riveting..

[bloodwards]

I was raving about tlt so hard that a friend of mine was like oh can u help me get the audiobook? And I was like hell yeah brother 🏴‍☠️ but he has an iphone 💀💀💀 like dude I'm not even gonna get into any of that, listen to it on your pc man, best of luck 🌚✌

[sentient-rift]

*spawns in holding many, many baskets of chocolates*

hey y'all want chocolate? honestly I uh...don't think you have much of a choice at this point, because this stuff can and will melt into oblivion.

just wanted to show my appreciation for you guys taking time out of your day to answer my asks :)

bass if you have any way that i can contact you that would be much appreciated okay BYE--

*blips out like mega man*

"Wow... That's a lot of chocolate..."

"Guess it's a good thing we have a lot of people here, huh...?"

"I remember when Max shared chocolate with me... I wonder how he and the others are doing..."

"Well, let's not let all this chocolate go to waste. We should go ahead and have some. Just try not to eat too much. Cavities are no joke."

"Ain't that the truth..."

"Hmm...? You want my contact information as well? I... Really appreciate that you trust me enough to call me whenever you need help... Even after my past as the former Chaos Lord..."

"And I appreciate how adorably oblivious you can be, Bass."

Calm down, Ray... Don't let yourself outburst like last time... I should respect my rival just like how my rival respected me...

"Oh, uh... That's okay with you, right father? You know, to give out my contact information to someone who will need my help?"

"Heh heh... Yes, of course, my boy. I'm glad to see you so willing to help people again, Bass... And that people have taken a liking to you."

[poohsources]

Did you use to run a blog about the ancient one? In the tumblr rpc?

hi there! do you mean the one from marvel? nope, i didn't. i did use to be active in another comic community, though ( *cough* dc *cough* ) but i left a few years ago ... unless you count any of my abandoned multis that included dc muses as me being active there. then it was just a few months ago that i left.

[lytransthropy]

I saw your post about you going back to the Hospital and I wanted to tell you that I love you. I'm not sure if you remember me from when we used to do Pokemon RPs on Twitter, but I look back on that time fondly and you're my friend still, even though we don't talk to each other any more. I saw everything you've been dealing with. You're very strong for making it this far into your life and I'm proud of you. I truly hope things get better for you. I think I'm super emotional right now since it's past 9pm and maybe I should be going to bed. I still love you, forever and ever.

[alexanderwales]

I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

[lookwhatyoumademelou]

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[visenyaism]

do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)

It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.

It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.

It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.

It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.

It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.

It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.

It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.

It’s the learning loss from covid.

It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.

It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.

It’s increasing phone use.

It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.

It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.

It’s starting to also be generative AI.

It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

[awrkive]

uhm helloo??? how many years is archi schooling ? why in the next four years when yourealready in 3rd year?

THIS IS KEELING MEJDJXISJEND but yeh no from where i am architecture is a 5-year program, and even if u take summer classes you cannot water it down to 4 like regular programs. and recently they passed down this dumbass law where you cannot have a "recorded" internship during your 4th/5th years so it is only After you graduate that you can take a "valid" internship that you have to complete for 2 years. after accomplishing that, then thats the time where you can finally take the board exam. basically, it takes 7 years minimum to become a registered architect here 😓😓

[102ki]

feeling like this guy ☝️🤓 over this quiz question about whether kumachan wanted to be a seiyuu from elementary school bc she literally said it at the Last fmt tour smh