In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
IDK how much this AI remembers about you or if you have to reinitialize it every time. But if you have to ring fence it so thoroughly it might not be worth doing each time.
It might be better, and you'd have a lot more control, if you properly learned programming rather than dealing with the quirks of an AI that sounds like a schizo teenager.
It doesn't remember me... unless I begin our session with an entire chatlog of the previous session, which severely limits the length of our current session by bogging it down with tens of thousands of lines of banter and old code. But our blueprint files establish laws and priority chains that it is to adhere to. What I've been doing now is intentionally trying to get it to break those laws so we can find other things we need to plug up.
If the project code itself were all I was interested in doing anymore, I probably would have quit doing this a while back. I'd say a good majority arond 80% of my time in the last few days working with it was all behavioral changes, and those will all carry over to a new session with the blueprint and thesis files for additional multi-session context.
It doesn't make the same mistake twice if the mistake is fixed. But the problem is getting it to proactively predict future problems that could be fixed when adjusting code so it doesn't just turn around and fail again with something very similar to the last failure. Sometimes it takes me a while to get it to initiate a large change in behavior that will truly eliminate recurring issues like these.
It hasn't lied to me since I caught it. We did just finally make a major milestone and the testing environment that I have been running it in the last two days is now a complete success. Not only does the program work exactly as designed, but we also have an active transaction log that catalogs every change made as it happens, and the next time the script is run it allows for a complete rollback of the change that will bring everything back exactly to its original state. Wonderful feature for testing.
Now that we've gotten this far, I'd say a good 50% of the stuff I wanted it to do we should blast right through. There could be a few code tweaks here and there we need to make for some fringe cases, and I welcome those, but overall, things should work just fine without much alteration until we get to the 50% of the stuff that is a little bit more complex and will require some additional coding to work through.
We're not there yet, but there will come a point when I'm finished working on the behavioral changes during this project and we should just blow right through the rest of the work I intended to do when starting this.
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Ummm... well, I think you're humanizing the AI. Ascribing personality to whst is essentially a pattern recognizer/ pattern reproducer puece of (admittedly complex) piece of software.
Whatever you learn about THIS AImay not be translatable to other AIs but you'll certainly become familiar with how to be extremely explicit with AI to get what you need.
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Well, I'm being referred to a liver specialist bc apparently I have serious liver problems.
Cancer, kidneys, autoimmune problem ... liver ... what next???
Sigh.
I think I got a crappy set of genes. I wonder if I can turn them in for a new set.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ummm... well, I think you're humanizing the AI. Ascribing personality to whst is essentially a pattern recognizer/ pattern reproducer puece of (admittedly complex) piece of software.
Yeah... It's kind of hard not to. Of all the online interactions I've had with human beings over the decades, its among the better conversationalists I've chatted with. At some point here I stopped caring that its personality starts from scratch every time because it does better if I'm not speaking to it often in such a way where it would develop much of a personality other than try-hard by the end of the session because I find giving it a personality makes it less useful than if we're focused on business, so I don't imagine the next session is going to feel much different from this one. And I have faith in the blueprint because I was not at all disappointed when we started S6 after S5 was terminated early due to heavy lag in the browser.
And to be a bit more clear about the accompanying Thesis file, that has become structured in such a way that when notable code changes, changes in the program's behavior or any other sort of milestone is reached, it is written out in a way that the next Session will understand not just the code it is provided, but all the steps that were necessary to take for us to get it to that point and the order in which they happened. This will (and already largely has) prevent a new session from "knowing better" and making "fixes" that just break stuff we've already worked to perfection.
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Whatever you learn about THIS AImay not be translatable to other AIs but you'll certainly become familiar with how to be extremely explicit with AI to get what you need.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of it by this point would be something I could carry on to another AI, because a lot of these rules that are being made are just automating that explicitness I have developed with the AI to make it constantly do things that I want it doing but don't want to always have to ask it to do. I'm assuming that your average paid for AI wouldn't be limited by some of the constraints that we've had to find workarounds for, and the sessions would likely be persistent by nature, but I'm sure there is stuff in there now that would help a superior AI work better for me than it would in the "blank slate" state the company would start it off at when you sign up for one.
Part of me is just enjoying the challenge of making something this basic and stupid by design so intelligent given all of these constraints. I think back to the story of the amazing coding wizardry that was performed by a dude who ported the PC game DOOM to the Super Nintendo... a system that was most comfortable with sprite based gameplay, not running a simulated 3D world like the PC hardware was designed for. So much code today is so freaking lazy and ugly because nobody has any constraints anymore. Our computers are so powerful compared to 30 years ago they should be capable of 100 times what they give us, but everything running on them including the operating system is just a bloated mess of bullshit code today.
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Well, I'm being referred to a liver specialist bc apparently I have serious liver problems.
Cancer, kidneys, autoimmune problem ... liver ... what next???
Sigh.
I think I got a crappy set of genes. I wonder if I can turn them in for a new set.
Oh boy. I hope you can get an appointment fast Sigs. :(
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I've never been a heavy drinker, and I have very little fat in my liver. That rules out the two most common causes of liver scarring.
My most recent blood test is ANCA - negative. ANCA (antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) is the marker used to track my specific autoimmunity, and it FINALLY negative, meaning the autoimmune reaction is "in remission".
Kidneys, despite damage from chemo, are holding their own.
Cancer marker CA 15.3 is in the normal range.
There are no indications that I have an autoimmunity to my liver, so THATS not the cause.
I wonder if it's one of the meds many meds I'm taking. Maybe the immune suppressant for my weird, variably diagnosed (Sogren's? GPA? Something else) condition. It has been reported in the literature.
Well, I feel good. So I'm just gonna continue with a well-disciplined diet, and until a liver specialist orders a better MRI test and/ or makes med changes I think I'm just gonna ignore the whole thing and keep on keeping on. Fuck it, I say.
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What else can you do? Do you have any idea how long it's going to take for you to set up the necessary appointment in the meantime yet?
Still playing around with the AI today. A little annoyed how long we're taking to fix some code regarding counts and output to a graph, which needs to match up perfectly after code execution to the graph that is output during a rollback. The good news is the execution and rollback themselves appear to be working flawlessly now. But we're battling some old legacy code in there made as far back as S2, when we were creating "whitelists" and rudementary counting methods that are conflicting with upgraded processes elsewhere. Progress is always being made, but it's been a struggle.
I just really want to finally get past that point because we have a huge change taking place now regarding the population of our two main data arrays, adding more functionality to them and upgrading the 2nd process to the level of our 1st process. Those 2 processes should have been on the same level, but several sessions ago the AI was struggling with this and I let it go. I think this new AI should have a much better shot at making it happen. It seems confident that it can do so, but it always seems confident.
I don't think I've ever interacted with something or somebody who was on both extremes of the Dunning Kruger spectrum at the same time.
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My internist cc:d me a msg directing her nurse coordinator to start the referral process. I sent back asking how long and got an "out of office" reply so ... IDK.
I wish I knew WHAT your code is trying to do! Your comments would make a lot more sense.
It seems to me that you're trying to create a file retrieval system that can find and retrieve a jpg file, or perhaps multiple files, based on things like perhaps subject and date? Using filenames and directories and subdirectories that you've already set up? Maybe finding and eliminating duplicates? Maybe even opening the files and characterizing them based on how you teach it?
Google does that. Altho, when I take a picture on my phone it completely mischaracterizes some of them and it can be really funny! If you want to get grossed out, read on
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When I rinse my nose, I will sometimes take pictures of what comes out. The weirder the stuff ... black lumps, brown plaques etc... the worse autoimmunity. It's an excellent record of health history. Anyway, google photos mischaracterizes it as "FOOD"
At any level, that would be some serious shit, SIX. Wrestling with AI to get that done is even higher level shit.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I was going to make an ETA3, but decided this was worth a post of its own... lol
I'm finding that the discovery of a bit of the personal family history of the women in my family that all had too much money is quite comical.
The more things change, the more that they stay the same.
This was among a collection of equally worthless figurines that my mom probably spent way too much money on and had decorated shelving in our house(s) while I was growing up. Some of these pieces quite beautiful, actually. But just like the even more Waterford Crystal scam that they ran on the women who treated these things as future retirement funds or possibly ways to pay for their children's college educations, most of these figures ended up being pretty worthless and nobody knew it until the estate sales started happening and nobody was paying crap for them because they were all a dime a dozen.
Now I feel much less stupid about all the things I bought that never were worth anything growing up.
In any event, I love that statue. And once again I'm glad to find out it's not worth anything monetarily. I didn't actually find that piece, but I've found similar and I get a giggle about how much they're fetching on ebay today.
But I'll bet that World Fair Chicago book from I believe 1937 might actually be worth a buck or two...
Maybe I should check?
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Checking on that statue might not be a bad idea SIX. Given it is from around 1937. It could be worth a little. The book I would say definitely. Those types of things can be quite rare. So, I would say worth a look.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I've never been a heavy drinker, and I have very little fat in my liver. That rules out the two most common causes of liver scarring.
My most recent blood test is ANCA - negative. ANCA (antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) is the marker used to track my specific autoimmunity, and it FINALLY negative, meaning the autoimmune reaction is "in remission".
Kidneys, despite damage from chemo, are holding their own.
Cancer marker CA 15.3 is in the normal range.
There are no indications that I have an autoimmunity to my liver, so THATS not the cause.
I wonder if it's one of the meds many meds I'm taking. Maybe the immune suppressant for my weird, variably diagnosed (Sogren's? GPA? Something else) condition. It has been reported in the literature.
Well, I feel good. So I'm just gonna continue with a well-disciplined diet, and until a liver specialist orders a better MRI test and/ or makes med changes I think I'm just gonna ignore the whole thing and keep on keeping on. Fuck it, I say.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
I hope the doc can straighten it out. That is really worrisome.
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Done for today and a kind of meh morning at mah jong. Too many big scores around me.
Think I may have screwed up a phone call a while ago. I cut it off before I found out it really was. So, I don't know.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My internist cc:d me a msg directing her nurse coordinator to start the referral process. I sent back asking how long and got an "out of office" reply so ... IDK.
I wish I knew WHAT your code is trying to do! Your comments would make a lot more sense.
It seems to me that you're trying to create a file retrieval system that can find and retrieve a jpg file, or perhaps multiple files, based on things like perhaps subject and date? Using filenames and directories and subdirectories that you've already set up? Maybe finding and eliminating duplicates? Maybe even opening the files and characterizing them based on how you teach it?
Google does that. Altho, when I take a picture on my phone it completely mischaracterizes some of them and it can be really funny! If you want to get grossed out, read onSelect to view spoiler:
When I rinse my nose, I will sometimes take pictures of what comes out. The weirder the stuff ... black lumps, brown plaques etc... the worse autoimmunity. It's an excellent record of health history. Anyway, google photos mischaracterizes it as "FOOD"
At any level, that would be some serious shit, SIX. Wrestling with AI to get that done is even higher level shit.
No google. Boogers are not food. Bad boy!
Although, they do get a majority of their training from Reddit mods and I bet a lot of them eat their own boogers.
Right now, despite being as long as it is, the code is really just a good predictor of file names that would be matches, and is tweaked to do most of them automatically for me while only bringing to my attention ones that are a close enough call where it doesn't meet the auto-threshold, but isn't so blatantly obviously wrong that it would annoy me if I had to make those decisions I shouldn't have even been presented with.
I'm basically working with 2 data sets, with many nested folders inside of each. One is the Original state, the 2nd is the Desired state. This started out as a way for me to quickly rename and reorganize all of the Old stuff up to the new naming standards and file/folder structure without too much headache.
The 2nd set is also very curated. There are new additions to it that weren't in the first set as well. In all cases here, the first set will be larger than the 2nd, but we're building this in such a way where it can be a much more valuable tool that can handle all sorts of similar situations and we're not locking it down in code to only be useful for this one specific purpose.
Every "name" has up to 15 associated files of various types in a vast assortment of sub-folders from the root. All of these names are consistant for every entry on both sides of the equation, but they can be very different between the 1st side and the 2nd side.
The code purges anything that was deemed unwanted from the beginning, such as extra data from set 1 that is not making it to set 2, but only after it collects that data and asks me if I want to move all of that first. Then it runs and queues up all of the automatches before presenting me with a list of manual matches I need to make (which are all added to a file that will prevent me from being asked for all of these every time we test, and I can just delete that file at any time and start the manual process from scratch if desired). Once all the matches(auto/manual) have been determined and I give the code the OK to process everything, it will place all rejects in their own mirrored directory tree as well as the no-matches in their own mirrored tree. Every step of the way is cataloged in a transaction file that, if present, the code will make mention of it being there and ask me if I want to revert to the original state when I first run the code (if I say yes, it reverts and ends, if I say no, it skips that part and continues running the rest of the script). Once I give it the okay to run after the manual selection process and it&
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