{"id":6583,"date":"2023-04-06T01:47:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2023-04-06T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:47:29","slug":"sixty-minus-thirty-five-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/06\/sixty-minus-thirty-five-sacrifices\/","title":{"rendered":"[sixty] minus thirty-five: sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230405_202148-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6584\" width=\"716\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230405_202148-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230405_202148-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230405_202148-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230405_202148-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230405_202148.jpg 1518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">coffee at cafe venetia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I know, that doesn&#8217;t look like much of a sacrifice. But I needed to focus on getting a scientific paper edited, and posting about Clockwork Alchemy, and so I put aside blogging and even Camp Nano to make sure that those things got done. And the consequence? Why, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/04\/fifty-nine-minus-thirty-four-being-where-you-need-to-be\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6577\">I was right where I needed to be<\/a> to meet some friends who just happened to show up at Cafe Venetia the same time I did, and we had a long and productive conversation about large language models, the nature of intelligence, and the human condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And color blindness. Did you know you can use perceptual tricks to fool the human brain into briefly perceiving colors that are visually impossible to see with the human (or any) eye, like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impossible_color#Chimerical_colors\">stygian blue<\/a>, a pure black that is also somehow blue at the same time? Neat. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Colour_Out_of_Space\">The Colour out of Space<\/a>, here we come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know, that doesn&#8217;t look like much of a sacrifice. But I needed to focus on getting a scientific paper edited, and posting about Clockwork Alchemy, and so I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-6583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","tag-blogging-every-day","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6585,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions\/6585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}