I was immediately struck when I looked down at just the boardwalk how similar it felt to being on LSD. I am continually astounded with how similar these systems end up seeming to how our brain works. May just be happy coincidences but I am pretty sold on there being true parallels that will only become more and more apparent.
A lot of people mentioned this! The "dreamlike" comparison is common as well. In both cases, you have a network of neurons rendering an image approximating the real world :) so it sort of makes sense.
Regarding the specific boiling-textures effect: there's a tradeoff in recurrent world models between jittering (constantly regenerating fine details to avoid accumulating error) and drifting (propagating fine details as-is, even when that leads to accumulating error and a simplified/oversaturated/implausible result). The forest trail world is tuned way towards jittering (you can pause with `p` and step frame-by-frame with `.` to see this). So if the effect resembles LSD, it's possible that LSD applies some similar random jitter/perturbation to the neurons within your visual cortex.
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In my free time I create video game cheats. You may have seen some of my previous blog posts on the top of Hacker News, emphasis on "hacker" [1][2]!
I will say that I am honestly quite happily employed but I still think it is always worth putting my resume out into the aether.
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Howdy, I'm Dan. I currently am employed as SpecterOps, a premier red team consultancy. I execute bespoke offensive security and application security assessments including binary reverse engineering, vulnerability identification, and attack path assessment via kubernetes and active directory abuse.
In my free time I create video game cheats. You may have seen some of my previous blog posts on the top of Hacker News, emphasis on "hacker" [1][2]!
I will say that I am honestly quite happily employed but I still think it is always worth putting my resume out into the aether.
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Howdy, I'm Dan. I currently am employed as SpecterOps, a premier red team consultancy. I execute bespoke offensive security and application security assessments including binary reverse engineering, vulnerability identification, and attack path assessment via kubernetes and active directory abuse.
In my free time I create video game cheats. You may have seen some of my previous blog posts on the top of Hacker News, emphasis on "hacker" [1][2]!
I will say that I am honestly quite happily employed but I still think it is always worth putting my resume out into the aether.
If my skills seem valuable to your organization, please don't hesitate to reach out - I am very interested in/available for contract work as well!
Thanks for the tips! I live in the middle of the concrete jungle that is LA so I instead have the kushiest moon-shoes I could find. As for the klondike bar I’ll have to train up my neck :)
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Howdy, I'm Dan. I currently am employed as SpecterOps, a premier red team consultancy. I execute bespoke offensive security and application security assessments including binary reverse engineering, vulnerability identification, and attack path assessment via kubernetes and active directory abuse.
In my free time I create video game cheats. You may have seen some of my previous blog posts on the top of Hacker News, emphasis on "hacker" [1][2]!
I will say that I am honestly quite happily employed but I still think it is always worth putting my resume out into the aether.
If my skills seem valuable to your organization, please don't hesitate to reach out - I am very interested in contract work as well!
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Résumé/CV: https://www.mayer.cool/resume.pdf
Email: dan@mayer.cool
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=====================
Howdy, I'm Dan. I currently am employed as SpecterOps, a premier red team consultancy. I execute bespoke offensive security and application security assessments including binary reverse engineering, vulnerability identification, and attack path assessment via kubernetes and active directory abuse.
In my free time I create video game cheats. You may have seen some of my previous blog posts on the top of Hacker News, emphasis on "hacker" [1][2]!
I will say that I am honestly quite happily employed but I still think it is always worth putting my resume out into the aether.
If my skills seem valuable to your organization, please don't hesitate to reach out - I am very interested in contract work as well!
iMessage automation. I love technologies so ubiquitous that they end up registering in our brain as “real life.”
We spend so much time texting each other that it has become transparent, so one expects a cute little chatbot or small game to show up, and it delights people!
I recently made a framework to allow playing Twine games through iMessage and people really love it:
Another one that brought a lot of joy was hooking up a friend’s iMessage to immediately respond to all messages with a chatbot. It was before ChatGPT came out, so it was just convincing enough to have people for a few messages, but scuffed enough to have some very funny off-kilter responses. It sowed a lot of chaos in our group chats :)
