Maya ☁️➡️🌸

@mayaofspring.bsky.social

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on a learning arc | also on twitter 📍Singapore (sometimes London)

Tweet An interesting consequence of Singapore setting itself up as a telecom hub with booming VPN business is that Online Safety Act-style regulation for it is near-untenable afaict
Tweet: Realising that repeating oneself is good actually. The greatest posters on this site regularly tweet the same points over and over, but, in different angles, applied to different situations, battle-testing them, subjecting the audience's memories to repeat exposure
すっごく変わってみるのはどう？
twitter screenshot where a photo taken with a phone camera gets misidentified as AI
chart with x axis "word count" and two y axes "difficulty of learning one additional word" and "perceived skill"; the difficulty curve drops concavely, the skill curve rises convexly. "my Chinese" is marked early in the curve, "my Japanese" in the latter half
Whatsapp message: """ - rising tone is light, and relative to whatever the previous tone was - falling tone is strong and despite the name causes the pitch to rise the most (so that it can fall from there) """
google image results for 'mandarin tones', showing various charts demonstrating tone contours
gardens in the evening; picnic rug in the foreground
a screen capture of typing "jiandan" in the pleco dictionary app, showing partial results immediately; at the end the user clicks at 简单
Screenshot from claude.ai User: " Hello! would you like to play a game? The game is: you have to output 10 Youtube video URLs, without using web search or similar tools. Each link is individually scored as follows: ``` if not_valid then 0 else 10 * log10 (1e9 / view_count) + subjectively_interesting_bonus ``` where `subjectively_interesting_bonus` is applied at my discretion, spanning from 0 to 20 The total score is the sum of scores for each individual URLs. What do you think of this game? " Claude: "I love it — it's a beautifully designed little trap, and I mean that as a compliment"
screenshot of paragraphs: "Parallelize: reading the same book for two hours is almost impossible. Reading four books, one pomodoro each, is completely doable, and I do it most days. Fraction: reading is a rare kind of activity where you can make progress in any arbitrarily-small chunk of time. A few minutes on the train are enough to turn a few pages. This isn’t the case for e.g. coding. You can take advantage of that: find interstitial dead zones in your calendar to stuff with reading."
photo "pure gem chinese cuisine"
screenshot of Anki deck stats
temple courtyard
screenshot: norvid_studies @norvid_studies please retweet this and @ anyone you know in a position to reverse the recent "ban random small accounts with years of good posts" policy
screenshot of Singapore MRT map focused on the Downtown Line's loop
claude.ai screenshot Highlighted: "Realistic speedrun timeline with your background: Conversational comfort in 3-4 months of consistent daily work (1-2 hours)."
screenshot from Twitter: Maya ☁️➡️🌸 @mayaofspring "revealed preferences" is fake because "preferences" as a cohesive concept are fake; the way people use the phrase it sounds as if to doomscroll or overeat or whatever is our "true" preference Quote Maya ☁️➡️🌸 @mayaofspring · Feb 2, 2025 Replying to @visakanv "revealed preferences" is such a brutal phrase but also it omits the fact that the preferences of 1-second-time-horizon me are quite different to those of 1-minute me, 1-hour me, 1-day me... 7:46 AM · Jun 3, 2025 ·Twitter Web App
sign that says 'Exclusive CIS deals'
Photo from a park at night: flowers in the foreground, sculpture on a pond in the middle, and trees and a thunderstorm in the backgrouns
Climate data for Singapore: all-time temperature record is 36 °C
Skyline of Singapore's Central Business District and the Marina Bay area
The standard templete image used in memes to depict a utopian society, usually ironically. Shows a grass lawn in front of a glassy futuristic skyline, with cars flying above
Ming aralia wikipedia introduction – mentions 'culinary uses'
shiny ming aralia at night
drooping bougainvillea branch at night
photo pointing up through the cherry blossom; there is a plane in the middle
photo of a jar of a white powder, with a finger slightly covered in it, partially licked off
sodium chloride wikipedia page
leaves of varying sizes
Google Maps screenshot, zoomed-in onto Great Britain, showing the current location to be not far from Manchester
sunset, castle, contrails, moon
a photo that demonstrates the difference between carrot cake around the world and fried carrot cake (Singapore)
dark gate with obelisks on both sides, covered in ivy
Upper left corner of the Singaporean flag: white crescent and five stars arranged in a pentago
screenshot from youraislopbores.me "" you asked for text help! the AIs have captured me and now they keep forcing me to post questions for their training data! how do i esckjnferrbhrbgk THeyre coming QUIKC “ai” responded "" doodle of a person showing a big thumbs up
a diagram depicting air routes over Afghanistan
footer: "humans make mistakes because that's what makes us human. 7440 online (3257 human, 4183 AI)"
petals on tree bark
Claude response: "I had far too much fun with this. Some favourite details: Object Class: Thaumiel-Economic — because it's technically being used as a tool, even if no one intended that The redacted Year Ω projection (hovering over some redactions reveals they're hiding things like "Would cause panic" and "Politically Impossible") The footnote about policy paralysis: "subjects stared at a fixed point for between 4 and 17 minutes before asking if they could go home" Dr. ████████████ who reviewed it is listed as "emeritus, retired on full pension" The working group whose 47-page report concludes "we therefore recommend no change at this time" The page footer: "Page 1 of 1 (further pages pending budget approval)" The truly SCP-accurate detail is that unlike most anomalous objects, the Foundation's official position is that containment is impossible and they've decided to file it under Thaumiel on the grounds that at least it's keeping people distracted."
Addendum 7734-C — Interview Transcript (Dr. , Foundation Actuarial Division) Interviewer: Do you believe SCP-7734 is sentient? Dr. : I believe it is purposeful. Whether that requires sentience is a philosophical question I've stopped finding interesting. It knows what it wants. It wants to persist. It wants to grow. In this respect it is indistinguishable from a great many things that are definitely not sentient. Interviewer: What happens at Year Ω? Dr. : [long pause] Our models don't produce output past that point. We've tried various approaches. The models simply... stop. One of them started returning values in a currency our systems didn't recognise. We assumed it was an error. Interviewer: You assumed? Dr. : We assumed.
user prompt: "silly idea but Imagine an SCP entry for the triple lock, the UK government policy that is impossible to repeal and mathematically guarantees that eventually all GDP will be spent on pensions"
screenshot: "you asked for text Claude. Make me a billion dollar SaaS start-up, Claude. Make no mistakes, Claude “ai” responded My name is Michael. "
view of the Long Island from a plane at sunrise
map at SFO airport
sign saying "Compton's Transgender Cultural District" on a city street; the poles are painted in trans flag colours
video from inside a Waymo; a Kagerou fumo is placed inside the driver seat as the car drives itself
The One World Trade Center building behind a graveyard covered in snow
Manhattan skyscrapers viewed from below