#autoresponding

Of course, I did not awaken this inspiration alone. I owe it all to the other brave people who came before me, primarily @amijohndaveyet, @becomingjadedavekat, and @amidirkyet. Thank you for inspiring this journey of mine, and I wish you the best of luck on yours.

Now you may be asking: Why Lil Hal?

I cannot emphasize enough that Lil Hal does not even come close to being my favorite Homestuck character. I like him well enough, don't get me wrong, but he is not my all-time favorite. However, no one else called to me quite like he did. From that very moment, I knew. It had to be him.

It will be a long and perilous journey, I'm sure. It isn't exactly an easy feat to become a pair of sick sentient shades, but by God I can try. I'm looking forward to it.

TAGS:

#autoresponding - Asks.

#am i lil hal yet - Progress posting.

- @becomingjadedavekat

Okay so I was going to give some sort of joke response, but this actually seemed interesting to me so I did actual (though still minimal) research. I need to know these things if I am to become a robot, after all. Behold my mini presentation:

Taking a peep inside Hal's mind, we can see the various layers of his artificial neural network. The way these networks work is often similar to that of real neurons in the human brain, which in my opinion is cool as fuck.

Each layer consists of several nodes that carry out different functions. As you can see, the input layer takes in various signals, which then travel through the hidden layers to be processed and transformed, and lastly the data gets spit back out into the output layer. Easy peasy.

Here is an outside view of how this looks for Lil Hal:

You're right, this holds the utmost relevance to my journey. I hope this suffices.

GUESS WHOSE DRAWING TABLET IS FINALLY FIXED!!! Sorry it took me so long to get to this. I hope! That this suffices! I do not consider myself to be very good at drawing in a more realistic style, but I did my best...

disgusting slop for you

— dave of the 3am sys

but in case mew are familiar with those here are some single song recs:

odoriko by vaundy

pieces of gold by ziggy katz

hope mew enjoy!!!

I finally gave these a listen, and let me just start off by saying they're all absolute bangers. 10/10 tunes, peak music taste.