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  • The Tower of Babble [sic]…

    After only a decade or so of AGI Hooplah, they’ve apparently run out of training data to steal. So they started feeding it artificially/statistically filtered (or generated) datasets, snipped from the general internet, instead. Hilarity ensues. Machines ended up training on mostly machine-generated content (since that’s the majority of the random stream, these days). The Continue reading

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  • Causes, Effects…

    The American Prospect has an article detailing the “Chasm” between Blue Connecticut and Red Oklahoma. The tl; dr takeaway is best expressed graphically. From the article: CT and OK went from having identical life expectancies in 1959, to a gap that started back in the very early 1970s and continues today. Virtually all of this Continue reading

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  • Friday Tidbits

    Home, sick. (As opposed to “Home, working’). Currently in that ‘can’t do much yet, can’t sleep any more, either’ phase. So, a few bored Friday afternoon tidbits over a slowly-eaten hard boiled egg. Looks like both Antarctica and the Sahara are “greening”. One due to general warming, the other due to unusual changes in rainfall Continue reading

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  • “Plastics!”

    One word, kid… “Plastics!” Gene Wolfe in 1988, putting on his Engineer Hat with this rather prescient thought… Wolfe: There are more than two paths we can head down. I feel both optimistic and pessimistic about what we’ve been doing with technology. As you say, it has already been used to produce both wonderful and Continue reading

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  • let me tell you… (phonemetransmit)

    Disquiet #0057 had us working with voice samples from three languages. Pick four words from each, and do something with the twelve. The full set is posted here. In other news: Laurie Anderson interviews Brian Eno in this article. And some Boston organization I’ve never heard of before is asking for funding to have another Continue reading

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