Happy Death Day 2: You Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy
GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/
GPT-2: only slightly worse than tracery ™
Re: GPT-2 – sure, this has neural nets and all, but you get higher quality output with less CPU time writing a template for a spinner.
Gender-swapped and race-flipped remakes aren’t living up to their potential - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18220797/what-men-want-ghostbusters-the-hustle-remakes-gender-race-flipped?curator=MediaREDEF
Disney reportedly pulls ads from YouTube following child exploitation controversy - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233726/disney-ads-youtube-child-exploitation-scandal-adpocalypse
Dune - Plots and Plans - Extra Sci Fi - #2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYO7aoOOmk
Letting neural networks be weird • GPT-2: It learned on the Internet http://aiweirdness.com/post/182824715257/gpt-2-it-learned-on-the-internet
All of the negative reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when it shouldn’t, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
How capitalism reduced diversity to a brand - Vox https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/2/11/18195868/capitalism-race-diversity-exploitation-nancy-leong
The government is using wrong data to make decisions about the internet - Recode https://www.recode.net/2019/2/8/18211794/government-data-internet
Triple feature: Jacob’s Ladder, The Good Son, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Can we trust Huawei with 5G? - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18214166/huawei-security-china-fcc-5g-cybersecurity
I regret to inform everybody that Data Privacy Day was actually last Monday. We all missed it. Sorry. Honorary Data Privacy Day every Monday for the next 2 years to make up for it, kay?
Discussing Isekai, Part 2: How Isekai Imagine Power - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCJesuBHR-g
Success criteria for the PC 2.0 era “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/success-criteria-for-the-pc-2.0-era/
2 - A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari - Illustrated Audiobook - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ZQ5HRntHo
RFC-2 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-2
Dissecting Log Horizon: The Great, The Good, The Okay 1st Arc [Pt. 2] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDzKKp7S5s
EBN - GW1 part 2, Ground War - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHMT6iNb-UU
Human Computer Interaction: Metaphors https://tpetricek.github.io/Teaching/human-computer-interaction/metaphors.html#/7/2
Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/
- don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’
KEYBOARDS FOUND IN DUMPSTERS:↵2: great to type on. return randomizes the keyboard layout.↵4: black and white keys in weird arrangement. produces sound but no letters. may not be a keyboard.↵7: has a ticklish ‘a’ key and tries to edge away when I come near it↵10: enochian alphabet
Interface usability in a nutshell: minimize how often the simplest way to do a thing the user wants to do is 1) hard to imagine before you see it, or 2) hard to understand once observed. Assume the user is more creative than you & less well-informed.
LINES FOR A MANIFESTO OF ALIENIST POETRY – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/lines-for-a-manifesto-of-alienist-poetry-2/
Conceptual Languages (Part 2) - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/conceptual-languages-part-2
@kas@enotty.dk: Reg. Gajim: Does setting env. variable GDK_DPI_SCALE=2 help?
@kas@enotty.dk to (1) he explained that phone numbers are too predictable to have any advantage by hashing and I don’t understand (2) as this might be a step to increase the xmpp user base.
Environmental Media Project, Keio University, Japan 1999 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMujvLQdKaE&index=2&list=PLZYUaP_cPHpa9Cad1GxrnvW4Ky3xlPMHg
Alexander R. Galloway “ Brometheanism | boundary 2 http://www.boundary2.org/2017/06/alexander-r-galloway-brometheanism/
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI
Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0
Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design
Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-2/
Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist (2) – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist-2/
If Halloween 3 had been Halloween 2 (i.e., if Michael Meyers was a one-off & there was never the expectation set that he’d come back) we could have had a great yearly horror anthology series for the past 40 years.
Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/
Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second | Gamozo Labs Blog https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html
Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you’re a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year – preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings
Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.
I love how I just got an email to tell me that something I ordered was shipped. Funny thing is, this email came 2 days after it was delivered to me.
LGR Tech Tales - The First Robot Ever Arrested: DC-2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdjzmmcJgDM
Satoshi Kon and Why Love Is All You Need: Ep. 2 - Millennium Actress - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfn-yMmvis
unicode 2040 features (2):↵- support for 2D writing systems, lines can now turn by multiples of 45°↵- in-band parsing directives for ligatures (finally with context-free grammar support)↵- in-band layout directives↵- camera glyph can now store up to ten seconds of video
Nix 2.1 released
Nix 2.1
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
Severin re-release of The Changeling leads thousands of millenials to say ‘Ohh, so THAT’s what that scene in Scary Movie 2 was referencing’.
Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-2/
Center for a Stateless Society » Long Live Anarchy: An Interview With Robert Anton Wilson (Part 2) https://c4ss.org/content/46540
/me has to switch off showing the timeline after tweeting with #goxtxt as it takes 2 minutes to fetch it 😳. Too long if you have a message split into two tweets.
Hot take: the existence of garden path sentences tells us that: 1) language isn’t so much a representation of meaning as a way of representing constraints for possible intepretation, and 2) we start processing before all the constraints have arrived
The Golden Calf Vol. 2 | Is Art a Commodity? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5AxnNbC-oM
The Shuffle interface is so strange. Everything is HUGE and there’s not much of it. It’s web 2.0 af. Was this a VN trend I missed?
Ep. 2: Elizabeth Sandifer on Neoreaction: A Basilisk https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-2-elizabeth-sandifer-on-neoreaction-a-basilisk/
On Deadpool 2 and the “Art” of Fridging | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/05/21/on-deadpool-2-and-the-art-of-fridging/
Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0
Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4
IS SONIC 2 ABOUT CAPITALISM??!??!? | SERIOUS LORE ANALYSIS 3 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY
@kas@enotty.dk thx, very interesting. But I’ll stick with #ZSH as I am in group 1: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#toc_2
How to get access to timeline travel tech:↵1. Create a unique and valuable piece of information, e.g. be Satoshi↵2. Quantum-suicide yourself and the data into one timeline, in all the other timelines leave proof that this happened↵3. Wait for timeline travelers to try and rob you
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI
just updated twtxt from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3 - looks like there were some config file changes
Storming the Ivory Tower: Let’s Pop Together Part 2 http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-2.html
Google Clips review: a smart camera that doesn’t make the grade - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17055618/google-clips-smart-camera-review
Nix 2.0 released
Nix 2.0
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
Oh, Apple. Never change. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17020246/apple-park-headquarters-employees-injury-glass-doors-design
Episode 46: Allison Parrish — Commonplace: Conversations with Poe… https://www.commonpodcast.com/home/2018/2/14/episode-46-allison-parrish
How Protein Conquered America - Eater https://www.eater.com/2018/2/12/16991634/muscle-milk-protein-culture
[Updated] BlueGriffon Tutorial: Design a website using the open source BlueGriffon web editor ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/bluegriffon-2-tutorial-1.shtml
Meet the pirate queen making aca… https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit
You can now play with Spotify’s rec… https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/5/16974194/spotify-recommendation-algorithm-playlist-hack-nelson
Fan Service in Anime vs. The Monogatari Series [PART 2] - Redefining Relationships - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBT3wH_0NGw
Testing 1 2 3…
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Progress:↵1. spambots↵2. thirst bots, propaganda bots↵3. bots able to hold actual conversation, surrogate friends↵4. bots better than humans, none of the drama but all of the relationship↵5. social-network-in-a-box, a complete circle of friends for those done with the real world
1: animated masks, covered in breathing feathers, clockwork, small animals↵2: screens in place of faces, some still look like faces, others play reaction gifs or random streams↵3: the above, but they’re touchscreens and touching another’s face is just… normal, why don’t you?
- companies figure out that humans are expensive security risks and start doing without↵2. machine economy does not turn on humans, it just increasingly ignores them, humanity watches at the sidelines/bottom of the gravity well while the solar system lights up
» A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community The Digital Antiquarian http://www.filfre.net/2017/11/a-net-before-the-web-part-2-service-to-community/
Part 2) Download Large Files with Progress Reports ⌘ Read more…
"Aesthetic Engine 2" by Vladimir Mitrovic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAil0DzclFA
The New Yakuza Murders: Inside the Japanese Mafia’s Circle of Death http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-yakuza-murders-inside-the-japanese-mafias-circle-of-death-2?curator=MediaREDEF
phase 1: ads tailored to you↵phase 2: ads tailored to each of your identities↵phase 3: ads inducing identity splits for more customers
- build self-driving cars that use humans for fuel↵2. make them mimic uber/lyft/etc cars↵3. release↵4. sit back, enjoy the media panic
The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/ibm-pc-history-part-2/
Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism - Salon.com http://www.salon.com/2017/07/19/steve-bannon-and-the-occult-the-right-wings-long-strange-love-affair-with-new-age-mysticism-2/?curator=MediaREDEF
2,000+ Cassettes from the Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection Now Streaming Online | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2017/07/2000-cassettes-from-the-allen-ginsberg-audio-collection-now-streaming-online.html
Scientists crack mystery of ancient Roman concrete’s 2,000-year life span - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/04/ancient-romans-made-worlds-most-durable-concrete-we-might-use-it-to-stop-rising-seas/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nextdraft&utm_term=.2b76b2885c2a
Binary file (standard input) matches http://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html
Hilarious: ‘systemd compat for doas’ (OpenBSD) https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149902196520920&w=2
Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/04/14/something-you-have-2.html
GitHub - shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning: Syllabus for Part 2 of Nature of Code: "Intelligence and Learning" at ITP Spring 2017 Edit https://github.com/shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning
Even and odd levels of irony are always easy to distinguish. It becomes harder when you’re dealing with levels n, n+2, n+4…
The Interpreter - The New Yorker ⌘ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2