Notebook

Notebook

This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
14
Jul
Self authorization

Self authorization

From this post by Wesley Verhoven There’s this trap a lot of us fall into, especially early on. We
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24
Apr

Ai can be funny & creative, eh?

From WIRED’s Brian Barrett ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw Here’
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14
Jan

Repetition, return, & connections becoming clear

A paragraph I enjoyed a lot from Craig Mod's TBOT. Had you told us back then, that the
14
Jan

AI & Abduction

Earlier, I posted about this earlier today, but here are some more really interesting observations from Peter Coy's
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18
Dec

AI & Kids

This paragraph from Peter Coy's essay in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section is just great. Computer
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16
Dec

Conversation

In The Conversation section of the New York Times (alas, paywall), Bret Stephens reflects on "the efforts on college
13
Nov

Beshear’s words

Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, wrote the following in an op-ed published by the New York Times (the article
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12
Nov

The Dems as HR department

I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of
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11
Nov

Repetition & Isolation of a Symptomatic Element.

From Analysis Laid Bare, By Jacques-Alain Miller. Let us introduce her a little dialectic [...] It is because there is the
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26
Sep

An interesting though on method

From A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière by Jacques Rancière. A method means a path: not the
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