People before tribes
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I just launched my latest project: Matthew Explains (matthewexplains.com) , a subscription video service dedicated to exploring research results in artificial intelligence, computer science, and other subjects. Readers of this Web site will probably also find that one interesting. Although I'm not committing to a specific schedule, the current plan is to post a new video every Monday; one just…
For a long time I've wanted to have a thing for resuming interrupted ssh sessions. The typical scenario is that I connect to a server with ssh, start a long-running task, and leave the window open so I can watch it. Then something causes the connection to break. Maybe I lose my local networking connection; maybe there's a power failure at my end; maybe I need to reboot my computer for some reason.…
This is a card game I invented. It's a fast-paced game of tactics and shifting power, for four players, played with a standard deck of cards. As card games are classified, it's a plain-trick evasion game, with the main innovations being an unusual rule for how tricks are taken, and no requirement to follow suit. I call it "Diversity" because the rules put special emphasis on sets of four cards…
Sam Kriss has a Substack posting in which he describes the zairja of the world and then links it to his ideas on why AI is getting worse. Basically, what I get from the piece is that he's saying successive generations of GPT models have produced less and less valuable output as they better and better approximate the average content of the World Wide Web. Nearly all of the Web is garbage, and so an…
LaTeXで文書を書いてなら、時々すべてに体裁を指せたいです。 たとえば僕の仕事で、 アナログシンサー のマニュアルを書いて、いつも同じの体裁が欲しいです。 LaTeXのデフォルトは普通過ぎます。 個性的な体裁を書きたいです。 でも全部のNorth Coast Synthesisユーサーマニュアルは、同じの体裁が必要です。 だから、自分のLaTeXクラスファイルを作りました。
There are a number of directions from which we can look at current developments in deep neural networks and the issues I raised in my streamed comments on pirate AI . Here's a summary of the implications I see from the perspective of the Unix philosophy.
We have a patient suffering kidney failure; he's in a lot of pain and the disease will soon kill him. He could be saved - if someone would donate a kidney to be transplanted into this patient's body. So, as a matter of ethics, somebody ought to do that , right? But who, exactly?
I've been thinking a lot recently about the current developments in deep neural network generative models, and how they implicate free software issues. I went into a lot of this stuff in my July 25 Twitch stream, and although I'd also like to write up some of my thoughts in a more organized way, the transcript of the relevant video content is a pretty decent introduction in itself, so I thought…
The rules of Lotto 6/49 are about to change in a way that I think is pretty significant. It's drastic enough that I think we might well say Lotto 6/49 is coming to an end, being replaced by a new game that is not even properly a lotto game anymore and only happens to reuse the name.
There's an idea in neuroscience that the brain maintains what is basically a 3D model of the body - the "body schema" - and that when we use tools, they become part of that schema. Claimed evidence for this concept includes studies where people were asked to perform a task with a tool, like picking up an object with a gripper like a pair of tongs, and then measurements afterward suggested their…