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Now computers ask the questions too. So you must learn to want the wrong answers. Picasso, if he was alive in 2026 ... Continue Reading
Plotting The Curiosity Vector
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So tired of those arguments: if a brain is sentient, so are those two neurons in a test tube ... Continue Reading
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https://ursb.me/en/posts/after-ai-takes-everything/ Very sane, beautifully written, unusually optimistic. Almost a solution to the crisis of meaning. ... Continue Reading
EWD on “vibe coding”
I asked an old friend what Edsger Wybe Dijkstra would have made of vibe coding. My friend gave me a good reply: The answer is almost comically predictable — and still interesting. Dijkstra was deeply skeptical of anything that encouraged programmers to rely on intuition, improvisation, or “feel.” He viewed programming as a branch of ... Continue Reading
We at the end of the Droste
It s with sadness that I witness how we reached the end of the Droste. ドロステのはてで僕ら (Dorosute no hate de bokura), which literally means We at the end of the Droste , was a great movie you should check out if you were into recursion. Droste, other than being the household name for the Droste Effect, was ... Continue Reading
Short meditation on lost memories
Some people are ok with letting a major part of our lives go forgotten. The type of people who delete an email after taking care of it . But the world needs memory, lest we forget all the important lessons of our past. I will agree that there is value in starting fresh and that not ... Continue Reading
Pillars of life
The project A Sign In Space reached an important milestone last year. A team of researchers was able to extract a cellular automaton and obtain a very interesting configuration, displaying what appears to be an amino acid diagram. It might still be too early to discuss the ramifications of this conclusion. But it s not too ... Continue Reading
On programming using LLMs
I have just realized that Il Post released part of an interview I gave on the topic of vibe coding a few months ago (article in Italian). I have many problems with the term Vibe Coding, but I suspect the expression will gradually fade, and it will return to being just coding , like wireless phones ... Continue Reading
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Take the time to go through this https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art ... Continue Reading
Plotting an equirectangular SVG onto stereographic projection
Github repo. And by plotting, I mean both converting vector coordinates and tracing the result on a piece of paper. Because it all starts with a pen plotter and a love for mini planets. It always amazes me when I seem to be the only person on the planet to have a given problem. No ... Continue Reading