This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
Maybe start with The Circle, because it’s short, and I think it’s cool.
A TED talk from Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy: The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers.
The Hardware Lottery, a paper about AI processing systems, contains the quote:
Perhaps more troubling is how far away we are from the type of intelligence humans demonstrate. Human brains despite their complexity remain extremely energy efficient. Our brain has over 85 billion neurons but runs on the energy equivalent of an electric shaver. While deep neural networks may be scalable, it may be prohibitively expensive to do so in a regime of comparable intelligence to humans. An apt metaphor is that we appear to be trying to build a ladder to the moon.
The concern with the efficiency of human brains is maybe they will be used as an AI platform? :( I hope not!
Also the author of The Hardware Lottery uses the phrase “risk adverse” twice in their paper, which is just so annoying.
The Chinese curse is: May you live in interesting times.
This is kind of hilarious: Laws of Computing. It’s a good example of one of those things where you’re not sure if it’s genius or quackery. :) (Hint: it’s quackery!) But it is good fun, and the author makes some allusions to the difference between Western and Eastern perspectives.
So the Time Cube is described as: “a pseudoscientific personal web page, founded in 1997 by the self-proclaimed “wisest man on earth,” Otis Eugene “Gene” Ray.” You can find a version of it online over here: https://timecube.2enp.com/.
The tildeverse is a loose collection of websites. I have an account on tilde.club over here: tilde.club/~jj5.
We were talking about Bluesky and I mentioned this article: Bluesky’s user safety situation.
Comedy for the ages:
- Jim Jefferies — Gun Control (Part 1) from BARE — Netflix Special
- Jim Jefferies — Gun Control (Part 2) from BARE — Netflix Special
An old classic: Nirvana – Oh Me (Live On MTV Unplugged, 1993 / Unedited).
The motto of the Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland: “No One Provokes Me with Impunity” — Bad ass!
I forget how this one came up, but wow: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Jubilee Street” (Official Uncensored Music Video).
I have purchased this one, but have not read it yet: The Courage to be Disliked: The Japanese phenomenon that shows you how to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness.
I tried to find the quote from the person who said “I write tshirts” for a living. It was in some movie, but I forget which one.
If you have some time you might enjoy some of my essays:
If you like Nine Inch Nails and anime, you will love this: Anime Music Video NIN The Becoming Lain, Akira & Ghost In The Shell.