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Thursday, May 2, 2024

A fFrench toast story

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Conversational English in 1586

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Simon Roper : In this video, I explore a 1586 work by Jacques Bellot, and what it can tell us about 'street English' in the early ...

Tyler Cowen talks with Coleman Hughes [trombone technique and the nature of improvisation]

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Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity (Ep. 211), May, 2024. The scope of the conversation: Coleman Hughes believes we s...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Gavriil Scherbenko on May 1

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Checking if fingers have grown enough - Проверяет, выросли ли уже пальчики Гаврилушке сейчас 2 года и 7 месяце. Ему очень хочется играть вс...

IP in the content biz: Squeezing the writers [Media Notes 118]

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Daniel Bessner has an interesting piece in the current Harper’s Magazine : The Life and Death of Hollywood . It covers both the movie and T...

A foggy day in mid-April

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Adam Neely is not worried about AI musicians out-jamming human musicians

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AI is Doomed to Fail the Musical Turing Test 0:00 Intro 3:54 Part I - Musical Turing Tests 10:56 Part II - Thinking Like a Human 20...

ChatGPT on the ontology trail: Elara, Z78-ß∆-9.06Q, and the candied kumquat

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My first major insight into what’s going on inside ChatGPT came from a simple protocol: Give it a (simple) story along with an instruc...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Two more guerilla libraries in Hoboken, NJ

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This is a follow-up to my Saturday post on guerilla libraries . Here’s the Little Free Library located at 935 Bloomfield Ave. At that pa...

ChatGPT deals with scrambled strings

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By scrambled string I mean a string of words that I have created from a coherent string by scrambling the order of words. I started out by ...

Purple pansies

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Strong social relationships, the key to mental health in old age?

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Dana G. Smith, A Peek Inside the Brains of ‘Super-Agers,’ NYTimes , April 30, 2024. For a little over a decade, scientists have been s...

An interesting mathematical model of how LLMs work

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My colleague, Ramesh Viswanathan, sent this to me. It’s the most interesting thing I’ve seen on how transformers work. Alas, the math is be...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Buds to blossoms

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ChatGPT conjures with green ideas and Augustine

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Chomsky published Syntactic Structures in 1957, where he created a now famous example sentence that was grammatically coherent, but otherw...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Unbalanced composition with gazebo, trees, and other things

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