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Friday, November 22, 2024

Making a (large) epoxy table

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While I've been watching Cam's videos for a few years. While I have no particular interest in these tables, I enjoy these videos....

Time for another ramble: Melancholy, Claude, Bloom, Claude, Ring composition, and Other Stuff

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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these; May 29th was the last one. If you look over there to right at the Blog Archive you’ll see I...

Look at me!

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It will be interesting to see how AI affects medical practice

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Not too many years ago Geoffrey Hinton confidently predicted that radiologists would soon be replaced by AI. That didn't happen. But no...

Why the music industry sucks [Mary Spender]

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Well, Hi there!

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3QD Catch-Up: Affective Technology, Georgia on My Mind

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Whenever I publish a new article at 3 Quarks Daily I also publish a somewhat shorter post here at New Savanna. That post links to the 3QD po...

On the ethnographic study of expressive culture: If a Martian anthropologist were to study American culture, would she assign special privilege to the canonical texts of the Western traditions?

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This was originally posted to The Valve on 7 Feb 2007 under the title: Discipline: The Aesthetic and the Ethnographic . I’ve edited it sli...

Coca-Cola and AI: It's the Real Thing! [Still] [Media Notes 144]

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Alex Vadukul, Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I. , NYTimes , Nov. 20, 2024. The opening two paragraphs: ...

Behold!

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Why is Cobra Kai better than one might have expected? [Media Notes 143a]

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When Cobra Kai first showed up on Netflix back in 2020 I noticed it – Oh, the karate kid continues, that’s nice – but had no interest in w...

Scientific American throws shade on Elon

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Well, not so much the magazine as their senior opinion editor, Daniel Vergano, who wrote an article entitled, Elon Musk Owes His Success to...

POW! Tomato

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How far can next-token prediction take us? Sutskever vs. Claude

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One of my main complaints about the current regime in machine learning is that researchers don’t seem to have given much thought to the nat...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about his life, the cosmos, and stuff

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From the YouTube page: For a lot of people black holes and string theory were topics that were filed in the mental box labelled ‘thin...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Sailing on the Hudson

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