Not all infinities are equal, and some infinities are more bigger than others
An infinite number of men walk into a bar…
Geoffrey Hinton, the proclaimed “godfather of AI”, is leaving Google claiming he has “new fears about the technology he helped usher in and wants to speak openly about them, and that a part of him now regrets his life’s work”.
Visualisations of gravity on different planets
‘Oh yes, they float. They all float up here.’
opensrcai.com - a curated list of open source AI tech
No black boxes here!
Cory hits the nail on the head:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Jess Peck on the utility of NLP in SEO
Good friends write good articles on AI.
Shout out to Calcea Rujean Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson on their new Pythagorean proof using trigonometry
You might not have needed Pythagora’s theory after you left school but these girls found a new use for it before they did.
A frank article from 2017 on why supervised learning works best if the data collection is better. 6 years later, it’s still not brilliant and relies on the labour of un(der)paid and marginalised workers.
Apparently, woolly mammoths weren't always shaggy
This must have been a grand tusk to undertake.
‘One year from now, on Monday, 8 April 2024, the moon will pass directly between Earth and the sun, creating a total solar eclipse like the one that crossed the United States from coast to coast on 21 August 2017.’
Vincent Warmerdam on Calmcode, data science, and machine learning
When Seth met Vincent.
‘It will inspire you, but it will not get you across the finish line. ChatGPT basically runs on statistical vibes.’
I found this cool Python CLI tool called Colorpedia that looks up colours, shades and palettes. Not only does it give you hex codes, but it also supports RGB, HSL, HSV, and CMYK. Yeah, you can search for these on Google but this is quicker if you’re already in Terminal/cmd and you don’t have to deal with page load or ads.
ChatGPT on MS-DOS? Why not?
The Stochastic Parrot showcases the ghostly murmurs of GPT-4
Hallucinations galore!
Meredith Broussard on the need to use AI less and think more
‘This kind of imagined endgame of Oh, we’re just going to use AI for everything is not a future that I cosign on.’
What is a white dwarf?
Video didn’t kill this star.
Hey, Yoda! What does the Jedi Council say about your Force power level?
So Jedis are eco-friendly, who know?
What are sastrugi?
Sastrugi (or zastrugi) are a natural phenomenon in snowy and windy environments like the Arctic, where long, sharp ridges of snow form parallel to the wind direction. Both variations are plurals (sastrugi is German, sastruga is singular while zastrugi is Russian and the singular is zastruga). While sastrugi are hazardous for skiers, snowboarders, and hikers, …
How's your head (element)?
I’ve had no rel=complaints!