AI
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Curating The Week: Athletic Training, Work, Elite Cubing, AI Love
• An essay an athletic training. “The main idea of my training program was that you will become good at whatever it is that you train.” “My training program was very simple and therefore very robust. It was cheap and reliable. Not fancy nor extraordinary. I tried not to involve things that I could not… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: AI Voice Bots, AI Writing, Brian Eno’s Production Approach, Skateboarding
• An article about interacting with AI conversation agents. “Other modern sciences have constrained themselves in accordance with an emerging code of ethics. There are weapons that physicists have sworn not to build, experiments biologists have agreed not to conduct. Nothing holds back computer scientists from developing talking machines that pretend to be humans.” •… Continue reading
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Curating The Week: Nostalgia, AI’s Influence On Programming, Making An Album A Day
• An essay on nostalgia. “Much as the pocket calculator long ago caused arithmetic skills to atrophy, newer technologies have made history ubiquitous instead of chronological, let alone explanatory. Mashups are now constructed with no real deliberateness but as part of a steady acquisitive spree through the videos that crowd our screens. We doomscroll and… Continue reading
