About a month ago I had to rest up at home following a medical emergency, and I was looking for a way to distract myself which wasn't getting stuck on the harder levels of Baba Is You or reading Boswell's Life of Johnson (which was good, but sometimes too gloomy …
more ...
@GLOSSATORY now has a merch shop where you can get colourful versions of the original emojos as stickers and t-shirts and more! Check it out on Redbubble
I'm recovering from respiratory syncytial virus and thinking of sticker designs, as part of this I searched through the @GLOSSATORY archive for all of the posts which feature Strong Fish.
Part of my daily routine is to do a bunch of drawings each morning based on the output of @GLOSSATORY, which is a now completely obsolete neural network trained on a big list of dictionary definitions. I try to post two of these every day to another Mastodon account at …
more ...
This post is meant to point out some of the ways in which I think mainstream journalism has been dropping the ball in its coverage of large language models. I'm not an AI expert, but I can tell when journalists are confused and out of their depth when writing about …
It's only taken me two decades but I've worked out why I've never liked people using the term "grok", despite being a big nerd who's the right age to have read that Heinlein novel.
Using it is a way of reinforcing your sense of being part of a special group …
more ...Too Like The Lightning
Seven Surrenders
The Will to Battle
Perhaps the Stars
New York City: Tor, 2016-2021
Ada Palmer
I wrote a review of the first part of Ada Palmer's novel (it's very much one book in four volumes) back when I read it in 2018. I caught up …
more ...Stories about AI have an impoverished visual grammar: bots that look like something from a 90s music video, all porcelain surfaces and dark hydraulic sinews, against corporate vaporwave neon swirls, or junk from DALL-E. I suppose there's a need to embody the disembodied, the same impulse that puts a CGI-rendered …
more ...
I've been spending spare moments putting together a sort of musical experiment - it doesn't feel coherent enough to call it an instrument yet - written in Scheme using Spritely Goblins and David Thompson's Chickadee framework. I do not know if either of these technologies is the best for the job but …
more ...I put filters on "ChatGPT" and "LLM" on Mastodon because the constant flow of discourse, to which I was also contributing, was starting to wear me out, so I'm writing this post with a slightly guilty conscience.
Here's something about nerd culture which it has taken me longer than it …
more ...