[WARNING: Long for today’s attention-spans. Readers over 50 should be OK.]
You’ve probably heard that before. Perhaps you’ve heard the same regarding large language models. One thing that this does is casually glosses over the fact that the two approaches work very differently. Or, more precisely, the two approaches are categories of approaches, which can have independent implementation details, as well.
I used to raid my dad’s library in the summers, when I ran out of books to read. One summer I grabbed Robert Paul Wolff’s In Defense of Anarchism, which sits beside me as I write this. [Umass Amherst]
Part 1: Sir Pervicale and the Quest of the 1/2-20 Wingnut
Today, someone at the hardware store said, almost aggressively, “Merry Christmas.”
I’m going to post about this project as it assembles itself, to remember what I did, and/or what I was thinking at the time. So, it’s going to be kind of self-referential and possibly contain bad sketches.
There’s some good content on youtube, which has been severely under-promoted. Let’s use this post as a free zone for promoting any podcasts or youtube channels that you like, which the rest of us probably have not heard of. But, for my part, I’ll focus on just this one which, shockingly, has only 131,000 subscribers.
So, I texted my friend Kitten and said, “Hey, I made a spear. Do you want it?”
She replied, “Wait, are you, a white guy, asking me, a black woman, if I want a spear?” (pause) “Of course I do!”
This was taken right before the election:
I’m starting to get a bit on the fence about the “algorithm” attention market. Sometimes I get really interesting stuff. Sometimes, not so.
I learned of the Order of the Garter in Canterbury Cathedral, when I was a kid. I think the general awesomeness of Edward (AKA: “The Black Prince”)s armor.