eprparadox

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Comment · 1 year ago

Comment · 1 year ago

there's a great episode of Mindscape where Max Tegmark takes this idea and runs with it: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/12/02/75-m...

Comment · 1 year ago

this is really cool. could you say a bit about your setup (which llms, what tasks they’re best for, etc)?

Comment · 1 year ago

link seems to be dead... is this article still up somewhere?

Comment · 1 year ago

the Valve of music might be Bandcamp.

Comment · 2 years ago

so so cool and the spirit of this project (which seems to speak to many other commenters too) really reminds me of this recent hackernews post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395413 'The secret inside One Million Checkboxes'

the creativity in endeavors like these really just elicits total joy. it's infectious!

Comment · 3 years ago

i was fascinated with the criticality accident that claimed Slotin's life when i first learned about it. in particular, the schematic estimating everyone's distance to the apparatus and how much radiation they may have been exposed to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#/media/File:Sloti...

there was a second sketch made from that drawing which i also found fascinating. it doesn't add any additional information or analytical ability, but is just a sort of interesting and slightly dark translation of a rote schematic diagram into an artistic rendering of the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#/media/File:Sloti...

I searched around for awhile trying to find the purpose and/or author of that second sketch but to no avail. however i did use it as the cover for an EP i released. please enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/37U37SYaXf1varqMgmpHkc?si=zE...

Comment · 4 years ago

" There are better ways to exercise your brain that will be many more times better than Calculus. "

the ways that you list are great brain exercises but there's no good reason or research that suggests they are 'many more times better than Calculus'.

and continuing to call it a 'useless subject' is also totally unjustified. if i just that art appreciation is a useless subject because 99% of people are not going to get a job writing movie reviews for a major publication or curating exhibits for museums is that sufficient justification to say 'art appreciation is useless. source: me'?

Comment · 4 years ago

here's one i did recently: https://vimeo.com/724055394

a reading of dreamtigers by jorge luis borges

images created using @openaidalle. sequencing and morphing in #python with credit to András Jankovics morphing library [github.com/jankovicsandras/autoimagemorph]. featuring borderlands granular synth (artist template: @kingbritt), other desert cities delay by audio.damage , #rymdigare reverb, mixed in #kymaticaaum.

headphones recommended, awards eligible

(text here: thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/09/02/dreamtigers/ )

Comment · 4 years ago

dreamtigers by jorge luis borges

a reading, with images created using openai dall-e sequencing and morphing in python with credit to András Jankovic's morphing library [https://github.com/jankovicsandras/autoimagemorph]. performance featuring borderlands granular synth (artist template: kingbritt), other desert cities delay by audio.damage, rymdigare reverb, and mixed in kymatica aum. headphones recommended, awards eligible

(original text) https://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/09/02/dreamtigers/

Dreamtigers with DALL-E vimeo.com

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Comment · 4 years ago

loved to learn this quote and story, and love your take on its point!

Comment · 5 years ago

i love Deloused in the Comatorium and i think it's pretty distinct from this story. they really only share a few common themes. and the story telling methods are -completely– different from one another.

as for ZHL personally, this is the 1st thing i've read of his so it's news to me, but if true that's a bummer.

Comment · 5 years ago

i volunteered for a weekend activity with this organization just by using the links on the site. i am not a POC and indicated that i'd be willing to offer technical or just logistical help. i ended up being a classroom assistant for a robotics camp. overall good experience.

Comment · 5 years ago

I assume you're talking about Republican administered election facilities and since they have a well documented seething hatred toward Biden you're suggesting that Biden actually won by a _much greater margin_ except for the fraud that no doubt occurred in Trump's favor.