Something quite nerdy: a new paper on differentiable logic cellular automata (via hn).
I don’t know why, but I can’t give up my fascination with these tiny computer programs; all I want to do is make art with them.
It’s a purely visual appeal for me–it’s all about the aesthetics.
Podcasts
Ezra on AGI is coming.
They sound convinced, and I am convinced that something is coming.
I just don’t know if it is really going to blow our socks off.
Quotes
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
Eric Hoffer, via HN.
Links
A decoder ring for the asinine AI (AAI?) naming schemes.
Facts & Ideas
There are wooly mice now.
Like mice with genes from wooly mammoth, so they are very fluffy.
And part of me recoils, and says in a whisper, “abomination.”
But they’re also pretty cute.
So, you could say that I’m divided over this new development.