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Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards(etiennefd.substack.com)
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Cat metaphors have been used to make science writing more approachable(brynphd.substack.com)
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The AI art generators are drawing on the left side of whatever brain they have(ruins.blog)
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by ___rubidium___ 4y ago
That's a very good question. The child eventually learns to stop using symbols and instead begins to copy the shapes, negative spaces, curves, etc. in front of them and makes an assemblage of otherwise-meaningless shapes, lines, curves
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by ___rubidium___ 4y ago
It's also an American problem. I notice it most in the pressure to have a nice front lawn. In some American neighborhoods, if you don't regularly cut your grass, people will call the police.
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by ___rubidium___ 4y ago
I think you're right, but I would qualify that the AI is bullshitting in the same way that a child's drawing of a stick figure, house, and smiling sun is bullshit designed to get approval. The AI is giving symbols--very visually s
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by ___rubidium___ 4y ago
Fascinating. I've noticed the same problem with Midjourney and Nightcafé as well.
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Eating meat is good, says the philosopher(erikhoel.substack.com)
28 points by ___rubidium___ 4y ago|78 comments
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The downward arc of Dan Rossen's songcraft(ruins.blog)
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AI art: what can, and can't (yet), be done(ruins.blog)
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An art critic thinks about Conway's Game of Life(ruins.blog)
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by ___rubidium___ 4y ago
OK now I feel like I need a simulator of all possible eclipses by all possible planetary satellites.
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The Difference Between Science and the Humanities Is Reading the Classics(etiennefd.substack.com)
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by ___rubidium___ 5y ago
Same here. I was pretty upset when the Borders in my city closed; a few years later, the closest B&N to me also shut down. 100% agree with the article writer that bookstores provide a sense of identity. I wonder if we're in the mid
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Beware Interesting Ideas(atis.substack.com)
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by ___rubidium___ 5y ago
Quite right - and it's been that way for a very long time in novels (Jane Austen and Anton Chekov come to mind). It's fascinating to watch the development of video games as a character-driven art form; certainly for a long time th
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The Future of Literature Is Video Games(erikhoel.substack.com)
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Flooding the Zone: Spotify's Firehose(dadadrummer.substack.com)
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by ___rubidium___ 5y ago
I looked at the city on Google maps; the street grid is prominent but I didn't feel like I good a good idea of how the city is laid out into sectors as the article mentioned. One thing I did notice were some blocks of the city that did
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by ___rubidium___ 5y ago
I'm currently reading Suburban Nation by Duany et al, and they talk about this exact thing - how the most desirable neighborhoods in old US cities like Boston or Washington are the old, dense, mixed-use parts of town. The book is twe
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Do we Know What We See? – a review of 3 books on the interpretation of images(ruinsruinsruins.substack.com)
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