Category Archives: Computers

Racist Computer Passes Turing Test

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Fenster

What to make of these efforts that edge up to passing the Turing Test? Here’s GPT-3 from Open AI. GPT-3: OpenAI’s New Text Generating Neural Network is Here | Digital Trends That got this Facebook AI guy all a-twitter over … Continue reading →

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Linkage: The Other Side of Russiagate

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Former intelligence pros believe the Dems’ data was leaked, not hacked. Ray McGovern and Bill Binney do a nice job of filling in the details of a believable counter-narrative. More from McGovern and Binney. “[N]o intelligence … Continue reading →

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Is the East Red?

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I am not sure the Facebook like button is yet a threat to democracy but I do think there is something to this engineer’s concerns.  I don’t like the intentionally addictive quality of some social media.  It is … Continue reading →

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Juxtaposin’: First-Person Shooters

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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Pop Science, Five Ways

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: As should be obvious to regular readers, I’m hardly a scientific type. Music, food, drink, and art are more my speed. But every once in a while my brain drifts briefly to rationality and I enjoy learning … Continue reading →

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Science Fantasy

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Gawping at “science” evangelists has developed into one of my favorite pastimes. I use the scare quotes because, more often than not, the people who are celebrated as science evangelists (typically at places like Reddit) seem to … Continue reading →

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Couldn’t Do It Today

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The height of ’80s dong animation. Related Wikipedia.

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Docs About Movies 4: “Side By Side”

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Another in my series of looks at good documentaries-about-movies, a movie genre in its own right and one that strikes me as particularly healthy. Previous installments in this series are here, here and here. Today … Side by … Continue reading →

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Internet Nostalgia

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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Silicon Valley Is Losing Its Cachet

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Epaminondas

epiminondas writes: It would seem that overweening hubris has now settled into Silicon Valley like a thick, noxious cloud. The prey have become the hunters.  And trust is being lost.

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