AI
44 entries- Jul 5Essay Chatbots, Bats & Broken Oracles
I had the strangest conversation with my son today. There used to be a time when computers never made a mistake. It was always the user that was in error. The computer did exactly what you asked it to …
7 min - Apr 29Essay We Need Homes in the Delta Quadrant
Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan Starfleet Log, Delta Quadrant—Classified Briefing At the edge of the known, maps fail and instincts take over. We don’t just explore new worlds—we …
18 min - Jan 22Essay Dwarf Fortress, Emacs, & AI: The allure of generative complexity
There is a shared soul shard between Dwarf Fortress, Emacs, and AI that lured me to them and has kept me engaged for over a decade. For a long time, I struggled to articulate the connection, managing …
3 min - Jan 20Bookmark Untitled
I’m taking part in the Contraptions Book Club where we are reading City of Fortune which is about Venice. I was struck by the character of Doge Dandolo. Dude was 80+ when we saw a trade opportunity …
1 min - Jan 15Essay Domain Ontologies: Indispensable for Knowledge Graph Construction
AI slop is all around and increasingly extraction of useful information will face difficulties as we start to feed more noise into the already noisy world of knowledge. We are in an era of …
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