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13 entries- Jan 11EssayWorld Machinesnewest The Kernel and the Ark
I. The Wall and the Infinite # It is possible that the history of the modern West hinges on a single, melancholic misreading of Voltaire. When Candide, exhausted by the Lisbon earthquake and the …
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- Jul 28Essay Work or Play? Ludic Feedback Loops
In his substack post today, Venkatesh Rao wrote about reading and writing in the age of LLMs as playing and making toys respectively. In one part he writes about how the dopamine feedback loop from …
2 min - Jul 27Essay On Protocols, Wagons, and Associated Acrobatics
Years ago, maybe a decade even, I fell in love with this software called Scrivener. I could never justify buying it because I didn’t actually write. But having that software would represent a little …
3 min - Jul 24Essay Briefing: The State of Explainable AI (XAI) and its Impact on Human-AI Decision-Making
This post is a sloptraption, my silk thread in the CloisterWeb. The post was made with the help of NotebookLM. You can chat with the essay and the sources here: XAI NotebookLM Chat I. Executive …
10 min - Jul 23Essay AI: Explainable Enough
They look really juicy, she said. I was sitting in a small room with a faint chemical smell, doing one my first customer interviews. There is a sweet spot between going too deep and asserting a …
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