Impressions from this morning's walk
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80th anniversary of Konrad Zuse's crowning achievement: Z3, the world's first functional program-controlled general purpose computer (1941), based on his patent application from 1936
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If you are asked to show your neo-fascist "Vaccination Card", try this answer (via)
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Outch! Wiley Coyote in sand - as seen at Ilfracombe harbour. A great symbol for our time.
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Rodney Brooks on contemporary AI
"The fetish that everything should be learned from big data sets rather than developing algorithms for intelligent systems seems like Soviet Lysenkoism where it was believed that all properties of crops were absorbed from the environment. Millions of people starved to death. [...] The wait in the first half of the 21st century for Level 5 autonomy to be practical for automobiles is starting to feel like the wait for practical nuclear fusion reactors in the second half of the 20th century. Oh, yeah, and also in the first half of the 21st century."
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What holiday locations and snackes would you recommend, while in the midst of a transnational technocratic fascist collapse, driven by an elite eugenicist human-sacrifice mind-control killer cult? Asking for a friend...
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There is tremendous power in the act of practicing something on a regular basis. After a while, the practice becomes like a transparent medium through which the ebbs and flows of "reality" can be observed and studied. Earnest praxis is the basis of true magic. It let's us fully participate in the mysteries of life and adapt to ever changing challenges and opportunities.
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This is a placeholder post for the nonstop stream of seriously insane news unfolding in the clown world. As George Carlin once remarked, “It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.”.
