In a few short hours, OpenAI will shut down access to a few old large language models, the text-davinci series. Everyone who depended for some project on a fine-tuned version of these models and who hasn’t found a replacement yet might soon feel some pain. I was in that cohort until I found out how …
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To mitigate the double-user compromise described here, I’m testing a simple script to automatically boost posts by the #WordPress instance: https://gist.github.com/zkg/30d0c02eabb36b976f706f9c36e22f59
I’ve just finished integrating ActivityPub into my WP blog. Trying out a plugin by @pfefferle
I’ve just demoted the “www” portion of my website domain. It’s now just https://jamez.it
Dactylo-verification bias: the tendency to count all the fingers on the hands in a picture to ensure it’s not an AI-generated image.
This 50-year-old paper by Thomas Nagel on what it’s like to be a bat is for some reason making the rounds recently. Time to read it.
AI and creativity, an interview with Kevin Donnellan
Kevin Donnellan from Explainable was kind enough to interview me with some very interesting questions. Here’s the full interview: First off, The Infinite Conversation. What first sparked the idea, why Herzog and Žižek? And could you talk through how practically you set it up? I wrote extensively about how the idea came about in this article. …
Encroaching Doom pt. 1
Encroaching Doom pt. 2
resist nostalgia
embrace deja-vu
“Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.”