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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Barometers of Appropriateness

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:08 pm

LOOPER / BRANDON SHOAFF / MARCH 21, 2023 5:55 PM EST

"Speaking of artificial intelligence, it seems as if the creators of 'Mrs. Davis' have ironically chosen to utilize A.I. in the show's production. During a panel at the film festival South by Southwest, Lindelof mentioned how they used artificial intelligence and said, 'We thought it would be fun to build an A.I. that would title our episodes, and that we just basically said that whatever it comes up with, we have to stick to as long as it is appropriate for whatever barometers of appropriateness exist.'

Damon Lindelof continued and explained that in the process of creating the A.I. that would title episodes for the upcoming 'Mrs. Davis,' the artificial intelligence struggled to understand what a title actually was, despite the information that was filtered through the program. Lindelof then said that the entire production crew learned a great deal about algorithms and how A.I. works while attempting to get it to generate episode titles. In the end, Lindelof and the rest of the crew were quite happy with the results, noting that Episode 7 is titled 'Great Gatsby: 2001: A Space Odyssey.' "

Read More: https://www.looper.com/1234974/
mrs-davis-how-the-creators-actually-utilized-ai-
in-the-writers-room/

See also the previous post and "Merton College" in this  journal.

British Combinatorics 2023

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:35 pm

"Martin told us about his work on machine learning…."

Peter J. Cameron reports on last week's (May 10 and 11)
London Combinatorics Colloquia 2023.

Related material — Boolean Functions in this journal and in a book
from May 16, 2011 . . .

Some historical background on machine learning —

https://tripleampersand.org/kernelled-connections-perceptron-diagram/ .

Monday, May 15, 2023

Death on Beltane

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:46 am

"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —

Boolean functions illustration by Golomb, 1959

These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).

This  journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —

Friday, May 12, 2023

Famous Chatbot School

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:14 am

Summary of a TV episode from yesterday that seems like
it was written by a hallucinating chatbot —

In other chatbot news . . .

As for 2001 . . . See "Notes from a (Paper) Journal 1993-2001."

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Dead Time: A Rabbit Hole Named Desire

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:02 am

For the above title, see a Log24 search.

Related material:

Oscar Hammerstein in Episode 6 of "Mrs. Davis" —

Flores para los Muertos

Friday, April 28, 2023

The Large Language Model

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:23 am

"… sometimes large models undergo a 'discontinuous phase shift' 
where the model suddenly acquires substantial abilities not seen
in smaller models. These are known as 'emergent abilities,' and
have been the subject of substantial study." — Wikipedia

See also the first five episodes of "Mrs. Davis."

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Jersey Hymn

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:44 am

An upload from Good Friday, 2019

"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?' 
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."

— Discussion of the 2000 TV movie version in
Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby 

Correction to the midrash: 

Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,

"That must be the corpse."

Jersey girls are tough.

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