The above image from the bottom of a Windows 11 screen tonight
is in memory of a New York Times photographer who reportedly
died at 97 on Monday, April 3.
“Anyone can take a picture,” he liked to say,
“but are you a journalist?”
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Pink Moon Shows Up
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Annals of Artificial Stupidity:
“A Sort of False Coherence”
The "large language model" approach to AI has yielded
startlingly good results for programmers, but is not so good
for finding out facts . . .
A Google search for harvard mathematician h.s.m. coxeter yields . . .
Readers able to use Google can easily find out who wrote the above
gestalt passage. It was not Coxeter.
Further investigation via Google yields the O'Toole source:
O'Toole, Michael, The Language of Displayed Art ,
Leicester University Press, 1994, p. 4.
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“A Sort of False Coherence”
“A Sort of False Coherence”
Monday, April 3, 2023
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Annals of Meta-Reality: Welcome to . . .
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
LA Story
November 2020, billboard at La Brea Chevron — His Dark Materials :
December 2020, same billboard — TENET :
November 2021, Croft House to the above Chevron station :
"All we want are the facts." — Jack Webb
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