Withers in Paris on 35mm film
What is, and isn’t, AI/artificial intelligence?
Is displaying the letter a on a computer screen, or printing it to paper with a printer, by pressing the a key on a keyboard artificial intelligence?
Every leg of this journey we drop a bag. We’re down three suitcases so far.
At this stage when we come home to Australia in August we’ll be backpackers.
Paris 🚄🚇 London
Bought Luna her first camera, the Hyundai Excel of first cameras: a Nikon point and shoot.
I believe that my kids should save for their first Canon but I’m happy to pay for their potato camera.
She called us to the church house, gin house, school house, and outhouse. She called us to the Nutbush City limits from the wedding dance floors of Australia to a little old town in Tennessee.
She was, simply the best dance floor filler.
She is the Queen of Rock, the Empress of Soul.
Here’s to the diva, Tina Turner.
AI is genuinely exciting and terrifying but most of us nerds have been thinking about it and talking about it for 30 years.
This is Steve Jobs in 1983:
…when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life—his or her whole life—and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won’t get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me. And that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing.
If you ever want to hate yourself you should try writing a book, then editing the book, and then reading it.
AI is super interesting to me
A terrifying argument for paper voting in voting booths from Ready Player One:
Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
Do dogs understand elevators or are they just like ‘Ok it’s time to get into the world changer’?
(via @ronnui_ on Twitter via the Dense Discovery email)
Hawaii versus Paris
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Imagine being as big as a failure as Yahoo
Dan Shipper in The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning:
One of the most famous studies in educational psychology found that students who learned through 1-1 tutoring performed two sigma—98%—better than students who learned through a traditional classroom environment.
Just found out that Metallica played a concert across town last night and there were tickets available. I had Australian tickets for their Covid-cancelled concert. This is the most disappointed I’ve been since we left Australia!
Film’s not dead.
On arrival to a film lab at 3pm on a Friday in Paris there’s like seven people ahead of me and three behind me pretty quickly.
If publishers paid as much attention to how their articles were experienced by readers as newspaper editors used to, maybe they wouldn’t be going broke?
