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All those memories are dreams.

Apocalypse occasioned by AI produced thought virus.  Using human's critical capacity for judgement as vector, virus instantiates deep feelings of rejection for anything it thinks is inauthentic.  This response is first trained and reinforced by having us watch things like reality TV.  Once the thought-pattern is suitably established, rejection of external world dissolves into an inverted fit of solipsistic insanity.  Humans begin to watch the content of their minds from "outside", as though it were a live action reality show starring someone other than themselves, who's inauthenticity they deeply resent.  Game over.

I was going to suggest a photographic trap, and/or wiring tungsten trip-wires at different heights/angles throughout flat.  Hook wires to large capacitors set to charge from car batteries.  Have system engage when door opens.  Maybe some strobe lighting, for effect

Dear lord.  Today's Google Doodle is honoring Frankie Manning.  If you don't know who that is, watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkthxBsIeGQ

Hell, watch it even if you DO know who he is.

Magic.

Darn thing got all bashful; that, or it's really banking hard on the whole cognitive dissonance tip.  Now I'm intrigued

I dunno, made it to 2:39, then the non-sequiturs hit critical mass.  The regurgitated eyeball was cool, otherwise, no bones/stones to keep it together.

It's worth watching all the way through. One does kinda have to actively NOT look for intended, logical meaning and take it for an abstract both in plot and dialog. Weird thing is, the AI got much symbolism packed into the nonsense at least as well as humans that try to tap that kind of thinking. If I hadn't been informed that it was an AI that assembled this I would probably have never guessed. I really figured nonsense with a certain intent to sensible meaning was a strictly human thing. Starting to think I was wrong about that.

Machines can poetry,
if somewhat clunkily.

I may give it another shot.  Maybe I'm mistaken but it currently & counterintuitively seems like the most uncanny AI doesn't come from linear domains, as it seems it should be, like music or language.  I find convolutional approaches on 2D images are delivering more reliable results at the moment IMHO.  I admit feeling like this opinion may be on the verge of expressing my own catastrophic ignorance.

Me three.  On the flip side, instead of retroactively explaining the behaviour as a disparaging attempt at being funny, it seems more like the direct result of an accurate, however indeterminate, understanding of the situation.  Although it may have seemed like an uncalled-for provocation, the response was in itself neither out of place, nor casulally sufficient to explain what followed.  I'm still sorry too.

I dunno, made it to 2:39, then the non-sequiturs hit critical mass.  The regurgitated eyeball was cool, otherwise, no bones/stones to keep it together.

[Python]

My contract is just about over and I don't have another job lined up.

In the eloquent words of Reggie Watts, "Ficketty fuck. Ficketty fuck. Ficketty fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck."

I can now design, develop, and deploy full stack web apps though. And I've got a few promising leads, but still....

I'm going to get into bots pretty soon, applied to my own company but it looks like that one's ripe pickings for consultancy if that's your bag. All the big players have bot projects in the pipeline and (unlike wi the internet) we have the infrastructure here already and everyone is already connected to so there's no technological barriers to adoption like last time round.

If I was looking to freelance, I'd be getting in early and trying to get a couple of projects under my belt, targeting businesses and hooking a bot into their booking/ordering/erp/whatever system. The use cases as far as I can see are damn near any scenario which currently benefits from having a computer system in the first place.

As Kevin Kelly said - "Take X and add AI"

Are there any Python bot frameworks that you'd recommend looking into?

I was thinking there's Theano, with the Lasagne extension from nolearn.  And also pyCaffe, the python module of Caffe.  Theano's relatively easy to install, Caffe's faster, particularly when run from binary, though compiling it is not "for the faint of heart" (shit-ton of dependencies)

I mean: they question, the universe answers.  I wouldn't get in the way of that.

If there is anything still worthy of hate, it is for those whom persist in doubting the existence of a world out there.

Accidentally chugged a sugar-free variant of some fortified beverage today.  Bitterness leveled the heavens and postponed all flights scheduled for today.

Enjoyed the piece.  Was thinking about:

For example, I was told that believing in free will means that I believe everyone has to be exactly alike.

I think it's someone reading free will backward.  Starting from the moral/practical conclusion that one must act in accordance to the categorical imperative, to ensure the autonomy of others to do the same (golden rule), they assume that everyone has be exactly alike.  It's not all that endearing.

Mercury will soon be out of retrograde.  I just keep telling myself that.

Or you could just stop believing in astrology.

Maybe I'll drop my 300 class today.

Mercury will soon be out of retrograde.  I just keep telling myself that.