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bob-belcher

the-quasar-hero

Assign an aspect of nature to prev

Waves at the beach

Rushing breeze through leaves

A crack of thunder

Flow of a river

The shine of a gem

Dancing embers of a flame

Torrential rain

Slow falling snow

An emerald sea of grass

Austere cliffside

A maze of roots

The endless oceans

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

rylandgracie

eridians being forced by rocky to invent the lightbulb so his freak alien mate he brought home can see at night

uwillneverknowwho

Literally always take headphones with you. If you decide that you probably won't need them today, that's the devil talking. You will. You will

artnpleasure

“The Kiss” by Gaetan Henrioux

thisauthorisscreaming

Does it count as 'sword in the stone' if it looks more like 'sword in the cairn'...?

segamascott

earhartsease

catboybiologist

Cis ppl will be like "transitioning is far less effective than my solution of dismantling gender norms" and then not dismantle gender norms

xxxdragonfucker69xxx

kids very badly need [SOMETHING] in their life. i spent a minute thinking about how to word this post because its not quite role models and its not quite structure. the only word i can think of is, like, substance. character. so much of a kids life is Fucking Bullshit and when you give them something solid to latch onto, something for real and something that's worth it, sometimes you see them fucking latch onto it like its the first time theyve had air

smol-blue-bird

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

smol-blue-bird

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

smol-blue-bird

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

theriu

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.