Posts in 2023

• A dog that says sausages and other milestones in interspecies communication
  17.36, Wednesday 4 Jan 2023 (streak: 145 weeks)
  1,129 words, 17 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• Is AI sentient and is it even useful to ask?
  15.47, Monday 9 Jan 2023 (streak: 146 weeks)
  1,902 words, 16 links
  Tagged: gpt-3

• Let’s take hip-hop ovens to CES 2024
  19.09, Tuesday 10 Jan 2023 (streak: 146 weeks)
  652 words, 6 links
  Tagged: food-and-so-on, sound-and-music

• Looking for new projects or even a long-term something for 2023
  16.37, Thursday 12 Jan 2023 (streak: 146 weeks)
  524 words, 12 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: meta

• Filtered for ants and laws
  21.20, Tuesday 17 Jan 2023 (streak: 147 weeks)
  1,296 words, 11 links
  Tagged: filtered-for, taking-magic-seriously, the-ancient-world-is-now

• The map room is a physical room-size wiki for collaboration from the 1950s
  19.22, Friday 20 Jan 2023 (streak: 147 weeks)
  3,037 words, 13 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: computing-history

• A science-fictional idea for a geo-scale, lacework power plant
  20.48, Tuesday 24 Jan 2023 (streak: 148 weeks)
  830 words, 6 links

• Rooms, voice, gestures, and why Apple HomePod hasn’t quite clicked for me
  20.50, Thursday 26 Jan 2023 (streak: 148 weeks)
  1,571 words, 6 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• AI-generated code helps me learn and makes experimenting faster
  17.19, Friday 27 Jan 2023 (streak: 148 weeks)
  795 words, 7 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: gpt-3

• The sword in the stone and the lady of the lake are blacksmithery, or nanotech
  16.30, Tuesday 31 Jan 2023 (streak: 149 weeks)
  726 words, 3 links
  Tagged: taking-magic-seriously

• New thing! Browse the BBC In Our Time archive by Dewey decimal code
  18.17, Tuesday 7 Feb 2023 (streak: 150 weeks)
  1,208 words, 14 links
  Has 5 follow-up posts
  Tagged: gpt-3, in-our-time-episode-mentions

• A notification center for progress bars that sounds like birdsong
  15.37, Friday 10 Feb 2023 (streak: 150 weeks)
  1,294 words, 4 links
  Tagged: sound-and-music

• Don’t bother me now I’m waxing my phone
  13.43, Wednesday 15 Feb 2023 (streak: 151 weeks)
  729 words, 7 links

• Tinkering with hyperlinks
  20.37, Thursday 23 Feb 2023 (streak: 152 weeks)
  510 words, 11 links

• Filtered for causes and kissing
  10.35, Friday 3 Mar 2023 (streak: 153 weeks)
  930 words, 10 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• An infinite number of monkeys eventually wrote this blog post
  15.42, Wednesday 8 Mar 2023 (streak: 154 weeks)
  583 words, 5 links

• Marking the moment of my first Reverse Turing Test
  14.34, Thursday 9 Mar 2023 (streak: 154 weeks)
  378 words, 1 link

• The surprising ease and effectiveness of AI in a loop
  12.30, Thursday 16 Mar 2023 (streak: 155 weeks)
  1,918 words, 21 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: gpt-3

• My new job is AI sommelier and I detect the bouquet of progress
  12.06, Wednesday 22 Mar 2023 (streak: 156 weeks)
  1,608 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: gpt-3, that-ai-clock-and-so-on

• Filtered for clocks
  16.09, Friday 31 Mar 2023 (streak: 157 weeks)
  700 words, 15 links
  Tagged: filtered-for, that-ai-clock-and-so-on

• Music for microwaves
  20.42, Thursday 6 Apr 2023 (streak: 158 weeks)
  881 words, 2 links
  Tagged: sound-and-music

• Time to rethink the phone call
  20.12, Thursday 13 Apr 2023 (streak: 159 weeks)
  313 words, 1 link

• On the shift to oat and the milk hysteresis curve
  21.04, Thursday 20 Apr 2023 (streak: 160 weeks)
  755 words, no links

• Unpacking Lares: our 2 minute pitch for an AI-powered slightly-smart home
  20.27, Wednesday 26 Apr 2023 (streak: 161 weeks)
  1,847 words, 10 links
  Tagged: gpt-3, robots

• The 14 year old boy alignment problem, future shock, and AI microscopes
  17.28, Thursday 4 May 2023 (streak: 162 weeks)
  1,178 words, 7 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: gpt-3

• Filtered for being together and getting on
  19.43, Friday 12 May 2023 (streak: 163 weeks)
  748 words, 8 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
  19.41, Friday 19 May 2023 (streak: 164 weeks)
  2,725 words, 19 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Sound windows and windows generally actually
  15.31, Friday 26 May 2023 (streak: 165 weeks)
  843 words, 7 links

• Charlie Bit My Finger should be acquired for the nation
  08.14, Friday 2 Jun 2023 (streak: 166 weeks)
  926 words, 6 links

• Computers that live two seconds in the future
  11.56, Friday 9 Jun 2023 (streak: 167 weeks)
  1,205 words, 11 links

• Selective capability impairment via resonant radio of pesky public chatters
  17.17, Wednesday 14 Jun 2023 (streak: 168 weeks)
  721 words, 7 links

• Eating the Sun
  15.40, Friday 23 Jun 2023 (streak: 169 weeks)
  320 words, 2 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Resting Posthuman Face
  13.55, Wednesday 28 Jun 2023 (streak: 170 weeks)
  926 words, 8 links

• Prompt engineering and prompt whispering
  12.16, Friday 7 Jul 2023 (streak: 171 weeks)
  1,264 words, 5 links
  Tagged: gpt-3

• Filtered for post-photography
  15.25, Friday 14 Jul 2023 (streak: 172 weeks)
  444 words, 8 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• Work update a.k.a. how I’m keeping myself out of trouble rn
  16.58, Tuesday 18 Jul 2023 (streak: 173 weeks)
  818 words, 12 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: meta, that-ai-clock-and-so-on

• If my eyeballs are being resold to advertisers then it had better be worth my time
  20.07, Friday 28 Jul 2023 (streak: 174 weeks)
  1,370 words, 9 links

• Progress (and flying cities) via mining the discard pile
  16.11, Friday 4 Aug 2023 (streak: 175 weeks)
  1,290 words, 8 links

• Filtered for turns of phrase and structures of feeling
  15.41, Friday 11 Aug 2023 (streak: 176 weeks)
  792 words, 7 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• I want electromagnetic gloves to match the force beams from my eyes
  18.36, Thursday 17 Aug 2023 (streak: 177 weeks)
  820 words, 3 links

• Dynamic shops, 17 years in the making, now at Fleet services M3 northbound
  17.38, Friday 25 Aug 2023 (streak: 178 weeks)
  871 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• I built my first AI NPC teammates and here’s what I learnt
  17.51, Friday 1 Sep 2023 (streak: 179 weeks)
  2,698 words, 15 links
  Tagged: dolphins, gpt-3

• Groundhog Day is about making films, and several other reductive interpretations
  16.07, Friday 8 Sep 2023 (streak: 180 weeks)
  1,131 words, 3 links

• Filtered for formation
  09.14, Friday 15 Sep 2023 (streak: 181 weeks)
  1,074 words, 6 links
  Tagged: filtered-for, gpt-3, the-ancient-world-is-now

• Old wards and new against fake humans
  11.47, Friday 22 Sep 2023 (streak: 182 weeks)
  924 words, 9 links

• The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer was written by Homer
  18.40, Friday 29 Sep 2023 (streak: 183 weeks)
  1,235 words, 6 links
  Tagged: the-ancient-world-is-now

• Intelligence too cheap to meter
  14.48, Friday 6 Oct 2023 (streak: 184 weeks)
  738 words, 6 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: gpt-3

• Filtered for the end of greatness
  12.15, Friday 13 Oct 2023 (streak: 185 weeks)
  1,046 words, 13 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• Why you should watch Big’s Backyard Ultra, which starts tomorrow
  10.40, Friday 20 Oct 2023 (streak: 186 weeks)
  1,612 words, 11 links

• Hyperlocal radio in 1980s Tokyo
  20.20, Friday 27 Oct 2023 (streak: 187 weeks)
  942 words, 7 links

• Now and then and an infinity of extrapolated Beatles tracks
  17.39, Friday 3 Nov 2023 (streak: 188 weeks)
  1,441 words, 8 links
  Tagged: extrapolation

• A one-off, special, never-to-be-repeated Acts Not Facts weeknote
  18.25, Monday 6 Nov 2023 (streak: 189 weeks)
  1,327 words, 11 links
  Tagged: weeknotes

• An AI hardware fantasy, and an IQ erosion attack horror story
  10.42, Friday 10 Nov 2023 (streak: 189 weeks)
  1,420 words, 18 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: gpt-3

• A second one-off never-to-be-repeated Acts Not Facts weeknote
  09.29, Monday 13 Nov 2023 (streak: 190 weeks)
  885 words, 10 links
  Tagged: weeknotes

• Filtered for just pandemic things
  09.09, Thursday 16 Nov 2023 (streak: 190 weeks)
  748 words, 8 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• A third one-off never-to-be-etc Acts Not Facts weeknote
  08.55, Tuesday 21 Nov 2023 (streak: 191 weeks)
  584 words, 1 link
  Tagged: weeknotes

• It takes a while to figure out technology
  20.11, Friday 24 Nov 2023 (streak: 191 weeks)
  631 words, 5 links
  Tagged: gpt-3

• A fourth one-off never-to-be-etc Acts Not Facts weeknote
  12.01, Monday 27 Nov 2023 (streak: 192 weeks)
  976 words, 13 links
  Tagged: weeknotes

• On having recently had Covid and other modern freedoms
  09.01, Thursday 30 Nov 2023 (streak: 192 weeks)
  552 words, 2 links

• Acts Not Facts weeknote #5: Always report null results
  09.45, Monday 4 Dec 2023 (streak: 193 weeks)
  245 words, 1 link
  Tagged: weeknotes

• The subjective experience of coding in different programming languages
  17.22, Tuesday 5 Dec 2023 (streak: 193 weeks)
  687 words, no links

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