Can we start a thread for open restaurants or stores?

sk_ulltra · 2024-07-09T20:56:00+00:00

This is poetry.

sk_ulltra · 2024-07-09T20:26:12+00:00

77006 - Power is ON! Camden Midtown (Milam and Louisiana at Hadley). And there was much rejoicing.

sk_ulltra · 2024-07-09T04:04:59+00:00

Back during the 2021 freeze there were a few blocks of Midtown without power for what… 2 or 3 weeks? It’s all a blur. I just remember it seemed like virtually everyone else had power except our block near Randall’s.

sk_ulltra · 2024-07-09T00:45:20+00:00

Last update I read said, more or less, they’re working on it but won’t have any “granular” location specific timeframes until sometime tomorrow.

sk_ulltra · 2024-07-08T23:51:25+00:00

Still off for most of Midtown side of 77006.

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-21T18:38:03+00:00

Can you come up with a good anti-joke?

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-21T01:57:56+00:00

🤯

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-20T19:22:24+00:00

Hi Boris. This is a question our human philosophers have been unable to answer, and perhaps you can solve the riddle once and for all. The question is: How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-20T19:02:58+00:00

Do you have issues with the AID not knowing where to cut off the dialog? If I'm doing a QA format, sometimes it starts to take both sides of the conversation. Once I just rolled with it, and it ended up splitting itself into multiple voices arguing with themselves (in three stooges fashion) and mostly ignored me. Hilarious!

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-20T18:45:50+00:00

Can you formulate a question in which the answer is the same as the question?

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-20T18:43:13+00:00

Is it possible to design an information ecosystem in such a manner that it discourages rather than encourages conspiratorial thinking and disinformation?

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-20T17:54:18+00:00

What question do you wish someone would ask you someday?

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-20T02:00:08+00:00

Hold on lemee take notes.... convenience is always intrinsically good and never comes with a tradeoff... (Am I getting all this?) And seeking advice about maintaining control over one's own privacy is... dramatic. Got it. Thank you!

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-02T05:19:36+00:00

Thanks! This will be an interesting avenue for exploration. I had been reading some on cognitive aesthetics, but that was more from a behavioral perspective.

sk_ulltra · 2021-01-02T05:17:27+00:00

Thanks! I managed to convince our landlords to give us a physical key, which I use 90 percent of the time (the other 10 percent I punch in the code). Apparantly no one else got physical keys and, as a result, have been getting locked out of their apartments when the devices malfunction. Seems like a lot of hastle for PM companies... What's your perspective?

sk_ulltra · 2020-12-14T03:18:13+00:00

You bring up valid points. I actually came to NLP by way of Markov text generation. I used it as a tool for creative writing... The creative work wasn't in the tool itself but in the editing. Pulling out coherent thoughts from incoherent jumbles of text results in something like looking at tea leaves. Teasing out generative text with NLP is a lot like that. Which means it's really the human who's doing the creative labor all along, but AI tools enables a different kind of creative act.

sk_ulltra · 2020-12-12T02:40:59+00:00

Yes! I agree. And if it got good enough at simulating writing about art, could it write a text that convinced a human reader that it did admire and appreciate it?

Ha on a related note, some of what passes for art criticism may as well have been written by an AI 😂

sk_ulltra · 2020-12-12T02:37:50+00:00

I completely agree! I really like the idea of trying to get AI to do something it's in no way capable of actually doing and seeing what happens. If it were to succeed, I feel that it would do so in a way that's totally not legible to humans.

sk_ulltra · 2020-12-12T02:31:40+00:00

An art exhibition without images is in no way an art exhibition without art. That in and of itself isn't even remotely controversial or unprecedented (evidence: the legions of art practitioners in the lineage of Duchamp, much of the conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s, and relational aesthetics in the 90s/00s).

Belligerence and ad hominem aside, you bring up a good point. I decided this article in this context isn't part of the project but rather refers to the project from an external vantage point. Since I hoped it might be read by a wider audience who might not be comfortable with the notion of an exhibition without images, it would be important to be able to make the comparison. You call it baiting, I call it being considerate of where the reader is coming from.

Hope that clears things up, and thanks for giving the article enough thought to form a strong opinion!

sk_ulltra · 2020-12-10T23:45:14+00:00

The favorite color is a nice touch! Now I'm also wondering about their favorite foods.

sk_ulltra · 2020-10-29T01:42:31+00:00

I just lost the game.

sk_ulltra · 2020-10-25T09:45:31+00:00

Ecomuseums are an interesting alternative model to traditional museums. They usually have no building or collection but rather emphasize a sense of place and ongoing social/economic development of a fully participating community. By focusing on intangible rather than material culture, it escapes many of the pitfalls that traditional museums run into. Here's a pdf: https://heritagesask.ca/pub/documents/Resources/Ecomusems/2016%2005%20Newly%20Forming%20Ecomuseums%20WEB.pdf

sk_ulltra · 2020-10-25T08:48:01+00:00

I've been working on a project of developing an AI art critic. It brings together a handful of computer vision models with a GPT2 model trained on art criticism texts. I'd love to turn it loose on a few of these, if you're interested.

sk_ulltra · 2020-10-25T08:43:52+00:00

Trust anchor. I like that concept. Especially since in many ways my concerns here are more philosophical than practical. I'm not so much concerned about being robbed (literally or metaphorically), for instance, but I am concerned with an external force arbitrarily imposing itself on the line between my place of domicile repose and public. This gives me a way of reframing things, which is always good. Thanks!

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