Kirk Israel's commonplace and blog. Quotes and links daily since 2001.
2024.03.27
A long while back I wrote my own "soundboard" in Visual Basic and one of the more useful one was 0:11 from here: Homer Simpson saying "phew, all this computer hacking is making me thirsty"...

2024.03.26
Baltimore Bridge Collapses, YIKES
2024.03.25
This is a perfect illustration of the kind of shit you have to deal with when you're trying to build a language model which actually has an internal symbolic representation of what it "knows", rather than just belching out the most statistically likely sequence of letters.
Actually that little pronoun engine (no not in the gender-y sense) Infocom games used (and that Inform was based on) is something that was so impressive back in the 80s... being able to say "examine the tree" and then "hit it with a brick" and have it know what you meant was amazingly impressive back in the day.
2024.03.24
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2024.03.22
legit scary and wonderful horror dancing from India...
2024.03.21
On Jacob Angeli-Chansley, the QAnon Shaman.

Sigh, I didn't realize Jung was tied up with so much racist garbage.