Talking to my partner made me dig out this weird gem of a camera recently, a LYTRO first gen light field camera! I have had this one for years and never really used it.. mostly because its image quality is not exactly convincing and it requires proprietary unmaintained software to convert the images to a usable file format

Nonetheless it is an interesting camera, it not only records the colour and intensity of incoming light, as a typical camera does, but also the lights directionality, creating digital holograms! This is great in that the image can be refocused afterwards, an aperture can also be chosen later and you can even to a degree perspective shift the image, meaning you can peak behind objects! This is so cool imo, I love imaging technology and weird cameras, this certainly is one of them

Letztens hatte jemand ein Video gepostet, wo es um eine einfache Rechnung ging.

Wenn Milliardäre mit 5% passivem Einkommen(*) ihr Vermögen vermehren, auf der anderen Seite das BIP aber nur bei 0,0-1,5% rumdümpelt, dann wird das Vermögen der Superreichen irgendwann über das ihres Landes hinauswachsen.

Aber das Geld der Reichen muss ja irgendwo herkommen... 🤔
Das führt also dazu, dass uns Sachen abhanden kommen, die der Allgemeinheit dienen, wie z.B. Schwimmbäder.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/schwimmen-baeder-foerderung-100.html

In den letzten 25 Jahren wurden 1800 Bäder geschlossen. Ohne Geld für Sanierungen werden in den nächsten drei Jahren weitere 800 Bäder schließen müssen.

#taxtherich

(*) Die 5% sind sehr niedrig gegriffen, aber das war das Rechenbeispiel aus besagtem Video.

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype