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Kevin Slavin
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Together with @irwin I moderate saturation.social here on mastodon, but mostly I do other stuff between science, technology and culture. I'm poly in math, and mono in marriage.
After three years of playing the tightest biosafety game of anyone I know, today I learned that I got caught, like 96% of my stupid country.
My high score was three years and two months.
Reading some random piece of parenting advice recently, that suggested that more than “preparing the road for your child” is “preparing your child for the road”
And honestly this seems like good counsel but I just can’t shake this image of it out of my head
Via @genmon TIL about “the Starlight Barking” the 1967 sequel to “101 Dalmatians” and I am half convinced this is just Matt fucking with me via Wikipedia
Pleased to reveal that the former CEO of Yahoo who did that fantastic new logo for the company in 2013
has a new company that has taken 20 million in VC to produce this new logo
Just went down a weird rabbit hole on HN and found this comment and I can follow every word of it and yet, just the fact that these sentences exist is really hard for me to get my head around
Just starting to fuck around with GPT-3 but it's the first time I ever had some text-based interaction with an AI and thought, you know, we might just get along.
Michelle Huang trained GPT-3 on her voluminous childhood diaries, so that she could have a conversation with her past-self.
This is a stunningly beautiful idea but I was unprepared for the richness of what it produced: