Ryan Moulton

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Children and Helical Time

In subjective time, childhood is half of life. Life, then, is the creation of childhoods. You have yours, and then you get to create them for others.

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A Few of the Birds I Love

The barn swallow’s flight, the mocking bird’s song, the cardinal’s color, and the hummingbird’s character.

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The only way that AI detectors can work from the output alone is by detecting the way the training distribution is corrupted to turn the model into a product.
This paper should be better known by anybody who does A/B testing. https://research.google/pubs/pub43887/
Focus on the Long-Term: It's better for Users and Business – Google Research

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I learned about this theorem by accident the first time I tried to make a distributed version of a graph algorithm by sharding it by its connected components. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_component#:~:text=However%2C%20for,single%20giant%20component
Giant component - Wikipedia

>looking for a new api
>ask the team if their api is deprecated or doesn't work yet
>team doesn't understand
>pull out a diagram explaining what is deprecated and what doesn't work yet
>team laughs and says "it's a good api sir"
>write the code
>it doesn't work yet

A consequence of the systems reply to Searle is that all systems with complex behavior are a kind of mind with a kind of understanding. I think this is both true, and a useful model.

What does Twitter think about the study?
What does Yelp say about this restaurant?
What does Google know about it?

These are more than just metaphorical uses of the words, they should be read literally as the right description of what's going on.

Playing with generative AI trains you to identify spam on the internet.

"That profile photo is stylegan2, look where the eyes are. That one is midjourney 4, the prompt is in the filename. That bio is clearly chatgpt, it says x and y, and the last paragraph says 'in summary.'"

The eastern US is the culturally dominant ecosystem. If something mentions "the woods" without further elaboration, it is those woods.

Unless the artists take particular care, all art about the woods will be set in the eastern US regardless of its putative location.

Snow White has grey squirrels and raccoons.