Tiong-seah Yap (Bear)

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It is the continual flow of consciousness, above, into, along or underneath, it is what it is.
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In the culture desert, camel is the decoration for a planned journey to the conceptual reality with the golden rain by golden tails of golden cats and forming a golden lake with many golden fishes jump up and down.
A camel is needed before a planned journey to the conceptual golden land.
A plan is needed before the concept of idea camel has been formed.
A plan, a concept, a camel and the journey to the golden land.

- The idea camel

#Journey #Mind

"Without that spark of intent, there would be no photograph." - Joanna Pocock

#Culture #Visual #Humanity #Environment #Photography

Eye candy is the only and the most latest result of visual which was generated with all collected copyrighted data by the machine. From same range of colour scheme,style of characteristic expression to same range of composition,nothing is related to creativity,instead mimicry, the word "Producing" and "Reproducing" are the correct terms for sort of activities, and they have centuries of history, the only difference may referred to as advance is the speed.
#Technology #Humanity #Creativity #AI

"Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium...We’re tempted to project those experiences onto a large language model when it emits coherent sentences, but to do so is to fall prey to mimicry; " - Ted Chiang (The New Yorker)

“money laundering for copyrighted data,” - Simon Willison

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

#Technology #AI #Artificial #Machine #Creativity #Intelligence #Humanity

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

Ted Chiang on how artificial intelligence still isn’t as intelligent as it is perceived to be and how its profound limitations should temper our fears about it replacing real art-making.

The New Yorker

How many children, women, civilian need to get killed until all war criminals have been banned to flying around freely by holding accountability for what they did ? instead of endless political moral preaching with rhetoric, and turning blind eyes to what have happened is already a choice of side, selective moral standard is politics instead of humanity, and once again, war crime is war crime.

#Humanity #Politics #WarCrime

By the way, have tried it on the latest Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) + Gnome, and it works seamlessly without additional driver is needed, compared to the earlier veraion 22.04 (Jammy jerryfish) it has a better tuning option, just fantastic.

#Ubuntu #Linux #Wacom #Opensource

Wacom intuos tablet is incompatible with many android phones, and it is kind of waste of great resource (although market is always speaking in a different tone), in contrast to decades ago, there is no longer a serious trouble or problem to use it today on a Linux machine, anywhere, thanks to the open source, possibilities are always there beside a "sealed market" isn't it ?

#Technology #Digital #Opensource #Resource

By finding out a society's reaction to the word "Politics" is the best way to understand the maturity of it or the quality of education and the functionality of its government.

#Politics #Democracy #Humanity