The less serious partts
This past month, I started adding proper support for “issue trees,” a feature whose absence has pained me as I’ve worked on the Narrative and Game Engines. Problems and goals seem to naturally exist in a hierarchy: any problem spawns a plan for solving it, which can contain new tasks or subproblems that require their…
I’m in the midst of a blog series on AI-related ideology and politics. In Part III, I considered some implications and pitfalls of the AI factions and their agendas. This part is about a specific hot-button issue: “algorithmic bias,” which has some contentious race-related associations. An image model’s attempt to produce an infographic about AI…
After the completion of the Simple Tron demo last month, it seemed like a good time to clean, unify, and improve consistency across Acuitas. So I’ve been on a refactoring spree. It is, unfortunately, not the most exciting thing to write about, but it’s an important part of the process. Still from Star Trek: The…
I’m in the midst of a blog series on AI-related ideology and politics. In Part II, I introduced the various factions that I have seen operating in the AI research and deployment sphere, including the loosely-related group nicknamed TESCREAL and a few others. I recommend reading it first to become familiar with the factions and…
Food can be medicine – but it can also be toxic. And not always for the obvious reasons… Harris was a victim of the usual corporate manipulation. He ate a snack food that was advertised and promoted as a “challenge” which in this case was to tolerate concentrated doses of the capsaicin from two of the…
Just last week I posted about the Aussie icon, Vegemite, reaching a 100-year anniversary, by whatever bumpy and often-offshore means. Now another icon has passed a milestone, but sadly it’s not exactly what you might think… It’s Not Vegemite So Vegemite was an Australian invention. It was modelled around some similar products but as far…
The iconic – and divisive – Aussie legend has been in production for 100 years. (Or out if you’re one of those people who can’t stand it.) The iconic (and no matter which side of the debate you fall, you can’t deny its status as a slightly tarnished Aussie icon) spread was born from a…
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Captain Zorgans? Zorganisms? Organisms? Pesters? Who or what are they? Our journalists have made some discoveries. The above sketches came to us from that intrepid reporter while he was investigating in Australia via the infallible medium of AI image software. On the left is the Zorganite Encumber press release, on the right are what he…