Category: Syndicated Blogs
Syndication of other people’s blogs, sites, etc.
Acuitas Diary #72 (May 2024)
My primary focus this month has been on an overhaul of the Conversation Engine. The last time I revised it, the crux of the work was to add a tree-like aspect to Acuitas’ memory of the conversation. The expectation was that this would help with things like “one topic nested inside another,” or “returning to…
Food Appliance Anarchy – part 4 of many
This article, lets get to grips with “dormitory/share-house cooking.” The true origin of so many great (and a few, um … not so great) food and cooking hacks. If you ever shared housing or were in a dormitory / “roomies” kind of situation you know how it goes. You go to make a cup of…
AI Ideology V: Existential Risk Explanation
I’m in the midst of a blog series on AI-related ideology and politics. In Part IV, I looked at algorithmic bias, one of the demonstrable concerns about today’s AI models. Now I’m going to examine the dire hypothetical predictions of the Existential Risk Guardians. Could future AI destroy human civilization? This Part V will be…
Acuitas Diary #71 (April 2024)
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…
AI Ideology IV: Algorithmic Bias
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…
Acuitas Diary #70 (March 2024)
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…