168 - Tweet Roundup 🗨️🐦
Hey there, !
Let's dive into the world of the BIRD - don't worry that it's been taken over by a weird fella (we all burn in the hellscape of the internet anyway), it's absolutely BANGIN' for AI content, which you'll see below - but first:
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Arabic poems - some of the most romantic shit you'll ever see. I think one of the poems I love from Shape of Water was based on an Iranian poet Rumi - Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere.
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Fun lil' Gladiator joke - puns!
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The House of the Dragon dragon fight was based on How to Train Your Dragon
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Something that some of y'all need to hear when you're watching a movie
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The fall of FTX - from the bankruptcy court documents, the findings include: random managers approving expense disbursements, auto-deletion of key decisions though chat, no cash management system, no employee records - the list goes on!
Here's the AI stuff I'm both excited and concerned about:
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DeepCloning - some guy trained an AI on his ex-girlfriend's voice / texts / conversations to recreate her in a virtual world. Freakin' SINISTER.
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A system to decode brain recordings to visual stimuli - we move ever closer to a world of Minority Report...
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CICERO - an AI created by Meta that could play Diplomacy online, and win. They had to tweak some of the parameters because it wanted to try and break alliances EVERY TURN rather than go for a longer term strategic alliance.
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I trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that I could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" - fascinatingly poignant
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OpenAI's new chatGPT system, explaining Python bubble sort in the style of a 1940's fast-talkin' wise guy - chatGPT is absolutely INCREDIBLE. Twitter is ablaze with people doing stuff like this right now even just linking this to you is OLD.
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Fascinatingly, I learnt how to make meth from a tweet - there were controls that have now been put in place, I think, but it's still freakin' hilarious that the first thing people do when given the power for this is to try and break through!
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Logging into a 1990's chatroom over dialup...in chatGPT - it's insane, and just getting more insane!!
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A response to "why is the reaction of writers to AI writing less outraged than visual artists’ response to #texttoimage tools?" - written by chatGPT :D
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✔️Real Life Recommendations
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Glass Onion: a Knives Out Mystery - I was lucky to catch it on the week that it was in cinemas - it's actually coming out on Netflix Dec 23! (I assume this is so it can be in Oscars contention...?). If you liked the first Knives Out you were already gonna watch this, and there's no worries at all - it's a great watch. Lots of mystery hijinks that that pay homage to previous mystery novels and films - a lovely movie for a night in. Highly recommended!
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Hotel Jesus - didn't meet Jesus, but found a nice Mexican place on Smith St that I hadn't been to before - some great tostadas, yummy tacos, and tasty guac and corn side dishes. Fantastic diner to visit :D
🚌 Adventures on the Information Super-Highway
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Is Wine Fake? - yeah, kind of. I think the upshot of this great article is "at the lower levels, it makes sense. At the higher, more expensive levels, it's a bit harder to tell."
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The Casino-Chip Society - it's...an interesting way to think about what 'digital money' vs 'physical money' is, and how we create derivatives of underlying currency using tokens. It also helps to explain in a bit clearer detail about how 'money' is created through banks giving out loans - which can be a pretty weird concept to think about! I love finding new ways to think about old things.
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Hobby trains and actively using failure as a strategy - one from my link archives that I hadn't posted yet - a great perspective on 'hey, do dumb stuff so that you can use the things you learn from it to go into other cooler stuff'.