The last few days I’ve been limping around with every muscle in my body pulled and aching to some degree or another.
The last few days I’ve been limping around with every muscle in my body pulled and aching to some degree or another.
WALMART acted quickly to take down a racist and repulsive “thug life” mask caricaturing Tupac. Caine over at Affinity [affinity] rightly takes them to task.
I wrote about Margaret Hamilton, the programmer who designed the self-diagnosing co-routines in NASA’s moon mission software. [stderr] Her achievements are righteously legendary.
I did this exhibit in 2010.
I got this old thing from a fellow on craig’s list who was clearing out an old farm.
My views on AI have changed somewhat, from my initial view that AI lacked the creativity to come up with grand strategies,[stderr] to something more confused. [stderr] Initially, I saw military strategy as a problem of creativity, and AI don’t seem to be very good at that – there’s too much of “output resembles input” for me to be enthusiastic about AI art: it looks more like remixing than innovation. [By a coincidence, Caine over at Affinity is also posting about AI creativity tonight]
This has been making the rounds, but it’s cool, so why not? (largeish images after the break)
I don’t have a lot of pictures to show for today because today was more refining and shaping. There’s a lot of that.
There really isn’t any part of the forging process that is more important than any other; you don’t end up with a finished sword without executing the other steps correctly, too.
As I headed in to the workshop this morning, the big white bird was on station. I tried to get a picture and it flew away, complaining. We have established a routine.
