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    Let me introduce you to Roberto Ferri.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 20, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
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    Another AI Prediction Coming True

    I remember many times when opinions have flown about AI being incapable of adequately simulating a human. The famous Turing Test is one example, but I remember a decade ago having a discussion with a fellow film buff about the eventuality that game engines would allow machinima to replace human actors.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 2, 2023
    • AI, Things That Delight Me
    • 16 Comments

    Aaaaahaaahaaahaaaa!!

    Do you see what I see?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 12, 2023
    • Technology, Things That Delight Me, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, We are Fucked
    • 24 Comments

    Lock Him Up

    DOJ just indicted trump on charges related to his theft and retention of classified documents.

    This is the season finale of Trump US, Season 2. Let’s hope the show gets a hard cancel.

    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 8, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
    • 11 Comments

    Alloys

    Imagine my surprise when I learned that “bronze” does not refer only to the classic tin/copper alloy. Generally, it does, but when you’re talking about other alloys, they are also often called “bronzes” of various sorts.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 9, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 24 Comments

    Want To Scare Some Republican Donors?

    Just start talking about how the IRS needs to look into using AI to review every single tax return, fairly, evenly, dispassionately, against an expert system that encodes current tax law and a knowledge of popular techniques for tax fraud, and that the AI will flag and rank questionable returns, which will be reviewed in rank order. [See also: Mano Singham]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 5, 2023
    • AI, Spies Spying on Things, Things That Delight Me
    • 9 Comments

    The Longest-Operating British Crime Family

    Frankie Boyle gets some good digs in.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 4, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 6 Comments

    Hope – 2

    I love when seedlings are at that point where you can still see how the seed was constructed. Monocot or dicot, and all that.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 3, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 8 Comments

    A Surprise Guest

    … It’s The Grim Reaper!!! (fight ensues)

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 27, 2023
    • Things That Delight Me
    • 7 Comments

    A Parable for flex

    On my recent posting about adhesives, deep state covert operative flex commented, kindly. [stderr] And it reminded me of an actual thing that happened.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 27, 2023
    • Capitalism is a disease, Cyberwar, Things That Delight Me
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