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Writer, musician/songwriter, hobbyist coder. Contributing writer to New York Times Magazine and Wired. Author of "Coders". Blogging at clivethompson.medium.com, archive of writing at www.authory.com/clivethompson #science #technology #coding #software #writing #literature #poetry clive@clivethompson.net
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@clive Knowledge about brain damage is limited at this time. My son has congenital brain damage, but over the years had a semi-normal life and far more abilities than expected. Then over time, many neurosurgeries. Over decades more than a few falls with concussion. Now at almost 45, he has ALSO acquired early-onset Alzheimer's and an unknown mixed dementia. Yet he continues to function with support. Now whatever happens, who knows the cause. Go research!  @clive It's worth noting that the VA is deeply, *deeply,* resistant to diagnosing anyone with service-connected TBI if they ever had any other risk factors. Ever played a sport in school? not their problem, even with documented service-connected blast exposure or head injury. I know this because of people I know. One did get medically retired, another didn't, and should have. A terrific investigation at @WIRED finds that Perplexity scrapes and (sometimes with bullshit added) summarizes web sites that it has been explicitly told, by those web site owners, not to visit https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ Excellent work by @dmehro and @timmarchman
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 Excellent investigation by the New York Times into all the ways major AI companies are frantically grabbing, copying, and stealing text to feed their AI models: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU0.xcEk.CIQuR1C9u9N1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb (Gift link there) apparently Meta considered buying Simon & Schuster
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 The first thing one should think upon seeing something like this is that it's either a mistake or outright fraud, until it's independently reproduced. @clive I live on a floating Algea lake. This could be a wonderful source of energy… maybe… very exciting!
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@clive omg I cannot wait to read this book and/or get a tattoo of the illustrations. "a Shakespeare may be but an oyster raised to the one-thousandth power, or even a Darwin the cube root of a ring-tailed monkey."  @clive This is awesome. Thank you! Look how all the Englishmen used to hold their ping-pong paddles. Nary a penhold grip amongst them. (I went for "table tennis.") |
@clive @m Even a PACKET LOSS clock is right once a day
@clive clock. it's clock