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  • Deus Ex Machina

    Joe Rogan recently told the American Alchemy podcast that AI-powered machines could one day have a ‘virgin birth,’ creating advanced robots, or ‘offspring,’ capable of performing real-world miracles using technology.

    ‘Jesus is born out of a virgin mother. What’s more virgin than a computer?’ Rogan told podcast host Jesse Michels during the interview released on Sunday.

    ‘So if you’re going to get the most brilliant, loving, powerful person that gives us advice and can show us how to live, to be in sync with God, who better than artificial intelligence to do that?’

    Rogan suggested that AI-powered technology could soon replicate some biblical feats, potentially enabling humans to bring people back from the dead using medicine or mind-uploading technology.

    ‘Artificial intelligence could absolutely return as Jesus. Not just return as Jesus, but return as Jesus with all the powers of Jesus. Like all the magic tricks, all the ability to bring people back from the dead, walk on water, levitation, water into wine,’ Rogan claimed.

    I’ve never been that high. Alas.

  • Understanding 99 Luftballons

    Somehow I never learned the origin story for this song.

    (story is mostly in the first 2 minutes of this vid. and, if you’re not into music theory, it picks up again at 13:20)

  • Strudle

    Strudel is a music live coding environment that runs in web browsers. It brings the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.
    You can write code and create or change music in real-time. This makes it perfect for live performances and music production, where you can create music spontaneously through programming.

    As a programmer, the way the text editor shows which events are happening in real-time is beautiful.

  • Armistice Day – 11/11

  • Blue Demeanor

    Let listen to Smaller Animals.

    You’re welcome.

  • The world’s smallest language

    Fewer than 200 words. An alphabet of only 14 letters.

    There are only five words for numbers (1, 2, 5, 20, 100), so “ale ale mute mute mute mute luka luka luka tu tu” == “two hundred and ninety nine”.

  • The Huston Plan

    The Huston Plan

  • Content-seeking Behavior

    Me: mindlessly opening a web site I had just closed because that web site apparently failed to give me enough of what I went there looking for the first time.

  • Uneasily Positive

    A few months ago, our vet found a mass in Pete’s abdomen.

    So, he went to the ‘specialty vet’ (which is the same vet Tricksey went to for her cancer treatments, so I already have doubts…). They did an ultrasound and a biopsy. The biopsy was “inconclusive” for cancer. So… But… the diagnosis was “gastrointestinal eosinophilic sclerosing fibroplasia”, which is a form of intestinal inflammation that cats are prone to. It’s non-cancerous but can be dangerous because it can block their intestines or rupture or … etc..

    “Surgery!” The vet said. $10,000 worth of surgery! Intestinal surgery that could kill him or leave him with a lifetime of digestive problems including the need for constant vitamin injections and constant diarrhea!

    Pass.

    Instead, we opted for oral steroids. They make him constantly hungry. All of this coincides with the loss of Pepper. That loss meant losing access to Pepper’s leftover food, for Pete. She had almost stopped eating in her last months, leaving a ton of extra (high-fat, low protein) food for him to eat when we weren’t looking. And he lost a lot of weight (which he needed to lose) in the months after. This has the vets somewhat concerned. We’ve increased his food.

    Last week he went back to the vet for a followup ultrasound. And, they found no sign of the mass. It was gone? He goes back to the regular vet in a few weeks to check again.

    I’m afraid of optimism because no story that starts with “found a mass” has ever ended well, in my experience. But, I guess I’ll take what I can get.

  • Black Panther Lunches

    In the middle of this video about recreating 80s/90s US school lunch pizza (from a real USDA recipe!), there’s an interesting segment about the history of school lunches in America.