Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
One of the reasons I love games like this is that, unlike Chess, this is a wicked problem . What’s the best way for an agent to extract information from a noisy environment? We make sense of the world through stories of cause and effect, but, on close examination these stories are far less simple than they appear. In The Book of Why, computer... See more
Frank Lantz • Playing Balatro
why do we write stuff into our notebooks?
Frida’s notes for Moses, Museo Frida Kahlo
Hatred is depressing—it is of course depressing to be hated, but it is also depressing to hate. The erosion of the social safety net means that more and more people are at a sudden breaking point, and there are few messages of authentic comfort to offer them in these pitiless times. One is done in by disease, by isolation and despair, and by life
... See morenewyorker.com • Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and Preventable Tragedies
“I would see other people’s art on social media, even if it wasn’t something that I wanted to make, and think, damn, I should have done that ,” he says. “I realised instead of judging, I can just DM them and tell them their work is beautiful. Anytime I find myself comparing myself to others, I remind myself that this person is just like me.” We... See more
Matthew Prebeg • “A quiet shift is taking place”: On being a creative in the age of content
Since the generative AIs have been trained on the entirety of human work — most of it mediocre — it produces “wisdom of the crowd”-like results. They may hit the mark but only because they are average.