alex
@alexwastaken
curious librarian
alex
“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
― Richard RortyLife in HD: An investigation of the jhanas’ impact on Jhourney retreat attendees — Jhourney
by Anna Liutaia
- GenerativeAI can conjure up a tree if you ask for one, but it will come from the commonality of attributes across the trees in the model’s training data. Under the hood, large language models (LLMs) and generative media models are trained on massive amounts of data to help predict a sequence of words or pixels based on the prompt you provide. So, i... See more
from DIY Software, Where Betting Markets May Take Us, & What Makes Art by Scott Belsky
an ad for some skin cream that is honest - taught the consumer something true and useful:
This is Gycolic Acid
It exfoliates your skin.
It’s a chemical
just like water is a chemical, and oxygen is a chemical.It can cost you $40.
or $13
- That’s my big learning of the year: understanding the way someone’s interior life translates to what they make. When I first started writing this Substack, I was possessed by the sense that I had to figure out “how to do it.” Which other Substacks do I like, which other Substacks are popular, what do they write about, how do they make it work. It’s... See more
from What We Talk About When We Talk About Taste by Ava
“There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end, you make it look like a quantum leap.”
James Dyson
- You can just say no to distractions and think about the future. https://t.co/chX9usIrxw
I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.
― Norm Macdonald, 2016
