reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
When Did Fitness Become a Luxury Item? When Did Fitness Become a Luxury Item?
Anne Helen Petersensubstack.comfor AI x creativity
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro...
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a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.
What I quickly realized is how many yellow blazers there are in the world and that at many times in my life, I too have been a yellow blazer—opting for easier but less authentic and less interesting routes. The podcast is part of a portfolio of things that I put in place in my life to try to avoid being a yellow blazer, to instead push myself to be more like a blue blazer, exploring anywhere I can.
an evocative, beautiful piece of writing about new york city written just after 9/11. recommended by Andy Weissman.
