7 hours agoUnverifiableI used to go crazy about Magic Eye posters back in the nineties. For many years, I just couldn’t figure them out, even though I’d purchased a book filled them. I’d spend an hour at my desk, hunched over, staring cross eyed. Finally, I think I got it — except…Stereogram2 min readStereogram2 min read
2 days agoIs GPT4 A Surprise?More than a decade ago, IBM’s Watson beat Ken Jennings. Now, if we take a crude Moore’s law doubling of capability every two years, that would be over six doublings. Is GPT4 64 time better than Watson? Maybe even more. It definitely seems that way. The issue we have is…Gpt41 min readGpt41 min read
4 days agoDetail on DemandI’m impressed by Midjourney’s new release — V5. With generative AI, version improvements seem to mimic the hardware releases of early gaming systems. NES to SNES was a huge improvement, PS3 to PS4 to PS5, etc… large, meaningful leaps. What impresses me is that Midjourney’s improvement is able to consistently…Midjourney2 min readMidjourney2 min read
5 days agoAdapting to LimitsOne of the potential breakthroughs of generative AI may be adapting video to look better on the same hardware. Video itself is a mind trick — it’s just still images passed before our eyes in quick succession. What if each frame could be slightly manipulated to create better transitions for…Generative Ai1 min readGenerative Ai1 min read
5 days agoRealistic HallucinationsI asked GPT4 for some background on a specific question in history. It returned to me information that I found fascinating but in the end was questioning whether it was real. In one instance, I asked for a list of books about the topic and it provided me authoritatively with…Gpt41 min readGpt41 min read
Mar 20What Happened This DayWhen I was about eight years old, I received a printout from a dot matrix printer of different things that happened on the same day as my birthday and celebrities who shared the same day. In the late eighties / early nineties, this was an amazing fete. Getting these details…Gpt41 min readGpt41 min read
Mar 19Let’s Break This Down…One thing that I appreciate after playing with the release of GPT4 is that it breaks down problems and shows reasoning. The tone, at least through the limited testing any individual can conduct, seems more modest. This could just be my biased, but it’s also been programmed to apologize and…Chatgpt2 min readChatgpt2 min read
Mar 19Generative EverywhereWhere are you, Bard? We heard about you awhile back. It turns out that, like with other generative AI tools, it’s going to get emBARDed into Google products. We are already seeing how Bing is going to use ChatGPT to help automatically create presentations based on a document. This will…Google Bard1 min readGoogle Bard1 min read
Mar 17Absolute vs RelativeAbout 17 years ago, I sat down one Saturday and read How To Lie With Statistics. It was a quick and funny read but a great reinforcement to the more bland statistic I thought about that book again when it was mentioned on a Tim Ferriss Podcast featuring Dr. Peter…Statistics1 min readStatistics1 min read
Mar 16Seven Minute AbsThe 1998 movie Something About Mary has an amazing bit about 7-minute abs. It’s worth a watch: The gist is that someone wants to ride on the success of 8-Minute Abs by coming out with a 7-Minute Abs… same workout, 1 minute less! The reason I recalled this was…Something About Mary1 min readSomething About Mary1 min read
