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The Hollow, Heartless, Void-space of Generative AI
Two years ago, OpenAI released DallE-2. For the first time, a bunch of enslaved compute cores could produce an image from fuzzy nothingness. Within a few months, technical papers released, and “diffusion,” as it’s called within machine-learning spheres, blossomed into an industry. This industry is a cancer. Year over year, it mutates into a…
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Design & Philosophy
My options are twofold: elegant or blocky. These two stylistic identities are worlds apart, yet both hold equal appeal in my eyes. The lock screen of my phone, for instance, is one of my favorite photographs headlined by the time in a classical font. It’s minimalist, but has a certain poise about it. On…
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Reflecting on this space and the many spaces to come
The internet is a very busy place, busy to an unfathomable degree. Google, the predominant search platform everywhere, hosts over 60 petabytes worth of information; that’s over 60,000 one-terabyte hard drives! This site, and the domains to come, are just a teeny-tiny-itty-bitty-little fraction of that. If, dear reader, you are someone who perhaps stumbled…