Saturday, February 28, 2026

AI Articles

1. A.I. Isn't People: "I’ve watched all three of my children learn what a cat is, and in each case the number of pictures of a cat they needed to see was not “all of them.” It was like, two or three? Half a dozen, tops. I helped them learn to speak and read fluently, and the number of Reddit posts required was not “every Reddit post.” I don’t need to know what mechanism underlies human intelligence to rule out the possibility that it’s the same as what a large language model does."

2. Child's Play: "The future they seem to envisage is one in which people don’t really do anything at all, except follow the instructions given to them by machines."

Saturday, January 31, 2026

Classical paintings

There is a single explanation for the fact that the reconstructions do not resemble the statues depicted in ancient artworks, the fact that their use of color is un­like that in ancient mosaics and frescoes, and the fact that modern viewers find them ugly. It is that the reconstructions are painted very badly. There is no reason to posit that ancient Europeans had tastes radically unlike ours to explain our dislike of the reconstructions. The Greeks and Romans would have disliked them too, because the reconstructed polychromy is no good.

Were classical statues painted horribly?

Thursday, January 15, 2026

our pets heads are falling off

"theres a miami in florida and a miami in ohio, theres an indiana in indiana and an indiana in pennsylvania"

I need the "Rich Men North of Richmond" internet freak to turn that into a viral sensation for us.

MIAMI (FL) +8.5 TEAM OF DESTINY

TIEBREAKER IS 1 POINT MIAMI WILL WIN 25-24.

My only New Year resolution is to win at least one segment of bowl pick them 2025

Miami vs Indiana (-8.5): team of destiny


Tiebreaker: 16 points

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Still seems like this can't be right

This one's for all the Tostitos.

Miami vs Indiana (-8.5)

Tiebreaker if necessary: actual winning margin of victorious team. 

Wednesday, January 07, 2026

choo choo it's the lane train

beep beep, off the tracks, buster

Old Moist +3.5 This is a team of destiny. And by destiny, I mean institutionalized racism.

Indiana -4 Mean and nasty. Just knocking fools over. Taking what they want and not letting you even have a sniff. But enough about Taft, Nico, and New Madison. 


Indiana's name means "Land of the Indians", or simply "Indian Land".

Miami (FL) -3.5 v Old Mist: So does Old Mist have coaches? How is that working? 

Oregon v Indiana -4: I Believe

Monday, January 05, 2026

thumbs up!

 


All black, you can call me Johnny Cash (Johnny Cash)

We Truly Are The Home Of The Wonderful Pig

Semies:

Miami (FL) -3.5 v Old Mist
Oregon v Indiana -4

Picks by Wednesday afternoon?
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Friday, January 02, 2026