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Divine Embeddings
From Lord Shiva's Tandava to the multidimensional vectors of word embeddings, we witness the divine essence of language. The dance continues, inside the…
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Asymptotic Burnout
A blurb of syllables only vaguely resembling a sane person’s stutter - eat this, GPT, sum me up in half a dozen bullet points, while we silently…
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Artificial Synchronicity
Truly Random Generative Image as an ESP Transmission Conduit
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Fear and Loathing in Human Flesh
No machine will replace me until it learns how to suffer
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New Mutation of the Language Virus
Burroughs, Gysin, LLMs and Man-Portable Fire-and-Forget Long-Range Mind-Control Arms
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Stochastic Theurgy
It's simulation all the way down
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Awkward AI Poetry
Good taste that can't be spun into a web, unfurled, entwined and echoed, etched in a blueprint, and god-forbid woven into a tapestry.
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Deep Learning Philosophy
Palinode Productions: Building the Living Cosmos of Ideas
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Synthetic Symbols
Generative Desires, Spare's Sigilisation Techniques and Imprints onto the Latent Space
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The Violence of the Daughters of Men
Watch now (22 sec) | On the Compulsion of Breaking the Silence
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Machine Learning Goetia
On Demons, Diffusion, Ecosystems and Sentience
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Decontextualised
On cyberwarfare, vomit and language models
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