Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org

It should be lost on noone that this fantastic presentation on one of the most important and advanced #AI topics that we're dealing with today, begins with the inability to get a slideshow to work.

We focus on the wrong things sometimes.

https://youtu.be/wuU-5rGPbyg

@jasongorman As soon as you posed the question, I didn't even hesitate before thinking "The Developers". Ridiculous that it's not an option.

Fantastic look at the present state of #AI and what we're missing. (Behind a paywall, unfortunately).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-gary-marcus.html?smid=url-share

@dk@23.illuminati.org
Awesome. Thanks for the recommendation!

I've pledged to read 18 books for the Goodreads 2023 Reading Challenge.

https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/41665876

Anyone read "Human Compatible"? It's on my 2023 list but is it worth my time? I am a slow reader. #books #ai

The Medium news is cool but it's already being misrepresented as though they brought Medium into Fediverse compliance. They have not. They set up an instance of Mastodon -- same has thousands of other users have. That's important because if they *did* decide to make Medium ActivityPub compliant, like PixelFed, FunkWhale etc. that would be HUGE news.

Elon right now: "There's a Singapore office? Why didn't anyone tell me!"

"Sir, you fired the local Asia rep."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/twitter-orders-workers-asia-hq-050942215.html?guccounter=1

Me at the office: "Hi, have you got a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, Semantic Web?"

If someone purchased a self-help book called "Overcoming Perfectionism" -- isn't that an indicator of a sort of narcism?

Say it with me:

"No agenda. No attenda."

A scientist behind an actual science-based research program into Happiness weighs in on what they've determined so far about what makes us happy. SPOILER: There are no surprises.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/10/1148210611/whats-the-1-thing-to-change-to-be-happier-a-top-happiness-researcher-weighs-in

The Banshees of Inisherin: Great movie -- very entertaining, moving and with great performances. But what are the writer and director trying to say? If there's a message, I am not sure I received it.

This is good for your soul on a Tuesday. #music #acoustic #guitar

https://youtu.be/1JYjcwW9MmM

Our IPA Will Jam Your Face with Hops - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

"...perhaps you don’t have the guts to drink an octuple-IPA that’s caustic grains are mashed over actual lava sourced from Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano while loudspeakers crank out Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” on a loop inside an abandoned underground nuclear testing site."

#reading #comedy

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-ipa-will-jam-your-face-with-hops

@foolishowl I can't believe I've never heard of this. It looks like a great recommendation. Thanks!