ristoid @ristoid@qoto.org

Automated translation services have improved quite a bit the last ten years or so. Before, you could use them creatively as in a whispering game, translating back and forth between different languages, and gradually the share of nonsense would increase because of unfortunate choices along the way. Now, it seems, while this process still introduces some slippages of meaning, the translations remain quite close to the original for several stages. Translations across languages of the indo-european and east asian groups, or other unrelated language groups, is probably the best way to introduce creative errors.

Also, starting from a nonsensical text, the translation process gradually stabilises on something that makes more and more sense, perhaps because more conventional phrases are selected at each turn.

Exhibit A
The purpose of making them work-shy is not to actually keep them idle. Instead, the goal is to create highly realistic models, where the focus is not on making them avoid work, but rather on achieving a high level of authenticity in their representation. This means that the intention is not to promote laziness, but rather to ensure that the models are as convincing and true to life as possible.

Exhibit B
Le but de les rendre timides au travail n’est pas de les garder inactifs. Au lieu de cela, l’objectif est de créer des modèles très réalistes, où l’accent n’est pas mis sur leur éviter le travail, mais plutôt sur la réalisation d’un haut niveau d’authenticité dans leur représentation. Cela signifie que l’intention n’est pas de promouvoir la paresse, mais plutôt de s’assurer que les modèles sont aussi convaincants et fidèles à la vie que possible.

The original of this quote was created by using the search-and-replace function and replacing words and expressions with something completely unrelated. This causes the text to retain a certain coherence through all its whimsical nonsense.

The Needle's Haystack is where I discuss art, mostly contemporary art and its theories. In the latest post I delve into uses of perspective, including in sculpture, photography, and anamorphic art. The convenience of bringing a camera with you everywhere seems to have had a deep influence on art, and perhaps on painting in particular. We don't have to try to remember scenes and reconstruct them from our far from perfect memories.

https://ristoid.substack.com/p/perspectives-and-projections

Peptalk also says:

You could visit a scapegoat for a moment.

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https://oberdada.pollux.casa/peptalk.gmi

The source code is available if you want to compile the oracle for your own use. It's not supposed to act like a content producer for online posting, aka bot, so I'll probably stop quoting it from now on.

For those of poor sight, yes. For the rest of us, I'm afraid there are some who agree with this, but personally I don't like my interfaces to make sounds as communicative signals, partly because I work with sound a good deal of the time, and partly because it is disturbing. Nor am I willing to raise my voice to communicate with a machine. With animals, yes, because the interchange with a conscious being may always be worthwhile.

Things already make sounds when there's a reason for it, indexical sounds such as the speeding fan of the laptop indicating some process making heavy use of the processor, or the noise of a boiling kettle of water which indicates when the temperature is about right, if you pay attention to it. Those naturally occuring "interfaces" are quite enough for me.

Peptalk says:
"Today's message: Use internationalisation and pretend
it wasn't you."

Five years have past since last time I was here and I suspect there has been an influx of users. Meanwhile I've settled more on the smolweb and gemini. Anyone here using it?

You find me at:
gemini://oberdada.pollux.casa/
also mirrored on the web.

Two new tracks from an upcoming album.

https://soundcloud.com/oberdada-1/remember-opsec-excerpt

https://soundcloud.com/oberdada-1/novichok

As for academic publishing, I hope you support this initiative for open access:
https://www.coalition-s.org/
Being an ex-academic myself I have not failed to notice how locked-in much research is. Post your pre-print to an archive and make your results useful to the larger society!

Min roman Skrapan kommer ut nu i dagarna!
https://ristoid.net/skrapan.html

Hello World!

I'm not a programmer, nor do I come from twitter, so forgive me if I find no use for the hashtag here (I only use it when talking to the preprocessor). However, this is an

introduction.

I'm a composer, but I also do animations, relief prints and some writing. Curiosity brought me here, and possibly also the promise of being able to post equations should I ever need to.