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Vintage internet, from an internet vampire. 🟨🟣🏳️⚧️
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There's an old parable about two AIs, one which cannot tell the truth, and another which cannot tell the truth.
First Sundar Pichai, now Tim Cook, both admitting that generative "AI," by dint of its very foundations (cf. "Bias Optimizers"), will not and cannot stop bullshitting (cf. "On Bullshit Engines"). futurism.com/the-byte/tim...
There's an old parable about two AIs, one which cannot tell the truth, and another which cannot tell the truth.
First Sundar Pichai, now Tim Cook, both admitting that generative "AI," by dint of its very foundations (cf. "Bias Optimizers"), will not and cannot stop bullshitting (cf. "On Bullshit Engines"). futurism.com/the-byte/tim...
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I see this postcard posted online a lot with "ca. 1910". Since she has a newspaper in her lap I thought maybe I could get a little more specific, so I went on a research binge and found it. It's a copy of Le Mirror from August, 1915. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
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The CAT was an acoustic coupler modem (pictured below). I think it's beautiful. 21st century modems look like a Google Nest. I think modems should look useful, like they might send you a picture of a cat. The CAT's peak bandwidth was 300 bits per second, or as we would say nowadays, 0.9 Cat/μcc
Oh, I almost forgot! Cat (Cat - binary digits) = 300 bits
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