m. r. sauter

today in my sophomore seminar we looked at Cory Arcangel and Wade Guyton and listened to Girl Talk and the class had some real "what do you mean you can just DO THAT" energy and it was so great

why do people in david mamet movies have such large notebooks

only thing bigger is the shoulder pads

i drafted the syllabus for my Critical Theory Approaches to AI grad seminar yesterday and i am excited for this class! im particularly excited about how many books from my floor piles i get to assign!

ooo i wonder if i can bully the undergrad film society into showing it in their big theater and then i can ruin a bunch more people's lives

i drafted the syllabus for my Critical Theory Approaches to AI grad seminar yesterday and i am excited for this class! im particularly excited about how many books from my floor piles i get to assign!

currently mildly preoccupied with why the "fonts" (lets call them font-facsimilies bc they're letter forms but not typefaces) always look slightly wrong in AI generated images. not garbled anymore, just wrong.

are there any fun long form articles about developments in freeze drying technology over the past two decades? asking for me because i want to know

man next go round im coming back as a food scientist they get all the cool toys. its like the large hadron collider but for mushrooms and little bits of cabbage

are there any fun long form articles about developments in freeze drying technology over the past two decades? asking for me because i want to know

this is so cool pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

i agree and disagree with Weatherby here. if the best was to understand LLMs is as genre-machines, then its productive to think about their actions as *genre-determined (and determining) through character action and speech* with the LLM and the user each taking one part in a genre-defined dyad.

thinking about given LLM-instances as *active performances of generic characters* (which i would argue requires anthropomorphizing language, like other forms of genre/discourse analysis with actors/actants) helps us anticipate and understand emergent behavior patterns.

UMD really hits above its weight for constantly showing up in the weirdest fucking places

one of the sophomores in my honors seminar has a younger sibling who is really into noise and i got her to ask them what artists they liked. they said "im not into noise anymore, now im into ✨screamviolence✨"

the entire agent querying process makes me want to just print up a hundred copies of my Sad Gay Novel and sell them out of the trunk of the car i dont have for five bucks a pop

ok i have finished typing for the day and i feel _quite_ stupid now but i did figure out that that same typewriter in 1976 typed two different documents at the same government agency which i promise is a thing that actually matters

now im putting ice cream on a warm chocolate croissant and i will have real dinner later.

what if i construct my next book project around the theme of "books i already own"

i also feel that a seminar constructed on the theme of "dr s picks one book per week at random from a stack on his office floor and now everyone has to read it" would be pretty fun