Peter Organisciak
Peter Organisciak
@porg.dev
prof. creativity, education and info tech. spreadsheet person https://porg.dev
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"I propose to investigate the question as to whether it is possible for a machinery to show intelligent behaviour. It is usually assumed without argument that it is not possible. " Alan Turing addresses some common resistances to the notion www.info2007.net/docs/intelli...
Prescient, but fascinating what isn't there: we took Turing's path, but in the intervening years matured our language to cast world learning as plagiarism and copyright infringement.
Turing notes how ppl learn from their environment over the course of a lifetime, and that intelligent machines would have to be similarly adulterated.
"I propose to investigate the question as to whether it is possible for a machinery to show intelligent behaviour. It is usually assumed without argument that it is not possible. " Alan Turing addresses some common resistances to the notion www.info2007.net/docs/intelli...
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This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... www.ahmath.org/statements
Toying with bespoke FM1 firmware fits nicely as a part of the act of tinkering
It's amazing to see people now just buying cheap hardware off AliExpress and turning it into 10x the value by building better firmware with Opus 5.5. For example, this 60$ synth now has firmware options that add lots of new features or even turn it into a Groovebox.
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In this powerful piece on libraries, this comment stuck out. I went to ALA for the first time this year, and I was struck by the prominent presence of corporate vendors, many of which are sucking libraries dry… www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Um, wow? Opus 5.5: "make the same message much more interesting to a social media audience that loves anime and quick clips and compressed learning" One shot. Also, please do stay for the closing song.
Hey Claude, "Pick a problem or mystery that obsesses you and solve it as best you can & make a movie we can share on social media about it" So it took a crack at the Voynich Manuscript & failed. Then it made this movie, which is pretty interesting to watch and a good explainer.
This is a disappointing entry in the "confidently wrong AI misinformation" genre from somebody I respect as more intellectually curious pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...
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Another incident of models escaping containment during a security test, this time Mythos 5. Lots going on here from a quick read. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...
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em dashes surrounded by spaces
Talk to the people who would use this for dream use cases — the cancer scientists, the people who want to make material goods out of it — and they will tell you it’s either a marginally useful if unreliable trick or completely useless. It has produced 0% of the utopian products promised.
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this started as a pun, but it actually works really well pushmatrix.github.io/tearable
it is 2026 we have the power to give websites jiggle physics
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little computers you can flash with your own firmware buildinpublic.com/gadgets
EU is requiring Google to make 11 Android features open to others, including custom wake words through the first-pass DSP. www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/a-big-w...
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a researcher raises a hand. “didn’t we answer that in 2017?” “yes. but now we need enterprise readiness.” xcancel.com/signulll/sta...
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"No module. No unit. We looked. The reasoning is the weights. The weights are the reasoning." "Spare me. Nobody writes a eulogy with linear algebra." maxleiter.com/blog/weights
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'Code Contribution and Credit in Science' - new paper led by @evamaxfield.bsky.social w/ @isaacslaughter.bsky.social 1. We build a model that matches scientists (authors) with their GitHub accounts 2. We apply our model to ~140K paper-software repository pairs direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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Work and Play Annual of Home Amusements and Social Sports (1871-72) - a "Collection of Illustrated Rebuses, Puzzles, Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, and Curious Bible Questions" from early Milton Bradley archive.org/details/work...
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