Low-background steel - Wikipedia

tl;dr: a campaign set up for touring the planes with a drop-in, drop-out table Starting from a place where: - opportunities to travel the s...

Web-scraped training post-2022 is increasingly poisoned. Human writing is down. The importance of human writing is up. You should write more.

The web-scraping arm race continues

I’ve always wondered what it would have been like to live in the early years of the last century, while relativity and quantum physics were rewriting what we thought possible. My not-so-original take: we are in an analogous situation now. Our world is going to change in ways we can hardly imagine. The following notes are some of those ways. Low background text Some specialized particle detectors need metal without any trace of radiation. The problem is that any metallurgic product fabricated after the Second World War is contaminated. Scientists are then forced to recover steel and other metals from underwater shipwrecks, where the water above shielded the metal from radiation. All this preamble to say that LLMs have contaminated all the available text in the world, a language fallout of sorts. Scientists will need to recover as much text as possible produced before the advent of ChatGPT to have a realistic view of what human language really is.

Pagan Wanderer Lu's released a cover album of his own music, where the cover artist is... AI. Some of the songs have come out quite well, and it gives me cognitive dissonance to enjoy art while disliking what its process represents.

Somehow I forgot to blog my site: https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/ . I created it back in March 2023 as a clearinghouse for online resources t...

Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

A few years back, I was an avid reader of long distance electric vehicle road trip reports. It seemed like the people making them were intrepid pioneers in a new era of transportation. Well here's my slightly belated contribution to the genre. The route was based on a trip I took with my wife in August 2003. We stopped at Loch Ness first, then went up the east coast, decided to do a day trip to Orkney from John O'Groats, then back along the north and down the west coast.