20230521

“Tiny things take on significance when I’m away from home. I’m on the alert for omens. Odd things happen when you get out…”
—Charles Portis, The Dog of the South

• Us: On reading. Burning natural capital. Uranus moons have liquid water. Storytelling 101. Taxonomy of procrastination. UK web surveillance. Andy Warhole ruled as copyright infringement. Why is my dryer radioactive? 1m users cancel broadband subscription (cost of life).

• AI: Niche vs generalized. Palantir using AI to fight wars - scary. LLM and defence. HN thread to watch - internal use of GPT. AI & religion? Licenses to build AI. Digital assistants.

• Tech: Engineers optimization. AI-powered modelling-related startups. Google trusts open-source for LLMs, but worries about bad uses for AI. Models to assess GPT startups. Hacking a A-bomb in the 60s. Still no good news for opensource in EU CyberResilience act.

• DIY: KG & Embeddings. LLMs 101. LangChain agents. Radioactive data tracing and ethics [PDF].

• Done: Dragons of light (Orson Card & al). Dreaming jewels. 1887’s Xipehuz. First person singular.

  

  Rhizome (D&G)