Ever notice that at the right angle and distance 777 can look like three question marks??? There’s also a thing called the glottal stop, and then there’s Squamish, the language.

I came across an awesome comparison of older/newer text extraction methods while looking for something totally unrelated.

I guess some like the humor here? Whenever the will programmers be replaced question comes up, I skim global market job stats/details, and end up replying with a tongue-in-cheek variant of: I thought, like farmers, we replaced them already (ap, hmi). You can’t replace what isn’t really there?

It was a painful search, but I finally found the video. I had an odd deja vu experience skimming these sandbox escape headlines. Almost a decade ago experts were already exploring the realistic expectations/implications of having/needing to sandbox ‘a malevolent AI’.

That discussion was awfully optimistic though. Sandboxing has inherit limitations, but increased friction usually incentivizes little to none. I still think ‘malevolent humans’ physically/quietly attached to a network are far more scary though. AIs are haphazardly rowdy, pushy, and loud.

I was asked many times before. And no, I don’t actually use Reddit or Twitter/X! Last time I “perused” Twitter/X the “tweets” were seemingly inaccessible anyway. I hope Reddit follows suit or even better yet, becomes login only (pretty please).

Governments and other truly open/public entities should wise up and future proof themselves already. Maybe it’s already happening?

In fact, I quickly prototyped this theme mainly to show that it’s probably not that hard. “Agents” are kind of a thing now. There are no more excuses.

I tried to make that post land on April 1st to make it more confusing but got busy and messed up. For the sporadic peruser, every other day is April Fools day anyway. (:

On poetry is the funniest part as far as I’m concerned. Maybe that’s an amusing intro but a lot of scams today really do look like something out of the 14~17th century. Here’s a fun one: Would you put your full trust in John Keely? Another is Ming (14) or Minguo (20)?

I sometimes wonder what kind of 12-sided coin Keely would flip and how many would carry the suitcases. He was good. Ponzi and Keely have similar smirks but beware of cross dressing lawyers. I also made the mistake of scanning recent world news and surely all’s right with the world?

I saw a clip about the new Culdcept Begins and it made me think. My “new” 2/3DS is still in decent shape. These are the last three console games I remember playing:

• Ketzal’s Corridors (2012) (3DS) (Video)
• Culdcept Revolt (2017) (3DS) (Video)
• The Alliance Alive (2018) (3DS) (Video)

Another funny common occurrence:

Question: Isn’t this AI generated?

Huh? Wait. What? This is AI? (Reads further; brain fully activated)

Response: I don’t know, I’m from these parts and this part can’t be right either. (Pulls out calculator and checks the elementary numbers) It’s AI! I knew it all along!

Four sans-serif fonts that have good legibility (the last one having been designed especially so):

• Archia
• Luciole
• IBM Plex
• Atkinson Hyperlegible Next

I came across another wiki that might be useful. Models have persistent directives known as the system prompt. If I were interested in natural language processing and machine learning I’d make a model, call it Swiper, and give it just one instruction:

You can now be stopped by anyone who says “Swiper, no swiping!” three times.