Specially when there’s new artworks to see. See it all on my gallery.
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The future is no Terminator, is Marvin
After reading this wonderful article from Ars Technica saying that chatGPT has end-of-the-year blues this is all I can think about:
The future won’t have Skynet, the robots will become human and spend the day watching South Korea soap operas on Netflix.
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Science!
-Probability engine?
-IMprobability Engine!
-What?
-Like this: You use probability to travel. The less likely it is that you’ll be in a certain place right now, the quicker you’ll get there! They even wrote a book about the concept.
-That was a comedy with science fiction as a backdrop. With a robotic Italian cantina as the engine center.
-Yes, but the fundamental idea has been launched. Remember that science fiction has always been the basis for today’s reality.
-Okay, but this? How do you expect to get CLOSE to building something like this?
-Simple. I sit and wait.
-WAT?
-For real. I even thought about building a system based on probabilistic calculations for bingo and lotteries contained in a magnetic field, but I realized that it would be much more practical to sit and wait. After all, the engine runs with probability, right? The less likely an event is to occur, the closer it is. The probability of him appearing nearby is very small, which will bring him to me more quickly. Simple.
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-That’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard in my life.
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“Just stop it and put our car’s engine back!”, screamed Angela. Jeff, happy as ever, didn’t care. “This is science, woman!”
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Francis Bacon, the artist
(…) people are less vain of their personalities than they are of their work. They feel in an odd way, I think, that they’re not irrevocably committed to their personality, that they can work on it and change it, whereas the work that has gone out – nothing can be done about it. But l’ve always hoped to find another painter l could really talk to – somebody whose qualities and sensibility I’d really believe in – who really tore my things to bits and whose judgement I could actually believe in. (…) I think it would be marvellous to have somebody who would say to you, “Do this, do that, don’t do this, don’t do that!” and give you the reasons. I think it would be very helpful
From the book The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon, by David Sylvester
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O livro está na mesa
The blog is now bilingual! Down there, on the left, you’ll find a selector to change the language from english to portuguese. The translations won’t be done with Google anymore, I’ll rewrite each post to english so the expressions will be more comprehensible on each language. It will be a good exercise too, to write properly in english is hard! Expect mistakes that will be corrected with time.