Sounds interesting. Glad those topics are still being investigated. So important to remember that even those neural methods labored for decades in the shadows before they finally found the answers they needed.

I personally agree. But if I pay for the cheapest option ahead of time, it hits different than a loved one deciding on the cheapest option for me, especially if they are grieving and a salesperson is offering them a range of options. Also, some people just want a big funeral for their own emotional reasons I dunno.

“discrete AI” (probably has a few other names)

• symbolic AI
• traditional AI
• GOFAI (good old fashioned) AI

Kinda sounds like you’re talking about Explainable AI too. Very interesting set of fields, but I’m pretty sure they’re all having funding problems too.

But wat if you’re indoors and have limited room for maneuver?

great (and brief) article.

there is “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”

lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.

The idea is that you figure all that stuff out for yourself beforehand, so your grieving family doesn’t have to make a lot of quick decisions.

Elsewhere in a comment someone mentioned Passport Cards. iirc they’re only valid for travel to Mexico and Canada, but they are proofs of citizenship, and you can have a card as well as a passport.

There was a sumo wrestler who would do something similar, except he’d bounce up and down and grasp with his hands…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8RuUVwAbmDg

The tournament organizers made him quit doing it tho…

What are ya, vegans? Real Men sip crude, just like God intended.

no one has cared since record executives have been generating AI generated tier music by hand.

Reminds me of this NYT video about how a pop song is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAv5AiBRgY

At the beginning, a musician at a keyboard composes the basic tune. Then a whole series of MFers overproduce it to hell. At the end, the original musician happens to meet the singer who did the human part of the final rendering and is the “star” who everybody watches perform. In a better day, the original musician would be the star, but in this process they are insignificant.

FIFA put the full game on youtube, btw (availability may vary by country): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sbfskaTDQ

The beatdown starts around here: https://youtu.be/L6sbfskaTDQ?t=1453

I’m pretty sure the article is at least mildly ironic. I don’t think he literally believes that “nobody cares if music is real any more.” Towards the end he talks about how AI music is not really art, and it lulls you into oblivion. The writer’s a legit scholar with an academic interest in video games, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost

• Naked Lunch soundtrack
• Eraserhead soundtrack (especially side B)
• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts

kinda like an… opium? …of the masses?

Anime pillow gets the mattress.

To tie the bag shut, ofc.

Hispanics of any race grew to just over 65 million, an increase of 1.16 million (1.8%) from the prior year.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/population-estimates-characteristics.html

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Game on the couch til I pass out. Wake up halfway thru the night, throw self on the mattress, shedding clothes til I’m comfortable. (varies by time of year)