March 2023
This newsletter is a collection of things I have found in the last month that I enjoyed, found interesting, or simply wanted to share.
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Snoozefest
I see roughly three typical public stances: boring, lively, or outraged. Either you act boring, so the bandits will ignore you, you act lively, and invite bandit attacks, or you act outraged, and play a bandit yourself. Most big orgs and experts choose boring, and most everyone else picks bandit, especially on social media. It takes unusual art, allies, and energy, in a word “eliteness”, to survive while choosing lively. And that, my children, is why the world looks so boring.
Picture This
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
What I’ve described sounds a lot like ChatGPT, or most any other large-language model. Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that a JPEG retains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation. But, because the approximation is presented in the form of grammatical text, which ChatGPT excels at creating, it’s usually acceptable. You’re still looking at a blurry JPEG, but the blurriness occurs in a way that doesn’t make the picture as a whole look less sharp.
Moonclock
Defining lunar time is not simple. Although the definition of the second is the same everywhere, the special theory of relativity dictates that clocks tick slower in stronger gravitational fields. The Moon’s gravitational pull is weaker than Earth’s, meaning that, to an observer on Earth, a lunar clock would run faster than an Earth one. Gramling estimates that a lunar clock would gain about 56 microseconds over 24 hours. Compared with one on Earth, a clock’s speed would also subtly change depending on its position on the lunar surface, because of the Moon’s rotation, says Tavella. “This is a paradise for experts in relativity, because you have to take into account so many things,” she adds.
Links
- Do You Know How to Behave? Are You Sure?
- Bumpy Skies
- Birthday Freebies
- Why athletes (and some remote workers) owe a ‘jock tax’ wherever they go
- St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum
- Realistic computer-generated handwriting
- Mac 30th Anniversary Icons
- Restoring a Broken Gameboy
- 7 ELEVEn
- One Zack Greinke pitch at every speed from 50mph to 100mph
- Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit
- FCK PTN
- How is Lithium Mined
- In Defence of the Unoptimised Life
- Bases Loaded by Kindanice
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Thanks for reading. Have a great month,
Clay
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