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The code isn't always lines and logic. Sometimes, it feels heavy. Sometimes, it feels magnetic. ​

(Issue 46 — Part I of III)

Brain Kludge: How machine learning hacked backwards into an almost-fundamental mechanic of general and human cognition, or:

Flowing Chunks: How AI token generation is just like the human phenomena we call chunking and predictive processing by

“We must draw our standards from the natural world. We must honor with the humility of the wise the bounds of that natural world and the mystery which lies beyond them, admitting that there is something in the order of being which evidently exceeds all our competence.”

—VÁCLAV HAVEL, president of the Czech Republic

nicos build a sandcastle.

After cleaning the outworld of my most messy ants Camponotus nicobarensis* I washed their nasty sand and gave it back to them in a big pile not expecting much.  But look at the lovely sandcastles they have made! I’m so proud of them. I wonder if I should give them some clay so they could design their own nest? They have FOUR nests and they are packed. The two outworlds are packed. I've stopped giving them as much food but they won't quit growing.