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2s’Day — 3.3.26

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in two parts– from the Hermitage, but not about it .

Béla Tarr (21 July 1955 – 6 January 2026, 70y). Tarr was a critic of nationalism. In a 2016 interview said, “Trump is the shame of the United States. Mr. Orbán is the shame of Hungary. Marine Le Pen is the shame of France. Et cetera.”[ — wikip.]

he said his films had been misunderstood: “My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.” He added that they were not pessimistic. “I only ask this – how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger.” — guardian, 2024.

Tarr tempts me to open a roll of film… to modify my current table.. however, my self powered life demands I walk my path with sideward glances to others, many others.

There are several YTubes… this is one I saved —

https://youtu.be/ywrR1jLBZaU?si=dWJNXRZMieyRGmjn

or, more –=> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrCVhnuMcIF13XnjLDqylpbStRWAVVB9&si=CoJyPLyGSRM-SpVK

Notes about topics, timings, temptations... daily, I ask myself the simple question of why. It is answered but remains, recurs daily. As if the question is more important than any answer… any found answer. So to the curious, I will be marking posts as PHO or NOPH in the “excerpt” sent out into the netiverse. Also, some remarks on remakes, etc will have an image something like:

winterizing AI

Posted on Posted in babl, big bits, meaning, minimum daily requirement, Valley Hi

Since last November I have been aggressively reading about and testing AI systems in familiar topics. in the months since November I’ve read ,on average, seven articles a day … These have resulted in several static pages along with a dozen draft posts ..time for a marker..

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.H.P. Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulhu

THIS

the types of queries i’ve posed are about details of silicon valley as business and social model. additionally, i have asked for code snippets. these they provide readily… even being able to translate cross languges, with one suprising failure: mistaking dartmouth basic as the DART language.

none of the models correctly answered chem questions from this bank of texts.

photochem old standard:

  • Glafkides, P., “Photographic Chemistry”, 
  • James, T. H., “The Theory Of The Photographic Process”, 
  • Neblette, C.B., “Photography:Its Principles And Practices”,
  • Nietz, A. H., “The Theory of Development”,
  • The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 3rd edition and 4th edition. Volume #6, Color photography
  • Haist ”Modem Photographic Processing” 

software engineers have been able to engineer an assistant . And it delivers conversation as though it were in a Sand Hill meeting . The enthusiasm amongst the programming and SWE community is increasingly joyous … they will be able to eliminate low level jobs .. They also Believe they will be able to eliminate all of those jobs that they never understood and never liked .. HR and marketing ..

it can code because the compiler error checks .. those fields without intermediate verification systems are subject to failure of vocabulary — it sounds good..

AI is right now the child of Silicon Valley– The silicon valley of the internet age — electrons on clouds. Fantasy of the 40s …

The avalanche has occurred … clawbots drive mac mini sales… 3 weeks agp the claw popped onto swe dashboatds.

AI winter watch: 11.25 -> 2.26

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