AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes – Schneier on Security
Bruce presents a nice analysis on how AI mistakes are different.
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The leading AI models are now good historians
https://open.substack.com/pub/resobscura/p/the-leading-ai-models-are-now-very
Benjamin Breen reviews OpenAI and Claude for historical analysis at a higher-education level and finds they do a pretty good job!
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Digitising analogue video tapes
Chris Person describes the process and tools used to digitise analogue video tapes, and the problems with encoding noise in low-bit rates.
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants – kottke.org
Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants [1996] – RF Rip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Includes recipes for Vapoursynth and QTGMS for de-interlacing.
The Person Saving The Media You Love Is You – Aftermath
Jason Scott (@textfiles.com) — Bluesky
Domesday duplicator – RF sampler capture for analogue digitisation
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Gregory Bateson – Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Why Gregory Bateson Matters – by Ted Gioia
Once married to Margaet Mead — any relevance to MFA archive?
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Gratitude to Ukraine
Gratitude to Ukraine (2024) – by Timothy Snyder
An essay about Ukraine’s efforts to resist Russia’s invasion and its contribution to geo-political movements.
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Waiting for Takeoff – The short-term impact of AI adoption on firm productivity
Waiting for Takeoff: The short-term impact of AI adoption on firm productivity – The Dais from Toronto University.
Unfortunately, the research wasn’t able to include the impact of OpenAI’s ChatGPT launch in 2022 which kicked off the AI arms race between the big tech companies.
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Google releases AI Gemini 2.0 with audio and video input streaming
Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode
OpenAI not far behind with their streaming APIs either.