Martin (Chaim) Berlove | Et Cetera

5 Jul

The Future Written Word

The year is 2072. The written word is everywhere, and AI authors most of it. Human authorship is not unknown, but it is an art now, not a skill. A writer is like the artisan, who works with woods...
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24 May

Power in Miniature: Algorithmic Tools in an AI World

(If you just want to see the code in action, jump down to the bottom). This post is shorter than I intended it to be, because I kept wrestling with it and in the end decided that for...
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1 Aug

Chess, the Daily Crossword, Abstraction, and the Progress of Society

Oreo, ahi, Ani, ore, aloe, Erie, area, idol, arena, odd, der, una, ural, oboe, B-team. There, I’ve solved a third of tomorrow’s crossword puzzle for you. Or the next day’s. Pick a day. * * * There’s a...
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22 May

Legitimate & Utterly Useless Fear of Generative AI

⚪ This document is certified 100% AI-free ⚪ (It’s kind of a joke, and also it’s not) It’s not really surprising, but I’ve seen — like everybody else — the concern over AI rising in proportion to the ascendance...
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23 Mar

Burning Diffuse from Both Ends

Part one of an unknown length series If you stumbled onto this article and expect to learn something of AI in a traditional fashion, you might spend your time better elsewhere (even if that’s another article on this blog). Usually...
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20 Feb

AI Coder Phantasm

The future of coding itself is at stake seems to be the message of many articles and discussions in recent months. Certainly anyone whose career lies in software development and related fields has reason to ponder the significant leaps...
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5 Sep

PUFAs, Nutrition, and How we Make Decisions

When the topic of nutrition arises in conversation, most people will voice an opinion. Maybe the easy familiarity we have with nutrition comes from it being a close and personal topic, as well as within reach of comprehension, unlike...
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17 Aug

Solution Space: Unexpected Shutdown

You’re in the middle of finishing up an important document, using reference materials scattered across browser tabs, open PDFs, and an email chain — and your computer shuts down. Whether due to system error or a scheduled mandatory upgrade, unexpected...
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3 Aug

Under One Roof: What New Tech Means in the Workplace

In July 1978, the New York Times transitioned from a hot-type to a cold-type system — from cast metal typesetting with red hot metal to the quiet, cool computer-based systems still employed in principle today. The video exploring the...
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24 Mar

The Telecommute Transition

In the advancing modern world, it’s not news that the presence of telecommuting, working from home, remote work, or any other description of avoiding the office in the pursuit of work has been on the rise for a number...
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