Sunday reading. A long-form essay on the Rise and Fall of the Author. I won't hide the link today so it'll be shadow-banned across social media. Well, what else is new? Except that this should either be a book or heavily edited down. So it goes.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_project
The Rise and Fall of the Author - varnelis.net Šiandien sugebėjom sūnui atidaryti sąskaitą Švedbankio skyriuje nesutikę, kad siuntinėtų naujienlaiškius.
The Library of All Plagiarized Books, Google Imagefx, 2025In Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Menard undertakes what appears to be an impossible, even insane, task: recreating, word for word, “the ninth and thirty-eighth chapters of the first part of Don Quixote and a fragment of chapter twenty-two.” Menard ... @emilis@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-19 17:05:04
Etapai buvo tokie (apytiksliai iš atminties):
1. "Čia reikia pasirašyti kokiais kontaktais siųstų pranešimus, jei būtų reikalas – pvz. dokumentą man ant stalo pamiršit."
– Ne marketingas?
– "Ne".
2. Duoda sutartį, kur pažymėta varnelė prie "teisėti interesai" ir detalizuota, kad siųsti sveikinimus, kvietimus į renginius ir naujien…
Ablösefreier Wechsel - Altach holt Ex-Rapidler zurück nach Österreich #News #Nachrichten
$\mathrm{^{117m}Sn}$ and $\mathrm{^{119m}Te}$ Production via Proton Bombardment on Natural Antimony and Implications for Modeling Charged Particle Reactions
Catherine E. Apgar, Andrew S. Voyles, Jon C. Batchelder, Cathy S. Cutler, Morgan B. Fox, Yun-Hsuan Lee, Dmitri G. Medvedev, Jonathan T. Morrell, Ellen M. O'Brien, Michael Skulski, C. Etienne Vermeulen, Lee A. Bernstein
Serre's question on thin sets in projective space
Tijs Buggenhout, Raf Cluckers, Tim Santens, Floris Vermeulen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13471 https:/…
Breaking: #Wärmepumpe als Kältepumpe
Das hat die Ampel uns natürlich wieder verheimlicht 🙃 🤡
Sooo macht das dann schon Sinn! ☝️🤓
#Klima #Klimakrise
A preview of Monday’s post in case you need a distraction from the state of the world.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-generative-turn-on-ais-as-stochastic-parrots-and-art/
The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art - varnelis.net
Kazys Varnelis, Stochastic Parrots, 2025.Large Language Model (LLM)-based Artificial Intelligences have been derided for hallucinating—a topic that I addressed in my last essay, “The New Surrealism. On AI and Hallucinations,”—and labeled “stochastic parrots,” supposedly incapable of generating authentic meaning beyond remixed texts. Coined by researcher Emily Bender and her colleagues, the term “stochastic parrots” describes ... @heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-06-05 15:34:00
Soderle, und hier haben wir nun auch noch die kumulative Grafik mit der Anzahl der Balkonkraftwerke.
Hab noch den Endpunkt rangebastelt, damit man die Summe sieht.
Von der diese Woche vermeldeten Million sind wir zumindest offiziell noch etwas entfernt, wobei Sebastian ja von einer hohen Dunkelziffer ausgeht.
Wieso haben wir eigentlich eine Dunkelziffer? Faulheit? Ungenehmigt?
#Balkonkraftwerke