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Tout le monde déteste l'IA
I saw this image in a post on Brian Merchant’s Blood In The Machine.
Tools for browsing the web
In spite of everything, I still believe in the promise of the Web. I believe hypertext is a deeply expressive medium. I believe we can make the Web we want, and in fact that most of the Web we want is actually out there if you look for it.
I’ve started a list of tools I think are essential for using the Web nowadays. I’ll keep the list updated from time to time as I think of them or discover new ones.
Light pillars and sky roads
From the archives of the lovely BLDG BLOG, I found this description of how networks of streetlights can be naturally projected into the sky, tracing out the street map in which the observer stands.
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See also: this phenomenon whereby an observer’s shadow is cast as a haloed ghost onto the horizon.
New paper: Modelling implicit bias in gender–career associations: a systematic comparison of language models
A paper I co-authored has recently been published in the journal of Information Processing and Management, on the topic of the gender–career implicit bias.
Site update
You may have noticed that I’ve not posted here in (*blows dust off the last post to check the date*) about three and a half years.
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(For the ≤1 people who will appreciate this stupid thing I made.)
New paper in Behavior Research Methods: Sensorimotor distance: A grounded measure of semantic similarity for 800 million concept pairs
A paper I co-authored with Professor Louise Connell as just been published in the journal Behavior Research Methods. I previously mentioned the preprint, and you can read more about the content of the paper on that post.
As usual, it should be open-access, otherwise there’s a copy over here.
New paper in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience: Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition
A paper on which I am joint-first author, which I previously posted here as a preprint, has just (after a long time!) been published in the journal Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
It should be open-access, but if for some reason you can’t see it properly there, I can give you a copy.
Sharpest smoke kitchen knife in the world
Youtube channel Kiwami Japan has made a pure artform out of creating the same video again and again. In each, the silent protagonist creates a kitchen knife, from scratch, from an unconventional material. Here’s one made of smoke.
If you watch more than one, while the basic premiss is the same every time, they kind of subtly join together part ASMR, part unfolding surrealist world-building.
Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures)
“Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures)”
Mike Fleming, 2014.