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Peter Tillman's avatar

Thanks for this. A Big Deal, indeed!

Random quote from (I hope still) your SO. From rass, likely, ages ago.

"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?"

--Marilyn Pittman/ Kate Nepveu

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

I wonder if A.I. did any better if it were asked to render an image of a particular type of clock escapement...

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Chad Orzel's avatar

I'm just using a generator that's built into the Substack back end, and is probably a couple of versions behind whatever the state of the art is. I also don't try very hard to refine its output, because I kind of like the absurdity of a lot of the stuff it generates.

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

Yes, I got the sense you use A.I. to generate these absurdist images, which is the only way I like to see it used...

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mike harper's avatar

Damn!!! I glanced at a post about super fast "photography" with awesome huge frames per second. It fits with super precise time keeping. I can't remember if it was laser or X-ray.

I should have saved the link.

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Chad Orzel's avatar

Probably an attosecond laser pulse which sometimes push into the soft x-ray regime.

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