sudo rm -rf / sapere aude!

Philosophy | Artificial Intelligence | etcetera

Engrams are memory traces.
Learn more at /about.
/etc contains static content such as a short c.v.
Short notes at /microblog.
Add your own name to /authors.
Subscribe to the RSS feed!

Engrams

Deepfakes and democracy: a case for technological mediation

Introduction Recent successes in the production of so-called “deep fakes” sparked both the imagination and the fears of many. The word “deepfake” is a contraction of “deep learning” and “fake”, indicating the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to synthesize images and videos that are not real, while simultaneously not or barely being recognizable …
Read more

Book review: Van der Heiden - The Truth (and Untruth) of Language

Het merkteken van ongenade (Dutch)

Friendship, death, and writing in Michel de Montaigne's Essays

Two methods for exporting EPUB annotations (.annot)

Dynamic BibTeX bibliography paths with spaces

See archives for more ...

Tag roulette

philosophy deepfake democracy technology hermeneutics heidegger derrida ricoeur book review literature coetzee south-africa friendship death writing michel de montaigne epub annotations workflow python latex bibtex bibliography indieweb brid.gy webmention.io indieauth microformats2 big data spark programming hackaton recommender docker ai ethics automation blog essay logic implication paradox autonomous vehicle machine morality hack ransomware war terrorism cyber security portrait digital art google pagerank holism emergence ontology morton phenomenology privacy identity website theme etc staticman raspberry pi github netlify comments lambda dictionary cli neomutt email rice encryption pgp gpg vim text editing efficiency web scraping beautifulsoup intimacy reve theology markdown pandoc linux object orientation design pattern observer strategy probability monte carlo courses tmux ssh partner complexity p np arch diy example

Micros

The Web of Alexandria (follow-up)

📖 http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/2.html

↬ “The web is a single, increasingly complex infrastructure which has been adopted for mutually incompatible purposes.”

Adactio: Journal—Web! What is it good for?

📖 https://adactio.com/journal/9016?skin=default

↬

“What if the fundamental differences lie deeper than the technical implementation? What if the web is suited to some things more than others, not because of technical limitations, but because of philosophical mismatches?”

“The web has no gatekeepers. The web has no quality control. The web is a mess. The web is for everyone.”

Explaining Code using ASCII Art

📖 https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1653

See microblog for more ...

← An IndieWeb Webring 🕸💍 →