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e3pi··on Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
#smittened #deepfake #ai #ml #monaLisa

Finally.. ..2nd from the left explained so I can understand it why she is such a #warHorse..sorry Charleze, it's not going to happen.

e3pi··on The Matrix Code Came from Sushi Recipes
Try: ..we live in a dystopia, confined to our coffins, fed with wifi and ethernet, and Mark Zuckerberg is Agent Smith constructing the Matrix on our metaData
e3pi··on Best of Arxiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – January 2019
#peerReview << #myMachineResults
e3pi··on No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
Yesterday evening, "NTY, Mr. Pecker" was global headline news, blowing up more so this morning. Why is there still nothing on Google News?
e3pi··on No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
Good billionairism or otherwise Jeff. Please don't enter a Saudi embassy, unless to hand out hearing protectors with a smile on them.
e3pi··on Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
..predictably, angry Abbot RMS/openSource commandeers 'Medusa' into 'gnudusa' github forks to 'nudeusa', 'goregon', 'gone', vpn networks p2p, 'blockchain' likely tossed in somewhere, conflates concurrent user data/meta-data into noise, mass outrage wide adoption undermines, saps, destroys walled gardens.
e3pi··on Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
A 'Medusa' browser that will constanly spawn chaff:numerous instances of false data and meta-data, patent it, Google hates it, buys it.
e3pi··on The 1970s calculator race
Free 42S is my favorite phone app. I've the original 42S manual PDF -- not easy to find -- their `charity' pay-wall.

~35MB Download: original HP 42S 358pp manual: e3pi.org

I've many HP rpn's, Free 42S is better at everything, except keys haptic satisfaction.

If you're voyager/landscape 10C 11C 12C 15C 16C centric, rotate phone: rot90:HP-42S <--> HP-42C

yes, ballistically-black ruggedized Otterbox-ed, cost $0.00.

e3pi··on The HP-35: Consumer Electronics, an Origin Story
I've a SKB case filled with HP calculators. It is your android FREE 42s I pack in the kit. Other than 3-D just-so HP's haptic double-injected keys, it's fantastic! Thank you Thomas for your phenomenal RPN gift to humankind!
e3pi··on Why did Borland fail?
See Wikipedia on where Phillipe's successes have been and is doing today: a smart watch running 2 yrs per charge. His horolog tech is being pursued by at least two Swiss firms in the Jura. 'Phillipe the Phoenix` is a facile adaptor I admire.
e3pi··on Pi Day
In Significant Coincidences For Pi Day:

Get the 0-9 Dial Mitutoyo caliper:

The height of an HP 10c, 11c, 12c, 15c etc shirt pocket RPN calculator is 3.1415 inches.

Get that HP calculator to verify last night's dream:

There are 3.14 inches in 2^3 cm's.

And if you want to celebrate e day and pi day on the second of July, 2018, know:

(pi^5+pi^4)^(1/(3+2+1)) = 2.7182818

with

e^(3 x 2)/(pi^(2 x 2)+pi^(2 + 1)) = 3.141592

simplifies to:

e^(3 x 2)/pi^(2 x 2)-e^(2 x pi x i) = 3.141592

H|=D!

e3pi··on Photos of the An-225 Mriya – the world’s largest aircraft
Fantastic images.

The world over, and yes, both Mriya and I, aloft and aground, only accept dc headsets, the David Clark Company, USA.

e3pi··on Terry Gilliam on the death of Hollywood
Nice to see billionaires can be creative artists and still have fun:

".. ..I love Matt [Damon] in the film. I think he’s fantastic as that character. I’ve never seen him do that before, and that’s great. I actually said, “Matt, I’ve got a small part. A few days work.” he said “Don’t bother, I’m in.”

e3pi··on Ask HN: List of words – List of regexes tool?
If how to create these giant matchstick regexes interest you, there is a wonderful(famous?) perl script generating a regex 6,598 chars long, more optimized and faster than earlier attempt at 4,724 bytes, in Jeffrey Friedl's book, Mastering Regular Expressions, 1st edition, Oreilly, pp 312-316, Appedix B: Email Regex Program.
e3pi··on Ask HN: Will Peak Employment happen?
Ask HN: Will Peak Slavery happen?

I'd like to coin "Peak Slavery" for the following:

I think that within the next N (15-30?) years, we'll reach a point in time when more people will be enslaved and waged-slaved than will ever be employed after that time.

Do you think this will happen (globally, or in the US, etc.), and when do you think it will occur?

http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/peak-employmen...

e3pi··on 10,000 Year Clock (2011)
Naw, steampunk confabulations are mere mechanics' electrolysis eroding permutations, dust to dust. I'm going with encoding human DNA. Humans are persistant and I'd wager they make it through the next arbitrary melleniums.
e3pi··on The best small computer in the world (1968) [pdf]
Silently and spastically splaying taut fingers to get you the fuck out of his office and stop interrupting a man who works for a living, the great Tom West past 19 May 2011:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_West

e3pi··on A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984)
Reading this delightful blast in the past, made me realize how much I miss Borland's Quattro Pro editable keyboard macros, before becoming defanged by a competitor, Lotus?

That was a long time ago, Open Office still does not have this -- since I last looked. Think if emacs lost its elisp editable recording keyboard macros for some reason, what a loss. This is evidence progress is not monotonic increasing.

e3pi··on They’re Tracking When You Turn Off the Lights
Mr. Koonin would appear to be an excellent candidate for an analyst position with the intelligence community:

“It’s like when Galileo first turned the telescope on the heavens,” said Mr. Koonin. “It’s just a whole new way of looking at moons.”

e3pi··on Bracket Computing
Not open source? As many times as it's going to take, these people will get the message. I grabbed the "Bracket Computing Cell" transparency PNG to mash into something later. That's my take on it.
e3pi··on The ethics of the Guardian's Whisper bombshell
Got it. Guardian good, Whisper evil. What are the opportunities here, for our hacking community and social engineers, what kind of exploitation of Neetzan Zimmerman, using Whisper services, may be obtained for public humiliation, hopefully legal prosecution, and ideally profit?
e3pi··on What's up with the number 163?
Another cautionary tail:

(pi^5+pi^4)^(1/(3+2+1)) = 2.7182818...

e3pi··on I'm Leaving Mojang
`luden dare'

There is a latin root word that means 'play', `have fun'. There is a philosophy and a religion whose names are coined off this word. Perhaps `ludens'? Hesse's Glasperlenspiel -Glass Bead Game?

Learning about notch here this morning, I see a master living this reality regardless of philosophy or religion nonsense or the noisy crowds.

He `got game'.

e3pi··on A Note to Our Readers
To Catch a Spy

What did more damage—Philby’s treachery or the subsequent obsession among spy officials with preventing future Philbys?

“What it comes to is that when you look at the whole period from 1944 to 1951, the entire Western intelligence effort, which was pretty big, was what you might call minus advantage,” the C.I.A. officer Miles Copeland, Jr.—himself a close friend of Philby’s—said. “We’d have been better off doing nothing.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/philby

e3pi··on Cylinders in Spheres
...and its Archimedean inverse(his favorite!): a Wilson(tm)* soccer ball enjoys 2/3 the volume and 2/3 the surface content of its minimal cylindrical official Wilson(tm) shipping clear plastic blister pack.

*citation: Tom Hanks in "Castaway"

e3pi··on Visualizing Photons in Motion at a Trillion FPS
The camera filming itself in perpendicular mirror? Would we see an appreciable delay for each diminishing image, or what?
e3pi··on UCLA math star Terence Tao wins $3-million prize
Alas, but then there is also that most distinguished honor in mathematics: The Grigori Perleman Award.

"...On 18 March 2010, it was announced that he had met the criteria to the first Clay Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. On 1 July 2010, he turned down the prize of one million dollars. He additionally turned down the prestigious prize of the European Mathematical Society.

"I'm not interested in money or fame; I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo."

--Grigori Perleman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

See Also:

The Puzzling Case of Grigori Perelman

“As long as I was not conspicuous, I had a choice. Either to make some ugly thing or, if I didn’t do this kind of thing, to be treated as a pet. Now when I become a very conspicuous person, I cannot stay a pet and say nothing. That is why I had to quit.”

http://nautil.us/blog/purest-of-the-purists-the-puzzling-cas...

e3pi··on China Builds Artificial Islands in South China Sea
Clever. Pawn to k9. xboard variations adjudicates checkmate.
e3pi··on Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created
"The Hunting Lodge", a 1954 short story by Randall Garrett:

http://bookre.org/reader?file=230833

e3pi··on A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
"A good software project is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a tendril seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of enfoliating among the world wide landscapes."

                -- John C Hardy
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