Posts Tagged ‘Black Rock City’
Well, it’s true that they both react poorly to showers…
Randall Munroe (xkcd) riffs on the same chatbot-to-chatbot conversation featured here some days ago…
As we celebrate our essential humanity, we might recall that it was on this date in 1900 that Jesse Lazear, a then-34-year-old physician working in Cuba to understand the transmission of yellow fever, experimented on himself, allowing himself to be bitten by infected mosquitoes. His death two weeks later confirmed that mosquitoes are in fact the carriers of the disease.
The Ghost in the Machine…
Via the always-rewarding Dangerous Minds:
Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab says, “What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? We certainly never expected this…”
As we reconsider that dinner invitation, we might recall that it was on this date in 1991 that Burning Man opened in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, having moved from San Francisco’s Baker Beach. All the best to readers headed that way now…
source: Howard Rheingold
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