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• Post #3420495

  OK, intellectual property fans, here's a draft law review essay I wrote for you about AI and copyright, entitled "The art critics won't save you from the robots". It's really about a trend in copyright jurisprudence which is distorting the AI debate. You shift the trend, you fix the debate—and possibly a lot of what's wrong with copyright. 1/7 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6999539

• Post #2735173

  (1/3) Concrete Blonde:still stuck in my head, still sounds great. Primarily guitarist James Mankey with the finest effects of 1990, and the superlative, superlative voice of Johnette Napolitano. They got a few singles on the radio, about an alcoholic ex ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpTcvSn8HQ ), the vampire song that initiated their goth period ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJmWCuMiEM ), the Wall of Voodoo cover about AIDS ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsEUcRHlS0w ). Heard but...

• Post #2735172

  In a feat of incredible brand consistency, you can't even log in to IRS's Free File Fillable Forms without doing mental arithmetic. This is why I wrote a tax calculator in python: https://github.com/b-k/py1040 . I do the math there, then copy to FFFF and everything goes fine.

• Post #2735171

  My metaphorical hat is off to those of you in academia. 95% of my interactions with academics are stellar and the highlight of my day, and then 5% are with the most toxic, defensive, gatekeeping jerks I ever have to deal with. I don't know how those of you who encounter those people every day manage.

• Post #2735170

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/116426781763284152 This is how I do toothpaste. 💯 , would recommend.

• Post #2735169

  At work, have been sporadically passing around that essay I wrote on the history of modern math and how it advises better computing technique (see link below), and I think a few people have taken it to heart and are writing better code. Best reaction so far: "the big lesson is to stay on good terms with your exes." https://codeberg.org/b_k/math_outside_time/raw/branch/master/out/math_without_time.pdf #SelfPromotionSunday

• Post #2735168

  For you fans of science writer/comic musician Liz Landau, her latest is really her finest. Passed it on to an expectant coworker, who commented "I'm tearing up just a little". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ71REKRdWY

• Post #2735167

  It finally happened: I sent a colleague 200 lines of code, and he 'improved' it by feeding it to an AI. Was so chipper when he sent me 2,000 lines in return, but then having to fix it and explain to them why the robot-generated version wasn't workable took most of my day. I'm never getting that time back.

• Post #2735166

  Card games: they don't all have to be trick taking or set collection. Carbondale is a grid-building, friendly thievery card game playable with the standard decks of cards you have in your house right now: https://carbondale.network . #SelfPromotionSunday