Tuesday, March 9, 2021
But even cleverest AI can be fooled with the simplest of hacks. If you write out the word “iPod” on a sticky label and paste it over the apple, Clip does something odd: it decides, with near certainty, that it is looking at a mid-00s piece of consumer electronics. In another test, pasting dollar signs over a picture of a dog caused it to be recognised as a piggy bank. OpenAI, the machine learning research organisation that created Clip, calls this weakness a “typographic attack”. “We believe attacks such as those described above are far from simply an academic concern.”
— Alex Hern, "'Typographic attack': pen and paper fool AI into thinking apple is an iPod," The Guardian via @tau_au
Monday, March 8, 2021
You like the whoopie pies.
— Clover employee
Sunday, March 7, 2021
First impressions, he [Darwin] noted in one of his very last entries, were often shaped by preconceived ideas. "All mine were taken from the vivid descriptions in the Personal Narrative."
— Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Ancestry company uses deepfakes to bring old photos of your great grandma to life
— Mashable headline
Friday, March 5, 2021
It's a thesis, it's 8.5 x 11.
— paraphrase of David trying to remember something Dalma said that Spyros said on how it's best to stick to format conventions
Thursday, March 4, 2021
One that they had captured was so clever that it tried to grab at the engravings in Humboldt's scientific books depicting grasshoppers and wasps. To Humboldt's amaement the monkey seemed able to distinguish engravings that showed its favorite foods – such as the insects – while the pictures of human and mammal skeletons didn't interest the titi at all.
— Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
The poet's true mastery is most fully displayed if those on the outermost edges still find the poems thrilling and revealing, even though they know absolutely nothing about any of the key players.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
What happened to him!? He's feral now.
— Lily on the ping-pong ball we've been watching roll around the roof of the building across the street for many months
Monday, March 1, 2021
And in the river hundreds of swans, plucked once a year for the queen's bedding and upholstery.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Sunday, February 28, 2021
But as a document charged with the remembering of friends and family in the final disposition of the goods so carefully accumulated during a lifetime, Shakespeare's will—the last trace of his network of relationships.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Saturday, February 27, 2021
In relation to this economic reality.
— Paul Soulellis, "Urgent Publishing After the Artist Book: Making Public in Movements Towards Liberation," CABC
Friday, February 26, 2021
For there was a first time that he glimpsed her—if not at Kenilworth, then somewhere else.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Thursday, February 25, 2021
I put a pack of pickles in my pocket and it exploded yesterday... Oops some mustard just fell out... and I have a toothbrush in my pocket.
— Lily on her full pockets
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
This is a market that moves so fast you can barely fact-check it.
— Kenny Schachter, "Kenny Schachter Gets Sucked Into the Surreal NFT Vortex… and Makes a Fortune Overnight in the New Virtual Art Market," Artnet
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
I don't have anything bad to say about these things.
— Chloe speaking to my Design History & Practice class*
Monday, February 22, 2021
Tying springs, locks, pins, cartriges, and other small pieces to beads and moccasins as though they were ornaments.
— Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Carry their lives on their fingernails.
— Cochise of the Chiricahua Apaches via Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Saturday, February 20, 2021
I like to store my memories in you.
— Lily
Friday, February 19, 2021
In 2002 a senior Bush advisor told a reporter for The New York Times that journalists "believe solutions emerge from judicious study of decernable reality, but that's not the way the world works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
— Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
Thursday, February 18, 2021
But it may not be as great as you think. That's how secrets are supposed to be.
— Min Guhong, "Fruitful Presentation"
