胡子哥
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technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating"
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paranom.asia
taxi driver is listening to 639 Hz (Attract Love) in loop, pure bliss
January 28, 2026 at 12:52 PM
taxi driver is listening to 639 Hz (Attract Love) in loop, pure bliss
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So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.
January 27, 2026 at 10:42 PM
So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.
wish I knew enough to! Feels more like a grant proposal thing
January 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
wish I knew enough to! Feels more like a grant proposal thing
"There’s nothing that happens when you adjust the contrast or white balance in editing software that the camera hasn’t done under the hood. The edited image isn’t "faker" then the original: they are different renditions of the same data."
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"There’s nothing that happens when you adjust the contrast or white balance in editing software that the camera hasn’t done under the hood. The edited image isn’t "faker" then the original: they are different renditions of the same data."
I guess A Vast Machine is the closest we have (and it's a great one!)
January 16, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I guess A Vast Machine is the closest we have (and it's a great one!)
(this is also what I think whenever someone brings up Baudrillard in AI discussions! And I'm like yeah sure, the simulation. Go on?)
January 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
(this is also what I think whenever someone brings up Baudrillard in AI discussions! And I'm like yeah sure, the simulation. Go on?)
this is not to say that there isn't great literature on this (obviously loads of it in relevant disciplines), just that there's not widely read, interdisciplinary "cultural" or "social" theory of modeling yet
January 16, 2026 at 12:12 PM
this is not to say that there isn't great literature on this (obviously loads of it in relevant disciplines), just that there's not widely read, interdisciplinary "cultural" or "social" theory of modeling yet
what is a model? What does it mean to model? What is the relationship between what is modeled, the data used for it, and what the model can predict? What does modeling do in the world? Etc.
January 16, 2026 at 12:12 PM
what is a model? What does it mean to model? What is the relationship between what is modeled, the data used for it, and what the model can predict? What does modeling do in the world? Etc.