On the AI insanity …

the little that i gather on the subject suggests that linguists, i.e. folks interested in the structure of the language and consequence of that structure for the meaning communicated were NOT involved at ALL. this is remarkable and remarkably bad. this will likely have the same outcome as the so called computational fluid dynamics …. which produces equations discretized on a computer, a ‘high performance computing’ community and yet ‘serious’ people are still ‘studying’ turbulent flow in a god damned pipe. all of this to say, that dumb compute, can not and should not replace ‘analog compute’, i.e. the very fabric of the real and physical world. the prophet in me wants to finish with ‘the consequences of this … blah…’, but the book of Andrei has not gained wide currency yet. On yet another subtopic of big compute: try finding anything of personal consequence through google. Those ‘links’ will not be coming up. The AI nonsense is a face-saving attempt by a failing big-data business to undrown from a sea of data they cannot and do not want to understand.

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End of the year shareholder letter from Estrella Enterprises

Dear Shareholders,

We write to you as yet another prosperous ( for us ) year draws to a close.  As the market volatility and inflation concerns continued to gnaw at the core of your faith in our ability to persevere, we maintained our business resilience and as always remained laser focused on the bottom line. Some may say that we continued to ‘crush’ it. Self-doubt has been eradicated from our ranks through emotional purges, direct hire and fire practices and just good old – we keep playing the chess, back pain, or not  – stamina building.

Now, some of the major shareholders who sensed the weakness, whatever it might have been, have delivered the needed warmth, occasional cash infusions and those precious phone calls and visits just at the right time which bolstered our faith in the enterprise and convinced us yet again that we have the right, somewhat quirky and sometimes needy, but mostly solid and well-meaning, intuitive, insightful and 0-bay-area-snake-oil ‘awesome’ individual shareholders. You remain the firmament of our business and we thank you

The coming year, the drifting sands of time and the barely perceptible future must hold surprises which, with your help, we will encounter head on and as musicians say ‘feel it’. Toeing the line and the bottom line will for a moment, again, get confused and then, yet again with your help get untangled as we chart the course ( don’t worry, bad poetry is basically cash flow leaks, and as such it will be presekat’sya na kornyu ).

With this said, lets build, keep calculating when its $, play, write, tug at each other’s heart, and be a constant source of mischief …

Best wishes for the New Year and happy holidays,

The Board,

Isaak, Uncle Ron and Andrei

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a non-trivial difference: in a moderately law-abiding nation the journalistic practice gains a supremely important sister tool. not only is it follow the money ( true anywhere ), but also it is follow the code of law

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on the use of the word ‘talent’ in reference to people. it occurs to me its a distinctly American phenomenon which, as usual, tries to pin the agency to an individual and move the whole somewhat happily intangible true location of the agency closer to money, which again is typically American. evisceration of communal aspects of existence begins with the language, proceeds with the removal of benches on sidewalks, then the removal of the same said sidewalks and on n on. in this regard this culture is effectively subject to ‘socrealism’ that covered up for murder in the old Soviet Union

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