Jim McGaw

To me, the unexpected thing about ChatGPT is its name. The "GPT" acronym belies an extremely geeky tech phrase. Google's original PageRank algorithm is a graph algorithm called Eigenvector Centrality. ChatGPT's branding is akin to Google's search engine having instead been named "SearchEC". :D

26.10.2025 13:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve always been curious why US book publishers hard-code a separate price in Canadian dollars on the book itself. Makes even less sense now. Just print and distribute your books, and leave the hedging and speculation of currency price movements to FX traders on Wall Street.

19.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“A city should defend the laws of the city as if they were its walls.” -Heraclitus

12.08.2025 01:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” -Philip K. Dick

(1978 lecture, entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days.")

11.08.2025 03:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He would spend all day just hanging off my eyeglasses if I let him.

07.06.2025 16:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Emu Edit Precise Image Editing via Recognition and Generation Tasks

One of the more interesting developments in computer vision tasks this year - Emu Edit, image editing with natural language commands: emu-edit.metademolab.com

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