ikr signing into my slrpnk.net account was like going to an old home I hadn’t been in for a while.

This.

Salary? In my field, all reviewers are volunteers…

When I was a kid and I was trying to get to sleep, I’d close my eyes and remember all the different bedroom layouts I’d lived in. Like in one place the wall was to the left and top and the door was down by the foot of the bed. In another place the wall was just to the top and the window was to the left and down. In another place the wall was just to the top and the door was to the top and left. etc.

This actress is only in like 1-2 scenes. It’s mostly a Rodney Dangerfield vehicle. A pretty good one imho. It’s got a young Robert Downey jr as a supporting character and a great scene with Sam Kinison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9DO26O6dIg

Back to School - Marge Takes Notes scene.

Sounds interesting. Glad those topics are still being investigated. So important to remember that even those neural methods labored for decades in the shadows before they finally found the answers they needed.

“discrete AI” (probably has a few other names)

• symbolic AI
• traditional AI
• GOFAI (good old fashioned) AI

Kinda sounds like you’re talking about Explainable AI too. Very interesting set of fields, but I’m pretty sure they’re all having funding problems too.

I frequently wish that the movie Apocalypto had inspired a whole genre of movies. Kind of like Westerns, but taking place in pre-Columbian times. That’s the sort of thing that creates new history nerds in a genre. Do you happen to know if Mexico has produced many/any good movies that take place in pre-Columbian times?

This person Aztecs!

This time god is drowning us letting us drown ourselves in trash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Borgia

Kinda reminds me of the AI winters that AI research has historically gone through.

I suggest you hold out for a Scooby-snack.

A day that will live in infamy! But in a good way. A day that will live in famy!

remembered a movie about the future where some guy couldn’t figure out how to insert the right shape into a hole

Idiocracy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

• left: introduce him to his post-MFA career options
• right: “have you written anything I’ve heard of?”
• up: tell them they write just like their teachers
• down: “I can do the same thing… using AI!”

Have you ever tried to interpret those shapes for clues about the future?

Perpetual motion machine discovered.

• Naked Lunch soundtrack
• Eraserhead soundtrack (especially side B)
• Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts