“There are certain memories that remain inviolate to the ravages of time. And to those of suffering. It is not true that everything is colored by time and suffering. It is not true that they bring everything to ruin.”
– Han #Kang | 'Church in the Old Royal Court' [1585], #Targoviste.
“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.”
― Chris Van #Allsburg, 'The Polar Express' [1985] | 'Iraqi Marshlands' [2016].
“Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.”
– Fritjof #Capra, 'The Web of Life' [1996] | 'Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida' [1970], #Brasília.
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
– Kenneth #Grahame, 'The Wind in the Willows' [1908] | '#Markthal' [2014], #Rotterdam.
...Most of us never become aware of the importance of this heritage that man alone of all mammals lugs forward through time. And seldom have we any notion how to make the most of our given burden.”
– C.W. #Ceram [1949] | #Baumwipfelpfad [2014], #BadHarzburg.
“It is frightening to realize in full depth what it means to be a human being: that is, to realize that we are all embedded in the flux of generations, whose legacy of thought and feeling we irrevocably carry along with us...
“When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness.”
– Lawrence #Weschler | #Hallstatt.
“To which end we are to consider, that the Felicity of this life, consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied.”
– Thomas #Hobbes | 'Königshöhle', #Baden.
“The structure of play absorbs the player into itself, and thus frees him from the burden of taking the initiative, which constitutes the actual strain of existence.”
― Hans-Georg #Gadamer, 'Truth and Method' [1960] | 'Staatstheater Wiesbaden' [1894].
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“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”
― Kakuzō #Okakura, 'The Book of Tea' [1906] | 'Amman Temple'.
Times Square
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.”
― Paul #Dirac | Fernando #Romero, 'Museo #Soumaya' [2011].
„wenn man bedenkt, dass in der Geschichte der Menschheit noch nie ein Satz ganz durchstrichen oder ganz zu Ende geschrieben worden ist, woraus zuweilen jenes verwirrende Tempo des Fortschritts entsteht, das täuschend einem geflügelten Ochsen gleicht“
MoE (56)
Robert Musil
Matritzenmultiplikation (MatMul) ist DIE basale Operation moderner KI und Treiber der explodierten Börsenbewertung von NVIDIA. "Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling" verzichtet nun vollständig auf diese sehr aufwendige Floating-Point-Multiplikation. 1/2
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck #Palahniuk, 'Diary' [2003] | Peter #Webber, 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' [2003].
Andrej Karpathy analysiert den ChatGPT Source Code und programmiert seinen eigenen Tokenizer basierend auf dem Byte-Pair-Encoding-Algorithmus. Allein durch das Zuschauen kann man bei ihm wie immer deutlich mehr über LLM lernen als anderswo. 1/5
Dolce.
I always believe that I have a certain toughness in common with the peasants, who also do not eat so particularly well, and yet live and work on.
Herman (dragon) curled over Jacky with his head flat on the ground. She's hanging over his elbow and looking annoyed. Jacky: "Are you gonna let me leave?" Herman: "Nuh."
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Equestrienne by Albert Gleizes, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137242
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
A II (Construction A II) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1924
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137553
El Lissitzky, Composition, 1922
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135936
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Extended by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137766
“Cthulhu is a lovable, mischievous, unusually intelligent burro who gets up to a variety of adventures on the western frontier of the U.S. in the late 19th century” #AIArt #midjourney v6
Exakt. Das, was man ohnehin schon macht, wenn man Texte jedweder Art rezipiert, aber dann auch umgekehrt modellgeleitet und nicht im prätentiösen "was mir gerade dazu einfällt"-Modus, durch den man selbst in eine Halluzinationsfalle tappen kann, z.B. per Recency Bias.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
...wie man seine eigene neuronale Vernetztheit dadurch nämlich auf diese Architektur draufdoppeln kann! Aber da schon Taschenrechner schulisch so benutzt werden, obwohl die meisten deren Innenleben nie so ganz genau verstanden haben, wird man sich weiter mit Ergebniskosmetik zufriedengeben... (2/2)
Eine logische und langfristig sinnige Konsequenz, die man aus der KI-Schwemme in wissenschaftlichen Kontexten ziehen könnte, wäre, sich selbst, individuell, ein KI-Modell aufzubauen, das erst am eigenen Leib erfahrbar machen kann, wie es intern funktioniert, und dabei selbst mit-denken lernt, (1/2)