Category: misc

October 9, 2022 / Sam Kenyon / ai

Miscellaneous #5

In the recent movie Top Gun Maverick, Tom Cruise’s character ejects at over Mach 10.…

September 18, 2022 / Sam Kenyon / misc

Squircles! In space! According to astronomer Pat Morris, these nebulae are “partial dust shells formed…

September 6, 2022 / Sam Kenyon / ai

Strange But True: The US Military Once Wanted to Nuke the Moon “Will we need…

August 21, 2022 / Sam Kenyon / misc

The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life. Harvard scientists are hoping to find…

July 20, 2022 / Sam Kenyon / ai

Think current AI text generators are getting us very close to human-like language acquisition? Gary…

April 20, 2022 / Sam Kenyon / fictional AI

Many years ago, Ben Bogart asked the question: “What do you consider the most seminal…

December 22, 2021 / Sam Kenyon / misc

In response to “The Small Website Discoverability Crisis” I’m making a list of bookmarks to…

December 1, 2021 / Sam Kenyon / future

Nobody is safe! 1. Web Developers There won’t be much of a web soon, so…

November 13, 2021 / Sam Kenyon / ai

Many years ago I attended a talk by the artist/engineer Jeff Lieberman, who amongst many…

November 1, 2021 / Sam Kenyon / ai

One of the first digital music contraptions was made in 1972. The Triadex Muse was…