More serendipity
No surprise that a Fowles quote surfaced this morning, he is after all one of my favorites.
The surprise lay in the relevance to a conversation with friends last night.
Topic
How society and norms morph over time, by dint of individual actions.
First learning, then adapting followed by experimentation and pushing boundaries to ultimately creating.
🖇️ Talking about knowing what you’re talking about - nobody who knows what they are talking about would confuse me with a real programmer.
That said, I just read 🔗 Going the Extra Mile — Beyond …
Read and agree with a lot of the @gruber post 🔗 The iOS Continental Drift Widens
After I read it - I jumped to my Readwise queue - and up pops this.
My reading habits are clearly being tracked.
🔗 Lex raises $2.75M for its AI writing tool that helps writers get past blocks.
The AI stuff is cool, but there was one thing about this app that made me want to keep using it: It has no historical …
Via John Naughton
It is three times the price to rent a car in the center of Auckland for the day than on Waiheke Island - that does not compute.
Someone’s Having A Larf …
It’s the billion-dollar baby of artificial intelligence. Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup launched by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced Wednesday it had raised a whopping $1 billion from big-name venture capital firms, including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.
That’s a huge amount of money for a three-month-old company with 10 staffers, no product and a “singular focus” on creating “safe” AI rather than a money-making product (at least in the short term).
💬 The Information
Shout Outs To @dsearls@journa.host and @dave in the 🔗 latest entry from ‘Jobsworth’
BTW - while I am here 🔗JP published another great post the other day about Cricket - specifically Cricket stats and records.
He opened with:
You have been warned. This one’s for hardcore cricket nuts. Red-ball nuts. Five-day nuts. The hardest of the hardcore. No coloured pajamas here.
I am definitely not a hardcore cricket nut - and still read the entire thing to the end. Fascinating.
Me:
What about tomorrow?
Reply:
Would be good except that I will out of town celebrating my first wife’s, second husband’s, 70th. Should be a good bash.
.. now that’s what I call an extended family that truly embraces the concept.**
📺 Kleo
Each episode kept me coming back for more. An increasingly difficult thing to do in theses ‘streaming times’.
Kleo on 🔗 Reelgood
