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@tomnweston Figure of a Child Seated atop a Pig, 2nd–1st B.C, 📸 by @tomnweston

Rays. Brewers. One team will win the World Series for the first time in the history of their franchise. World Series preview pod is here!

PODCAST: beacons.ai/baseballisdead…

A printer printing onto paper.

The Astros shut out the Yankees 4-0 in Game 7 of the 2017 ALCS to win their first AL Pennant.

Houston became the first franchise to win the Pennant in both the National League and the American League.

The legendary John le Carré was born on this day in 1931. After serving in the British Army and British Intelligence during the Cold War he turned to writing full time in 1963 with the success of his third novel, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.

Writers who have not read THE iographical look at his life and publishing journey, should pick it up immediately.

John le Carré passed away December 12, 2020.

He lives on through the immortality of his work.

“Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I’m sitting now.”
- John le Carré

A true master of the craft.

⚠️🔴 À REGARDER JUSQU'À LA FIN

JE NE PEUX PAS DÉCRIRE CE QUE JE VIENS DE VIVRE À MARSEILLE.

#17octobre

Only real teams have dominated in both leagues

Harold Godwinson.
Gone, but not forgotten

Literacy starts at home. 📚

Informed of her Nobel prize, Anne Carson told the committee that she was currently in Iceland "listening to the wind"

everyone used to make fun of ender's game because haha posting on forums don't get you world power obviously but absurd that this was the part of the book that came most true

Very difficult to narrow this down but a fun exercise.

Distance from Texas, measured in Texases

On the eve of The AGI Chronicles (which comes out tomorrow!) I'm publishing an excerpt from "Big Blob of Compute," a 2017 internal research document by Dario Amodei, back when he was a researcher at OpenAI.

It's never been published before, but BBOC is, in my mind, the essay that started the AI race. It described Amodei's hypothesis that scaling up AI models was the best way, by far, to make them smarter. GPT-2 was an experiment to test the hypothesis, and when it worked, OpenAI went all-in on scaling, which led to the race we have today.

It's a fascinating historical artifact that deserves to see the light of day. And it's taken on mythical proportions inside the AI industry, which is now spending trillions of dollars building the "big blobs" that Amodei thought would be necessary to get to AGI.

Enjoy! And please pre-order the book if you do!

kevinroose.substack.com/p/the-essay-th…

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

committing emotional terrorism by wrapping copies of Bell Curve and Camp of the Saints in this getup and planting them in unsuspecting bookstores

Anyways, here’s wonderwall…

#cowpoke #yodel #country #western #tengallonhat

In no order

A Canticle for Leibowitz, Hyperion, The Book of the New Sun, Eifelheim, Anathem, The Martian Chronicles, The Southern Reach Series, Roadside Picnic

Unreasonably excited for this...