“For years, Judy Malloy would not get the credit she deserved for being one of
the earliest pioneers of ‘electronic literature,’ as the literary hypertext
movement came to be called: pieces by men writing later became more famous and
better-studied.”
Aaron A. Reed ,
1986: Uncle Roger
(50 Years of Text Games ,
April 22, 2021 )
posted 4/24/2021 8:41pm ∞
“Over time, it became a master at [Diplomacy ], reportedly achieving ‘more than
double the average score’ of human players and ranking in the top
10 percent of people who played more than one game.”
(Andy Baio
adds
“building extremely persuasive AI s that are more effective
negotiators than humans, what could go wrong”.)
posted 12/3/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Kodak slowly began to fix this bias in its film, but not out of any sense of
racial injustice: it was a response to complaints from furniture makers and
chocolate sellers that Kodak cameras couldn’t properly capture their products’
hues.”
James Vincent ,
Keep It Clean
(London Review of Books ,
October 20, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/11/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]he developers are testing it on Annie, Zach Adams' wife. After a failed
attempt with an earlier version, the latest tutorial took Annie far enough to
where she could ‘tunnel under a bog and drown her fortress.’ Presumably, that
is good.”
posted 10/30/2022 8:00pm ∞
“But the syphilis story stuck. Even as newspapers trumpeted particulars of
Graham’s passing (and there were many), her cause of death, like so many details
about women in her line of work, never seemed to be worth investigating.”
Hanna Brooks Olsen ,
Lou Graham, Seattle’s Misunderstood Madam
(Seattle Met ,
August 9, 2022 )
posted 10/21/2022 8:00pm ∞