The “Eliza effect” refers to our “tendency to treat responsive computer programs as more intelligent than they really are. Very small amounts of interactivity cause us to project our own complexity onto the undeserving object.”
‘Dead Dolly Lane:’ San Diego County’s creepiest roadside attraction. “… the site is a private driveway transformed into an evolving folk-art installation lined with hundreds of dolls, doll heads and broken toy figures attached to fences and posts. What looks at first like a scene from a horror film is actually a long-running folk-art installation created by local artist Toni Fusco.”
While I was signing up for the Masterpiece on PBS newsletter, a dickover interrupted me to prompt me to sign up for their newsletter. I have achieved dickover nirvana.
Why Were Superheroes Popular? Charlie Jane Anders has a few interesting theories.
Inside AT&T’s industrial IoT logistics play. Telcos like to talk about going beyond mere connectivity to find new revenue streams. AT&T isn’t just talking. The operator IoT provider Wiliot are building an industrial IoT supply-chain and asset-tracking business. My latest on Fierce Network.
Minnie is back to her old self. A somewhat stiffer version of her old self, but we are delighted to have her back.
Her appetite has returned and she is eating regularly now. Rather than feeding her once a day, as we did most of her life, today I have given her three or four small meals, and it’s only 11 am. She’s got the spring back in her step again. She doesn’t even need the anti-nausea med or appetite stimulant. However, I have discovered I am a wiz at pilling the dog and giving her liquid medication, and these are skills I expect I will need again.
I’d like to get her on a healthier diet. She’s eating all meat and a little yogurt now, which is the doggie equivalent of subsisting on Doritos and Mountain Dew. I’ll tackle that problem after she’s had a little time getting back in the habit of eating.
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Nominating the guy with the Nazi tattoo, a downwardly mobile career, a record of shitposting on Reddit and public denunciations by women was not a great idea for the “vote for us because the other guys are incompetent Nazi misogynist failures who post too much crap on social media” party.
When I make life decisions, I want certainty. I want to know I’m making the one and only right choice.
I’m learning that life often doesn’t give us that, especially for the bigger decisions. You know you don’t have enough information to make a good choice — let alone the right one — and you have to decide anyway.
This blows.
Upscale AI, a pure-play AI networking startup, has $500M funding and ambitious dreams: building open-standard silicon, systems and software for AI scale-up and scale-out. My latest on Fierce Network.