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The Weekly: Technology and Art, a conflict in purpose

It has taken me longer to get this edition of The Weekly out. It’s partly because I have been organizing my thoughts around art and technology. I am starting to worry that tech is doing art dirty. I also suspect that technology’s impact on art, is a precursor to tech’s troubling impact on humanity at…
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The Weekly: Schools need to teach Art History

… also in this edition of The Weekly: a dance of water and light and a quick kook at Microsoft’s original logo. Here is an unsubstantiated thesis: One reason society does not invest in art or pay artists is because we do not teach about art or art history in school, like we do math,…
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The Weekly: Language is not Math

… and more from this edition of the Weekly. Counting and numbers as concepts strike me as different from words and language. This became obvious to me when I saw my toddler learning how to speak and count. We may assign words and language to numbers, but the abstract ideas of counting and arithmetic do…
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The Weekly: India does not need Generative AI

… and more from this edition of The Weekly. I contend that India does not need to worry about advancing fundamental GenAI research. Instead it needs to worry about knowing how to apply all of computer technology, and not just GenAI, to an Indian context. A tale of two problems: Research and Applications of Gen…
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Trailing Sky High

Not sure why I wanted to click these pictures. But the sight of the plane making its approach right above my head, with the wispy clouds in the backdrop with that clear, deep blue of all skies … was too hard to ignore, and too hard to not capture on my phone.
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Morning Shadows

I always have loved me a solid start to the day before the Sun has had a chance to cast shorter shadows.
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Morning Chemtrails

Love the early morning scenes before the grind of work starts. I kind of liked the positioning of these two trails, crossed and meeting just below the bright rising sun.


