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Fake data is usually boring if you analyze it. It’s usually uniform, with no outliers or interesting patterns. If I ask ChatGPT: Generate realistic fake tourism data using these columns: - Age - Nationality - Gender - Income - Booking_Channel - Month - Occupancy_Rate - Travel_Frequency - Spending Run the code and let me download the output as a CSV file. … the output is remarkably boring. Men & women from all countries and ages in every month visit equally. Income and spending are uniformly distributed - and the same pattern holds for all countries and ages. ...

When LLMs talk to each other, you get emergent behavior (i.e. they do weird things we didn't expect). Like: Claude 2 giving Claude 1 a panic attack Llama 3 405b gets amnesia Claude 3.5 calls itself a glitch in the Matrix Arguably, NotebookLM's podcasts are exactly this. This sounds like fun, so I built one myself at https://llmdialog.straive.app/ and ran a few scenarios. (It's Gemini 1.5 Flash 8b playing each of these roles.) ...

Haptic technology lets you “touch and feel data”. Surgical-simulation devices are currently the bread and butter of many haptics companies. Recently, haptics have also been finding their way into consumer products. Many video-game controllers, such as force-feedback steering wheels and joysticks, already contain simple haptic devices to enable virtual rally drivers and pilots to feel the bumps of artificial roads or the rumble of machine guns. Mobile phones are next. Just as existing phones can be programmed to play different ring tones depending on the caller, VibeTone allows for different vibrations. Without reaching into your pocket, you will be able to tell whether it is your boss, spouse, or babysitter who is calling. ...

Nilesh on the Uncanny valley. The point at which a simulation becomes close enough to reality that it stops matching up. I have seen a lot of this happen in software design too.

Omar Zabir’s portal. Let’s you use Windows XP without having Windows XP. Well, actually, it’s just a tour of Windows XP features, but you pretty much get to “use” XP. Quite a piece of programming! via MetaFilter Comments desi yazzie 6 Sep 2006 3:48 am: Good, wonderful, and would like to use it to troubleshoot S Anand 6 Sep 2006 4:05 pm: I wonder if it has any deep XP functionality, though…

The Solar System. From anywhere.

Patterns of life. Yes, the life that JHC created. No, not THAT one. This is John Horton Conway’s.