Last night I had a dream about a new Star Trek show under development. This morning, I was thinking about why people are bigoted against transgender people. Within a few minutes, I realized I was thinking about the same thing. Part 1: The Dream In my dream, NBC had originally developed a spin-off to Star…
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1/8/23: Platonic limerence
The first time I was exposed to the word “limerence”, some decades ago, it didn’t really register. It felt like a fancy, dismissive word for “New Relationship Energy”, and though the two concepts are tangential, they’re not the same. Today I ran across it being used in a (potentially) Platonic sense, in terms specific to…
InferKit Test 1: Medusa
Note: I seeded InferKit with the first sentence and let it generate text until it ended on the end of a sentence. So everything after the first sentence was AI-generated. I have a ceramic bust of Medusa. You know, the woman with snakes for hair. The one who turned all of Phoenicia to stone when…
On Comorbidity
Dyscalculia is highly comorbid* with Autism. Hypercalculia is highly comorbid with Autism. Dyslexia is highly comorbid with Autism. Hyperlexia is highly comorbid with Autism. Many Autistics struggle with sensory overload and seek to minimize external stimulation. Many Autistics love sensory overload and seek to maximize external stimulation. Many Autistics prefer to live in households that…
1/4/22: Hyperlexia
I recently learned the word “hyperlexia”, which is “when a child starts reading early and surprisingly beyond their expected ability.” The second type of hyperlexia is highly associated with autism; while only about 10% of Autistics are hyperlexic, about six out of seven Hyperlexics are autistic. (Source: WebMD) At 54, it’s hard to definitively diagnose…
On Cognitive Load Theory and Story Problems
I’m currently reading “Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory in Action” by Oliver Lovell, specifically the section on reducing extraneous load during education (ca. p. 32; I’ve got the e-book). This leads me think about story problems, such as those on the SAT, which often contain information that’s irrelevant to the problem. For example: Carrie invites some…
12/29/22
I’m cleaning out the files in Notepad++, and I found this snippet: “Just write,” the dream told me. There was no body, just a voice. “Poetry. Fiction. Essays. Total garbage. Write every day. That’s what make you happy: You’re a writer. Write.” Yep. Just, yep.
Annabelle Jane
There once was a lass named Annabelle JaneWho stood on the deck in the pouring rainAnd when the rain had stopped its fellYou could see her skirt did swell Oh yes, what a lassAnnabelle Jane rode the watercraftOh yes, what a lassBut she hid a secret shaft Commentary: A fellow trans person commented that there…
Snippet
My soul collapsesand I can’t breatheso you hold my head underwateruntil I can swim (written some time in 2022)
On AI Replacing Humans
I was thinking this morning about the dialogue around AI like ChatGPT making human writing completely irrelevant. In a few years, computers will be able to create text that is indistinguishable from human-created text; some would argue that they already can. I was also thinking about the dialogue around AI Art programs like Stable Diffusion,…