Adams, Douglas
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- Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism … that has stuck in Dan’s brain over the decades” [1] For starters, Douglas Adams’ 1990 BBC documentary Hyperland [2] . I did a rewatch of Hyperland back in …
- What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually … Like, on the one hand, this is better than Shitty Elon Musk’s attempts for his Grok AI bot to be “just like Douglas Adams”. I don’t …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … One way I’ve joked about this is in reference to Douglas Adams’ Genuine People Personalities from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There weren’t that …
- A Method for Efficient Exploration of Search Space … And then what? We're still at There's More Shitty Stuff Than Before and oh my god here's another Douglas Adams reference coming: there's so …
- Stop doing that, it's making you look silly … Surfaces versus infrastructure, scale Government digital services and service design A liveblog of Douglas Adams' Hyperland documentary and notes on intelligent agents Lots about product/service design: washing …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … and didn’t break out in panic attacks about having to write (sorry, Douglas Adams), just didn’t exist. (The usual story I tell here is that when …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … at the moment) is something that feels like it’s straight out of Douglas Adams’ Hyperland , which I wrote about a good five years ago. Just the idea …
- Stop Using Nouns … what Tom is describing, especially the surly and un-cooperative personalities, is what Douglas Adams called Genuine People Personalities in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 2 …
- What’s the target? … which feels like a great reminder that the simple pencil is a tool, and that the technology and tools we grow up with (obligatory Douglas Adams quote), are …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … I'd also been rewatching Douglas Adam's Hyperland[14, 15], his 1990 BBC Two documentary on hypermedia and hypertext. (Aside: the documentary includes the concept of "micons …
- Gigawatt Laser Array … pretty much overcast and right in the middle of the afternoon of what Douglas Adams would probably call the long, dark, tea-time of the soul when it …
- Politeness … a) Emily Saunders[5] from Douglas Adams' Mostly Harmless that I happened to read recently and thus b) Colin[6]. The point here of course is the Etiquette …
- Podcasts; Other Things; Hue … not that old!) biomedical animations[1] of things like DNA replication and misquoting Douglas Adams by saying "Life is really, really complicated. I mean, you might think figuring …
- Continued Careening … America, as Douglas Adams would say, is *big*. And unique in that it believes in - and carries out - ideological devolution of power to the lowest local level. The …
- WATCH; BERG … He'd built Dirk, was obviously a fan of Douglas Adams and we both had had our brains exploded by Greg Egan and books like Permutation City and …
- Digital Watches; Stay In Control; Unreasonable Empathy; Odds … that he was alive when digital watches came out and they were, as Douglas Adams said, "a pretty neat thing". And this guy is sitting opposite me at …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … In fact, comedy and satire - the stylings of Red Dwarf's Talkie Toaster, Douglas Adams' sighing doors and Richard Morgan's AI-run hotels that keen desperately for …
- Probationary Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Blog Unbundled; A World of Connected Objects … course, that a world full of incessantly chattering objects perhaps best illustrated by Douglas Adams' Genuine People Personalities, would in all likelihood be one that was unbearable. Coates …
- Engineering Serendipity; Genuinely Useful People Personalities; Hubris … follow on Twitter[1] called out the intensifying of some sort of local Douglas Adams field. References to the tall one had been cropping up more frequently, lately …
- (Re-send w/formatting fix) Episode Ninety Eight: Engineering Serendipity; Genuinely Useful People Personalities; Hubris … follow on Twitter[1] called out the intensifying of some sort of local Douglas Adams field. References to the tall one had been cropping up more frequently, lately …
- That Most Killer Of Deals; Need To Know … somewhat-reasonable machine-learning algorithms over them and came up with something (paraphrasing Douglas Adams) that was almost, but not entirely unlike artificial intelligence in narrow domains. Perhaps …
- The Next Big Thing In Drugs; As If You Needed Another NYT Opinion; Experience This; The Value Of The Thing … a revenue mark out of? Or, are we destined in some sort of Douglas Adams-esque dystopian future to only ever travel to Airbnb managed properties and endure …
- Motion, Controlled; The Childish Myth; Odds … I'm quite happy to go back to the well and quote Douglas Adams on motion control here: "For years radios had been operated by means of pressing …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … 1.0 Yet More VR With apologies to Douglas Adams: "Virtual reality is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … They make a lovely whooshing sound as they Douglas Adams reference by. Best, Dan
- Building Better Worlds; Mobile; More video … In the talk, I paraphrase Douglas Adams by saying: "Mobile is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … There's no Douglas Adams-esque VCR, watching all the realtime YouTube feeds and discerning knowledge from them. At least all the textual documents getting sucked into Google …
- The Difficulty … watching Hyperland[1], a 50 minute documentary written by Douglas Adams for the BBC. You can watch along, if you want. It's important to remember that Hyperland …
- This Inexplicable Future, Where Did All The Agents Go, Brittle
- Feynman and Adams, Surveillance … Feynman, had fallen into my possession and I had devoured it, and Douglas Adams, when a visiting uncle had left a dog-eared copy of The Hitch-Hiker …
- We Build Worlds … And the thing about the UK is, to borrow a phrase from Douglas Adams, is that's it's really small. Like, really, really small. There are "only …