Earth’s Changing Ice : Meltwater Lakes Form On The Surface Of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. (via

my favourite greetings to the universe from the Voyager spacecraft 💌

COVID project, 864 pieces - if you build it, remember to draw a moustache on one of the minifigs. @lego @europeanspaceagency https://www.instagram.com/p/CADEGq1nmcf/?igshid=1alarfv19ufam

buying a pintetest-y wall hanging with twee cursive lettering that reads "this place is a message, and part of a system of messages, pay attention to it! sending this message was important to us. we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. this place is not a place of honor, no highly-esteemed deed is commemorated here. what is here was dangerous and repulsive to us." to hang in my living room

Top: The moon seen through a telescope ca. 1920-ca. 1925

Bottom: Lunar view 1900-1930

Lunar Extra Edition from 07/21/69

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

Which AI-generated personality quiz are you?

What would you do with more memory? Clearly, play more complex games. One difference between OpenAI’s new text generator (known as GPT-3) and the other neural networks I’ve used in the past is that it now looks at much more text when deciding what to write next. Enough text (2048 “tokens” or approximately 1000 words) that I was able to give it examples of two five-question personality tests, and ask it to predict what the content of the third personality test would be. I have presented them here, in clickable format.

Remember, the AI is based on math, so it must be correct.

Which artificial intelligence are you?

I produced these tests by giving the AI two example quizzes, then the topic of the next one.

Which chapter of the AI Weirdness book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You are you?

Some of my favorite quiz topics are ones the AI generated itself. I would not have thought of these:

Which legendary glowing cat are you?

Which ant-person are you?

Which alien animal are you?

If you’d like to read its quiz entitled “Which metal diplodocus are you?” (neural net’s title, not mine) you can enter your email here, and I’ll send it to you.

My book on AI is available wherever books are sold: 

Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Indiebound - Tattered Cover - Powell’s - Boulder Bookstore

👏let 👏 melanie 👏 and 👏 jon 👏 run 👏 a ghost-hunting show 👏

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