Yesterday’s progress: pageant wagons lined up on Toft Green. #medievalyork #unity3d #mysteryplays

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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous

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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous

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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous

When an author uses AI for “polishing” a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The AI identifies high-entropy clusters – the precise points where unique insights and “blood” reside – and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences. What began as a jagged, precise Romanesque structure of…

Expecting the usual theatrical adventure from @quantumtheatre

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Floating video windows depict the performances in my in-progress #unity3d simulation of a massive 18+ hr medieval theater pageant. #medievalyork #corpuschristi #yorkcycle

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A LiDAR map reveals #medievalyork fortifications that Speed captured in his stylized but surprisingly accurate 17C map. This weekend I did a rough #blender3d model of Clifford’s Tower.

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While workers worldwide ponder how AI might affect their livelihoods – a topic on the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week – that question is no longer hypothetical in the translation industry. Apps like Google Translate already reduced the need for human translators, and increased adoption of generative AI has only accelerated that trend.…

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10 years later it’s so much worse.

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Gil Gerard (1943-2025)

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