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[RAMAGE] – Did Lichtenstein create art or copy it? A new film stokes the controversy.

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“It’s theft,” says one 96-year-old comic-book artist who feels the famous pop-art icon unfairly appropriated his work. “It would be nice to be recognized.”


A side-by-side comparison of Russ Heath’s original comic-panel art, from DC Comics’ “All American Men of War #89″ (1962), and Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 painting “Blam!” that appropriated the panel. The still is from a new documentary, which rotates the direction of Heath’s panel for clearer comparison. (Hussey-Cotton Films/Hussey-Cotton Films )

Hy Eisman sits at his professional drawing board, much the way he has for seven decades. He is reminiscing about penciling a comic-book image from a page that yielded him $10 back in the ’60s. He says his rendering, though, would soon inspire the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who became rich and famous by appropriating such comics without credit — and with a projector — for his large, highly prized canvases.

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A Quick Look at Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Zettelkasten: Zettel 1967
In response to a post last week, Stephen Downes reminded me that Ludwig Wittgenstein had a zettelkasten practice. In particular there is a translated and published book Zettel from 1967 which contains 717 zettels from Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, or works left behind following his death in 1951. I’ve had a copy lying around for a bit, but finally spent some time with it. The book cleverly has a parallel text form with the German on one side of the page and the English on the facing page. I’ve also seen translations of the book in both Spanish and Italian for those who might prefer those.
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[RAMAGE] – Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).

Because of this misconception, we proposed we should drop the usage of the term “Artificial Intelligence” and adopt a more appropriate and scoped-limited terminology for these technologies which better describe what these technologies are:  Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences.

Now we have redefined the name, will we still support the idea that SALAMI will develop some form of consciouness ?

Will SALAMI have emotions ?

Can SALAMI acquire a “personality” similar to humans’ ?

Will SALAMI ultimately overcome human limitations and develop a self superior to humans ?

Can you possibly fall in love with a SALAMI ?

Can we suddenly perceive a sense of how all these far flung (unrealistic) predictions look somewhat ridiculous ?

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[RAMAGE] – Zététique et autodéfense intellectuelle

CHAÎNE VIDÉO

Zététique et autodéfense intellectuelle

L’intégralité des cours donnés par Richard Monvoisin en 2016-2017 à l’Université Grenoble Alpes pour appréhender la démarche scientifique et sa portée critique à partir de ses frontières.

Retrouvez Richard Monvoisin sur :

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[RAMAGE] – You are not a parrot

Nobody likes an I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft’s Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta’s Galactica spewed racist rants; before ChatGPT began writing such perfectly decent college essays that some professors said, “Screw it, I’ll just stop grading”; and before tech reporters sprinted to claw back claims that AI was the future of search, maybe the future of everything else, too, Emily M. Bender co-wrote the octopus paper.

Bender is a computational linguist at the University of Washington. She published the paper in 2020 with fellow computational linguist Alexander Koller

 

Bender remains particularly fond of an alternative name for AI proposed by a former member of the Italian Parliament: “Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences.” Then people would be out here asking, “Is this SALAMI intelligent? Can this SALAMI write a novel? Does this SALAMI deserve human rights?” 

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[RAMAGE] – La Suisse : le beurre, l’argent du beurre et la comtesse en prime

27 mars 2023


Nicolas Gros-Verheyde  exportation d’armes, Neutralité, Suisse

(B2) La Suisse a développé une industrie de l’armement, et veut se rapprocher de l’Alliance atlantique mais interdit toute réexportation d’armes vers l’Ukraine. Au nom de sa neutralité. Les Européens devront en tirer des conséquences. Acheter à l’industrie suisse est aujourd’hui dangereux pour l’autonomie stratégique. Il faudra donc s’en passer.

Le cyber, un des domaines où la Suisse voudrait se rapprocher de l’OTAN (Photo : Armée suisse – prise de commandement du bataillon cyber 42 – Archives B2)

Que veut la Suisse ? Berne entend se rapprocher de l’OTAN comme de l’UE. C’est une volonté exprimée clairement dans un document publié par la Confédération en septembre dernier. La Suisse qui participe déjà à la plateforme d’interopérabilité de l’OTAN espère aussi obtenir le statut de partenaire privilégié, dit « nouvelles opportunités » alias EOP), réservé à quelques happy fews (Australie, Géorgie, Ukraine). La ministre suisse de la Défense, Viola Amherd, était mercredi au siège de l’OTAN pour tenter de convaincre ses interlocuteurs. Sans vraiment réussir.

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Ca y est, vous avez été placé sur le projet de vos rêves, qui va enfin vous permettre de laisser parler le génie qui est en vous! Mais… comment? pour des raisons de gestions d’équipe ou d’exigences du client, vous devez vous passer de votre système d’exploitation préféré pour travailler sur un système inconnu, et forcément moins pratique que celui auquel vous êtes habitués? Il est toujours possible d’effectuer des tâches similaires, mais il faut ré-apprendre à dire à la machine comment faire… Heureusement, cet ensemble d’équivalences d’instructions est là pour vous y aider!
De façon générale, les instructions par ligne de commande sont effectuées en bash (ou similaire) pour les distributions Linux, et en Dos (ou plus récemment Powershell) pour les distributions Windows. Ces systèmes d’exploitation et ces langages étant différents, il n’existe pas nécessairement d’équivalence directe entre deux commandes, et certains moyens détournés sont parfois nécessaires pour effectuer une opération particulière. C’est pourquoi cet petit manuel illustre plus différents moyens de parvenir à une même fin sur différents systèmes qu’une réelle “traduction” entre diverses commandes.

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Ian Li

March 21, 2023

Predicting the future of warfare is at best a speculative affair. Any forecast can never be proposed with absolute certainty, no matter how robust the underlying analysis. The future is always somewhat uncertain. In fact, history is replete with examples of visionaries who have tried but failed to accurately divine the nature of change. Nonetheless, it is a necessary endeavour, because such is the cost of war today that the implications of failure can be far-reaching, even existential. From the Oracle of Delphi to the modern application of data analytics, military planners over the ages have sought greater clarity regarding the future conduct of war.[1] However, there is no crystal ball for future warfare. Instead, this essay argues that historical lessons provide the best means of determining its form, but only if they are used correctly. The context behind each case study must be carefully considered by military planners who seek to learn from the past so that the observations gathered can be accurately extrapolated onto the present situation, and the resulting lessons meaningfully applied.

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Three steps to verify your Mastodon account with WordPress.

By Seth Kenlon
(Team, Red Hat)

November 20, 2022 |
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As users migrate away from Twitter, many wonder what the equivalent of the famous blue checkmark is on Mastodon. Ignoring debates about how anyone can be sure of anyone’s true identity online, it’s easy to verify yourself on Mastodon when you have a WordPress site.

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[RAMAGE] – Openjourney : le concurrent gratuit de Midjourney sans inscription

Si vous me lisez sur cet article, j’imagine que vous êtes intéressés par ce que l’on pourrait presque vulgairement appeler l’intelligence artificielle. Attention, j’adore ce domaine et depuis la sortie de chatGPT, c’est comme si tout allait de plus en plus vite. On peut dire que chatGPT à provoqué un tsunami, on se souvient tous de notre rencontre avec l’outil. Cet effet whaou que l’on n’avait pas eu depuis bien longtemps dans la technologie  » grand public « . Mais on n’est pas ici pour parler de chatGPT d’OpenAI, on va parler d’images, les images générées par les intelligences artificielle.

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The ‘hybrid warfare’ concept had been coined years earlier, but became fashionable only when it was adopted and adapted by NATO in 2014, after which academic interest suddenly sky-rocketed. Academics often adopted NATO’s understanding of the concept, took for granted its fit for Russian actions, and imported its political assumptions into the academic debate. The fashionability of the term also led to bandwagoning and thus superficial engagement with both the concept and the phenomenon it was applied to. This article outlines this process and its implications for the field of Strategic Studies.

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WordPress IndieMark instructions were a standardized way for developers to look at and evaluate getting started with IndieWeb using WordPress using IndieMark as a means of benchmarking their progress.

They previously existed at Getting Started on WordPress, which has since been reworked as a more basic method for getting started with WordPress.

By using WordPress on your own domain, you are already a part of the IndieWeb. Below are some suggestions to help you get started with upgrading your WordPress site to support IndieWeb philosophies.

To get a domain and web hosting service, see:

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Advanced WordPress Set up is a set of additional options and/or upgrades that extend the document Getting Started on WordPress.

As in most CMSes, there are many ways to do the same or similar things. While Getting Started on WordPress is meant for general beginners to take the quickest and easiest path to IndieWeb-ifying their personal site, there are additional and alternate options for many of the moving pieces. Many of these can be found below, roughly in the same order as on the getting started page.

Advanced users and developers are more than welcome to browse through these as well as the WordPress/Plugins page. Additional guidance for portions can potentially be found on individual wiki pages for particular pieces of functionality in the IndieWeb Examples sections for members who identify as WordPress/Examples.

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In ‘Western Strategy’s Two Logics: Diverging Interpretations’, Lukas Milevski of Leiden University argues that whereas classical strategic theory encompasses two different logics – instrumentality and adversariality – and two different modes – decision-making and performance – in modern strategy these modes have been on diverging paths, with varying interpretations – game theory; operational art; and the ends, ways, means model – privileging one logic above the other. He makes the case for strategic studies returning to a balanced interpretation of strategy.Footnote8