My new book

[Pamela McCorduck]

Please let me indulge in a little self-promotion here and tell you that my new book, one part memoir, one part social history, one part group biography, is now available. It’s called THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT: MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENTSIA, and is published by Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press, available in book form or as an ebook through the site below or on Amazon:

http://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/product/this-could-be-important/

The title, by the way, comes from the decades I spent pulling on the sleeves of public intellectuals and saying, Uh, artificial intelligence? This could be important. To derisive laughter, of course.

Pamela

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[jon zingale]

Cool! To celebrate your new book I submit this image I rendered over the weekend. I trained a neural net on an image from the Book of Kells and then had it reconstruct a picture of some mushrooms in the Sangre De Christos:

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[Jochen Fromm-5]

Looks awesome, I will order a copy. Looking forward to read books from the other FRIAM members as well. 

-J.

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From: Pamela McCorduck <[hidden email]>

Date: 10/21/19 06:16 (GMT+01:00)

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>

Subject: [FRIAM] My new book

Please let me indulge in a little self-promotion here and tell you that my new book, one part memoir, one part social history, one part group biography, is now available. It’s called THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT: MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENTSIA, and is published by Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press, available in book form or as an ebook through the site below or on Amazon:

http://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/product/this-could-be-important/

The title, by the way, comes from the decades I spent pulling on the sleeves of public intellectuals and saying, Uh, artificial intelligence? This could be important. To derisive laughter, of course.

Pamela

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[Nick Thompson]

Hi, Jon,

 

No image attached to my copy. 

 

But, more important, what in the name of doo-wah-ditty is the Book of Kells? 

 

N

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:23 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My new book

 

Cool! To celebrate your new book I submit this image I rendered over the weekend. I trained a neural net on an image from the Book of Kells and then had it reconstruct a picture of some mushrooms in the Sangre De Christos:

 

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[Barry MacKichan]

Hmm. Attachments seem to be assassinated by the mail server.

Here is a dropbox link. I put the screen grab on my Dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6449y51ojboaant/Book%20of%20Kells.jpeg?dl=0

--Barry

On 21 Oct 2019, at 17:31, Barry MacKichan wrote:

Here you go, Nick. The Book of Kells was done by Irish monks before 1000 AD, and it is on display in the Trinity University library in Dublin. There is also an awesome ebook version of it, which I have on my iPad. What you see here is a screen shot from it. That’s St. Matthew, but I’m sure you recognized him.

--Barry

On 21 Oct 2019, at 17:06, Nick Thompson wrote:

Hi, Jon,

 

No image attached to my copy. 

 

But, more important, what in the name of doo-wah-ditty is the Book of Kells? 

 

N

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:23 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My new book

 

Cool! To celebrate your new book I submit this image I rendered over the weekend. I trained a neural net on an image from the Book of Kells and then had it reconstruct a picture of some mushrooms in the Sangre De Christos:

 

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[Frank Wimberly-2]

>That’s St. Matthew, but I’m sure you recognized him.

Hahahaha...

Matthew adapted the book of Mark for Jews.  Luke, a Greek physician, did the same for Gentiles.

Frank

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 3:43 PM Barry MacKichan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hmm. Attachments seem to be assassinated by the mail server.

Here is a dropbox link. I put the screen grab on my Dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6449y51ojboaant/Book%20of%20Kells.jpeg?dl=0

--Barry

On 21 Oct 2019, at 17:31, Barry MacKichan wrote:

Here you go, Nick. The Book of Kells was done by Irish monks before 1000 AD, and it is on display in the Trinity University library in Dublin. There is also an awesome ebook version of it, which I have on my iPad. What you see here is a screen shot from it. That’s St. Matthew, but I’m sure you recognized him.

--Barry

On 21 Oct 2019, at 17:06, Nick Thompson wrote:

Hi, Jon,

 

No image attached to my copy. 

 

But, more important, what in the name of doo-wah-ditty is the Book of Kells? 

 

N

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jon Zingale
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:23 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] My new book

 

Cool! To celebrate your new book I submit this image I rendered over the weekend. I trained a neural net on an image from the Book of Kells and then had it reconstruct a picture of some mushrooms in the Sangre De Christos:

 

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[jon zingale]

My apologize for the missing image.

Here is a link to Mushrooms Of Kells.

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[cody dooderson]

That is cool. How does that style transfer work? Do you train it on just one image?

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:31 AM Jon Zingale <[hidden email]> wrote:

My apologize for the missing image.

Here is a link to Mushrooms Of Kells.

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