what if i went a little more retro~

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duffboi

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some material for warmup i think. hmmm...

ok, well, i was sidetracked, so now u get:

like a pic i found from april 2023

the pens are pilots; special/limited edition g2 and metropolitan (black) (they are both pilot g2/ gel pens tho ;) *

and that was a larger former journal that i eventually finished, save for a few pages at the end, as i wanted to move to a new journal :x

maybe i can get back on track and share what i wanted, as well...

~peace
-db

[EDIT]

Here's more retro, from june 14, 2011, hehe

  • The singularity.
  • This is another post of something that interests me. More specifically, this would be a technological singularity. Basically, its an idea that comes from the observation of the speed at which technology increases. Moore's law is a statement of this in that every year and a half, the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit (realistically, all things considered) doubles.
  • Well the idea of a technological singularity is a point in time when the evolution of technology takes over the task of evolving itself. One thought of how this could come to take place would be through the medium of artificial intelligence.
  • An interesting idea that goes along with this singularity thinking is that of evolutionary algorithms. I can speak of this in layman's terms, and it's been some time since I've looked into this. But say 5 different pieces of codes are created to do the same thing. (evolutionary algorithms can be used for pattern recognition, such as facial recognition). These five codes could go through a process with each other (in my unintelligence) like evolution (or mating/blending), and produce say 5 more 'offspring. The performance of these 5 offsprings are compared, and the higher performing offsprings are then further paired to evolve more offsprings. The idea here is that as the code evolves, the pattern recognition gets better, although once we have a working program (offspring), we couldn't really tell exactly how its recognising a pattern, such as one's face.
  • Well say, hypothetically, this evolutionary algorithm was paired with the development of artificial intelligence. Say this artificial intelligence could arrange transistors on a circuit by itself. Once the performance of that intelligence surpassed that of humans, there would be a singularity.
  • So basically, its an idea of a point in time when the evolution of technology takes over itself, and interestingly, we would not be able to predict the future after that point, as it would in effect be outside of our hands.
  • I used to like to ponder along these lines. There's still people that put stock in this happening in the early to mid twenty first century, according to wikipedia. I'm not as sure now of this happening as I was at one point in time.
  • In any case, it's been proposed that this could lead to advances in the sciences of biology and technology, making us live longer, and eventually, could even lead to nanobots taking over the roles of dying cells, therefore allowing for one to keep living a lot longer.
  • It's all interesting thought, and I'm sure there's other people that could explain the idea better than me. But if you haven't come across this idea before, then I'm glad I could tell you a little about it.
  • Alright, that's my post of interest.

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