AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Saturday August 17, 2013

Saturday August 17, 2013

I have somehow created nanopeople. Their heads are made of laser material and their bodies are made of silicon, which means there’s a remote chance that some of them could be lasers. They’re each so small (300nm high) that a normal bacterium would appear to them like a
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I have somehow created nanopeople.  Their heads are made of laser material and their bodies are made of silicon, which means there’s a remote chance that some of them could be lasers.  They’re each so small (300nm high) that a normal bacterium would appear to them like a
Friday August 16, 2013

Friday August 16, 2013

A “perfectly clean” surface… This sample looked clean and shiny when I held it up to the light - I had cleaned it several times in harsh solvents like acetone, and even blasted it with high-energy plasma for a good ten minutes. Under the electron microscope, I learned the real
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A “perfectly clean” surface… This sample looked clean and shiny when I held it up to the light - I had cleaned it several times in harsh solvents like acetone, and even blasted it with high-energy plasma for a good ten minutes.  Under the electron microscope, I learned the real
Thursday August 15, 2013

Thursday August 15, 2013

Tiny nanostructures. If you stacked a thousand of the largest one on top of each other, they would just about equal the thickness of a single sheet of paper. And then you should tell me how you managed to do it - maybe we could write a paper together. These tiny
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Tiny nanostructures.  If you stacked a thousand of the largest one on top of each other, they would just about equal the thickness of a single sheet of paper.  And then you should tell me how you managed to do it - maybe we could write a paper together. These tiny
Tuesday August 13, 2013

Tuesday August 13, 2013

A speck of dust, viewed under the electron microscope. Looks a bit to me like a pirouetting bison. The dust is definitely microscopic - about 40 of these would fit inside your average skin cell. It’s sitting on the metal holder we use for mounting our samples - all those thin
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A speck of dust, viewed under the electron microscope.  Looks a bit to me like a pirouetting bison.  The dust is definitely microscopic - about 40 of these would fit inside your average skin cell.  It’s sitting on the metal holder we use for mounting our samples - all those thin
Monday August 12, 2013

Monday August 12, 2013

Could this be the creature who’s been clambering all over my sample, raking scratches into my designs, cackling all the while? I sometimes wonder. … Or maybe it’s actually a speck of dust, as usual. This one’s large for a dust particle, but still invisible to the human
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Could this be the creature who’s been clambering all over my sample, raking scratches into my designs, cackling all the while?  I sometimes wonder. … Or maybe it’s actually a speck of dust, as usual.  This one’s large for a dust particle, but still invisible to the human
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