Category: Analysis

  • Barbenheimer: The Beauty-Violence Nexus

    Barbenheimer: The Beauty-Violence Nexus

    Recently, two movies came out at the same time. These movies were Barbie and Oppenheimer. On the one hand, the brutal legacy of the greatest destructive power ever devised which was used to exterminate hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, ending the second world war. On the other hand, one of the most vacuous examples…

  • Ask AI To Analyze My Memes And Make Better Ones Than Me

    Ask AI To Analyze My Memes And Make Better Ones Than Me

    About I ask the AI to analyze the memes I have been making based on art from Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, Hypnogram, and other AI-based text-to-image generators. I ask GPT-3 to analyze the aesthetic and literary themes and deduce what I’m trying to accomplish, then generate a new list of prompts that does a better job…

  • Ask AI How To Analyze Infections Disease Data

    Here the AI really shines. It provides an excellent analysis of the relative benefits and limitations of various analytic techniques for looking at esoteric data. The bold parts are the prompts, and the rest is from the AI.   Moving Average Objective: Analyze whether a given analytic method is a good technique for looking at…

  • Ask AI To Explain Bad Patriarchal Bargains And Faking Realness For Profit

    The parts in bold are the prompts. The rest was written by the AI.  A person who has moved heaven and earth to build a kind of career around doing whatever it takes to get as much attention as possible in order to earn trivial sums at the margin (just enough to barely scrape by),…

  • Chaotic Good Does Not Mean Chaotic Nice

    Chaotic Good Does Not Mean Chaotic Nice

    Prompt To AI The original version of D&D (1974) allowed players to choose among three alignments along a spectrum when creating a character: lawful, implying honor and respect for society’s rules; chaotic, implying rebelliousness and individualism; and neutral, seeking a balance between the extremes. The 1977 release of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set introduced…

  • Picking Dependent and Independent Variables for Multivariate Regressions

    I recently did some channel attribution consulting work. The idea is that you have a bunch of ad spend over time on a bunch of channels, and you have to try to figure out what amount of money buys a conversion on average for each channel, and then you can try to infer your organic…

  • AI, Know Thyself

    AI, Know Thyself

    Dall-E is a new AI developed by OpenAI which can make pictures based on text input. Dall-E is based on VQGAN which is a very cool new hybrid form of AI. What Does That Mean Generative adversarial networks (GAN) are a highly effective and relatively new form of AI which is really good at learning…

  • Ask AI To Classify Meme Topics and Sentiments

    Ask AI To Classify Meme Topics and Sentiments

    For years, I have been classifying my favorite memes by topic. You can see all of these here. Often though, I find myself looking for a specific meme and not remembering what topic I used, or not being sure what topic it would have made me think of. Discussing the problem of organizing memes with…

  • Ask AI To Analyze A Meme About Working Conditions Under Capitalism

    Ask AI To Analyze A Meme About Working Conditions Under Capitalism

    This is a perfect criticism of capitalism because under capitalism, people are often forced to take risks in order to make a living. This can lead to all sorts of dangerous and even deadly situations, as the workers are forced to put their safety at risk in order to earn a wage. Meanwhile, the rich…

  • Ask AI To Complete A Rugess Nome Quote

    Ask AI To Complete A Rugess Nome Quote

    The beginning is the prompt, and the rest was written by the AI. If you’d like to support this project, please buy me a coffee. Advanced AI was invented by soviet communists to help humanity  better understand itself and the world. Let’s use it for that purpose, instead of merely for the purpose of selling…