My GCSU colleague James Patrick Tedrow has joined me in the effort to build this blog.
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink.
~ Albert Camus
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Wired Magazine – Premiere Issue
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
~ Mark Twain
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
~ Marcel Proust
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If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
― Ansel Adams
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Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
~ Albert Camus
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If you would have your work last forever, and by forever I mean fifty years, it must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach, but it must covertly preach and covertly teach.
~ Mark Twain
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A great creative writer is someone who uses language in new ways to communicate new kinds of experiences—who replaces stereotype with reality, as Proust put it. LLMs are incapable of doing this, because they have no access to an experience or a reality that lies outside of language.
~ Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
~ Albert Camus
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