Eric Scheske

Midweek Rambling Kinda interesting: Inside Amazon's $3.5 Million Competition to Make Alexa Chat Like a Human [https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17453994/amazon-alexa-prize-2018-competition-conversational-ai-chatbots] . If you don't want to wait for the results, you can use the

Miscellaneous Rambling The heat has been unbearable. Rain permitting, I hope to make it out to the produce site to see if the lettuce is bolting. I hope not. We're hoping for our first mega-harvest of the year. I was pleasantly surprised by the current performance by

Miscellaneous Rambling Amen to that Nassim Taleb quote a posted yesterday. "[A]ny argument (such as the one now used for illegal immigration) that is supported by pictures/narratives of children is called PEDOPHRASTY. Actually, use of children should weaken an argument." I strongly agree. I'm

> A reminder that any argument (such as the one now used for illegal immigration) that is supported by pictures/narratives of children is called PEDOPHRASTY. Actually, use of children should weaken an argument. pic.twitter.com/qZ7Qn5pHN2 [https://t.co/qZ7Qn5pHN2] > — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 16, 2018

Autobio Rambling Crazy week. My back molar split on Wednesday, necessitating an extraction. I then had to cover a lengthy client meeting Wednesday evening that didn't let out until after 9:30. I had to get up early in order to be in Detroit for a conference that

Brews You Can Use God willing, you're reading this after I spent a night of drinking at old haunts along South University in Ann Arbor [https://localwiki.org/ann-arbor/South_University] with Marie, Alex, and Abbie, then crashing at Abbie's before heading back to the

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy Flag Day . . . with the "L." The cover story in the current issue of Gilbert Magazine is about John Wu. Very good piece. I don't know a ton about Wu, but he holds that Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism were good seed beds for Christianity,

Midweek Rambling I read this at Reddit's Today I Learned page: "The budget for the original 1978 film Halloween was so small that the actor playing Michael Myers was paid $20 per day and the original Michael Myers mask was purchased at a local costume shop for

Normie Rambling I finally finished Kill All Normies. I enjoyed it, even if it was riddled with typos (it was rushed through the production process, the publishing house sensing, rightly, it would ring with the Trump election). If I had to summarize it: The Internet had a guy culture of

Miscellaneous Rambling Man: wet, wet, and more wet. Whenever I see this much wetness, I'm reminded of that character in CSL's Voyage of the Dawn Treader who comments, "“Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?” From The