A mere 200 yards away from the grotesque celebration of the Spanish Navy's conquest of America, inside the Pérez Art Museum Miami across the park, is Hew Locke's amazing piece "For Those in Peril on the Sea," a collection of water craft representing the labor and the losses of ocean passages.

But you can walk along the Flitch Way nearby, a beautiful path created from a disused railway line, to centuries-old Hatfield Forest a mile away, for hundreds of acres of still beautiful countryside (punctuated by the roar of Ryanair jets overhead every 2 minutes, however).

Oh yes. There's a massive complex of flats and shops right next to the train station. Start Hill, the tiny village Cxcx grew up in, is a few hundred yards from London's 3rd major airport, and I mostly associate it with the petrol station just off the M11 motorway roundabout.

Charli xcx grew up in Bishop's Stortford, apparently, so we have that in common. She has to be the town's most famous former resident at this point, which is great bc it means it's no longer Cecil Rhodes.

I finished the article. Reading the example passages I found myself wondering: is it actually surprising that LLMs trained on the whole corpus of a particular writer are better at emulating the style of that writer than an MFA student who's being trained to find their own voice, not copy others?

OTOH, calculating the costs involved creates a road map for replacing human authors with AI (99.7% cheaper).

The study relies on MFA students who were paid $75 for each 450-word piece emulating famous writers. If they'd paid MFAs more, maybe their writing would have been better?!

The piece is a critique of AI companies' "fair use" claims and could be used by authors as part of anti-AI litigation: "fine-tuned LLMs consisting of the collected copy-righted works...of individual authors should not be fair use if the LLM is used to create outputs that emulate the author’s works."

That beautiful map has been on the wall in my mum's dining room in England for almost 25 years, ever since I bought it for my parents as a Christmas present the year I was fortunate enough to be a JCB fellow.

Now I want to know where all the runoff water went after it left the impervious surface of the stage, which is not a question I asked the first fifty times I watched that video

look at this beautiful map of the Metrorail we might have had: the People's Transportation Plan of 2002, which led to county voters approving a sales tax increase to fund mass transit. (Map by Jake Berman of 53 Studio.)

both his university professorship *and* his center directorship are endowed (he is officially the Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Charles W. Eliot University Professor).