Dale Markowitz
@dalequark
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present: writing, running https://t.co/eTX8AbFukE past: AI @ Google, OkCupid words in The Atlantic, WaPo, Nautilus, NYMag and beyond
Joined March 2024
I’m obsessive about my office. I want it to inspire me, to act as a creative echo chamber for my inner musings. I wrote for @NautilusMag about why we curate our creative nests. In celebration, here are some of my favorite famous offices. 🧵.
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How decorating work spaces supports art making
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RT @aasanch: 🚀We are launching the first ever AI Film Festival in Texas this weekend!! This first year of @austinaifilm has come together w….
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RT @nikitanamjoshi: Let's normalize meeting up in person to discuss things.
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Join us for a night of learning, drinks, and discussion at the Austin Salon, a social club for curious Austinites.
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RT @nikitanamjoshi: brilliant writing from the brilliant @maytaleyal .". in a world where the textured, imperfect intricacies of being hum….
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And me? I have a giant Roman water garden mural, some historical scientific prints, Renaissance art, a Bluetooth typewriter, and, most critically, a black cat. 🐈⬛
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Brandon Sanderson had a fantasy writing lair built 30 feet underground in Utah.
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Thomas Edison slept in his glamorous multi-story-library-office so often that his wife had a bed brought in.
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Charles Dickens was an interior design enthusiast who once wrote a 6,000-word essay on wallpaper. When his pet raven died, he had it taxidermied and hung above his desk. He was so attached to his workspace that he traveled with a portable rosewood writing desk.
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Ray Bradbury wrote surrounded by toys, a canopy of masks, a six-foot Bullwinkle stuffed animal and a jar with a fake human head in it.
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Sigmund Freud cluttered his office was ancient artifacts, including over 2,000 Greco-Roman statutes, busts, Neolithic tools, Sumerian seals, Egyptian mummy bandages and even a collection of penis amulets. He was so in love with his statues he even took some on holiday with him.
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RT @jbwallingford: It. Is. On!!! Stand up for Science, Austin! 4pm. South steps of the Texas Capitol. Be there!
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Wondering what AI means for humanity? Will you be in Austin on March 25? Join me, @nikitanamjoshi and The Austin Salon for an evening of learning, drinks, and discussion.
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Join us for a night of learning, drinks, and discussion at the Austin Salon, a social club for curious Austinites.
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One of my favorite discoveries during research: “weapons salve,” a potion applied not to a wound but to the weapon that had inflicted it. Ironically, this improved medical outcomes because at the time, it was safer to leave a wound untouched than to smother it with whatever weird.
For many of the early modern thinkers who laid the foundations of modern science, the world teemed with the uncanny: witches, unicorns, mermaids, metals that could be distilled into elixirs of eternal life.
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My brilliant friend @maytaleyal wrote about the “McVulnerability Trap” for for @TheAtlantic.
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People crying their hearts out online are selling intimacy—but the emptiest kind.
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Great takeaway on DeepSeek, and the environmental impact of endlessly scaling AI.
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/.
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TIL my Transformers explainer video hit 1,000,000 views. Woohoo! Thanks @jjuntado for helping my bring this to life.
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RT @nikitanamjoshi: @MLStreetTalk that's my super brilliant brother! family reunions = 2 hour lectures on math and active inference 😵💫.
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TIL “fox tossing” passed for entertainment in 17th century Europe. “Fuchsprellen” was all fun and games until the fox a) died on impact or b) turned on the players with teeth and claws.
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