In the London Underground commuters are warned to “mind the gap,” lest they fall between the platform and the open door to the train.The gap is dangerous. To fall into it, deadly. Between what we know and don’t know there is also a gap. It goes by many names —…

A Sketch a Day, Everyday: What I’ve Learned So Far Art is never the result of what you set out to do. At the beginning of the year, my friend Mindy convinced me to do a sketch a day with her. She lives in Richmond and I live in Portland…

What salmon know about how to defy gravity It turns out facing things is not as hard, not nearly as hard, as resisting them. But to face things, especially forces that oppose us, we must go against every instinct we have to continue to believe and do what we believed…

It turns out that the key to learning how to walk is learning how to fall. Infants who are learning to walk don’t move forward in one continuous straight line.They take a step, lose their balance and fall.They speed forward, stop short, fall backward. They start forward, swerve, miss a…

One of the issues in the Writers Strike, now ended, was the use of AI. Drew Barrymore decided to resume production of her talk show before the end of the Writer’s Strike. “I stand by my decision, “ was how she initially justified her crossing the…

An interview with E.S.O. Martin Chat GPT allows us to personalize information. What does this mean? It gives us the answer we’re looking for but we don’t necessarily know whoor where the answer is coming from. Besides looking at the the pros and the cons of information personalization, I speak…

Machine Learning, Data Bias & Creating Inclusive Tech Communities Recently on the Imaginary Possible I spoke with machine learning engineer Leila Kaneda. Among other things Leila and I discussed: What Machine Learning Is Some common misconceptions people have about AI Data Bias and how to methods to prevent it. The…

Does Chat GPT have a sense of humor? You decide

Face #3 of 30 Days of Faces and Places Faces That Reveal Hidden Emotions I began this painting with reference to a photo of a man whom I found attractive. Perhaps we always begin with beauty? Or fascination? Maybe this is the same thing. It think it is in my case. The expression I painted…