The Alphabet Train once turned up crewed with ghosts, and after the initial shock passed, quickly became popular with people who wanted to end up somewhere entirely else on the globe fast - whatever the crew’s language was, it’d visit cities in that language’s alphabetical order.

Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/

a gas giant moon’s tree ocean, riddles with tunnels chewed by train-sized millipedes, inhabited by furry snakes that travel along branches and arch over the surface, spring tide eclipse sky filled by lampion fruit riding the jetstream

Since homing pigeons are extinct, I guess we will need to distribute our SSB micro flash cards via trained falcon.

Somebody ought to make a word2vec model trained on https://rit-public.github.io/HappyDB/ available. If I get some time, maybe it’ll be me.

life hex: leash-training your dog can be a pain. Instead, make an effigy of your dog, and wrap around it twine made from his own hair, while chanting ‘I bind you to this image’. Pop the poppet in your pocket and off you go

Bad idea of the day: Use eliza as your therapist for an hour a day for years, then train a markov bot on the logs.

The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game

Web app developers: OF COURSE I DIG THESE TRAIN TUNNELS WITH A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD DECORATIVE COCKTAIL FORK. EVERYBODY DOES. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE, A TOOTHPICK?

There’s been a statue of a waiting man at our train station for as long as I can remember. A few mornings ago, it vanished. Purported surveillance videos circulating on the net show it entering a night train

The air is heavy with exhaust and shop smell. Subway trains peek out from between the roots, curl lazily around the trunks

MIT used data from Reddit to train an AI algorithm to tell horror stories — Quartz https://qz.com/1115179/mit-used-data-from-reddit-to-train-an-ai-to-tell-horror-stories/

Your brain implant projects carefully timed fake smiles onto your face, to throw off the targeting and poison their training sets

In an Internet dominated by AI-written content farms, some memes go feral, ignore humans to show up only in training sets and AI writings

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate

an AI trained on ads generating ads for fake products, then bringing into existence those that get the most clicks

Long train ride. The guy across from you is sleeping, growing leaves and vines over his seat. He startles, looks at you, reverts to human.

Behind the moving train, the ground zips open and reveals Earth’s crystal nerves, giant muscles moving the plates, organs pumping magma

and then there’s this one face that all the AIs recognize even though no training set contains it. Sometimes you see him in public transport

You hide your hands and stare intently out of the window. No walls, only other trains snaking through the dark distance, seemingly floating

given full access to a recognizer/classifier, construct training data that makes it unlearn a certain feature

you slept through the train’s final stop and wake up to clouds under your window, no ground in sight, a green sky, an ocean arcing across it

Solver crashes are local, but sufficient for fingerprinting. Trained on solver reactions, anti-solver fractals grow more and more effective.

Ride the train of thought to its final destination, and then further. Hide from the conductor if need be.

The train went off the rails a while ago but it hasn’t noticed. It’s somewhere in the mountains now, carving tracks into their sides.

Locals complained about noise, so it was filtered. Many trains worth were illegally dumped in a forest, now full of ghostly subway noises.

Progress made trains become ever more spacious and luxurious. At some point we stopped taking trains and started taking stations.

She’s sitting across me on the train, concentrated on her palms where a bonsai of light is growing, blooming. Nobody but me seems to notice.

I think I found a train yard. Some of these look as if made for a different atmosphere. Graffiti and rust everywhere. Who lost these?

I didn’t even lose my train of thought. I missed it entirely. The platform was empty when I arrived. Currently wandering along the tracks.

A second sun is shining on the imaginary-numbered frequencies, into our thoughts, casts them in a light the trained eye can tell the time by

Cheaters have been known to train at home to be able to fake helium voices while talking with normal air.

Family sticks together
Back in 2001 KM was born. Orlando was his birth place and all he knows to be called home. It is where his house is, in which he freely roams his domains and plays with his toys. It is also where he fights his father on endless battles. Nana lives there so does uncle Thanh, and cousin Alyssa, Kevin, Tommy, Jason… along with thirty plus family members. He knows where choo-choo train, Target and [Chuc … ⌘ Read more

On a training, for two days
I am going through a Windows 2003 training for two days. A few things we are talking about here I have already played with, some others are boooring! But it could be worse, at least it is not a Microsoft sales pitch.

It does feels weird to be away from work, I am not used to Trainings of this kind. It feels weird as well to be typing this from the classroom, while the instructor is going through his Powerpoint presentation. Botton line is, the chair where I am sitting is ve … ⌘ Read more