AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning
Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane

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Monday August 19, 2013

Monday August 19, 2013

Thin-film effects, viewed under a microscope, imitate the night sky. What you see here is a flat surface that has a few defects on it (probably pieces of dust), covered with a thin, transparent film. According to the thickness of the film, you get different colors reflected back - this
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Thin-film effects, viewed under a microscope, imitate the night sky.  What you see here is a flat surface that has a few defects on it (probably pieces of dust), covered with a thin, transparent film.  According to the thickness of the film, you get different colors reflected back - this
Sunday August 18, 2013

Sunday August 18, 2013

Nanozombies! These people-shaped nanopillars were formed by accident while I was etching away laser material to make the long wall at the left of the picture. They creeped me out a little until someone pointed out to me in my last picture [http://tmblr.co/ZP7VLssWK9yZ] that they look like
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Nanozombies!  These people-shaped nanopillars were formed by accident while I was etching away laser material to make the long wall at the left of the picture.  They creeped me out a little until someone pointed out to me in my last picture [http://tmblr.co/ZP7VLssWK9yZ] that they look like
Saturday August 17, 2013

Saturday August 17, 2013

I have somehow created nanopeople. Their heads are made of laser material and their bodies are made of silicon, which means there’s a remote chance that some of them could be lasers. They’re each so small (300nm high) that a normal bacterium would appear to them like a
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I have somehow created nanopeople.  Their heads are made of laser material and their bodies are made of silicon, which means there’s a remote chance that some of them could be lasers.  They’re each so small (300nm high) that a normal bacterium would appear to them like a
Friday August 16, 2013

Friday August 16, 2013

A “perfectly clean” surface… This sample looked clean and shiny when I held it up to the light - I had cleaned it several times in harsh solvents like acetone, and even blasted it with high-energy plasma for a good ten minutes. Under the electron microscope, I learned the real
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A “perfectly clean” surface… This sample looked clean and shiny when I held it up to the light - I had cleaned it several times in harsh solvents like acetone, and even blasted it with high-energy plasma for a good ten minutes.  Under the electron microscope, I learned the real
Thursday August 15, 2013

Thursday August 15, 2013

Tiny nanostructures. If you stacked a thousand of the largest one on top of each other, they would just about equal the thickness of a single sheet of paper. And then you should tell me how you managed to do it - maybe we could write a paper together. These
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Tiny nanostructures.  If you stacked a thousand of the largest one on top of each other, they would just about equal the thickness of a single sheet of paper.  And then you should tell me how you managed to do it - maybe we could write a paper together. These
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