Einar W. Høst

@einarwh.bsky.social

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I am a cornucopia of near relevant facts.

Coloured dots laid out in a square. First one dot of one color, 1x1. Then create 2x2 square by adding three dots of a new color, 3x3 square by adding five dots of new color etc.
Screenshot from a YouTube video called "Mastering Choux Pastry", with autogenerated texting claiming that we'll be making "shoe pastry" instead.
Me on stage giving my very best shrug.
A page from “The Library of Babel” with the quote highlighted by yellow marker.
Felienne on the stage with a slide that says “How I fell out of love with Computer Science”
Sign with room names: pelican, toucan, nightingale, peacock.
Error message from dev tools: Cross-Origin Request Blocked. CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing. Status code: 504.
Screenshot of Brussels airlines registration form, which stops at the step before confirmation due to "a technical error".
A slide with a collection of whimsical sock puppets and the text "microservice architecture".
Trump showing a cardboard chart saying “our pool is bigger than skyscrapers”.
Googles AI-genererte respons på det falske sitatet tilskrevet Karpe. "Det er en fantastisk og håpefull innstilling!"
Google AI counting the number of g's in the word "goggle" and coming to two.
Tramteatret as Pelle Parafins bøljeband
Poster for the movie "Le trou" by Jacques Becker.
Bruce Willis' head appearing from behind a wall, apparently scanning the room, and then retreating back behind the wall.
A generic AI-generated abstract about the fictitious "Froob" framework.
Jonathan Groff as King George in the musical Hamilton.
Seismograf som viser jordskjelvet på Østlandet morgenen 26. april.
My Maine Coon cat looking very wizard-like.
The "What a week, huh? Captain, it's Wednesday" Tintin meme, but with the text "What a Wednesday, huh? Captain, it's noon".
Snippet from interview with Butler Lampson where he is optimistic about individual control over how personal data is disseminated and used as computers become ubiquitous.
Stillbilde fra filmen "A Film Johnnie" med Charlie Chaplin, som viser et tilsvarende motiv som på den AI-genererte plakaten.
AI-generert filmplakat for filmen "A Film Johnnie" med Charlie Chaplin. Klassisk AI-signatur i fargetonene (brun/oransje), samt at R'en i filmplakaten i bildet begynner på en stolpe og ikke på plakaten.
Felienne Hermans on stage at Booster Conference in Bergen, doing a talk called "A close reading of 'Computer Machinery and Intelligence'".
Purple aka bewitched aka mind-controlled aka evil minions.
Etymology of superfluous, composite of "super" meaning "over" and "fluere" meaning "to flow".
Screenshot from YouTube, with an AI-generated summary of my talk on "The AI puppet dance", enthusiastically stating "Witness a puppet show, but with AI!"
A collection of six AI generated movie posters for Finnish movies, with mangled titles.
Jacob fra Samson og en kopp te.
Clusters of verbs used in naming Java methods, based on a semantic profile. Some clusters have names, like "factories", "initializers" and "questions".
Robin Williams in Jumanji, asking “what year is it?”
Book cover, Trickster makes this world by Lewis Hyde.
Animated GIF of Clint Eastwood grimacing, from the movie Gran Torino.
The Nidelva river in beautiful afternoon light, reflections of the houses on both sides of the river in the still water.
A scene from Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. Rokurota Makabe looking stern, Tahei scratching his head. Both are sitting. The English caption says “Stupid rain! It hasn’t stopped for three days”
Cover of the book “Collaborative Software Design”.
My white Maine coon looking mysterious while draped in rhubarb leaves in the garden.
Espresso and cappuccino on a table.
W3C PNG file indicating that the atom feed has passed validation.
The scene from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson loses it, with the caption "You want the pudding? You can't handle the pudding!"
The back cover of Gerald Weinberg’s book “Quality Software Management, Volume 1: Systems Thinking”, which describes the series as both three-volume and four-volume.
A pop-up saying that the Kindle app on my Macbook is no longer supported.
A picture of Elmo from Sesame Street looking a bit befuddled. Caption says "So-ci-o-technical. That's a big word for Elmo."
A still from a talk by Alberto Brandolini at DDD Europe, showing auto-generated closed captions saying "and open ribbon design have to do with bounded context".
A still from a talk by Alberto Brandolini at DDD Europe, showing auto-generated closed captions saying "introduction about the men driven design".
An espresso and a cappuccino.
Arthur on stage with a slide where a stick person is encountering themselves and exclaiming “Oh hell no”.
A table of rating and feedback with two rows. The first has rating 4 and feedback "Too slow", the second has rating 4 and feedback "Too fast".
Screenshot of guidelines on how to detect displays on a Mac. It says "Press and hold the Option key to make this button appear in place of the Night Shift button".
A photo of me on stage.
A pop-up box presenting two options: "Chat with AI" or "Chat with a sales specialist".
A Google search “ac shadows too many” with suggestions “cutscenes”, “trees”, “castles” and “civilian casualties”.
My cat sleeping sleeping under a chair, treating it like a shelter of sorts.
A flying squirrel in flight.
The captions WILLKOMMEN, BIENVENUE and WELCOME on three dishes of cabaret.
Still photo from the music video for Jump Around by House of Pain.
Who is the consumer and who is the provider? What constraints do they operate under? What are the power dynamics? What is the collaboration like? What are the communication channels? How important is the API to each party? What is the expected change rate? How is change handled? What is the service level agreement? Are both sides happy?