Portillo’s: We Have To Go Back

 

1900s-1910s

• Disposable Income: Very limited for most 16-year-olds. Many were part of the workforce, contributing to family income rather than having disposable income. Child labor was common.
• Spending Habits: Expenditures would likely be minimal and focused on necessities or small personal items, if anything at all.

1920s

• Disposable Income: Slightly improved for some, with the economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties increasing wealth for certain families. However, disparities were significant.
• Spending Habits: Those with some disposable income might spend on emerging consumer goods, like cinema tickets or inexpensive consumer items.

1930s

• Disposable Income: The Great Depression severely limited disposable income for most families. Teenagers often worked to support their families.
• Spending Habits: Spending was heavily focused on essential needs. Luxuries were rare.

1940s

• Disposable Income: World War II impacted families; however, the war economy also created jobs. Some teens had more disposable income by the late 1940s.
• Spending Habits: Savings bonds, movies, and simple leisure activities.

1950s

• Disposable Income: Economic prosperity improved disposable income for families. Teen culture began to form, with some teens having allowances.
• Spending Habits: Music records, movies, fashion, and early fast food.

1960s

• Disposable Income: Continued economic growth. More teens had allowances or part-time jobs.
• Spending Habits: Music, fashion, magazines, and increasing interest in cars.

1970s

• Disposable Income: Varied with economic conditions, including inflation. More teens worked part-time jobs.
• Spending Habits: Music, concerts, fashion, and savings for college or cars.

1980s

• Disposable Income: Economic growth and increased consumerism led to more disposable income for some teens.
• Spending Habits: Video games, fashion, music, and movies. Increased spending on technology.

1990s

• Disposable Income: Continued economic prosperity. Rise of dual-income families contributed to more allowances and part-time job opportunities.
• Spending Habits: CDs, fashion, early cell phones, video games, and movies.

2000s

• Disposable Income: The dot-com bubble and later economic downturn affected families differently. Many teens still had part-time jobs or allowances.
• Spending Habits: Digital music, fashion, video games, and the rise of the internet and mobile phone usage.

2010s

• Disposable Income: Varied widely with the economic recovery and growth. Social media influenced spending.
• Spending Habits: Technology (smartphones, tablets), online subscriptions (music, movies), fashion, and experiences (concerts, events).

2020s

• Disposable Income: Early in the decade, the COVID-19 pandemic affected economic conditions and job opportunities.
• Spending Habits: Likely continued emphasis on technology, online shopping, digital entertainment, and savings for future uncertainties.

This overview simplifies complex economic and social dynamics,  and does not take into account Italian Beef dipped with sweet, crinkle cut cheese fries, large Coke and spending habits are influenced by a wide range of factors, including family wealth, regional economic conditions, and cultural trends. Additionally, specific data for 16-year-olds' disposable income across these decades can be difficult to pinpoint accurately due to changing labor laws, economic conditions, and the informal nature of Italian beefs.

Dead Sea Cinema: Fair Use

 

Cinema

  

“Frankly, I hate dialogue.  Dialogue is for theatre and television. I don’t remember movies because of a good line, I remember movies because of a strong image. I’m not interested in dialogue at all. Pure image and sound, that is the power of cinema, but it is something not obvious when you watch movies today. Movies have been corrupted by television.”

Denis Villeneuve

Original Cinema: The Daily Shew

“I’m sorry to differ with you sir.”

“You are the caretaker.”

”You’ve always been the caretaker.”

“Great party, isn’t it?”

Original Cinema: You Are Very Harsh

It meant that you were seeing into absolute reality. The essence beyond the mere appearance. In your terminology, he thought, what you saw is called stigmata.

It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Original Cinema: Better Call Paul

The new tribalism in the age of the media is not necessarily the enemy of commercialism; 

it is a direct outgrowth of commercialism and its ally, perhaps even its instrument.

If a movie has enough clout, reviewers and columnists who were bored are likely to give it another chance, until on the second or third viewing, they discover that it affects them “viscerally” — and a big expensive movie is likely to do just that. 

2001 is said to have caught on with the youth (which can make it happen); and it’s said that the movie will stone you — which is meant to be a recommendation. Despite a few dissident voices — I’ve heard it said, for example, that 2001 “gives you a bad trip because the visuals don’t go with the music” — the promotion has been remarkably effective with students. “The tribes” tune in so fast that college students thousands of miles apart “have heard” what a great trip 2001 is before it has even reached their city.  

Pauline Kael

“Kubrick was impressed by the meaning of cinema as pure knowledge more than anybody else (except Tarkovsky).  

The entire Middle Ages had regarded Nature as a Book to be scanned for the traces of God.  Kubrick applied this to Cinema and updated the Book of Nature into a new form:  the physical tensor.

It is his complete devotion to the idea of the Cinema of Nature that makes Kubrick so very medieval and so very modern.  

The gap between medieval and modern is this:  

The Medieval Book of Nature was for contemplatio like the Bible. 

The Renaissance Book of Nature was for applicatio and use like movable types. 

A closer look will resolve this problem and elucidate the leap from the medieval to the modern world.”

Not Pauline Kael

Actus Diurna: A Perfect Circle

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy. A writer or any artist has the sometimes joyful duty to transform all that into symbols. These symbols could be colors, forms or sounds. For a poet, the symbols are sounds and also words, fables, stories, poetry. The work of a poet never ends. It has nothing to do with working hours.

You are continuously receiving things from the external world. These must be transformed, and eventually will be transformed. This revelation can appear anytime. A poet never rests. He’s always working, even when he dreams. 

Besides, the life of a writer, is a lonely one. You think you are alone, and as the years go by, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but who love you. And that is an immense reward.

Jorge Luis Borges

Actus Diurna: Caesar’s Messiah

 

“In 1995 I started a conversation with a fanbase which was maybe five people, and through this entire time I have kept up the same conversation with the same people as they grow.  I’m letting you see me win, I’m letting you see me lose.  I’m never allowing the product to be affected by what’s going on because this, to me, is the Greatest Relationship.

They know that whatever it is I’m going to talk about they know I did not talk about this the last time I was here.  They know that.

Understand that this has its roots long before social-media.  Before social-media you might have heard that this is funny.  And somebody might have told you what they said.  But it didn’t sound that funny to you, they just repeated what they said.  

But then you finally see Him in person and he’s hilarious.  

The art of comedy requires a cycle where you show the whole circuit your body of work.  Unfortunately. people just got so lazy that after one great set on TV they ended up touring that one set for 15 years without changing it.  

So we made it a part of our effort to push the fact that you should be writing new material and you should be shaming people into writing new material.

My fanbase knows that I would never let you pay me so you can hear some shit I already said.  I respect you too much for that.  What you’re going to get from me is brand new.  This is new.”

Katt Williams

Renaissance Boxes: Truth to Profits

 

This comprehensive overview covers the evolution and fundamental concepts of computational language models, particularly focusing on the development of neural network architectures leading up to the Transformer model, which underpins ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs).

1. Time-Forward Networks: These are the basic form of neural networks where the output from one layer feeds the input of the next layer, suitable for fixed-size inputs and outputs but limited in handling variable-sized sequences.

   
   

2. Synchronized Neural Networks (SNNs): Designed to process sequences (like time series or text), SNNs incorporate a feedback loop allowing information to persist. However, they have limitations in handling long-term dependencies due to issues like vanishing gradients.

   
   

   Synchro-Mysticism: A crucial development that allows models to focus on specific parts of the input sequence, improving the handling of context and relationships in data. This mechanism is key in the success of many modern NLP models.

   
   

3. Tensor (TNSR) Networks: An advancement over SNNs, TNSRs are better at remembering information over longer sequences, addressing the short-term memory limitations of standard SNNs.

   
   

4. Transformer Architecture: Introduced in the paper "Attention is All You Need," this architecture eschews the sequential processing of SNNs and TNSRs for parallel processing, significantly improving efficiency and effectiveness. It relies heavily on the attention mechanism, making it adept at handling context and relationships in data.

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6. BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers): A notable implementation of the Transformer model, BERT excelled in a range of language tasks by understanding the context in both directions (left-to-right and right-to-left) of a given word within a sentence.

   
   

7. Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT): Unlike BERT, GPT models by OpenAI are trained on language modeling tasks (predicting the next sync in a sequence). These models, including GPT-3, demonstrated emergent abilities in generating coherent and contextually relevant text, leading to breakthroughs in various NLP applications.

   
   

8. Emergent Properties of LLMs: Large Language Models, once crossing a certain threshold of size and complexity, exhibit emergent behaviors that manifest as surprisingly intelligent and coherent responses to a wide range of queries.

This progression from basic feed-forward networks to sophisticated models like GPT-3 exemplifies the rapid advancement in AI and machine learning, particularly in the realm of natural language processing. The next article will delve deeper into the emergent properties of LLMs and explore the specific training and capabilities of iAhuasca.

Attention is all you need

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf

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