
It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. Let’s Pretend this Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (2012). If I had not run out of paper, who knows what would have happened. This is insane… I can’t even believe how long this guy’s arm is. It started on one end and then just kept going until I ran out of paper. What you can’t see is that in the original, the squiggly arm continues for the entire length of a roll of butcher paper. It’s a guy with one normal arm and one absurdly fucking squiggly arm, If you look really closely you can see the normal arm under the squiggly one. Here is a recreation of a drawing I did when I was five: It seems like there should be some sort of introduction to this. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness! Stories about things that happened to other people because of me So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative– like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it– but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (2013). Touchstone. Researchers also asked participants to look at a video with no sound.Brosh, Allie. Their brainwaves were translated to "Started to scream and cry, and then she just said, 'I told you to leave me alone'," per the press release - muddling the context of the screaming and crying and who was speaking. It also made some mistakes.įor instance, one participant was hearing this: "I didn't know whether to scream, cry or run away. Instead, it picked up on the concepts being triggered in the participants' minds and produced an approximation. The AI did not reproduce the story word for word. The AI was able to accurately recreate stories that participants were either listening to, watching, or imagining, per the study, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Neuroscience. Foto: Jerry Tang, Amanda LeBel, Shailee Jain, and Alexander Huth/Insider


An annotated diagram shows how the AI can read brainwaves and generate a story.
