Rudy Rucker

Great shelf, Henry. I just ordered thrift store!

"Flower Power" ver 2.

"The fool hath said in their heart, I need no math."

This curve may not be infinitely differentiable. That is to say, the third or fourth derivative may have a corner in it.

Tornado Destroys Family's Home In Front of Me YouTube video by TornadoTRX

Today's tornado video. youtu.be/pbPqc2_HD1o?...

Spent day getting insurance money to fix car. Encuonters with bots. Was thinking of Katka's short-short "Before the Law." Guy spends life trying to get through thru courthouse gate. As he dies, the guard tells him "This gate was in fact built for you." www.kafka-online.info/before-the-l...

Moonrise. Dig the craters.

My Dorkbot talk on "Talking, Writing, Painting" went well. Somehow, tech wizards that we are, none of us managed to tape it. But here's a version of the talk with my images and notes. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2026/02...

Absolutely. Compared to nature, the news is nothing. "Check back with me in a million years."

Another frikken masterpiece.

Running wild in SF.

So made it past what we call a "Boss" in a video game. Out dancing with Carol Cee tonight.

Hanging in there for turning 80 in March. 80 is *not* a gimmie. Could have died in a freeway pile-up today. Escaped with a crushed passenger door.

"Talking, Writing, and Painting." Rudy speaks at Dorkbot event, 7 PM, Wed, Feb 25, at Monkeybrains, 933 Treat Ave between 22nd & 23rd, in the Mission. Selling museum-quality prints at show. Details: www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2026/02...

And it's not so much the values of our neural connections that evolved as it is the actual architecture and internal programmability of our neural layers. Setting us up for what's known as unsupervised learning. Also known as childhood.

In the early days of AI we dreamed that some logical principles could generate humanoid AI. Like axioms proving theorems. Kurt Godel told me this was hopeless...but that we could *bring about* a situation where the high level AI would *emerge*. Thus, LLM AI. 1/2

An LLM type process is where our native intelligence came from. A million years of evolution. No magic key. AI it is NOT an abstract principle. It's a billion little numbers between zero and one: the connection weights within a linked mound of neurons. As Bruce Sterling would say: BerkeleyDMT. 2/2

Okay I'm at 66% and it's picked up again. I wasn't liking the part about bad fascist guys winning. (Which is sort of like now, except now they're not even sneaky about it.) I do like the part about a radical pot-smoking math professor. That's me in 1969.

Another great tornado video
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Writing novels means dreaming while you're awake

What is Stanfordketamine supposed to mean? (Waking from dogmatic slumber.)

AI slop - Wikipedia

Bruce Sterling is always using the expression "AI slop," and today I finally looked it up on Wikipedia. Interesting. Example: I get spam that's a long gushing description of a book of mine and offers to publicize it. AI slop scam, sigh. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop

Yes, Kronecker was a hardcore finitest. Pig-headed. A pest for Georg Cantor...who proved in 1888 that there are in fact different levels of higher infinities: the digital and the analog, to start with. And thus the fabled Continuum Problem.

61% of the way through Vineland just now, and it's in a boring patch, going on and on and on and on about the scumbag pig Brock Vond getting heroine Frenesi to betray rad mathematician lover Weed Atman. So kill Brock already!

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Intro 2 / Kick out the Jams YouTube video by MC5 - Topic

MC5 Kick out the Jams. music.youtube.com/watch?v=PLUw...

Thinking about the 9th of the 10 stories I wrote with Bruce sterling, " Kraken and Sage".

Read:
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Or listen:
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Chip 'N Dale Sing YouTube video by Chip & Dale - Topic

Truly horrible. music.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Nw...

By the way that photo is by Valerio Beanincasa.

You don't necessarily have to read Gravity's Rainbow striaght through. On the first go, you might want to jump around and read sections that you like, the ones that seem like fun. You're not going to sort out the plot until the second or third time through.