I finally took my new axidraw SE/A1 for a drive. Plotting in large format presents new challenges, but the result is completely worth it.
This map was largely motivated by a recent cross-country trip. The question, always in my mind, was: where are all the tunnels in the US? The answer is clear from this map. The US doesn’t do tunnels. It does valleys and mountain passes.
Recently, I finished reading “City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” by Mike Davis. The book is an incredible journey through the history of Los Angeles, exploring its urban, social, and political landscapes. While diving into the story, I was struck by Davis’ unique writing style and the sheer number of uncommon terms …
Fun fact: the gameplay of Katamari Damacy is the subject of a U.S. Patent. Great illustrations!
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7402104B2/en
A few days ago, a Hacker News post discussed the incredible work of Tatjana van Vark, a mechanical engineer known for her handcrafted machines and artifacts, which are among the most beautiful and intricate in the world. Among the comments on this post, one person raised an interesting concern about the potential fragility of our …
I’m still kind of obsessed with little planets. Click for 8K version.
Did you know? The wiki page for “List of oldest continuously inhabited cities” contains two completely distinct cities by the name of Thebes, one in Egypt and the other in Greece. The greek one has been inhabited since ~3000 BC.
I tried my best at responding to some very pertinent questions.
By popular demand, the first 24 hours of the Infinite Conversation. Please, seed.
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I am inspired by the notion that chain-of-thought reasoning in language models is a side product of training on code. But I also would like to see more evidence.
A few days ago, I woke up to the news that Slavoj Žižek wrote an article published on Die Zeit (behind paywall) about my latest work, the Infinite Conversation. I was elated to realize that the project had eventually landed on his desk, and overjoyed to see that he opened his article, in perfect Žižekian …