Well written, Ernie Smith. Warhol would have loved to create variations on iconic images and stretch the distinctions between high art and commercial/mass-produced art using text-to-image models.
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.
Fun fact: the gameplay of Katamari Damacy is the subject of a U.S. Patent. Great illustrations!
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7402104B2/en
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.
Stoked to see the Infinite Conversation exhibited at the Audio Art Festival in Kraków.
