Fun fact: the gameplay of Katamari Damacy is the subject of a U.S. Patent. Great illustrations!
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7402104B2/en
The thread connecting Tatjana van Vark and Alexander Selkirk
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.
My own personal Žižek
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 …
Stoked to see the Infinite Conversation exhibited at the Audio Art Festival in Kraków.
As a society, we can’t even share a vision of how a share button should look like.
