Who says this galaxy ain't big enough for the both of us? Bill Nye

The banners I designed for the Divisadero Merchants Association are up! The drawing has Alamo Square on the left and The Panhandle on the right. It shows Divisadero as a crossroads not a dividing line. Thanks so much DMA for the opportunity!

ok, so there's a bioelectric network synchronizing the whole body. so what?

the upshot is that we can study this network, model it, and even modify it to reconfigure the body structure. they've used this approach to produce living, viable two-headed worms, and worms with no head

Shrinkflation

New article! Developing flexible frameworks to address evolving threats like deepfakes without stifling innovation or free speech. divergentoptions.org/2024/04/29/usi…

I can be trusted with alpha channels in LayerRenderer, visionOS compositor crew eta wen alpha blending 🙏

Dreaming is where the brain nightly fine-tunes itself on the day’s chat transcripts, but mixed in with enough stochastically synthesized data so as to minimize catastrophic forgetting of pretrained concepts

No reason why you couldn’t also do this in an LLM system

The song of skiing

Reverse-engineering and “running Windows 95” on a disposable vape with a colour LCD screen : ripitapart.com/2024/04/20/dis…

TIL of the bad.horse traceroute

🚨BREAKING: US National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes 1st draft of its 'AI Risk Management Framework: Generative AI Profile.' Important information & quotes:

➡️This is a comprehensive document that contains an overview of risks unique to or exacerbated by generative AI (GAI) and an extensive list of…

Running llama3 and TTS on an older computer is interesting. I keep thinking to myself, “this computer could’ve spoken to me like this the whole time, it just needed the right instructions.”

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Hundreds of sea lions soaking in the sun at Pier 39

the funniest thing about this video:

they know that their marks are a specific type of guy, so they aren’t wearing any face masks or hair nets or protective gear other than gloves while assembling the dilution refrigerator, destroying any results they could seek to get here

Is this 'Yanukovich moment' of Georgia’s oligarch? It seems so. Bidzina Ivanishvili, the oligarch behind ruling Georgian Dream confirmed yesterday what we have observed since he came to power in 2012 – he announced a shift in Georgia’s foreign policy & political repressions. 1/13

“The European Union Hybrid COE (Centre of Excellence) define hybrid threats as being:

• coordinated and synchronised actions that deliberately target democratic states’ and institutions’ systemic vulnerabilities through a wide range of means;

• activities that exploit the…