Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at todayโs ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch ๐ญ. @maddow.bsky.social
An orifice in an edifice to let the light in.
I am writing a blog about roads at sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-...
Fun video youtu.be/8_WPBuYYz9M with an interactive toy to play with these thegraycuber.github.io/hexponents
Most beauty per unit code
Share your favorite short programs that have beautiful output.
Any output modality, any programming language, any units.
Doesn't generate identical output each time.
Recording of output optional.
My candidate is ~24 lines of @love-framework.bsky.social or equivalent.
The Resonant Computing Action Plan, Use LLMs to build:
- Adversarial interoperability
- Adversarial credible exits
- Local first version of walled gardens
- Optional federation (atproto?)
No grand plans, short feedback loops
Real problems, real users
Rough consensus and running code
Here's a little spatial / tangible tool I made to explore an algorithm with my hands and eyes.
I saw an error diffusion matrix on wikipedia and it looked vaguely like a circle, so I built this board game-inspired tool to feel out just how spatial it actually was.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZc...
Everything is in the eye of the beholder. Even beholding is in the eye of the beholder.
My hot-take on indie-tech (which I am a big supporter of) is that "Prosocial" features are actually harmful. Voluntary communities are unable to coordinate effectively. Its not a tool problem, rather, people by default are not very good at coordinating. Corporations are good a coordinating, why?..
This week: Archaic Virus is making a bafflingly stable dungeon generation system.
New blog post: "Explorable explorable explanations"
Building on Bret Victor's concept of "explorable explanations" for scientific publishing.
blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/1...
๐งช #MetaSci
"There is also Memento (2000), maybe, because ironically I canโt remember what happened."
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The latest in my occasional series of over-complicated literary interpretations, this time on what connects Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) and Angel Heart (Mickey Rourke)
Warning: spoilers
interconnected.org/home/2025/11...
Also less bureaucracy, I wager. I am so done with the air industry. 1950-2020, RIP.
Landscape mode is hard-linebreak mode. Portrait mode is soft-linebreak mode.
Screenshots of half a dozen Scratch games running in ScratchLove
This week: the folks at Fox2d have ported basically all of Scratch to LรVE! Just in case you have some Scratch games lying around. github.com/fox2d-engine...
So they _are_ ships!
This game won FIRST PLACE at Ludum Dare! And it's made in LรVE! I'm freaking out over here! Aaaaaaah!
Because I could not help myself, me and @steveheist2.bsky.social estimated that this is roughly $270,000 in monitors โฆ and $600,000 in monitor arms.
bsky.app/profile/erni...
The Crowd (1928) features this office hellscape sequence and all I can think is "look at how much more space they had!"
Bigโs Backyard Ultra individual world championship has begun โ the runners are 12 hours in and the race wonโt complete for at least another 4 days/400+ miles
Hereโs why you should be watching
interconnected.org/home/2023/10...
A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads: Abstract A " 'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings. This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one. CCS Concepts: โข Computing methodologies โ Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind. Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming ACM Reference Format: Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3759429.3762631 1 A Way of Knowing From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves. I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I? What kind of person? What kind of mind?
This may just be the best CS paper Iโve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Some of La Mexicaine De Perforation were friends when I lived in Paris in the years just before this happened. You can read more here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX
"I'm very dissatisfied with the current state of the world in two regards: ๐. Computer owners can't easily understand or modify programs they run. ๐. Computer vendors compete to limit permissions for modifying programs. Both ๐ and ๐ have happened through the efforts of often idealistic people, but they've brought us to a world that it seems clear is going in the wrong direction: For ๐: Every tool (IDE, debugger, programming language) and process (Waterfall, TDD, Agile) arose out of dissatisfaction with some current state of the world, but the "pragmatic" ones that gained traction were the ones that vendors get to control. For ๐: "Trusted computing", browser sandboxing and app stores are all "pragmatic" solutions that have centralized power in vendors and failed to keep computer owners safe."
Some notes by @akkartik.name (2025)
akkartik.name/post/2025-06...
I'm teaching ๐ช๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ(๐)! again. I'll be posting the videos & tasks on YouTube too.
In the first lecture, I explain what's a tiny system, why write one and show plenty of demos!
๐๏ธ Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
๐ More info: d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/npr...
in particular, most baggage requires baggage polymorphism and baggage subtyping to be practically useful, and those are two concepts that always seem to confuse everyone. certainly that's what everyone complains about re: lifetimes in rust
Off-white background, black outlines. 18 geometric flowers shaped like Voronoi cells, with yellow centres and 12 off-white petals.
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In the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
