I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMs

A (3,17) spiral lattice with tangent circles. #CreativeCoding #MathArt #MathSky #phyllotaxis #SciArt

Why software engineers are grieving | Discussion

Circle packing within a spiral lattice. #CreativeCoding #MathArt #MathSky #phyllotaxis #SciArt

The website for the 2026 Bridges Conference Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design is now live, featuring the work of more than 150 artists. gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/...

Procedural Noise Collection by lumiey

Great experiment testing how good AIs are getting at very ambitious end-to-end coding tasks. Opus 4.7, in 14 hours, was able to build a software package that would take 2-17 weeks of human engineering. It cost $251. The models are still not perfect, but are improving fast. epoch.ai/files/Mirror...

plotted planets 🪐🖊️ #generativeart #plotter

Almost absurdly reasonable and nuanced take from Doctorow that still boils down to "AI centaurs basically fine, limited; AI reverse centaurs unwanted capitalist orgy of self-destruction" arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Somewhere in the Marshes

A colleague just told me about this website. It tracks big tech’s AI expenditures vs profits. Wow. Let’s just say there’s a big reason(s) they’re all crazily pushing, advertising/proselytizing, hiring influencers, flooding the zone with the narrative™, etc etc

Visit Nervous System this week for our Upstate Art Weekend exhibit and open studio! June 25-29 n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=10004

As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing in recent months, it’s now common to hear of companies questioning the ROI of AI tools and scaling back adoption. To pay for the data center investments will require even higher pricing and user adoption but the value may not be there.

GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump | Discussion

Printing Gaussian Splats | Discussion

Pipes 3D 🔧 www.dwitter.net/d/35660 #javascript #tinycode with(x)for(globalCompositeOperation ='lighten',i=30,S=-~S;i--;beginPath(fill()))s=540/T[2],s>0?arc(960+T[0]*s,540+T[1]*s,s*2,0,9):T=[9,9,99],T[S**2.9%3|0]+=1|C(S**5.2)-1,fillStyle=R(s*=6,s*2,s);

Show HN: Neural Particle Automata | Discussion

The outline panel gives you a compact overview of your search results. Scroll the full list of matches, click any one, and jump straight to it in the multibuffer. Read about it, and other hidden gems, in the latest post: zed.dev/blog/hidden-...

Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid | Discussion

🛰️ Introducing UniverSat: one transformer backbone for Earth Observation that handles ANY sensor, ANY spatial, spectral & temporal resolution, ANY scale — with a single set of weights. 🌍

Plotnine | Discussion

On a reverse-engineering streak, and pleased to present many new additions to my archive of monoline fonts —including 40+ decompiled AutoCAD SHX fonts; the Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope display fonts; and Glen Kleinschmidt's Fourier Synthesis Character Generator. github.com/golanlevin/p...

Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components | Discussion

Japanese symbols that speak without words | Discussion

Updated today.

WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History | Discussion

Happy 30th birthday, Quake, you really are the Genghis Khan of video games

“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero | Discussion

I once sat next to a professional orchestral musician on a plane ride and we got chatting about creative skill & process something he said has stuck with me: he told me he'd always tried hard to become better, but progress was so slow. then one day he got obsessive about "the basics"

John Wooden’s 8 Laws of Learning

A 24x24 section of a decomposition of the infinite knight's graph into four 2-factors. The vertices are where eight "strands" meet at a point. If you zoom in, you'll see that each vertex has two yellow strands, two blue strands, two black strands, and two red strands.

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) | Discussion

I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I've drawn another hyperboloid, now the two-part version: The Mass Shell of physics, relativistic energy as a function of momentum (two dimensions). #physics #mathsky #mathart #sciart Colored pencils on black paper, traditional descriptive geometry.

"Day 127, orbit 1968 — That aurora was absolutely spectacular… shimmering and dancing beneath us, stretching as far as the eye could see, and so intense it lit up the Station in shades of green 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot.   📸 ESA/NASA – S. Adenot #εpsilon

"Cancer misinformation is directly linked to higher rates of death, yet we still treat it as something for individual patients to navigate and individual doctors to address in brief appointments, while platforms nominally flag content as their algorithms continue doing the opposite."

Good to see President Trump is focused on the big issues of the day.

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory | Discussion

pov-ray, ray tracing software, promotional screenshot, windows 3.11 (1996) web.archive.org/web/19961224...

1/6 Excited to share our #SIGGRAPH2026 paper, Dual Contouring of Signed Distance Data! We propose a new method for reconstructing sharp meshes from discrete samples of signed distance functions (SDFs) that does not require gradients. Project page: gatc.cs.columbia.edu/projects/dua...

Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt | Discussion

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good | Discussion

I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾ | Discussion

Telescope Ranchers | Discussion

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

fun? I am in there. intheweights.com

More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.

fisheye, peripheral rays showing a lot of chromatic aberration which is really cool

The human genome is no blueprint or algorithm — it’s something else entirely, something living with promiscuous logic. Can new genomic AI models, such as Evo 2 and AlphaGenome, untangle these tricky knots or will the genome confound them, too? www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...