Charis Tsevis
@tsevis.bsky.social
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Visual designer living on the sunny side of the planet.
http://www.tsevis.com
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Every creative transition triggers the same ancient responseāfear of the unknown. Cameras did this. Computers did this. Now AI.
#AICreativity
4 months ago
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I made a new open-source app called Hipparchus. It creates clean vector maps from OpenStreetMap data and exports them as layered SVG files. That means roads, buildings, water, parks, labels, railways, coastlines, and other elements stay separate and editable.
4 days ago
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Dear friends, I just released Skiagrafia: a desktop app for batch-generating masks and vector silhouettes from folders of images. Repo:
github.com/tsevis/skiag...
13 days ago
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For more than two years now, Iāve been experimenting with building software tools with AI assistants. People often call it
#vibecoding
. Personally, I never liked the term. Coding is only a language. The real goal is building systems that do something useful.
tsevis.com/vibecoding-o...
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Charis Tsevis - Beyond āVibe Codingā
Visual designer living on the sunny side of the planet. Photomosaics, computergraphics, neofuturism, digital art and graphic design
https://tsevis.com/vibecoding-or-ai-assistant-system-building
about 1 month ago
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MacWhisperer: Private, local Whisper for Mac. Turn media into editable text.
github.com/tsevis/MacWh...
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GitHub - tsevis/MacWhisperer: MacWhisperer is a macOS desktop GUI for OpenAI Whisper that makes local speech transcription and English translation easy, with auto model loading, live recording, input ...
MacWhisperer is a macOS desktop GUI for OpenAI Whisper that makes local speech transcription and English translation easy, with auto model loading, live recording, input device controls, and file-b...
https://github.com/tsevis/MacWhisperer
about 1 month ago
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I've officially upgraded to the Qwen Coding Plan via Alibaba Cloud. While the initial setup required a bit more effort than anticipated, the value proposition is undeniable: access to 8 models for just $10/month.
#AICoding
about 1 month ago
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I was looking through some old Bruno Munari material and stumbled upon his brilliant 1944 manifesto, "Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair." In it, he asks a question that stopped me:
about 1 month ago
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People like to put labels on you. Especially in politics. For me, it has always been difficult to fit into a simple political category. And yet, as someone who believes in democracy, I also believe in participation and in taking a stand.`
tsevis.com/my-art-for-p...
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Charis Tsevis - My Art for Politics
Visual designer living on the sunny side of the planet. Photomosaics, computergraphics, neofuturism, digital art and graphic design
https://tsevis.com/my-art-for-politics
3 months ago
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RIP Giorgos Papadakis 1951-2016 Digital mosaic created with hundreds of photos from his 44 years at Ant1 tv Greece. Commissioned by the broadcaster last year as a gift to him at his last show.
3 months ago
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The brand new OPEN SOURCE and FREE iQuest Coder is really impressive! In just 80Gb this is a surprisingly capable new coding model trained in three distinct phases. Built through pretraining, instruction fine-tuning, and rigorous alignment, it shows what focused, phased training can do
#codingmodel
3 months ago
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For all of us who love technology and the challenge of human-machine synergy, it's essential to stay grounded. AGI and super-intelligence can serve as a North Star, but they must not become a broken promise.
#AI
#GaryMarcus
4 months ago
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An experiment showing Claude Skills work with Gemini Flash, useful far beyond just Anthropic's ecosystem.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxhS...
Claude Skills Github:
github.com/anthropics/s...
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Gemini 3.0 Flash Designer: Easiest & Cheapest Way TO MAKE AWESOME Frontends!
YouTube video by AICodeKing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxhSrzjZOm4
4 months ago
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The
@adobe.com
Photoshop 1.0 source code:
computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-p...
#computerhistory
#ComputerGraphics
#DigitalImaging
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Adobe Photoshop Source Code
When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/
4 months ago
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Apple's SHARP model generates photorealistic 3D Gaussian reps from a single image. Free and Open source project. GitHub:
github.com/apple/ml-sharp
Paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685
4 months ago
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Every creative transition triggers the same ancient responseāfear of the unknown. Cameras did this. Computers did this. Now AI.
#AICreativity
4 months ago
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Creativity in the Age of Machine Intelligence: A Compass and a Handbook Tuesday, 16 December at 11:30, at the Alexander College, Larnaka, Cyprus
alexander.ac.cy/creativity-i...
4 months ago
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For the Computer Vision aficionados out there: Depth Anything 3 is here! ByteDance's latest model is way faster, more accurate, and more versatile than v2 or Meta's VGGT. A game-changer for computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and AR Github:
github.com/ByteDance-Se...
ArXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.10647
5 months ago
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The Fall 2024 Caltech Magazine cover I illustrated, mosaics of extinct species made from āisotopic tesseraeā, just received a UCDA Design Award. I donāt believe in awards, but I believe in academia. Honored to collaborate with Caltechās scientists on this one.
tsevis.com/caltech-maga...
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Charis Tsevis - Caltech Magazine Cover Wins a UCDA Design Award
Visual designer living on the sunny side of the planet. Photomosaics, computergraphics, neofuturism, digital art and graphic design
https://tsevis.com/caltech-magazine-cover-wins-a-ucda-design-award
7 months ago
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From sci-paper analysis to sophisticated software. With basic skills, I used ClaudeAI as a partner to build it. My story:
tsevis.com/how-i-learne...
#GenAI
#ClaudeCode
7 months ago
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When the Pioneer Plaque Becomes NSFW Censorship, AI, and the War on Context:
tsevis.com/censorship-a...
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Charis Tsevis - When the Pioneer Plaque Becomes NSFW
Censorship, AI, and the War on Context
https://tsevis.com/censorship-ai-and-the-war-on-context
8 months ago
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I will say that I think we are absolutely in a bubble. Things are crazy right now. However, that does not mean that AI is not going to change everything sooner or later, but I think both of those things can be true. ā Danny Fortson, US W.Coast correspondent, The Sunday Times
youtu.be/hm28qfJ6yTY?...
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The 'AI bubble' and what happens when it bursts | The Story
YouTube video by Times Radio
https://youtu.be/hm28qfJ6yTY?si=0iP4CNZObEO4zJJz
8 months ago
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"We should build AI for people, not to be a person!" Mustafa Suleyman, who helped start DeepMind and now leads Microsoft AI, wrote an essay with that quote as its title. The subtitle warns, "Seemingly Conscious AI is Coming."
mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-co...
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We must build AI for people; not to be a person
Personal site of Mustafa Suleyman, AI pioneer and author.
https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming
8 months ago
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OpenAI keeps delaying its first āopenā model, saying it needs to be made bulletproof. After watching this video, youāll see why safety is a massive problem with todayās AI. Sure, you could read about jailbreaks in some dry research paper.
#AISafety
#AIHack
8 months ago
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Computer Vision is probably my favorite discipline of IT. If you are building apps that enable your computer to see (style transfer, object removal, smart masking, visual effects etc.) with DINOv3 has quietly changed the game.
#ComputerVision
8 months ago
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A new paper shows how Stable Diffusion can do visual in-context learning without any training. They change how attention works during inference to let the model compare a query image with example prompts.
8 months ago
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ComfyUI Wan2.2 Fun Native Support and LightX2V 4-Step LoRA Integration
#ComfyUY
#GenAI
blog.comfy.org/p/comfyui-wa...
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ComfyUI Wan2.2 Fun Native Support and LightX2V 4-Step LoRA Integration
ComfyUI now supports Wan2.2 Fun Control and Wan2.2 Fun InP
https://blog.comfy.org/p/comfyui-wan22-fun-inp-support
8 months ago
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The African Bricks 4 is live. 10 digital portraits celebrating African culture through textile patterns.
#DigitalArt
#DigitalMosaic
tsevis.com/the-african-...
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Charis Tsevis - The African Bricks 4: Dreams and Icons
For more than fifteen years, Iāve been learning from Africaās culture. On my first trip to Johannesburg or Tunis, I wasnāt just a visitor. I felt changed as soon as I arrived. Africa leaves a lasting ...
https://tsevis.com/the-african-bricks-4-dreams-and-icons
8 months ago
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Fine-Tune OpenAI's open source GPT-OSS-20B on Your Own Dataset Locally: Step-by-Step Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRvX...
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Fine-Tune GPT-OSS-20B on Your Own Dataset Locally: Step-by-Step Tutorial
YouTube video by Fahd Mirza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRvXsQhOlD0
8 months ago
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Make Claude Code 30x Faster on Huge Codebases (Open Source and Free Fix!) Struggling with Claude Code on large legacy codebases? Jo Van Eyckās new video shows two free tools that actually work: Serena MCP ā Optimizes file ops/caching Refactor-MCP ā Pre-processes code to slash token use.
#AICoders
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AI coding agents are useless on large codebases. Unless you do THIS.
YouTube video by Jo Van Eyck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqfxuQKuMo8
8 months ago
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Here's why āfreeā QWEN3 coder can end up costing NVIDIA users twice as much while Apple owners skate free.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHB...
#Apple
#AI
#OpenSourceAI
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NVIDIA users: QWEN3 is FREE, but youāll pay double
YouTube video by Alex Ziskind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHBoDABOfY
8 months ago
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Spent countless hours writing about how my dad shaped my digital art journey - from his inventive spirit in 1970s Greece to Fortune 500 work.
#IT
#ASCIIArt
#MachineArt
#Typography
8 months ago
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The devastating truth about current AI models: They have no real understanding. There is no intelligence in them. New Harvard/MIT research trained models on planetary orbits. They perfectly predicted planetary motion but completely failed when asked to apply basic physics (F=ma) to new scenarios.
8 months ago
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The Tesla founder you've never heard of tells his side of the story. Martin Eberhard co-founded Tesla but got overshadowed by history. His perspective on the early days is eye-opening and changes everything you think you know about Tesla's origin.
#Tesla
#elonmusk
#ev
8 months ago
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Must-watch interview: Dario Amodei gets candid about AI, Anthropic, and being called a "doomer": Most powerful moments: His father died from a disease that became 95% curable just 3-4 years later - this personal loss drives his urgency around AI's potential to accelerate medical breakthroughs.
#AI
9 months ago
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GLM-4.5 by
Z.ai
is here! ⢠Top-tier benchmark scores across reasoning & coding ⢠Elite coding skills ā just one step below
Claude.ai
⢠Advanced multilingual capabilities ⢠Apache 2.0 licensed ⢠Open-source ⢠Optimized for complex problem-solving
#opensourceai
#localllm
#GenAi
z.ai/blog/glm-4.5...
9 months ago
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Just watched an amazing Claude Code best practices talk by Cal Rueb from Anthropic. His top tips: Use claude . md files for persistent context across sessions Ask Claude to plan before coding (saves tons of time) Run multiple Claude instances in parallel for complex projects
9 months ago
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Indian truck art = moving masterpieces ⢠Symbols of love, faith and humor ⢠Hand-painted on trucks across the country ⢠Bold colors, poetic slogans, divine icons ⢠A visual feast rolling on every highwayWorla Deeply amazed by the creativity.
enrouteindianhistory.com/why-is-truck...
9 months ago
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Qwen3 Coder dropped! ⢠0.5B to 72B parameters ⢠Open source (Apache 2.0 license) ⢠Trained for code generation, completion, and understanding ⢠Supports multiple programming languages ⢠Chat-style coding assistant
github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3...
9 months ago
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While AI mimics our work in seconds, companies still want the originals. Why? Because copying isnāt creating. A short manifesto for creatives: Donāt just consume AIāunderstand it. Build tools. Grow "Ļιγά Ļιγά" like Cyprus olive trees. Full piece:
tsevis.com/a-creatives-...
#AIandCreativity
#GenAI
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Charis Tsevis - The Algorithm and the Olive Tree
A Creative's Manifesto for the AI Age
https://tsevis.com/a-creatives-manifesto-for-the-ai-age
9 months ago
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Cmd+Shift+Philosophy: The algorithm and the olive tree. Graphic Stories Cyprus 2025.
graphicstoriescyprus.com/speakers/cha...
See you soon, Paphos.
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Charis Tsevis - Graphic Stories Cyprus
Meet the Speakers Charis Tsevis // Visual Artist Lecture: ā + SHIFT + PHILOSOPHY: The Algorithm and the Olive TreeDate: 18/07/2025Time: 20:30-21:00Location: Attikon Multicultural Space Workshop: Fanta...
https://graphicstoriescyprus.com/speakers/charis-tsevis/
9 months ago
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Why Vision Is Harder Than Language for AI LLMs process 1D textābut the real world is 3D (or 4D with time!) Dr. Fei-Fei Li explains why spatial intelligence is the next frontier:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pio...
#MachineLearning
#AGI
#SpatialAI
#FeiFeiLi
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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI
YouTube video by Y Combinator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0
10 months ago
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So proud of our President, Nikos Christodoulides! An honest, down to earth leader with a clear mind and a vision that Cyprus, our region - and the world - truly need.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab3V...
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Leading A Country Next To The World's Most Dangerous Region: President of Cyprus
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab3VVLBR3TA
10 months ago
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Did I help build the myth? As the artist who created Elon Musk's TIME Person of the Year portrait, I'm grappling with a hard question about artistic responsibility.
#ElonMusk
#Storytelling
#CreativeEthics
10 months ago
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GenAI's "Diffusion Effect" is like painting: broad strokes, then adding details. Text generation refines outputs iteratively, making conversations better and faster. Pretty neat, right? Try it at
@inceptionlabs.bsky.social
:
chat.inceptionlabs.ai
#LLM
#GenAI
#MercuryLLM
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10 months ago
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Google just released Gemini CLI. AI assistant in your terminal. Helps with code, git, generates apps from sketches. I have been testing it for 2 days. Pretty capable, cool multimodal stuff. Open source!
@anthropic.com
Claude Code still wins for me though!
github.com/google-gemin...
10 months ago
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New study, "Your Brain on ChatGPT," shows significant cognitive impacts from using LLMs for writing: - Brain connectivity scales down with LLM use, weakest overall. - LLM users struggled to quote their own work and felt low ownership. (1/2) MIT Media Lab:
www.media.mit.edu/publications...
10 months ago
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Welcome Midjourney Video!
#Midjournet
#GenAi
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10 months ago
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AIās governance crisis: Whoās calling the shots? Just watched Karen Hao (
@karenhao.bsky.social
) and Evan Epstein conversation. Eye opening and entertaining. Video:
youtu.be/tDQ0vZETJtE
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Who Governs AI? Inside the Rise of a New Empire
YouTube video by Stanford Graduate School of Business
https://youtu.be/tDQ0vZETJtE
10 months ago
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"Self-Adapting Language Models" from MIT SEAL lets LLMs generate their own training data and update their weights dynamically. Think meta-learning meets recursive self-improvement.
news.mit.edu/2023/languag...
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MIT researchers make language models scalable self-learners
MIT CSAIL researchers used a natural language-based logical inference dataset to create smaller language models that outperformed much larger counterparts.
https://news.mit.edu/2023/language-models-scalable-self-learners-0608
10 months ago
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Jony Ive on design as care, gratitude, and the quiet resistance of beauty in a noisy world. Fewer opinions, more love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLb9...
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A conversation with Jony Ive
YouTube video by Stripe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLb9g_8r-mE
10 months ago
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Direct3D-S2 on GitHub offers utilities for Direct3D development. It demonstrates rendering workflow techniques and cross-version DirectX compatibility. Useful for educational exploration or graphics performance analysis.
github.com/DreamTechAI/Direct3D-S2
10 months ago
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