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.

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...

For more than two years now, I’ve 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...

MacWhisperer: Private, local Whisper for Mac. Turn media into editable text. github.com/tsevis/MacWh...

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

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:

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...

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.

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

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

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...

The @adobe.com Photoshop 1.0 source code: computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-p... #computerhistory #ComputerGraphics #DigitalImaging

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

Every creative transition triggers the same ancient response—fear of the unknown. Cameras did this. Computers did this. Now AI. #AICreativity

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...

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

The Fall 2024 Caltech Magazine cover I illustrated, mosaics of extinct species made from “isotopic tesserae”, just received a UCDA Design Award. I don’t believe in awards, but I believe in academia. Honored to collaborate with Caltech’s scientists on this one. tsevis.com/caltech-maga...

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

When the Pioneer Plaque Becomes NSFW Censorship, AI, and the War on Context: tsevis.com/censorship-a...

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. — Danny Fortson, US W.Coast correspondent, The Sunday Times youtu.be/hm28qfJ6yTY?...

"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...

OpenAI keeps delaying its first ‘open’ model, saying it needs to be made bulletproof. After watching this video, you’ll see why safety is a massive problem with today’s AI. Sure, you could read about jailbreaks in some dry research paper. #AISafety #AIHack

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

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.

ComfyUI Wan2.2 Fun Native Support and LightX2V 4-Step LoRA Integration #ComfyUY #GenAI blog.comfy.org/p/comfyui-wa...

The African Bricks 4 is live. 10 digital portraits celebrating African culture through textile patterns. #DigitalArt #DigitalMosaic tsevis.com/the-african-...

Fine-Tune OpenAI's open source GPT-OSS-20B on Your Own Dataset Locally: Step-by-Step Tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRvX...

Make Claude Code 30x Faster on Huge Codebases (Open Source and Free Fix!) Struggling with Claude Code on large legacy codebases? Jo Van Eyck’s new video shows two free tools that actually work: Serena MCP – Optimizes file ops/caching Refactor-MCP – Pre-processes code to slash token use. #AICoders

Here's why “free” 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

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

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.

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

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

GLM-4.5 by Z.ai is here! • Top-tier benchmark scores across reasoning & coding • Elite coding skills → 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...

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

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...

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...

While AI mimics our work in seconds, companies still want the originals. Why? Because copying isn’t creating. A short manifesto for creatives: Don’t just consume AI—understand it. Build tools. Grow "σιγά σιγά" like Cyprus olive trees. Full piece: tsevis.com/a-creatives-... #AIandCreativity #GenAI

Cmd+Shift+Philosophy: The algorithm and the olive tree. Graphic Stories Cyprus 2025. graphicstoriescyprus.com/speakers/cha... See you soon, Paphos.

Why Vision Is Harder Than Language for AI LLMs process 1D text—but 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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Welcome Midjourney Video! #Midjournet #GenAi

AI’s governance crisis: Who’s calling the shots? Just watched Karen Hao (@karenhao.bsky.social) and Evan Epstein conversation. Eye opening and entertaining. Video: youtu.be/tDQ0vZETJtE

"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...

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...

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