An interesting AI quirk this eve, testing very small embeddings models. When using this list: The color of the sea The color blue The blue sky The bottle green The glass window The brown fur Models with q8 quants are convinced that "The brown fur" and "The color blue" are the most similar entries.

I'm not sure if spending time with one's 'old' work is the best habit, but I find revisiting pieces can help frame thoughts towards the new. Moreover, this particular scenario in "Agentia", an owl above a haunted forest, is most suitable for playing on the equinox. richardacarter.com/agentia-post/

Absolutely shattered, and the week hasn't even begun.

Well yes

Today is a day of contractors visiting the house - let's see how much work I can actually achieve...

Delighted that the beautiful film 'Follow the Dogs' is available with EAD (Enhanced Audio Description) on BBC iPlayer. EAD is an alternative to Audio Description that uses sound design and audio spatialisation to provide accessible experiences for visually impaired audiences tinyurl.com/ymv7yvha

Refusing productivity by building a 3D maze world for various kinds of testing exercises - in browser using three.js and stock textures galore. Not really #gameDev, but maybe later?

No.

"Islands enable connectivities, from trade routes to undersea networks of subsea cables between global powers. Western perspective suggests they're disconnected from rest of 🌏 [and] seemingly reliant on larger nations & foreign companies, while obscuring ways those bodies in fact rely on islands."

70,000 words of Master's work marked in one day. Only 30k more to go - and this after 180k words in the past three weeks. So nearly there... 🍹

"A high ascent / the tailless kite / a visible form / time".

When a chatbot’s words *are* its interface, how do we see the aesthetics of engagement they activate—and the politics they conceal? New article w/ @spold.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Read more here www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

All weathers present in one morning #Yorkshire #nature #photography

Well, if I have to end up anywhere on a Saturday morning, this isn't too bad - the skies and the scale. #photography #yorkshire #yorkshireMoors #moorland #nature

Really privileged today to hear Raymond Antrobus give a keynote at the DARCI (Disability Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries) conference. I find myself really moved by his explorations of writing / performing / signing poetry, and a life as ‘an investigator of missing sound’.

Something quiet to share from this morning's efforts, as I continue trying to reimagine what 'AI' looks like - and, indeed, functions. What would it actually mean to create 'AI' not predicated on extraction, enclosure, productivity, and control? Don't know if possible, not truly, but am trying.

Turns out one of the best places to conduct Nephoscope recordings / soundings(?) / measurements(?) is to prop my phone up against the handle of my office window. richardacarter.com/nephoscope/ #art #photography #clouds #sky #coding

Something peaceful to share. The other night I had a fitful dream about a self-playing audio game / calming app that simulated walking in a quiet forest. It was sufficiently vivid and unusual that I've now produced it: "A Quiet Wander" racarter.itch.io/a-quiet-wander #gameDev #indieDev #coding

Something peaceful to share. The other night I had a fitful dream about a self-playing audio game / calming app that simulated walking in a quiet forest. It was sufficiently vivid and unusual that I've now produced it: "A Quiet Wander" racarter.itch.io/a-quiet-wander #gameDev #indieDev #coding

My newsfeed this morning has been one long, unrestrained howl of anger and despair - a thousand worries and fears and problems that I can do absolutely nothing to positively affect. I understand and share so many of the sentiments, but I just don't think I can spend much time online these days.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for articles exploring how we go about preserving / studying historic software and games? Taking a look through my own references I have rather fewer than I might have guessed! Introductory materials (suitable for teaching) sought especially!

On a wholly non academic note, there were some satisfying clouds over campus this evening, in the last of the summer light. #clouds #sky #season #photography #sky

Does anyone have any good recommendations for articles exploring how we go about preserving / studying historic software and games? Taking a look through my own references I have rather fewer than I might have guessed! Introductory materials (suitable for teaching) sought especially!

Finally indeed. (Though please may a search utility and category groupings come soon...)

In the company of the harvest moon this evening.

Ground held variable promise this week, let's see what the sky brings.

Did I ever mention what a great book this is? One of the best books on so-called AI I've read. Serious recommendation!

At least today's cloud soundings yielded some engaging sequences.

Having been uninvited for a thing, I admit today has been increasingly sunk in gloom - it's not so much the thing, but the sense of momentum becoming harder to regain. I feel directionless.

Feeling academically and professionally stagnant these days - not sure where I'm heading or for what end - and fearful of falling into an inescapable mire of inadequacy. Insecurity and doubt is always deep-seated at my end, but it's feeling like a particular barrier at the moment.

Here's something quiet for your timeline.

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

Getting the autumn in early - Work on The Forest Game* is going on full pause, as I have 40+ 10k dissertations to mark in the coming days, along with the start of the new semester, and a couple of high priority projects that need to be ready for next year. Still, a satisfactory 'handing off' point.

Having long forwarded that the academic book needs reworking at every level (albeit from an often lonely corner), this latest piece is most welcome: "Reimagining the Humanities Book: Bringing Living With Machines to Life Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices"

“There’s people that are aware AI isn’t perfect, and then there’s people that come to you angry because they didn’t manage to get it done themselves with AI,” Carstens said. “And you kind of have to be empathetic. You don’t want them to feel like idiots. Then you have to fix it.”

Here's something quiet and intriguing - sky.dlazaro.ca generates a CSS gradient representation of the sky at your current time and approximate location, updating every minute.

What an exciting array of presentations and topics. If you'd like to attend please don't forget to register as we close all registrations on 3rd September tftv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Registrations for the hybrid #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries close 3rd Sept. Here is a flavour of Day 1 on Thursday 11th September enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...

In fact, I shall revise my opinion - today was a terrible day that was not worth getting up for.

Today has not been the best day, having achieved absolutely nothing of what I set out to do, but did carve out a few minutes quiet to sound out the sky.

Next on in this session will be Fiona Slater & Audrey Cameron with 'Signing Culture: Using Museum Collections to Expand and Promote British Sign Language'.

Next on, Lacey Allen will turn her attention to the adaptation of narratives for neurodivergent audiences. We are delighted to have this presentation on the programme, as research focusing on neurodivergent audiences is rarely part of accessibility events, so it's great to have this work represented

First thing in the morning we are welcoming the amazing @blindspothannah.bsky.social who will be presenting on The Sensational Museum. I'm a huge fan of Hannah's work and I can't wait to get the chance to learn more about her wonderful work #Heritage #Museums #Accessibility #Disability

1/ I just so happened to take a look at the Lumen Prize lists, and, I admit, it's a bit disappointing to see how so many entries are effectively built around some sort of generative "AI" routine synthesising text / images, often advancing overextended narratives about art-tech-creativity.

Sharing again with the usual array of reference hashtags #games #gameDev #indieDev #haiku #poetry

I always say I'm done, but one truly final update - a new astronomical library for calculating equinoxes, solstices, and positions of sun and moon, for as long as this piece exists. A final summer night before the garden switches over to autumn (or vice-versa!) racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden

A minor milestone - today marked my 75th flying hour in the logbook. A tiny figure compared to everyone else at the club, but not unimaginable to reach 80 by the year's end.

Campus quiet - it won't be this peaceful for very much longer.

Wind and cloud - a late summer sky, photographed just now.