I built a palette generator based on description (or in any case text), I forgot to close the tab and it kept generating palettes based on all my meetings, youtube videos, conversations at home…

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

seen somewhere

“When one teaches, two learn”, Robert Heinlein

Just another way to look at the world

This is clear and true. But it's also true that LLMs are revealing an unpredicted power of linguistic patterns, capable of computation and generation at levels we couldn't imagine. I do think they deserve the label of "reasoning" (but really any algorithm is a form of reasoning).

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

La exposición ‘CONECTOMA’, reactivó la memoria de MEDIALAB El programa Metrópolis dedicado a Medialab Madrid se emite la noche del lunes 16 de junio a partir de la 1.30h en La 2 (España) www.rtve.es/television/2...

Human intelligence is not about how we answer to a question but how we react to a question. Only when you consider humans as machines you can start considering machines as more intelligent than humans.

non linearity for you

Apple last ad is an idiot removing his mom from a picture www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL88... "Intelligence"

Building a new house for my cat

Embeddings for the first 500 natural numbers (each row is an embedding vector for a number, starting with 0 at the top). Is there a "least insightful visualization" contest I can submit my work?

never surrender

Love this puzzle

haπ day

Principal Component Analysis

confusion matrix

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.

Bacteria have likely been building bridges between each other all along. But biologists are only just figuring that out now.

Is this still pareidolia? The artist placed a couple of elements. If this is pareidolia then a drawing, a photo and the reflection on a mirror are as well.

A new era for the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/a-new-era (website: openvisualizationacademy.org)

my brain

Ever wondered what a country’s meat supply looks like? 🍗🐄🐖🐟 Here’s a breakdown of meat preferences in Japan, the US & Germany—visualized as hybrid animals! A fun (and slightly cursed) way to see food stats. 🧵👇

-why? -I explain at home -… … do you understand? -yes

Currently reading 3 excellent books 😃: 📘 The Mercy of Gods, by James S.A. Corey goodreads.com/book/show/20... 📘 Conscious, by Annaka Harris goodreads.com/book/show/41... 📘 The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Born out of chaos! Use the mouse to create vivid patterns: diebner.de/webgl/Turing...

I live in a peaceful country where if/when a person in my family has health issues will receive immediate attention, general public infrastructure is excellent, my kids receive free education. If Europe is losing the AI race it might be because citizens and leaders have been having other priorities.

Design for #genuary17 #genuary2025 #genuary Prompt: What happens if pi=4? I placed 256 points evenly on a sphere using a function that depends on PI and connected the points together in order. Then I varied PI from it's true value to 4 and back again.

Hey, these color stripes are neat. In Fig. 4 of our 2014 @science.org "Network Framework of Cultural History" we did something very similar, inspired by gene expression plots. Many historical indicators grow exponentially, so we map deviations from #ExpEctation™. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm incapable of wishing a happy 2025!, that's too large a number, and it's not even the year we're now. I have to settle with wishing you all a happy 2025

nice challenge!

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

@golan.bsky.social ported Typode to p5.js so it's easy to play with the parametric font on the browser, and to use it on any other project: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...

It's in - thanks so much for sharing. github.com/golanlevin/p...

Notice that whenever there's a good prediction it will be hidden below the historic data. This visualization will always show failed predictions.

A game I play with my son: assembling mildly simple lego sets without instructions. We’ve succeed ~1/10 in average

All the logical and philosophical shortcomings when talking and measuring "intelligence" in AI reflect and replicate many of the same logical and philosophical shortcomings when talking and measuring "intelligence" in humans.

If "Brexit" happened in other countries, what would they call it? :))

MAID

My son just sent me a top 10 of first 10 numbers. He's outdading and outmathing me.

There it is... Sierpinski Christmas 🎄

When there's no longer real news you have to come up with something

Recent very accurate historical movies reminded me of this little visualization I made 15 years ago: roman emperors through time, with h=popularity (# wikipedia articles linking to), life span, ruling time, cause of death. Allegedly trouble = dn/dt (n for nth emperor).

The third edition of my textbook, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, was published today. You can preview the first 68 pages on Google Books, or take a look at the preface below to see what's new. The main new thing is a chapter on the Kuramoto model! Hope you enjoy it.

drying tshirts test version musicians shows that "deep generalization" is hard

Whenever I see a meaningful statistics like this one, evolving in the right direction, I think of how much this metric is interconnected with others (f.i. violence against women). It seems crazy, and contradictory, that at the same time society seems to be electing increasingly retrograd leaders.