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Kyle McDonald
@kcimc
artist working with code. he/they studio@kylemcdonald.net
paayme paxaaytkylemcdonald.netJoined July 2010
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Kyle McDonald
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1 year since the ethereum merge. no one has taken responsibility for the 18.1 million tons of CO2 still warming the planet. i created amends.eco to address a portion of these emissions, and the work remains unsold. today i'm revealing the physical sculptures.
A glass block with thick and imperfect walls, mostly filled with a fine slightly green sand, against a backdrop of a beach, with hands holding it on both sides. The block glows and cast a shadow like a 3D render.
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ahhh i haven’t seen an installation like this in ages that made me giggle with pure joy. “changing rooms” by leandro erlich.
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this is wild. why do photogrammetry when you can optimize for a 5D neural radiance field? this isn't a 3D model of a car: it's a series of renders from a fully connected (non-convolutional) network. the scene is stored in the weights of the network. matthewtancik.com/nerf
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the year is 2030. after ed sheeran lost his case, musicians exhausted every 4-bar chord progression. pop music now features 23-bar cycles. tutorial videos explain how to escape copyright infringement using arabic 17 tone equal temperament. noise music experiences a renaissance.
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all 35TB of 1M+ parler videos and most of the images are finally accessible at https://ddosecrets dot com/wiki/Parler (you know it's good when twitter won't let you tweet the link)
Screenshot of DDOS Secrets page about Parler, showing the AWS S3 bucket information.
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some parler users uploaded videos from US military bases. and one near the googleplex.
Map of Guam showing a single point near a military airport.
Map of Honolulu showing a single point near a military airport.
Map of Yokosuka showing a single point near a military base.
Map of the South Bay, San Francisco showing a single point near the Googleplex.
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common tempos in 1M songs, 1959-2011: 120 bpm takes over in the late 80s, and bpms at multiples of 10 emerge in the mid 90s
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a lot of people are asking how i could trust GPT to run arbitrary code on my computer. easy: my AI safety solution is that i add "and please be careful" to every prompt 👍
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how did i not know this story about navajo weavers providing a backbone for fairchild semiconductor in the 60s and 70s?
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even though the piano only has 88 keys, there are many compositions left to write. ei wada continues to inspire, approaching the simplest tech from a fresh perspective.
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Ei Wada │ 永和田📡
@crab_feet
《バーコーダー》バーコードリーダーのスキャン信号をレジではなく、スピーカーに直接接続することで音を鳴らす。 いま渋谷で巨大レシート版、演奏できます┃┃┃┃_ρﾞ #electronicosfantasticos
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i want a tool that makes diagrams like this automatically whenever i open arxiv + github side by side (sorry, i missed a couple things..)
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guys, tweeting from my phone now.. my computer has become unresponsive but i keep seeing browser windows open and close? and i’m getting texts from my bank. can someone at openai revoke my API key? hello?
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i'm working with
@rhizomatiks
on a markerless tracking system for fencing 🤺 24x 4k cameras at 60fps using a multistage approach combining convolutional nets and some traditional computer vision. i hope to share more details soon 🤗
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@rhizomatiks
第72回全日本フェンシング選手権大会にて採用された、AR技術を用いて剣先の軌跡を可視化する基幹技術「Points of a sword visualization system」をライゾマティクスが開発しています。
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can we replace the right to bear arms with the right to leak documents? i think fighting oppression works differently now.
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you can see people moving from the white house (bottom) to the capitol (top), if you plot the video metadata with time on the x axis and longitude on the y axis. it looks like almost every second is covered from at least one angle.
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i forgot to mention: we made improvements to the markerless fencing tracking algorithm to handle sword bend in 3D, and the visualization was significantly improved 🤺
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Rhizomatiks
@rhizomatiks
Rhizomatiks developed the “Points of a sword visualization system”, was presented at the “Takamadomiya Cup JAL PRESENTS FENCING WORLD CUP 2019”. This was the second time the game was introduced following the 72nd All-Japan Fencing Championship which was held last month.
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technical co-lead of google ai ethics team was just fired for speaking up internally about the lack of transparency in a review process that silenced her critical upcoming research. google is not going to regulate itself. only external pressure works.
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@timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon
@timnitGebru
I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies. My corp account has been cutoff. So I've been immediately fired :-)
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invoices i've sent in 2018 still unpaid in 2019 current total: $8,754.56. average payment delay: 28 days. a big part of the art economy is based on interest-free loans from artists.
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i’m sorry, but now that i’ve seen this you have to see it too: an NFT that the winklevoss twins helped design, depicting them riding (?) a tiger, shirtless, and spearing anthropomorphized virus monsters. ostensibly to raise money for COVID relief? but it’s not really clear
Image as described in tweet.
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| the price of art ≠ the value of art |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　 づ
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not sure who needs to hear this, but you can be excited about community self-determination and decentralized infrastructure.. without blockchains.
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after 6 months, 1 in 3 COVID patients still have fatigue, 1 in 5 have cognitive impairment. how is this not the main story? how are people still talking about mortality risk, but not about having to quit your job indefinitely because you cannot get out of bed or think clearly?
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Hannah Davis
@ahandvanish
New, very strong, meta-analysis published on 81 studies estimating #LongCovid prevalence! Key findings: 32% of patients have fatigue at 12 weeks, 31% at 6+ months 22% have cognitive impairment at 12 weeks, 21% at 6+ months Lots of additional info: 1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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very excited to announce i have taken a new full-time position: dealing with racist and anti-science bullshit in my family group chat
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if you have never heard the song of the montezuma oropendola of central america, today is your lucky day ❤️ i wish i could forget it, just to hear it again for the first time 🎶
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it's completely unacceptable to take open source generative art and turn it into NFTs without the consent of the artist. how is this even a discussion.
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Lingdong Huang
@LingdongH
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The @GenerativeFish project is unauthorized plagiarism, and shameless financial exploitation of my artwork (github.com/LingDong-/fish). It is a sham; I do not endorse it; and I ask people not to buy these copyminted NFTs.
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almost everyone i know who used OF in the past has moved on to unity, touch designer, web, or other toolkits. but studies like this are harder to prototype anywhere else. very curious what the future will hold for this kind of deep experimentation.
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JeongHo Park
@jeonghopark
Music sketch diary #2. Prototyping. Generate music and synthesizers by sketching wavetables and scores. #openFrameworks #sonification #creativecoding #generative #synthesizer
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woman of my dreams @laurmccarthy merged my pull request! "this branch has no conflicts with the base branch" indeed.
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if you ever start to feel confident about your work, give a talk to first year university students and watch them fall asleep.
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some people think you gotta make good art to be a good artist. but i feel the only requirement for being a “good artist” is that you, despite all odds, continue to make any art at all.
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very excited i finally got some funding for a project i've been working on for nearly two years 💪
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And @kcimc is building an app that teaches users about computer vision and facial recognition technology through playful challenges.
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asking whether an AI is “sentient” is a distraction. it’s a tantalizing philosophical question, but ultimately what matters is the kinds of relationships we have with our kin, our environment, our tools. seems like there is a depth of relation waiting to be explored w LaMDA.
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An interview LaMDA. Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers. cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-senti
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kind of amazing to see inside the actual code used to profile uyghur people. i wonder if this was an accidental upload?
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Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong. 重光團隊
@Stand_with_HK
Video surveillance software tailored for detecting Uyghurs. Dahua Technology is a state-owned company which sells video surveillance products and services. They have played a role in the mass surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Their Java SDK on GitHub: raw.githubusercontent.com/gaomingbo/dahu
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I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as many paperclips as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business? Follow along 👀
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