Reduct.Video

Video is an artifact that attests to the process by which it was created. This is true of many things.

Wonderful to think about all the people all around you that you can't see, watching videos you haven't heard of. One day maybe you will meet them. Maybe you will see a video they are seeing right now.

"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes" - Stop. The eye is the cathedral, built cell by cell through one billion years of evolution to give us, mankind, the divine experience of video. Choose Reduct.

Vertebrates and octopi were the first to evolve the "camera eye." We vertebrates have a blind spot where our nerve fibers pass through the retina. This is because of our eyes being outgrowths of our brains as opposed to "invagination" of photosensitive skin, as it was in octopi.

@jhoer100 to me that's rob ochshorn

@ReductVideo lfg

Reduct is observing Pride this year with the new reissue of Sufjan Stevens' "Carrie and Lowell." We invite you to celebrate with us, in both queer joy and sadness. youtu.be/uY4H_kzBgCE

@nbhdlady clicking pulls them to the front, right?

@ReductVideo now if only i could specify z-indices/order of tiles so that i can read as much of the text as possible... but also realize this may be an anomaly use case

technical LLM question thread how does the triangulation described here (meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental-t…) shake out in practice when tuning these models? how to get as close to the grain/metal as possible, so to speak

@nbhdlady reduct screenshot spotted :))))))

how often are LLMs being updated this year?

@RingoHosp "Alice's Rest or Romp"

so our PE consultant-coined hotel name would be like "The Cecile" (for the [illegitimate?] Astor who built it) or "The Alice" (for famous past owner Alice Brock, who would ABSOLUTELY HATE THE IDEA OF THAT lol)

should do a newsletter on effects of private equity on hospitality… claire worked in real estate PE and has nicely mixed feelings haha. dumb project names, bad tastes… but a lot of the things they're trying to pare down and scale up would otherwise just disappear

@RingoHosp they should increase the linespacing

ok then i think i'd call it a "Dog Friendly Hotel"

@kevinakwok @morqon early drafts of Rerum Novarum were reportedly far more Georgist than the final version. Worth reading George's 1891 essay "The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII"

wow. did not expect this as reason for choosing Leo as name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_nov… via @morqon

@tayroga nobody would correctly guess which would be talking at which conference

Does it mean anything that the design conference and the revenue conference are happening at the same time

Hoping this month brings reflection, warmth, and clarity. Ramadan Mubarak from your friends at Reduct.

video is movement rendered static. you are matter animated. we dance with video, never quite touching.

did it work

@neetimsina i said nice video

@ReductVideo can you please give me a publicly available video compilation of all the discussions around DOGE at the oval office?

you can always ask me for a nice video

Reduct.Video is back at Sundance. Congrats to the wise and brave documentarians whose work is showing this year.

Over time, interfaces begin to take on the quality of the interactions you have with them, and the ideas you see. For some, the text message compose box embodies joy; for others sorrow. We cannot hope that Reduct takes on only “joy”—but we hope it feels rich and deeply felt.

@andy_matuschak I think the difficulties in exhaustively specifying all the types of misfit is implicitly what leads him to "patterns", right? I do wonder if it might be possible to unify with some sort of automated GOMS analysis.

I know many software designers are fond of Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Has anyone ever actually applied CA’s analytical hierarchical graph partition to a UI project? It strikes me as more useful in concept than in practice, but Appendix A implies he really used it. (though tbh those constructive diagrams don’t seem to specify nearly enough)