Nic Becker

oakwood studio is evolving

@tobyshooters neogeocities

A few months ago, I cobbled together an "image map" authoring system. Unlike the current web (and now LLMs), I wanted images to be central, and text only secondary.

I work on a tool for working with the information in videos called reduct.video We just released "Videoboard," a 2d canvas for storyboarding + clustering. It lets you edit video on an infinite canvas—a “really non-linear” editor. Some background...

new paper up on arxiv!

What does a leading 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 think about *causation*? Summary of some positions by Buzsaki in The Brain From Inside Out (ch 2). Plenty of discussions about causation but here we have someone at the very “center of the action” in neuroscience. 🧶

@_fernando_rosas Great list, here's another one: Projections by @KarlDeisseroth in June twitter.com/KarlDeisseroth…

PS: please feel free to complete this list with anything interesting I might have forgotten!

Do you think 2021 is being a shitty year? Let me share some exciting upcoming books, which may give you reasons to look forward to the rest of the year 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

@fchollet i imagine this will also upset what is deemed mainstream vs. alternative history. future historians will be inundated by the multiplicities of explanations at their disposal.

An under-appreciated feature of our present is how we record almost everything -- far more data than we can analyze. Future historians will be able to reconstruct and understand our time far better than we perceive and understand it right now.