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My kids are playing with little Lego F1 cars and I just spent ~2mins vibe coding a “lights out” sequence to start our races.
I never would’ve even thought to build this ephemeral toy without AI.
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Cory Chainsman
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Cory Chainsman
@corychainsman
Dad. Designer. Building UIs & workflows for training industrial AI vision systems
Boston, MA Katılım Mart 2008
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The cost is in curating the best text that is worth reading.
Eigen’s argument is akin to saying that a printed bible is less worth reading than a bible illuminated by hand in laborious calligraphy. Both contain the same content, and both are equally worth reading. It was deciding what should be in the text at all that makes it worthwhile.
eigenrobot@eigenrobot
asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive. this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important. so: not paying that cost is telling
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"Idiomatic" is a word I'm steering my agents a lot with recently:
"Add a tooltip to that chart in a way idiomatic to Observable Plot"
"Add do XYZ when clicking the color swatch idomatically to mantine UI"
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How does Claude know it's *almost* done thinking? what is the mechanism?
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In a mom&pop bookshop with little knickknacks amid the shelves, each with a small price tag on a string.
I see a beautiful small handwritten placard that says “Greece” with watercolor images of an Athenian helmet and some columns. No price tag.
I bring it to the shopkeeper and ask “How much?” He says it’s the label for the Greek travel section and that I should put it back where I found it.
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what's the first time you remember thinking "this is art" about something that wasn't 'obviously' or 'conventionally' art?
(looking for examples of odd, minor, trivial things that particularly resonated, especially over a long time)
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@zackslab Wish I had an event camera tho. it's a totally different world
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@zackslab Posy has a great video on "motion extraction" where you invert a video and overlay it on itself to see motion.
youtube.com/watch?v=NSS6yA…
I quickly vibecoded website for doing this wth "any" video. Works best with long-held tripod shots of nature.
corychainsman.github.io/motion-extract…
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watching bugs fly around from 200yd away with an event sensor through 40x zoom
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@useTRMNL Love the subtle details in this. Mouse cursor. Lil bit of the dock on the left. A hand on the right. I thought it was an AI product render until I realized it is as authentic as can be. Well played.
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Tweeted hiding under a tree in a sudden downpour with “0% chance of precipitation”
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Meteorologists are like modern-day alchemists; nobody can actually do the thing, but everybody *really* wants somebody to be able to
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You should not simply invert the mark for dark backgrounds.
You need two entirely different marks for light-on-dark and dark-on-light because you're trying to convey shadow with the dark parts of the mark.
Here is a video breaking down why, and some good ideas for how to get started on the dark version: youtu.be/DuqJk7RtPHk?si…
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Good? Bad? Evocative enough? Am I in charge of a software company or a distillery?
Simon Sarris@simonsarris
I want to design a new logo for my software company (Northwoods Software) but it needs to have some of this energy. Somehow. Also remain professional.
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My 6yo wanted to know how much bigger NYC is than other cities. It’s more than 2x the next largest city (LA)!
Claude made us a little playground to combine cities and see how they compare to a baseline city.
corychainsman.github.io/citymath/
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Dickens wrote the “instagram reels” of his day. Sherlock Holmes started out as “short” stories because there audience didn’t have the time/capacity to read novels. Shakespeare’s sonnets were performed as a salve to the public’s short attention span. Meet your “readers” where they are.
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Whenever I read somebody like David Bentley Hart, I’m just blown away by the sheer depth of material they can draw from when they’re marshaling their ideas. That is *never* going to come from Instagram Reels. It’s going to come from night after night with books (end)
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Speaking as someone who writes a fair amount for public consumption: in the last 3-5 years, there’s been an observable collapse in readers’ ability to follow and engage an argument. Most notably, people will raise “counterarguments” addressed in the text of the piece itself (1/x)
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc
Fewer than half of US adults read a book last year. Even fewer read an actual novel, and the trend is looking worse still for teenagers. Why is nobody talking about this??
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In 2012, my grad school advisor made me rewrite my thesis title hundreds of times, and fundamentally rewrite the abstract dozens of times.
She knew *nobody* would read the rest.
John Ehrett@johnehrett
Strawmanning arguments is another big one - people read a headline or first couple paragraphs, assume they’ve read the rest, and react accordingly. Or name-drop other texts they *very clearly* have not engaged except through twitter memes (2/x)
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@sasuke___420 hidden="until-found" is your friend here for small-to-medium sized lists. Above that, gotta implement a server-side custom find feature and override the browser’s native find feature/shortcut
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you should never let the browser's find feature actually work
Nic Barker@nicbarkeragain
Just a heads up that you should never be rendering 10,000 lines of anything, especially if all the lines are the same height, as in code. List virtualisation is a very old and simple technique. You can experiment with the below at nicbarker.com/virtual-scroll…
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@devintoshea My guy here has done a 1hr+ multi-part video series on the topic
youtube.com/watch?v=I11VI4…
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no knife guy wants to admit that a pair of scissors is a way more useful daily carry. why are there no scissors guys
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