Ishac Bertran

What have machines learned from us today?

@jgebbia Are you ok with him being racist, misogynist and convicted felon though? He can love America as much as you want but that's also the role model you're looking for for this country?

I have a confession to make: I did a bad thing. Something the younger me Would hate myself for doing. Something that only a few people (and maybe Bytedance) know: I voted Republican last November. I know, I know I can hear the crush of disappointed voices: Say it ain’t so, Joe. And yes, I can hear other voices cheering in the background, welcome to the club. * So I would like to take a few moments to explain this choice to my younger self who cast his first ballot for Al Gore in 2000. Young Joe, first of all, stop frosting the tips of your hair, it’s not cool. Secondly, those Democrats you’ve voted for your whole life aren’t the same party they used to be. Like your fashion sense, they’ve lost their way. Hopefully they’ll make an effort to win people like me back. * Yes, I know I’m late to the party on this, and there’s already a thick gold chain in the punch bowl. (I hope he drops the Facebook Files in there next.) But today we stop hiding the truth from our close Never Trumper friends: That we support a party that isn’t going to run this country into the ground. A country that people from all over the world dream about living in. I love our nation, our people, and even our standard measurement system. We were told by the media that loving this country meant hating Trump, and for many years I believed that. Until I committed the second greatest sin that I’d like to confess today: I did my own research. And I found something that shocked me. He is not a fascist determined to destroy democracy. He deeply cares about our nation. (I also happen to deeply care about our nation.) He deeply cares about safe cities. (I also like my car still being where I parked it in the morning.) He deeply cares about government efficiency and spending. (I also care about the next generation, and love the whole DOGE initiative.) He cares about bringing common sense back to our country. (So do I.) He cares about making our borders secure. (I actually don’t like going through the customs process myself, but I do respect the fact these safeguards exist.) * I did, however, find a problem, something that stopped me in my tracks, besides dropping a meme coin on the eve of the inauguration: One of his cabinet picks, RFK, is saying some pretty out-there things. I think the establishment may even be more afraid of him than Trump. For starters, this crazy guy wants to make our tap water safer to drink. This guy wants us to stop over-medicating. This guy wants to make our grocery store aisles less poisonous. This guy is clearly a threat to our way of life. Doesn’t he know how much money these companies make slowly killing us? So I did that bad thing again and looked into these ideas with an open mind. Lo and behold, I found out that they were exactly what our country needed. Desperately. Make America Healthy Again. Make America Great Again. Make America America Again. Say it with me, MAAA. * I’m guessing even young Joe wouldn’t have liked living in the eggshell ages of these last few years. A time of silence, shaming, and fear, where calling a duck a duck meant you hated ducks. It was kind of like the dark ages, complete with its own plague, but with more modern forms of torture, like having to watch CNN for news. So, if like me and many others, you also had a woke-up call, it’s time to talk about it. Better late than never. It’ll unburden you, and you’ll no longer have to live a lie, pretending like the other party had a good plan in place. And if you disagree, please don’t remove me from your Christmas card list. I certainly won’t remove you. I hope listening to each other will become the new shouting at each other. Together, we can make this nation great again, from the Gulf of America in the South all the way to the great state of Greenland in the North.

@golan ishback.com/aminutewithin/…

Tomorrow is my big lecture on "Clocks" and I am suppressing my urge to DM several of you with urgent requests to restore the videos you deleted which documented your incredibly elegant and brilliant contributions from 15 years ago. I am learning to let go, you bastards.

@gabofdz10 @fiagirly What!? That' was Lewis fault!

📻 | Lewis Hamilton: “Yea, I’m taken out by my own teammate.”

@Nicolas_Sassoon reminds me the animated, embroided computers of @kris10roos instagram.com/p/CXXJZoxK3x4/

2 months of pixel embroidery...it's finally done. Sharing a little detail before the big reveal.

@easyaspython @codepoemsbook Hey Dane! Yes I have them, sending via DM :)

Hey @ishacbertran! I contributed a poem to @codepoemsbook but I don't believe I kept my own copy, and although my name is on the website I don't believe my poem went to print. Is there any chance you have any record of my submission you can share? I'd be really grateful!

👋 Creative coders! @pitaru and I are looking for a coder to join our @Google Creative Lab team in NY. We are exploring exciting ideas in AI, LLMs, product design, and more. Apply here 👉 careers.google.com/jobs/results/1…

@RMLMG__ @EsterKattyAnna @albeert5_ Si te gusta Catalunya pero solo la parte que no es independentista tienes un problema. Te gusta tu idea de Catalunya, no Catalunya.

@EsterKattyAnna @albeert5_ Si piensas que Cataluña se reduce al independentismo tienes un problema...

Ser catalán e ir por España es una sensación indescriptible. No me puede gustar más ver como te odian por llevar los colores de la Senyera o por hablar en catalán. Es una sensación de orgullo inmensa. Notas rabia en sus miradas. Pf me encanta.

@sterlingcrispin Amazing work! Curious - by changing the UI after detecting potential intent 'to create more anticipatory pupil response'... isn't the system influencing the user's will to click that target? It feels like a potentially unsafe intervention. In which cases is this used?

I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the #VisionPro while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally announced. I’ve been working on AR and VR for ten years, and in many ways, this is a culmination of the whole industry into a single product. I’m thankful I helped make it real, and I’m open to consulting and taking calls if you’re looking to enter the space or refine your strategy. The work I did supported the foundational development of Vision Pro, the mindfulness experiences, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ products, and also more ambitious moonshot research with neurotechnology. Like, predicting you’ll click on something before you do, basically mind reading. I was there for 3.5 years and left at the end of 2021, so I’m excited to experience how the last two years brought everything together. I’m really curious what made the cut and what will be released later on. Specifically, I’m proud of contributing to the initial vision, strategy and direction of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ program for Vision Pro. The work I did on a small team helped green light that product category, and I think it could have significant global impact one day. The large majority of work I did at Apple is under NDA, and was spread across a wide range of topics and approaches. But a few things have become public through patents which I can cite and paraphrase below. Generally as a whole, a lot of the work I did involved detecting the mental state of users based on data from their body and brain when they were in immersive experiences. So, a user is in a mixed reality or virtual reality experience, and AI models are trying to predict if you are feeling curious, mind wandering, scared, paying attention, remembering a past experience, or some other cognitive state. And these may be inferred through measurements like eye tracking, electrical activity in the brain, heart beats and rhythms, muscle activity, blood density in the brain, blood pressure, skin conductance etc. There were a lot of tricks involved to make specific predictions possible, which the handful of patents I’m named on go into detail about. One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool. And I’d take that over invasive brain surgery any day. Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it. Another patent goes into details about using machine learning and signals from the body and brain to predict how focused, or relaxed you are, or how well you are learning. And then updating virtual environments to enhance those states. So, imagine an adaptive immersive environment that helps you learn, or work, or relax by changing what you’re seeing and hearing in the background. All of these details are publicly available in patents, and were carefully written to not leak anything. There was a ton of other stuff I was involved with, and hopefully more of it will see the light of day eventually. A lot of people have waited a long time for this product. But it’s still one step forward on the road to VR. And it’s going to take until the end of this decade for the industry to fully catch up to the grand vision for this tech. Again, I’m open to consulting work and taking calls if your business is looking to enter the space or refine your strategy. Mostly, I’m proud and relieved this has finally been announced. It’s been over five years since I started working on this, and I spent a significant portion of my life on it, as did an army of other designers and engineers. I hope the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and Vision Pro blows your mind.

@archillect Source?

@solreader Curious, why do you need my phone number for the waitlist?

The world's first wearable e-reader. Noise canceling for your eyes.

@_ayyybee_ Answered :)

@elonmusk @evafox Who is 'we'?

@evafox Absolutely!!

“We don’t want to be one of those single-planet species; we want to be a multi-planet species.” Elon Musk

@tinkadoic @rosschapman You can try creating a channel with @zeroframe_ and let people tune in with a URL. You can broadcast images, gifs, videos or websites. Happy to give you a demo :)

@rosschapman Only art, architecture, and design content. All curated, all quality.

I want to start a curated TV channel. Could be an  TV app to begin with.

@fearofpoets @ani_c_mohan Even if a GUI is primarily conversational I believe there will still be a lot of tapping on generated options - faster than talking / typing. And in non-conversational interfaces, I believe you'd still be able to talk to a NLU layer that would do what you need on that interface.

@ani_c_mohan That’s fair. There is so much evidence out there about how quickly our brains react to visual input. This will be fun :)

There’s no way killer gen AI consumer apps will have a chat interface. It’s like expecting non programmers to interact with the command line to use apps like Instagram or Maps. The GUI for Gen AI is still TBD.

@Sionetobcn @ddnogue @pilarcarracelas I els mobles apareixien a casa per art de màgia, o potser hi ha un transport amb combustible fòssil que ho porta a casa? És que tela...

@ddnogue @pilarcarracelas Pots anar a veure-ho amb transport públic i comprar-ho on-line. No cal anar a tot arreu amb cotxe i aparcar a la porta.

Quina absoluta farsa la ZBE. No puc anar a l'Ikea de L'Hospitalet amb la furgoneta i això que el tinc a 12km de casa. Per tant hauré d'anar al de Sabadell o al de Badalona i contaminar el triple i consumir el triple de combustible fòssil.

@elonmusk 'Great'? It was a penalty kick man.

Great goal by Argentina! 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

@joost123153 @GeorgeK_VII @wbuxtonofficial No, put any other top driver in this car (eg Alonso) and they would have won the season too.

And while Max is every bit a deserving two time champion he showed today he has much to learn about what it is to be a team leader. For everything Checo has done to help his cause, today’s result means nothing to Max in the wider view. Disrespected his teammate and his team.

@Melissalpaca Com'on. In Spain Checo let Max pass when he was 3s behind. Also a stupid move?

Checo was 4 seconds behind, it’d be a stupid move to break hard enough to make up for 4 seconds. Sure, checo deserves P2 in the championship, but he has to keep up with the pace himself as well

@sharifshameem I’d live there even with the artifacts. Particularly fan of these indoor plants that morph into trees outside. Genius.

Here are a few architecture samples from the Lexica Aperture model. Real-world coherence has improved, but when you look closely there are still weird artifacts.