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made a site that picks the closest perfumes for how your pictures feel

@buff_tone @devahaz Materrazzi was a dick and Zidane lost his temper. But Zidane was (and still is) the most popular Frenchman in the country. So seeing the Italians rejoice and mock him for months in national media after their victory left a bad taste. Hard to cry over their demise!

@mthienyk @devahaz “What they did” beat his team because he committed the dumbest foul in history?

I still marvel at the collapse of Italian football

@autumnpard @TensorTwerker @hopelesslystoic What’s wrong with the current mainstream models?

@TensorTwerker @hopelesslystoic I'm still looking for a good assistant in medicine and biology.

Cancelled Claude, back to GPT. What's the point of frontier model if I can't do biology

Heatwave reading

@_smontlouis Intéressant de l’aider à être autonome dans le futur plutôt que de se contenter d’améliorer son code actuel. Mais si ça roulait plus ou moins bien déjà pour lui, qu’est-ce quil cherchait exactement ? De quoi se rassurer ?

Bon j'ai eu le contrat et j'avoue être bluffé ! Le gars n'est pas du tout dev, mais il est très sensibilisé sur l'IA et son fonctionnement. Doctorat en mathématiques je sais pas trop quoi, motion designer de métier. Le projet a quelques mois, il est huge, mais tous les plans sont rédigés, les choix sont réfléchis, etc. Il ne s'y connait pas en code, mais il apprend tout sur le tas. Et c'est plutôt bien fait, pour un projet purement vibecodé. Et moi je suis là en tant que consultant, j'aide à construire un bon harness, automatiser les feedback / erreurs / slack / github issues / agents etc. ezzzzzz

Incredible painting because this really captures the feeling of having a conversation with your homie and then suddenly you’re in the sky

I’ve been given so much free food in Switzerland. Many blessings.

@helencftroy I like it but I’m glad I started with notes from the underground

I always find myself disagreeing with the way people overcomplexify Dostoyevsky’s works. Crime and Punishment is not that hard to read it’s only intimidating bc of its length and bc russian literature is branded as complicated. You can absolutely start with that one. I did…

@joodalooped The point of offloading tasks to the screens is that they handle the short and long term memory for us and build a model of what we can do through UI. Voice is way more demanding cognitively

@joodalooped Yeah. Voice is good for expressing intent fast (especially if you capture the tone and the emotion), bad for manipulating abstract concepts comfortably (slow, memory limited, imprecision bc of interference like noise or bad pronunciation)

weekly reminder that voice is an unserious interface for anything other than giving unsophisticated commands screens are forever

sampling everything

@TayZonday Sharp and to the point. Legend.

BIG PICTURE REASONS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL: • With no algorithms, the Internet was driven by novelty, not loyalty. Weirdness wins novelty. • Myspace was #1 in social media. YouTube was unproven and Facebook had just opened up beyond colleges. YouTube needed a "model home" for what its cultural real estate meant. • One person uploading a video that thousands of strangers parodied became YouTube's behavioral "model home." No other platform had that social dynamic. • Soulja Boy, Chris Crocker, and other talented creators had viral YouTube videos that got widely parodied. "Chocolate Rain" became identified with a type of "shareholder safe" virality. YouTube's human editors promoted it on the front page. • YouTube was an unproven business for both Google and creators. The idea of creators earning Internet money was not mainstream. I was added in round two of YouTube's experimental Partner Program. I believe round one had about thirty creators. • Television remained the eight-hundred-pound media gorilla. Viacom's billion-dollar copyright lawsuit was an existential YouTube threat just as the first YouTube videos went viral. The fact that "Chocolate Rain" began on YouTube and transitioned to me being on CNN, Jimmy Kimmel, discussed by Carson Daly and dozens of other celebrities... came at a time when YouTube needed a Rosetta Stone. They needed to translate a massively subsidized, high-risk venture into understandable cultural value. "Chocolate Rain" became a stenographer of YouTube crossing over. I got parodied on South Park, Saturday Night Live, nominated for a People's Choice Award, sang with Boyz II Men on Tosh.0 etc. HOW DID "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GO VIRAL?: • "Chocolate Rain" was rushed to completion in April of 2007 since I had another song ("Love," made with Kooby) featured on YouTube's front page and wanted other new content. It sat at around 30,000 views until summer. • "Chocolate Rain" got posted on Digg in July of 2007, an early Reddit-style social bookmark site. Someone saw it there and posted it on 4chan. • 4chan worked to meme "Chocolate Rain," "Numa Numa," Rick Astley, and other things. In 2007, 4chan was dominantly "Howard Stern liberal." Being offensive, outrageous, and highly speech-tolerant used to be identified with leftist, avant-garde identity. My first inkling that "Chocolate Rain" was going viral was 4chan prank-calling Tom Green's self-produced show and the caller busting out singing "Chocolate Rain!" MORE FACTORS IN "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GOING VIRAL: • YouTube had no stereo sound in early 2007. I posted a free "Chocolate Rain" MP3 download, with a giant video banner announcing it, purely to circumvent this. I wanted my songs heard in stereo. • "Chocolate Rain" begins with an instrumental and loops. This, combined with the MP3 download, made parodies easy. This was totally unplanned luck. It's like it was made to be parodied. • I looked like Janet Jackson, moved like Mr. Bean, and sounded like Barry White. Not trying to mean-girl myself, just being blunt. I was a unique combination of attributes but also not self-aware. Social internet video of everyday life was a new experience. Like, "If that guy is singing 'Chocolate Rain,' what's MY neighbor doing?" Everyday life was transforming into a democratic video content frontier nobody had given much prior thought to. • It's worth noting that 2007 was before mainstream mobile Internet video consumption. YouTube was overwhelmingly consumed on desktop computers and laptops. The later shift to engagement-optimized and loyalty-optimized social video was heavily influenced by phones. PERSONAL FACTORS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL: • I built a bedsheet box in my living room to sing "Chocolate Rain" in because I'm agoraphobic. That's the opposite of claustrophobic. Boundaries supercharge me. It also turns out that lots of people have bedsheets to hang up. • I moved stiffly and sang "Chocolate Rain" with elongated vowels because of dyspraxia, a neurological movement difficulty tied to me being autistic (first diagnosed at age sixteen). • "Chocolate Rain" musically captured my tendency towards echolalia and echopraxia — repetition and reinvocation of speech and behavior. These are adaptations to being a partially verbal autistic who has to blend-in with speaking society. They also help in making catchy songs.

@srotimi_ui What’s that thing on the right? It looks amazing

Post your work Friday. Show us what you worked on this week 👇

@pieratt Very charming, I love it

the problem with building a giant library out of your own history is that its lonely. Empty castle vibes. As tho a performance or relationship is missing. Why collect if not to share it with others?

@textrnr That would look amazing if painted with a pen plotter

Watching babies interact at the park near my place and thinking about this quote by Borges

@MatthewDHanlon2 @HOUSEPORN___ My first thought as well

draped concert hall architecture

@kiiradesign Beautiful work. Love the font pairing as well

Posters with photos of flowers I shot

@MelisaSeah @reve Great move. Over-indexing on average, mainstream taste has made models way less interesting. This example of "improvement" had the opposite effect on me

we imbue taste in @reve by having a creative director of our model his visual style drives 5% of our image model’s look and feel

I like this guys art so much