Tony Chu

Leadership Hack #7: Build a list of your favorite humans. Check in with them frequently.

Can confirm. Playwright MCP works great, especially with its ability to read the browser console. I use Augment Code (I work there) and the agent just starts adding console logs and then can see what’s happening by itself.

Perozzo's stereogram over the years:
1880 Annali di Statistica (Perozzo)
1885 Statistical Society Jubilee (Levasseur)
1888 Teoria generale della statistica (Gabaglio)
1939 Graphic Presentation (Brinton)

Wonderful to receive this utterly beautiful 3D printed diorama of "Snow's map of cholera" by @alexselbyb.bsky.social. Exceptional attention to detail. Simply stunning. Dare I say better than the original! Thanks Alex.

✨ It's new samwho visual essay o'clock! ✨

Reservoir sampling is one of my favourite algorithms. It allows you to sample from a set without knowing the size of that set.

I try to assume no prior knowledge, and use no scary math notation. Just beautiful visuals.

Let me know what you think! ❤️

Why Is Canada’s Population so Concentrated? In three spots that are disconnected?

I’ve been really into these “deep structure” readings on history lately, so it was a delight when this popped up this morning open.substack.com/pub/uncharte...

Feels up your alley @infowetrust.com

Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition Help create an affordably priced version of this book that spans 600 years of the history of typography, type casting, and printing

A little typographical joy in a kickstarter project www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle... - they are *almost* there with about 2 days to go!

storytelling with chart

www.reddit.com/r/wallstreet...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

I wrote a short interactive article👆

It uses simulations to demonstrate how different cardiac arrhythmias can develop.

Try it out! (It has defibrillators ⚡️)

jenevoldsen.com/posts/excitable-cells

#medsky #cardiosky #cccsky #emimcc

Photo of Rj talking in front of projected image of his book

Geeked to see RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com talk about his work and celebrate the launch of his remastered book Info We Trust at @letterformarchive.org! An essential read for thinking about data storytelling (and recommended for you too, comics peeps!)

Oh nice! It’ll be good to see you!

Someone once said tome, “Irony doesn’t scale.” Oh right, that was you.

I'm releasing a new latent space explorer 🧭🎨 — a creative tool for generating and evolving images.

It's tree-based and designed for creative flow and open-ended discovery, using image mixing, branching, and editing.

You can try it out now!
www.artbreeder.com/tools/splicer2

Here's a striking visualization of sea level rise that I just made for Key West FL, which has a 112-year history.
The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean).
I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊

"The spectre of AI does nothing for growth if it gives away what we own so that we can rent from it what it makes." - that's some extremely skilled political rhetoric, really great speech writing

(Prior to the Lords she had a long career as a film director in the UK, which I think shows)

Oh interesting. For reference, I was referring to this www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/...

Have you seen anyone try to combine/orchestrate agents with behavior trees like in game dev?

A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon GARY: Hey Cindy, remember the other day when we were talking about optimizations? CINDY: Yeah, I wanted to circle back on that. GARY: Me too. You s...

@almossawi.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen this www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m... - I thought of you immediately

Remarkable chart by @data.ft.com
Many readers won't fully understand boxplots. At a quick glance, they don't add much information here. But then, look at the lower end of the 2024 whisker (or 2015 for the previous El Niño)!
Also: I just love the aesthetic 🤩 #dataviz

www.ft.com/content/fd91...

You might think of it as “how long is the mechanical part loop until we get feedback that’s experiential again?” - and right now it is a lot

So much of our visualization tools, especially the most versatile one, require multiple steps that are about being precise for the machine’s sake, before we get a glimpse of the experience we’re after. Then it’s splunking in machine language again

I enjoyed your thread. I find myself in RJ’s shoes - wanting to drive the car. Responding to your point about the “language of the car”, the difference is that driving the car aligns with a human centered feedback loop. We turn, we move, the feedback comes back through vision and motion

On some of my pages, I'll share state between interactive diagrams. Here's an example: the position of the square in the first diagram is the same as the position in the second diagram.

www.redblobgames.com/x/1730-spati...

I do this when I want to compare two computations with the same input.

Code Like a Journalist A free online data analysis and data visualization course using TypeScript by computational journalist Nael Shiab.

Exciting news! 🎉 I’m pressing pause on my work at CBC News for the next three months to focus on a passion project: www.code-like-a-journalist.com.

It’s a free, open-source online course designed to teach data analysis and visualization using TypeScript. 🚀

Stay tuned!

Ugh. That makes me sad. I have been playing with custom web components recently, and then learned that SVGs are not supported at all.

The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months “Agents” still haven’t really happened yet Evals really matter Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m? The environmental impact got better The environmental impact got much, much worse The year of slop Synthetic training data works great LLMs somehow got even harder to use Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed LLMs need better criticism Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

Table of contents:

Open WebUI I tried out this open source (MIT licensed, JavaScript and Python) localhost UI for accessing LLMs today for the first time. It's very nicely done. I ran it with [uvx](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides...

Just got a great first impression running Open WebUI - took one command to get it up and running (uvx --python 3.11 open-webui serve) and it noticed I had Ollama running and automatically gave me a UI to interact with those models simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/27/...