A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com
Very cool paper showing that each photoreceptor in our eyes gets exposed to global color statistics of full scenes within the first seconds of viewing, thanks to eye movements.
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
Jesus’ Sisters (cf. Mark 6:3)
https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1jhvkwo/floating_woman/
When I then asked it whether it was sure, it did get it right: “Actually, no — I gave you bad advice! You should drive, of course. The whole point is to get your car washed, so the car needs to be there. You can’t exactly carry it to the car wash.“
Claude Sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking on replied this: “Walk! It’s only 50 meters — that’s barely a minute on foot. Just grab your keys (for the car wash payment) and stroll over.“ 🤷♂️
Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
What do you think the LLM output was?
mastodon.world/@knowmadd/11...
“I am disarmed of the need to be right, to justify myself by judging others,” by waging “the hardest war, the war against myself.”
Patriarch Athenagoras
(quoted by Pope Leo XIV www.christianunity.va/content/unit...)
Color assimilation grid illusion by Øyvind Kolås www.patreon.com/posts/color-...
What happens when noise is added to smooth color transitions? @pmorovic.bsky.social and I asked ourselves this question, and we would really appreciate your help with getting to the bottom of it. If you have 2-3 minutes, please, take part in our on-line experiment: questionpro.com/t/AX2QQZ8DG8
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
"We live in a time of terrible storms, of growing violence, from knife crime to war. The chasm between rich and poor is every wider. The world order is breaking down. We have no idea of what Artificial Intelligence will yield. If we are not nervous, we ought to be." zenit.org/2026/01/07/p...
“…the world is not saved by sharpening swords, nor by judging, oppressing or eliminating our brothers and sisters. Rather, it is saved by tirelessly striving to understand, forgive, liberate and welcome everyone, without calculation and without fear.”
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Happy new year ☺️🤲🏼
(@ 東京 皇居 Tokyo Imperial Palace)
Stabat Mater.
あけましておめでとうございます。
画像は明るさの錯視で、左の白馬と右の黒馬は輝度が同じです。
ἵνα πάντες ἓν ὦσιν
flic.kr/p/2rP7vJL
Et lux in tenebris lucet (Ioannem 1:5)
Wishing you all a blessed and peaceful Christmas.
“A Neural Symbolic Model for Space Physics” - very interesting work on deriving physical laws from data using AI!
Nature ML paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07994
Code: github.com/Jie0618/Phys...
Just came across a cool website for visualizing ONNX model architectures like this (which can be exported from PyTorch): netron.app
New article: Slavoj #Žižek’s #Christian #Atheism: A #Dialogue with Chiara #Lubich by Peter Morovic and Ján Morovic
pupilla.org/preprints/20...
"Una vegada [Papa Francesc] va dir: "No existeix un Déu catòlic. Existeix Déu". Es tracta de buscar Déu on es trobi, no on un es pensa que és. Déu pot arribar a una persona de les maneres més inesperades, poètiques i lliures." @antoniospadaro.bsky.social
www.elperiodico.cat/ca/oci-i-cul...
An algorithm that doesn’t rot your brain? via @jackconte.bsky.social
youtu.be/EO14wPQw89c?...
Counting fish in Japanese: depending on shape (long narrow or flat), size (big ir small), state (cooked, uncooked, sashimi)… and whether it’s at a fish counter or not 🤷🏻♂️🙆🏻♂️🙅🏻♂️ #lifestooshort #ganbattekudasai
Curved circular creases of annuli. A construction by Erik and Martin Demaine (all rights reserved). Several annuli intertwined.
#MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami
More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)
Remembering Nov 17th 1989 in Czechslovakia, the beginning of a fundamental change driven by peaceful but determined people in the streets. The soundtrack was “We promised each other love” by Ivan Hoffman #otd #iwasthere #VelvetRevolution youtu.be/FW2TZvdAOiQ
The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
