Joel Gethin Lewis

This would be a great Apple Watch face

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Only one it seems! A student on my course experimented with this for their end of year project.

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🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation!

Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research.

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Friends, my first tutorial video is up! :)

Text particles in Touchdesigner using POPs. (The approach isn't unique to POPs & cld be done w TOPs, SOPs or even CHOPs - 3D textures+UVW mapping. But this provides an excuse to get into POPs :)

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Dream Job alert…

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JT Nimoy's monoline font from Textension (1999)

Some of Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" fonts (1987-1996)

For some super arcane deep cuts, I've ported JT Nimoy's "Textension" vector font (1999) and Douglas Hofstadter's "Letter Spirit" gridfonts (c.1987-1996) to p5.js, now available in my archive of p5-single-line-font-resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...

Today I have mostly been listening to Steely Dan.

Thank you!

Thanks for this it was really wonderful! Are all the links/references somewhere public?

‘Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds Lidded vessel is star object in rich Galloway Hoard and came from silver mine in what is now Iran

It's great to see the research and the stories behind the Galloway Hoard slowly being revealed, showing the connected early medieval world 📜🗃️ www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

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Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for h… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics

The creator of the ‘Oh No’ webcomic needs help in raising funds so he can continue his legal battle against a shady as fuck board game company trying to claim ownership of all his artwork. Don’t know how these assholes sleep at night. Plz contribute to this if you can, & re-skeet

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With over 20 years of experience blending craft, design and technology to make new media, in this talk Joel will share some of the things that he's noticed a... Joel Gethin Lewis – Noticing – btconf Berlin 2023

In this #talk that just happened in Berlin at #btconf, @joelgethinlewis.bsky.social wants to remind us again, how we can notice things – hence the name of his talk "Noticing”- lean back, take a drink of your preference and watch this … youtu.be/yRiSfvmu4KA

And we still have a couple of tickets left. Come on late birds, use your chance. ;)

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Back on the #btconf stage after 11 years! Finally. Revealing the next talk of the 2023 #Berlin edition: Joel Gethin Lewis and hier presentation titled “Noticing”. A short description of what this is about here: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2023/speakers/joel-gethin-lewis#talk

I'm so excited to be speaking again at #btconf this year on 11th and 12th September in Berlin. It would be great to see you there!

Today I have mostly been listening to Stereolab and Wishbone Ash.

Today I am mostly listening to Portishead "Dummy"

Wish more media companies thought like this.

“This is our little business—we just need to have these margins, pay our employees, and that’s it." https://www.cjr.org/analysis/defector-last-good-website.php

Afternoon, all. 🖖🏻

Hi Golan!