Prakash Haridas

I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.

Made a dinner iftar Ramadan theme artwork! ✨️

It’s crazy how the only thing that fixes problems with the brain is Puzzles. Vestibular therapy? Puzzles. Vision therapy? Puzzles. Cognitive rehabilitation? Puzzles. Feels kind of like a joke solution but ok

A book where you can track the movies you watch with notes for them and ratings.

Bought myself Letterboxd for luddites.

Chairing a conference is basically a flex of soft skills, what with writing soliciting emails, fitting a budget, and enforcing deadlines.

No wonder scientists hate it.

A graph with a set of concentric circles. The outermost is "AI" (artificial intelligence" and has under it "umbrella term but also used in basic AI applications such as "robot programming", "search algorithms", "boolean logic", "other applications". Next is "ML", machine learning. "AI subset: anomaly detection as in fraud prevention", "predictive analytics as in forecasting". Next is "DL", deep learning: "image recognition", "speech to text", "identify molecular structure in drug research". And last is LLM, Large Language Models, "ChatGPT, BERT, T5", "trained on enormous datasets"

I remember, even within the introduction to AI course I audited in grad school in 2015, I remember the inclusion of some graph like this.

The thing which is maybe surprising in my reread is how quickly it seems like researchers within these field are willing to accept the redefinition in scoping.

Take care and speedy recovery!

Beautiful! Also indexed in Singapore’s National Parks website: www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunawe...

You can check out Singapore’s National Parks website for more info on such gems. www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunawe...

“Instead of showing its potential, generative AI just demonstrated how out of touch a major media force had become.” www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

is it always this peaceful? looks like a great spot to just rest and recharge!

want to remind everyone that this is the art I make

As someone who melted a significant portion of my brain writing about sociotechnical representations of time and temporal sensemaking in my dissertation, this is amazing.

Sorry, but I've had to remind myself recently that I'm actually pretty darn good at what I do, whatever this is

I think emoji-only feedback is actually underrated

Highlight a comment splice and then just write “☠️”

😂

The hero's journey circle but it says THE FOOL'S ERRAND and the guy on the top has a little jester's hat. Stages are Opportunity to gain Supernatural prank Unheeded Advice Slip 'n' fall (intensification of error) Helper (who always lies) Old man (mistaken for wise) Helper (who also always lies) Hall of mirrors (confrontation with the self Stumbling through the thorns The Unforgivable misunderstanding Rejection of the goddess Coming home before he's supposed to

if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities

I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher

Only Valve can get away with casually dropping news of new hardware on a random day of the week out of the blue. A new VR headset from Valve. Steam Frame is here and it’s real.

Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution

just experienced "MacSpreading" - where someone just asked for more room on the train table because their MacBook Pro and Mouse needs more than their half of the table...

I made a ridiculously fun app for Apple Vision Pro and the new Logitech Muse 'spatial accessory' that lets you spray paint the world around you.

Spray Paint Spatial, approved by Apple and now on the App Store!

Help me spread the word!

apps.apple.com/us/app/spray...

A large styrofoam dough boy sitting on blue plastic shelving, surrounded by fencing and metal shelving at a salvage shop

Closeup of dough boy styrofoam hand that has a handwritten label taped to it that reads “I am not for sale”

I am sad that this large styrofoam Pillsbury dough boy is not for sale.

A boy standing in front of a house dressed like Hornet from Silksong

My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!

YouTube video by Affinity Your first look at the all-new Affinity

Hmmm. Watching the Affinity big "True Creative Freedom" reveal video. I've long recommended the Affinity tools as solid alts to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (ipad apps in particular are great).

Basically, it's all rolled into 1 app. Now free, but with deep integration with Canva (for AI).

🧵 1/

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

Screenshot of a status message saying that the Oxford University Research Archive is currently offline and is in the process of being brought back up online again.

Looks like they’re aware of it and trying to get it back up again from the status message on the website.

Facebook notification saying "Happy birthday to..." without saying who

I guess corporate found that engagement metrics increase if you don't mention whose birthday it is, because now there's an opportunity to catch you scrolling in the app

I'm so tired of the mundane hostility of the attention economy

AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?

If you [shudder] use LinkedIn for professional stuff, you should read this and make relevant changes if needed.

Sigh…