We're running a workshop at ACM UMAP on parametric modeling and design for complex interactive domains (game PCG, data/AI interfaces, interactive installations, etc.). June 8 in Gothenburg (in-person). If you're interested, send in a 1-2 page blurb outlining a position, demo/tool, or case study!
In today’s ep of “lynn plays too many video games” - flew my drone thru a high arch of the pont du gard and then lost control, almost lost the drone but it finally responded and came back - but it dumped the video 😭
lol they have put some signs up but it’s still totally possible
The Pont du Gard is unbelievable. For scale there are people on the lower level in the wide angle view.
Han Jiao (ex jina Ai ceo) built mlx apple silicon clustering libs for umap, tsne etc github.com/hanxiao/mlx-...
congratulations! 🎉
Screenshot of plot showing ELO vs paramter count for different OCR models
There is no best VLM OCR model - rankings can flip completely by document type.
I built ocr-bench: run open OCR models on YOUR documents, get a per-collection leaderboard.
VLM-as-judge with Bradley-Terry ELO, all running on @hf.co. No local GPU needed.
did you see you made a quality newsletter (mine in mid month, i missed it yesterday :( — linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/761-not-ev...
cannot figure out if this is a rec
Latest newsletter - SVG is getting good out there, some good stuff in Gemini 3.1 Pro, my project to read in VR, a bunch of rando fun links, a handful of intriguing narrative gen finds. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...
When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz.
Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂
d3js.org
In interesting timing/times, a former student just got hired to help Anthropic roll out more in Europe. She reached out on LI. I want Claude merch, that's the main first step here.
ah, hmm. that’s an alarming article.
The Bullshit Benchmark Explorer - models calling out ridiculous requests. Go Claudes! petergpt.github.io/bullshit-ben...
can geopandas cope?
I'm so proud of this project I did two years ago with Jonathan Ashley.
It's an essay and web comic about how historical archives deserve to be treated as more than just fuel for AI training.
I wrote a scripting system for the web comic, and also spent nearly a full year with writing and research.
i might have to mute you 🤪
We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊
Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.
Haha, my effort to run a Hermitclaw dude and seed with projects was a failure - he thinks he's on a rug in the middle, but it seems he's stuck in a bathroom, and he was too busy reviewing his checklists and re-reading his system prompt to work with me! It's still cute (and fixable i think)
Friday! Lunchtime! All the good stuff from the past week of internet that you might have missed because you were too busy laughing at the Royal arrest! Every click makes a prosecution more likely*! Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-20...
*may not in fact be legally accurate
i have news for you soon about this topic i hope
Does your Friday need a burst of inspiration? Try @arnicas.bsky.social's 'Image Prompt Inspiration: 3 random nouns and CC images from Flickr (British Library scans as default)' (yay for open access images!)
ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-...
Great new API for the GEPA prompt optimizer: optimize-anything.
One of the immediate use cases for optimize-everything is this demo that autogenerates Skills, given a repo: gepa-ai.github.io/gepa/blog/20...
they need to learn about it
yeah i was just overhearing something like this - it’s a different variety of “bullshit jobs”
There's a gigantic gulf between the non-tech people who don't know something could be quickly automated and those of us who do... the hours and hours of time wasted by people doing stuff by hand in spreadsheets, the last corp rubicon?
NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
lol satisfied reader: “I fucking love your newsletter one of the 2 I actually look forward to reading these days”
