The news is bad but the data visualization is good.

The sea surface temperature is too damn high.

Pine martens caught on camera playing on children's swingset in Ardnamurchan, Scotland. The owner of the video, Les Humphreys, tells us this is a nightly occurence in his garden.

Credit: Les Humphreys, Ardnamurchan Wildlife Watch Facebook Group

#pinemarten #wildlifephotography #animals #playing

@Mammal_Society

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Good grief.

Question: “Do you think that concerns about the possibility of AI displacing humans across wide swathes of industry & beginning to act in ways that are indecipherable even to even to its coders are legitimate?”

AI evangelist: “<grim face> Sure … <cheese eating grin> … but it’s so exciting.”

There’s a real Silicon Valley sociopathy in this field, people barely capable of hiding their glee at the thought of controlling production & getting filthy rich at the expense of others.

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

Alright, apart from a little hiccup in the periphery of the (3,7)-Tiling, plane Hyperbolic Tilings are working...

Didn't anticipate it being more complicated than the tetrahedral-vertexfigure Honeycombs.

#hyperbolic #codeart #mathart

Numerically calculated period 1 continent of the multibrots.

Not sure I got it completely correct, it doesn't always seem to overlap the fractal but it looks cool. Didn't expect it to be disconnected!

And I expected it to be prettier!

(edited to fix the loop issue)

#fractalfriday #mathart #math #rtistry #GenerativeArt #kaleidosaturday

There’s a lot to chew on in this short article (ht @ajsadauskas):
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination

“An AI resume screener…trained on CVs of employees already at the firm” gave candidates extra marks if they listed male-associated sports, and downgraded female-associated sports.

Bias like this is enraging, but completely unsurprising to anybody who knows half a thing about how machine learning works. Which apparently doesn’t include a lot of execs and HR folks.

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