Carolina Brum

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Sensing and algorithms. Dance and biking also on the menu.
As always, if you find something behaves unexpectedly or there's functionality you'd really like on visionOS, please file feedback, especially this early! Including details about your use case helps prioritize the enhancement requests.
Told a friend: “if you hear me screaming, it’s normal, everything is fine, I just get shocks, stabs; it’s part of my new layout”, he goes: “got it, it’s expected, like an update”, I complete: “more like a downgrade, a bug nobody submitted a fixing PR”.

I really do try to believe that most* drivers aren't careless about the lives of others, but rather clueless. That's why I put together videos from my handlebar camera to show, from a bicyclist's perspective, what their driving looks and feels like.

The video here is a sample of dangerous--egregiously dangerous--overtakes by motorists over the course of a year.

#BikeTooter #ClosePass #CrapDriving #SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #RoadSafety

https://urbanists.video/w/rXpdJpCkhPvhsGBHDQ1Kyk

*I said most.

A year of close passes (2022-2023)

PeerTube
I really enjoyed this piece on the Apple Developer website about what some of the early adopters of passkeys have to say about their experiences with their rollouts of the technology. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=mgdnfp8w
Spotlight on: Passkeys - Discover - Apple Developer

Find out how Instacart, Kayak, and Robinhood are helping unlock a password-free future.

“Sometimes we are so confused and sad that all we can do is glue one thing to another. […] have a tragic movie playing in the background, have a comforting drink nearby, let the thing you are doing be nothing, you are making nothing at all, you are just keeping your hands in motion, putting one thing down and then the next thing down and sometimes crying in between.” - Lynda Barry on collage-making
check out this latest paper from folks in Human-Centered MI at Apple by @ben and other fine folks -- the paper introduces Co-ML, a novice-friendly machine learning tool that forefronts collaboration as vital to learning -- super cool stuff :: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/collaborative-machine-learning
Collaborative Machine Learning Model Building with Families Using Co-ML

Existing novice-friendly machine learning (ML) modeling tools center around a solo user experience, where a single user collects only their…

Apple Machine Learning Research
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“Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of #AI. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.

The New York Times
Seattle Public Library joining with Brooklyn PL in the "Books Unbanned" program to freely provide ebook & audiobook access to kids and young adults nationwide. https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned #seattle #library #libraries
Books Unbanned

Teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living anywhere in the U.S. can access our entire collection of e-books and audiobooks.

This is pretty close to how I interpret those bizarre washing instructions and warnings on my clothing labels.

Edit: Original image by @[email protected]