Mastodawn

Larry Sheradon 19h ago

mauvehed 🐿️ (KØMVH)21h ago

Feeding a Lonely Pixelfed Instance

https://rant.mvh.dev/feeding-a-lonely-pixelfed-instance/

#pixelfed #fediverse #activitypub #selfhosted #mastodon #docker #scripting

Larry Sheradon 4d ago

Gwen Fisher 4d ago

Bunny’s World
Let’s go fly a kite!

7.9” square
Watercolors and pigment ink on cotton paper

Larry Sheradon Mar 13

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Glyph Mar 13

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

Larry Sheradon Mar 11

chosunone Mar 11

"This is how our brains acquire language; not by abstractly analysing how the grammar works, but by using the language as a tool for something you're after."
https://wordsmith.social/overthinking-the-apocalypse/language-learning-methods-that-actually-work-1-the-binge

Language learning methods that actually work #1: The binge

Today’s news was about the stock market crash of Duolingo, and I was talking about how this is one of the few positive things about “AI”:...

Overthinking the apocalypse

I love the Crafsman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7dmomiVuo

AI is DEATH to creativity... and maybe humans.

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Larry Sheradon Feb 26

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial Feb 26

Eirik Brandal continues to be the modern Bob Ross of electronic musical sculptures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAjQtzX2GFc

Worn Limestone Headlands: Making an Electronic Sound Sculpture

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Larry Sheradon Feb 22

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial Feb 21

StyroPyro is back, and he has procured 400 car batteries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC7sNfNuTNU

400 car batteries wired together!!

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Larry Sheradon Feb 21

Shaded Maps Feb 20

A very detailed shaded map of Genova, Italy. The full map is 36000 x 16700 pixels with 0.5 m resolution and is available at https://shadedmaps.github.io
Data source: https://mappe.comune.genova.it [Comune di Genova].
#maps #shadedmaps #cartography #shadedrelief #gischat

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Larry Sheradon Feb 20

@kwf Oh I was just listening to it, great episode, could also have gone longer!

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