They named journals differently in the old days! I just was referred to a 1989 article published in "Intellectica."
(Reminds me of the Roz Chast cartoon of "The man who was loved for his lack of lack-of-pretense")
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Martin Wattenberg
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Human/AI interaction. Visualization as design, science, art. Machine learning interpretability. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google's People+AI Research initiative.
Q. How many minutes in February?
A. 8!
A. 8!
Forget human metaphors for software agents. Why not God metaphors?
Here's a paper that actually tested this! (Jung et al, CHI 22, https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3491102.3517653 )
Sample dialog from their protocol: "Greetings, I am the lord thy god. You shall help researchers at a university by participating in this research."
Their deadpan conclusion:
"an agent metaphor that locates higher than Human in the Great Chain of Being framework may disappoint workers in the system's ability due to high expectations"
Marco HernandezI created a follow-up #tutorial to visualize and animate global temperature data. Take a look if you're curious about it https://bit.ly/3GeLaQm The rendering below shows temperatures on January 4 at 8am in North America. Data by GEOS GMAO / NASA.
Nikhil ThoratI made a digital picture frame running on a raspberry pi that runs midjourney in the background.
User scans the QR code, enters a prompt, swaps the image.
Golan LevinThis is lovely and generous work.
Recently I’ve been working on recoding the programs of the book "Dessins géométriques et artistiques avec votre micro-ordinateur" with #p5js. Around 250 sketches were recoded using a tiny custom js lib.
👉 https://github.com/v3ga/dessins_geometriques_et_artistiques
Cees BassaHappy new year! Another year means another year-long keogram! Every 15 seconds throughout 2022, my trusty all-sky camera took a picture of the sky above the Netherlands. Combining these 2.1 million images into a year-long keogram reveals this picture, which shows the length of the night change throughout the year (the hourglass shape), when the Moon was visible at night (diagonal bands), and the Sun higher in the sky during summer, as well as lots and lots of clouds passing overhead.
Help me track down a citation! I remember reading about an old (1970s?) study, asking strong chess players to predict the highest possible rating a chess program would ever reach. The results were consistent: players usually said the maximum would be 100 points less than their own rating.
But I can't find a reference! Is this too on-the-nose to be true? Did I imagine it?
Laura Wattenberg, Name WizardOh brother...just woke up to a Daily Mail headline about me: "Woman sparks heated debate with her top 10 most hated baby names." Which was a surprise, because I haven't made a top-10 list of ANYTHING. The best I can figure is this is a histrionic take on an article I wrote for a defunct website 11 years ago. (If the Daily Mail needs more breaking news ideas, I hear that Senator Obama from Illinois is thinking of running for president.)
Mengsen ZhangWho would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅
