Xavier Snelgrove

@wxs
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CS + Graphics + ML + Vision + etc.etc.

What are ways we can mathematically and computationally model our world?

How do we hold the gap between those models and the world?

Is there room for a poetic computation that encourages and reveals nuance and ambiguity? Does mathematical thinking actually require a modernist command-and-control orientation or is there another way?

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We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science.

Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World*

Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com

Please share! We pay all contributors.

❧ Orbital Studies Magazine ☙

Ways of Seeing the Objective World

@boris @serena Replying over a month later — I'm part of the movement! Looking forward to reading your replies in July.
Got my copy of PostPost.social issue #0 from @wxs !
@billy.wales Oh I would accept your local currency if only for the fun of it.
@billy.wales Yes! But please do your research on lettermail costs from Canada to your country and inflate slightly :)
Clownfish eggs (Amphiprion frenatus) day seven. In the original video I can see little beating hearts; not sure if that will show up via mastodon.

There is something mesmerizing about this to me - the very purpose of learning is minimally that the human brain’s act of compression is some kind of quasi mystical process that produces brand new insights that can’t be gotten from AI spark note summaries.

It is also weirdly sad to upsell your laziness as sophistication that is beyond those of us who read - I too can easily “distribute to 17 models” if I wanted to pretend to know things. The idea of getting differing and conflicting viewpoints or perspectives on a topic is called syntopical reading and certainly cannot be achieved by outsourcing the task because reading makes you tired and desperate to look at your phone.

New captcha just dropped
@makeworld
I just got this one!

there are four #Torontohenge events each year --

Feb 15 (+) sunset 5:48pm
Apr 19 (+) sunrise 6:28am
Aug 23 (–) sunrise 6:31am
Oct 25 (–) sunset 6:18pm

(+) good pics for a week after
(–) good pics for a week before