*They’re covered in shop filth and they’ve both injured their fingers. *Also, Laura Kampf’s off-the-shelf Los Angeles soundtracks are much, much worse than her rather neat and avant-garde Cologne techno. How did that even happen?

*He’s his own experimental case, and he seems elated with himself — so much so that he imagines and declares himself to be the world’s healthiest human being. *It’ll be interesting if other life-extension enthusiasts also start offering exalted declarations of this kind while accredited medical experts agree with them. From XTwitter, November 22, 2024 […]

*He’s making a brief argument here that the “oddity” is about the context of use rather than the device per se.

*Seems to be an anthropomorphic pebble picked up, transported and stored by an Australopithecus hominin in Africa. It’s about three million years old. .. in Limpopo Province, forms part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (Berger and Hilton-Barber, 2006). A 260 g reddish-brown jasperite cobble excavated at Makapansgat in 1925, first reported by […]

*He’s a busy guy. https://design-milk.com/artist-olafur-eliassons-new-psychoacoustic-exhibition/

*This video is six years old and yet I’ve never seen this Opinel model before.

*My coffee cup is full of pens and pencils, but it’s clear that I need to branch out more.

*Even by the elevated standards of contemporary generator-jargon, that’s pretty strange. At a high level, we turn videos into patches by first compressing videos into a lower-dimensional latent space, and subsequently decomposing the representation into spacetime patches. Video compression network ‘ We train a network that reduces the dimensionality of visual data.20 This network takes […]

https://www.fastweb.it/miia/ Fastweb sta realizzando il proprio modello linguistico (LLM – Large Language Model) addestrato nativamente in italiano, in grado di cogliere tutte le specificità linguistiche e culturali del nostro Paese, e che verrà messo a disposizione delle aziende e delle pubbliche amministrazioni. Grazie all’LLM Nazionale garantiremo il controllo e la sovranità dei dati tramite infrastrutture […]

TOWARDS THE BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2025 Carlo Ratti, as the Curator of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective (Venice, Arsenale and Giardini, 10 May-23 November 2025), launches a Circular Economy Manifesto developed with guidance from Arup and input from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. This Manifesto calls on […]