Pocket jewelry developments

*Protective cover for a mere knife, in the older tradition of the iphone case. *You don’t want to “ding up your knife” because, along with being a pocket knife, it is also jewelry, and therefore it’s simply necessary that it should look pretty.

The Bridges Archive of art and mathematics

*There seems to be rather a lot going on here, and for quite a while. https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/#gsc.tab=0

Deep-cover Argentine-Slovene “art gallery owner” gets traded back to Russia

*She used to be mildly involved with European digital art, along with whatever it was that she was actually doing. https://theins.ru/en/news/273542

European Artificial Intelligence Act comes into force

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_4123 Today, the European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world’s first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence, enters into force. The AI Act is designed to ensure that AI developed and used in the EU is trustworthy, with safeguards to protect people’s fundamental rights. The regulation aims to establish a harmonised internal market for AI […]

Paratissima in Torino

*What the heck gives with that?

CalcGPT

https://calcgpt.io CalcGPT 2023 GPT-3 (babbage-002), HTML, CSS and JS on website Calvin Liang. (((assisted by ChatGPT))) CalcGPT, conceived by an incisive and quirky artist-engineer Calvin Liang, serves as the praxis of satire in a hyper-advanced AI-dominated era. Imbued with an ingenious blend of technology and dry humor, the creation shrewdly prods at the modern world’s […]

AlphaProof

*It plays Go, only instead it does math. More-or-less. https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level/ (…) AlphaProof: a formal approach to reasoning AlphaProof is a system that trains itself to prove mathematical statements in the formal language Lean. It couples a pre-trained language model with the AlphaZero reinforcement learning algorithm, which previously taught itself how to master the games of […]

Nine years of YouTube making

*That’s a lot. That almost counts as a profession.

Otzi the Ice Man Every Day Carry Tool Set

*He was Italian, after all. The flint came from Trentino, the copper came from Tuscany. https://www.iceman.it/en/equipment/

Share Festival announcement

L’associazione THE SHARING, è lieta di annunciare le sei opere finaliste selezionate per il premio internazionale Share Prize XVI, dal tema ALL-Natural! Ups and Downs II di Heidundgriess (DE) The skin of a tree di Shin Jina (KOR) Love letters without the recipient di Ziyao Lin (CH) Breath di Alexandra Marinova (BUL-ITA) Kinesintesi di Livia […]