willmeyers

> Created with AI-assisted tools, curated and prepared as ready-to-use video loops.

They are. And they are charging $19 to buy AI generated art (https://safaelmali.gumroad.com/l/lofi-cities-complete-collec...).

I remember your 500 days of math post! I'm curious if along the journey you took time to apply new concepts you learned in a larger project or lab? I've never used Math Academy, but does it just give articles/videos and then exercises? Congrats on the dedication, that's a lot of work especially with kids.

Just vanilla js and d3. Data is from:

- ice, landm and sea level views: https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01...

- claim boundaries: https://geodata.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/stanford-jj231ks3840

SKU-level transactions is what everyone wants. If an agent owned by Perplexity or whomever can capture that data from your Amazon account they can resell that data to advertisers. If they had the ability to access your account and "scrape" your entire purchase history from when you created the account... that's very valuable and Amazon does not want that.

The US is in a new cold war. It's clear that the government has determined that who owns AI will be leaders in this century and they will do whatever is necessary to accomplish that - I mean in the 50s into the 90s we nuked our own soil - I don't know what we expect here.

Genuine Art versus Mechanism, from 1901, (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25505621) is another article that I read a few years ago that other people might find interesting.

When I got my first cease and desist my lawyer basically asked me if this is a hill you are willing to die on (i.e. spend enormous amounts of time and money on). I with them luck. I suspect a Go Fund Me announcement coming soon.

I really admire their Engineering General docs on culture, values, accessibility, and more: https://github.com/NYPL/engineering-general.

I wouldn't be surprised if Fiverr and Upwork start pulling back too. There's just so much AI bots now that have flooded the task marketplace.

This is the repo if people are interesting in this work: https://github.com/ben-williams-ai/Bomb-Fishing

This El Niño is going to be interesting come Christmas time. Lot's of weather and climate unpredictability coming to a region near you!

I should have posted the plain URL https://pennypresses.net/ they have an About Us section and more info about the project.

I'd imagine that pennies minted before 1982 (those that are mostly copper) are best for these machines. The newer pennies (now discontinued R.I.P.) probably aren't great under pressure.

Also recommend this book. Very concise too, it's only around 100 pages.

Love it, thanks for your hard work and reverse engineering (def an underrated skill).

Wow I think like 12-13 years ago I wanted to make an EverQuest clone in the browser like every teen game devs MMO dream. Great work.

Hey! I just posted in this thread about my work on building a better CTrail app. I live in NYC - would love to get involved in this. Thanks for sharing!

I'm still working on CT RailTime. It's an app I made to make traveling on CTrail better. CTDOT's app they've outsourced is really bad and broken most of the time. People who use CTrail deserve something that works.

https://ctrailtime.com

My partner had a jumping spider as a pet for some time in a terrarium. It was really interesting because he would jump out onto my partners arms when we opened his terrarium and then climb around and then go back after doing some wandering. Pet beetles are also pretty common (and something that I really want tbh). There are a lot of animals that you wouldn't think can be pets, but honestly, if you're helping a critter survive you'll create some attachment to them and maybe they will too. A lot of pet insects can live for 5-7 years too if done right.

In my high school English class (like 10 years ago) my teacher assigned readings and called on a random person each day to give an overview of a section. He basically quizzed you in front of the class on themes, plots, etc. It was very effective at getting me to read and care for that class, because if you just sat up there and didn't know anything you'd lose marks on participation (and look kind of dumb). Not sure if/when/why oral presentations and public speaking are no longer got prioritized.

I completely agree. I'm also surprised at the lack of action ISPs and people who sell these malicious free TV boxes and crap (Amazon to name names). I believe using a residential proxy is akin to stealing cable. It's wrong and taking from working consumer.

Cool effect! It feels a bit like a deep-fried meme to me, but that might just be me!

I tried doing something similar a couple of years ago and gave up after running into the exact same issues in the post. It's really difficult to replicate proper halftoning on a computer screen without getting moiré patterns and weird artifacts because of PPI, aliasing, and other stuff. Beyond that, print and screens are just fundamentally different ways of rendering things.

It's an interesting experiment and the results are surprising. I will say that if you're a musician I'd bet anything you can make a way cooler and better music video for $25 and 45 minutes with your friends.

I'm working on CT RailTime (https://ctrailtime.com), a better way to travel on CTrail. Their current eTix app is essentially broken and the CT government does not seem to care enough to fix it.

I had to sift through a bunch of different state agency websites before Covid for a job. Most of these websites are nightmares when trying to find information or fill out a form. I can't imagine trying to navigate these sites by yourself with a disability. Honestly, if you're hosting a website on a .gov domain, you should be required to use USWDS (https://designsystem.digital.gov) or something equivalent.

https://bubbles.town/ is fun.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.

Basically I extracted the emojis from my Mac's system font. From there I downscaled them to 64x64 pixels and made them grayscale.

With this set of images I experimented with a few different algorithms. I ended up settling for just a regular ordered dithering (Bayer). But! It still didn't look that good. So what I ended up doing was normalizing the darks and lights for each emoji. This was because some emojis are lighter and darker than others. I wanted to create a uniform appearance for all of them.

So the process was (1) get emojis. (2) downscale + grayscale. (3) normalize tone. (4) dither. (5) then upscale

I was inspired by this site to run emojis through a dithering algorithm (https://dither-emojis.pages.dev/)! Nothing beats hand drawn though.

What an incredible test against human capability and optimism to preserve them for so long in hopes that we would one day have to tech to read them without destroying them. Stories like these give me a lot of hope for the future.

People do all the time. On Instagram/TikTok/Facebook they've gotten pretty good at hiding whether something is an ad with videos plus very good content creation. Ads are not what they used to be 10 years ago. People not as adept to these shady tactics fall for it all the time.